The Wisconsin Week Wire — January 3, 2007
Top News
‘Kauffman Campus’ award will fuel campus, state entrepreneurship
Gov. Jim Doyle and Chancellor John Wiley announced in December that the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation named UW–Madison one of its nine “Kauffman Campuses.” The university received $5 million to help train students in the principles and practices of entrepreneurship and spur greater research commercialization statewide.
Barnacle busters: Tackling a shipping industry headache
UW–Madison scientists have devised a potentially ingenious solution to the multimillion-dollar problem known as “biofouling,” a chronic headache that has plagued the shipping world for centuries.
Research
University contributes to international fusion program
Fusion Technology Institute researchers are playing a key role in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, a multinational project designed to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power.
40 years ago, UW researcher changed our view of the world
An invention by the late Wisconsin scientist Verner Suomi provided the first pictures of the full disk of Earth from space — technology that has become a cornerstone of remote sensing used today.
Stem cells used to create critical brain barrier in lab
Using neural stem cells derived from the fetal brains of rats, a team of Wisconsin scientists has devised a rudimentary blood-brain barrier in the lab.
On Campus
Events calendar
New math and science repository serves up the good stuff
Internet Scout, a 12-year-old UW–Madison online research project, unveiled its new national math and science educational project, the Applied Math and Science Education Repository.
Professor leads national effort to improve medical records
In December, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation kicked off “Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records.” A UW–Madison professor of nursing and industrial engineering is the project’s director.
Milestones
Royal Society of Chemistry cites UW–Madison professor
The Europe-based Royal Society of Chemistry and Corning Inc. have awarded the first-ever Pioneers of Miniaturization prize to David Beebe, a UW–Madison professor of biomedical engineering.
Scientists land major infectious disease awards
Cancer researcher Robert Kalejta and chemist Helen Blackwell are recipients of the prestigious Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Awards from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
UW–Madison achieves No. 1 executive education ranking
Open-enrollment executive education programs in the School of Business have been rated the best in the world for the second year in a row by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Community
Careers conference to focus on ‘futures that work’
UW–Madison’s annual Careers Conference brings counselors, educators and other professionals together to consider how to best prepare students and adults to make sound career decisions and develop the necessary skills to navigate their working lives.
Publication highlights oral tradition of state’s 12 Indian Nations
“Literature of the Indian Nations of Wisconsin,” published this month by the UW Press, will present the oral traditions, literature and historically significant documents of the current 12 independent bands and Indian Nations of Wisconsin.