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It was about three days after I?d left Africa that the pain in my nose became too severe to ignore. Starting as a dull ache niggling at the edge of my consciousness, it had gradually built in intensity to the point at which I had to stop what I was doing to investigate further.

UW-Madison needs to raise its profile in Washington, D.C., to better compete for federal grant money, officials say.

Gloria Ladson-Billings travels the world, speaking and teaching about racial disparities in education. A professor in curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her books — including the bestseller The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children — are considered part of the canon for teacher educators. Ivy League schools have tried to lure her away, but she has turned down offers from Harvard and Stanford, where she got her Ph.D.

UW-Madison is gearing up to be a more influential player in the competition for federal research grant money in Washington, D.C., and Chancellor Rebecca Blank says it?s about time.

Cellular Dynamics International, the company founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, will develop five induced pluripotent stem cell lines from patients with two types of muscular dystrophy.

Graphic ads depicting animal testing began appearing on Metro Transit buses Monday, a decision the transit agency said it is powerless to stop.

Federal sequestration and the impact of those budget cuts on the University of Wisconsin will be on the agenda when U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, visits UW-Madison Tuesday for a public conversation hosted by PROFS, a faculty advocacy group.

Paleoanthropologist and science blogger John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the experts on site at the Rising Star Expedition, analyzing fossils, monitoring activity from the Command Center, and helping tell the story from the senior scientists? perspective. For real-time updates follow him on Twitter @JohnHawks.

From deep below a sheet of Antarctic ice, UW-Madison researchers have identified invisible cosmic objects they think traveled there from black holes or other unexplored places literally galaxies away. They named the 28 extremely high-energy particles ? called neutrinos ? after characters from children?s television.

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has observed 28 neutrinos that traveled millions of light-years through space, crashing into the South Pole ice and emitting a flash of blue light the size of six city blocks.

Since opening a couple years ago, a particle detector in Antarctica has been spotting nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos, in ice or in the atmosphere. Now, however, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory says it has also detected 28 high-energy neutrinos from beyond our solar system.

At the bottom of the world, an observatory embedded in ice and designed to catch bountiful but elusive subatomic particles could give astronomers a brand-new look at the universe.

In 1965, bands of surveyors drove their Dodge vans every which way out of Madison, Wisc., starting a project that would take nearly a half century to complete. Their work?going door to door and asking what people called that strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk or those delicious round things you put syrup on and eat for breakfast?became the Dictionary of American Regional English, a six-volume catalog of the things that are only said in Maine or Appalachia or Southern Texas.

The migration of people to and from a community tells a lot about the character of the place, and can be used to plan for future development.

Turns out the reason why there?s no cure yet for the common cold is that no one knows exactly what the cold virus looks like.

UW-Madison scientists haven?t cured the common cold, but they may have explained why nobody has ? in a discovery that could lead to better drugs against sneezes and sniffles.

UW-Madison scientists haven?t cured the common cold, but they may have explained why nobody has ? in a discovery that could lead to better drugs against sneezes and sniffles.