Category: Health and Wellness
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Posted on May 5, 2014
Creating a healthier world: CALS-based global health certificate program proves popular among students
You can’t spot them right away—they’re hidden in plain sight, often disguised as majors in the life sciences—but there are thousands of undergraduates on the […]
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Posted on May 1, 2014
Doug Weibel honored with UW Distinguished Teaching Award
CALS biochemist Doug Weibel is among 10 UW-Madison faculty members selected to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to […]
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Posted on April 23, 2014
Richard Gourse elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriologist Richard L. Gourse is among leaders from academia, business, public affairs and the arts and humanities elected to membership in the […]
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Posted on April 21, 2014
Wisconsin team to search for new antibiotics from untapped microbes
Facing an imminent global public health crisis, a University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has been awarded up to $16 million from the National Institutes of […]
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Posted on April 18, 2014
Ticks likely winter survivors – Audio
/RSS FeedSusan Paskewitz, Professor Department of Entomology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences paskewit@entomology.wisc.edu 608-262-1269 http://labs.russell.wisc.edu/wisconsin-ticks/wisconsin-ticks/ Susan Paskewitz tells the fate of ticks after this […]
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Posted on April 8, 2014
“Your Inner Fish,” with strong UW connections, premieres on PBS
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor wants to help more people get to know their ancestors. Sean B. Carroll, Allan Wilson Professor of molecular biology, genetics […]
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Posted on March 17, 2014
In the lab, scientists coax E. coli to resist radiation damage
Capitalizing on the ability of an organism to evolve in response to punishment from a hostile environment, scientists have coaxed the model bacterium Escherichia coli […]
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Posted on March 11, 2014
Paradigm shifts, great discoveries and shining moments
In honor of the CALS Quasquicentennial, the cover story in the new issue of Grow magazine includes accounts of a dozen paradigm shifts, great discoveries and shining […]
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Posted on March 5, 2014
Two CALS alumni among WAA Forward Under 40 honorees
The Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) has recognized seven young alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for their contributions in a wide variety of fields to […]
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Posted on February 10, 2014
Communicating science in the digital age
Two months after retiring from the Madison-based Wisconsin State Journal, where for 34 years he’d reported primarily on science and the environment, Ron Seely splays […]