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WARF announces annual grant figures
WARF has granted the university $73 million for the 2018-19 academic year, along with $12.5 million for the Morgridge Institute for Research, in its annual investment in UW–Madison-based research and education.
Campus gears up for Homecoming celebration
A splash of silver turns diamond films shades of green, blue or purple
A UW-Madison researcher has succeeded in creating an array of colorful thin diamond films, which will help explore light-powered chemical reactions catalyzed by diamond.

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