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Studies point to rising role for women scientists at UW–Madison
As the University of Wisconsin–Madison competes with the world's top universities for talent and expertise, it is getting more help from women, who in 2011 comprised 31 percent of the faculty — up from 18 percent in 1990.
Brock’s odyssey from biology to biological restoration
Tom and Kathie Brock are committed restorationists with deep roots at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Q&A: Professor examines those ‘outside the color lines’ in new book
In her new book, “Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South,” Bow examines what segregation demanded of people who did not fall into the category of black or white — including Asians, American Indians and people of mixed race.
Longtime UW Police Department assistant chief to retire
Dale Burke, assistant chief of the UW Police Department (UWPD) at UW–Madison, will be retiring on July 1, 2010, after nearly 31 years with the department.
Words, wit and wild hearts: A conversation with author, professor Lorrie Moore
It’s a writer-to-writer conversation when Jacquelyn Mitchard sits down for a chat with Lorrie Moore, acclaimed fiction author and UW faculty member.
Street markets are this professor’s laboratory
Alfonso Morales didn’t sit in a library to do research for his graduate degrees. Instead, he worked as a vendor in Chicago’s famed Maxwell Street Market, where he saw firsthand that public markets serve as fertile ground for entrepreneurs and new businesses, gathering places for communities and an entry point into the economy and society for new arrivals to the United States.
Five questions with … Katrina Forest
Bacteriology professor Katrina Forest once considered studying architecture — and in a way she does, albeit on a very small scale. As a protein crystallographer, she studies the three-dimensional structures of bacterial proteins on an atomic level to understand how the proteins function.