September 11, 2009
Zsuzsanna Fabry has been awarded the honorary degree "Doctor Honoris Causa" by the Senate of
Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary.
August 24, 2009
The CMP Graduate Program welcomes our incoming class of 2009.
July 10, 2009
Cameron Currie receives Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
July 1, 2009
Daniel S. Greenspan, PhD, professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Department of Pharmacology, has been elected to the governing council of the American Society for Matrix Biology.
April 8, 2009
Leading scientists highlight stem cell symposium. A cadre of North America’s leading stem cell scientists will land in Madison on Wednesday, April 15, for the fourth annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium: Cancer, Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells.
February 25, 2009
Eight faculty have received Kellett Mid-Career Awards for their research.
Kellett Awards are given by the Graduate School and funded by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. They are given to faculty who are five to 20 years past their first promotion to a tenured position. Honorees receive a $60,000 flexible research fund.
October 2, 2008
Writing in the Oct. 3 issue of Science, a team of researchers reports that the pine beetle harnesses a second microorganism — a bacterium known as an actinomycete — to protect its fungus from the mite's competing one. What's more, the bacterium does so by wielding an antibiotic that is brand new to science.
August 4, 2008
The new Wisconsin project involves an interdisciplinary team that brings together researchers from chemistry, the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, the Genome Center of Wisconsin, the Morgridge Institute for Research, and the Medical College of Wisconsin.