The ongoing ecological restoration along the shoreline of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has reached a hillside near Eagle Heights that was once the summer home to hundreds of graduate students.

The goal in the Tent Colony Woods, which is cut by gullies and invaded by exotic trees and shrubs, is to create a sustainable and ecologically diverse tract of sloping lakeshore forest.

Tent Colony Woods is part of the campus's 300-acre Lakeshore Nature Preserve, which protects wetlands and woods along Lake Mendota westward from near Memorial Union and past Eagle Heights.

Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Limnology won major awards at the recent meeting of the International Association for Great Lakes Research in Toronto.

Post-doctoral fellow Scott Higgins received the Young Scientist Award, while Ph.D. Student Gretchen Hansen was given the Young Student Award.

"These students are representative of the many outstanding young scientists who go on to greater glory after their training at UW-Madison," said Jake Vander Zanden, the associate professor of limnology who advises both award winners.

A new sensor that sounds an alarm when blood sugar is out of line could help Type 1 diabetes patients better control the disease, that's according to a study that included findings from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Dr. Melissa Meredith, an associate professor of medicine at SMPH and an endocrinologist with UW Health,  said that eight of her Type 1 diabetes patients used the technology as part of an 18-month study.

The study was funded by the medical technology firm, Medtronic, and it involved 30 sites in the U.S. and Canada including the SMPH.