The Synchrotron Radiation Center, a major UW-Madison science center, is still running despite losing its federal funding last year. But the center is down about one-third of its 35-member staff, through a combination of retirements and layoffs, said Joseph Bisognano, the center?s director. Wendy Crone, associate dean for graduate education, said it was particularly important that the roughly two dozen UW-Madison graduate students who rely on the center could continue working. Bisognano said the biggest cutbacks are in education, outreach and support for researchers who come to use the facility from other parts of the country and the world.
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