UW-Madison: Campus historian John Jenkins dies
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11/1/12
MADISON - John W. Jenkins, who carried on the work of documenting the University of Wisconsin-Madison's history through a widely acclaimed book series, died in Madison on Tuesday, Oct. 23. He was 66 years old.
"John loved tough projects," says Barry Teicher, a former director of the UW-Madison Oral History Project who studied alongside Jenkins and later...
UW-Madison: Science writer David Dobbs to visit UW-Madison
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11/1/12
CONTACT: Terry Devitt (608) 262-8282, trdevitt@wisc.edu
MADISON - Author and science journalist David Dobbs will visit UW-Madison during the week of Nov. 4 as the 2012 fall Science Writer in Residence.
Dobbs is the author of the recent Atavist best seller, "My Mother's Lover," and contributes features and essays for The Atlantic, Wired, National Geographic and The New York...
Madison medical device startup takes big step with first patient
By Brian E. Clark
For WisBusiness.com
Dr. Bradley Glenn wasn't trying to create a better mousetrap, but the concept was (sort of) the same.
Glenn, an interventional radiologist working in Green Bay at the time, is an avowed tinkerer who had come up with several different medical innovations that he'd licensed to companies such as Johnson & Johnson.
But when he invented a...
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