This award recognizes Professor Ntambi’s outstanding scientific contributions towards understanding adipocyte differentiation and the regulation of gene expression involved in lipid metabolism, and the profound influence this work will have on the field of obesity …
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Collaboration Could Help Chart the Protein Universe
The billions of proteins that compose life on Earth remain one of the truly uncharted territories in the biological universe, due mainly to the slow and arduous techniques their exploration requires. Now, a research partnership …
Ron Raines Receives an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Ron Raines has been named a 2004 recipient of the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award by the American Chemical Society. The Cope Scholar Award is given to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry, and …
Mouse Resists Diabetes
An engineered mouse, already known to be immune to the weight gain ramifications of a high-calorie, high-fat diet, now seems able to resist the onset of diabetes. Read More
Mother of all NMR Magnets to Bolster UW-Madison Lab
Now, with support from the National Institutes of Health, UW-Madison’s National Magnetic Resonance Facility will be home to a machine capable of generating the largest NMR-quality magnetic field possible with current technology. A $5 million …
Dave Nelson nominated for an Alliant Energy Underkofler Teaching Award
In addition to the Distinguished Teaching Awards presented by the University of Wisconsin-Madison each year, the UW System also recognizes classroom excellence by way of its Alliant Energy Underkofler Teaching Awards. This year, David L. …
Judith Kimble receives 2002-3 Hilldale Award in the Biological Sciences
The Hilldale awards are presented each year to four faculty members, one from each faculty division, in recognition of a distinguished contribution ot teaching, research, and extension/outreach while a member of the faculty of the …
George Phillips has received a Vilas Associate Award
The Vilas Trustees have made possible this form of recognition for faculty in the Biological Sciences Division and will provide research support during 2003-04 and 2004-05
Marv Wickens has been appointed as the Max Perutz Professor of Molecular Biology
Marv Wickens has received a WARF-named Professorship: Max Perutz Professor of Molecular Biology. Prof. Wickens research has always focused on how genes work in animal cells. He has concentrated on events after DNA has been …
4th Annual Biochemistry egg drop
Materials will be handed out on March 14th. Winners will be determined by surviving all three drops, landing the closest to the target, and using smallest number of items on the list. This years' winners …