This One Is For All Our More Senior Graduate Students Writing Up Their Dissertations In Time for a Spring Defense.

You can do it! Here's to a weekend of making progress!

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The Latest All-Organic All-Pretentious Restaurant to Set Up Shop on Capitol Square

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No Fools Here; Instead Some Facts!

It's the middle of spring break here at UW Madison! 

It's also April Fools! For those of legal drinking age

who may be enjoying the break with an adult beverage 

or two, don't be fooled by any of these common 

misconceptions about alcohol. 

Video brought to you by Youtube. 

When I Get a UWSMPH-Official Email Attempting to Clarify that "The 'Poverty Simulation' was not intended to 'simulate' poverty"...

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6 Minutes into the M2 "Poverty Simulation"

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Happy birthday Caitlin P.!

The UW MSTP blog wishes a wonderful birthday to one of our beloved directors!  We hope your year is full of fun, conferences in exotic locales, and lots and lots of grant money.

For your birthday, the UW MSTP blog would like to express our gratitude for introducing us to the wonder of Canadian children's programming:

(We really hope this is the original show.  The UW MSTP blog was surprised at how many variations of "Hammy the hamster sings "My nuts!" they had to wade through in order to find this video.) 

Happy birthday Ben S.!

Hope you're having a wonderful day!  May your year be full of happiness, and may your stem cells only differentiate into the cell lineages you want them to differentiate into.

The UW MSTP blog was unable to find a cute cake or a funny song about stem cells, so we hope you enjoy this entertaining gif of a racoon confused by cotton candy.