There’s some reassuring news for healthy women taking hormone replacement therapy who are concerned about Alzheimer’s disease: University of Wisconsin-Madison research shows no increased risk for the most common type of dementia. But it also didn’t find any benefits to the brain.
The Madison Metropolitan School District partnered with UW-Madison to give kids in high school a chance to explore a future career in health care and veterinary medicine.The LEAP Forward internship program is part of the district’s Personalized Pathways initiative, designed to let kids try out their interests through a summer internship at one of seven campus sites, including the School of Veterinary Medicine and University Health Services.
In 2016, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University found that curiosity could dramatically change people’s behavior for the better. Among other things, they discovered that posting a trivia question next to an elevator and telling people the answer was in the stairwell could actually get more people to use the stairs!
With five minutes left on the clock, the University of Wisconsin-Madison team needed to pass two tests in order to qualify for the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition finals.
There’s some reassuring news for healthy women taking hormone replacement therapy who are concerned about Alzheimer’s disease: University of Wisconsin-Madison research shows no increased risk for the most common type of dementia. But it also didn’t find any benefits to the brain.
There’s some reassuring news for healthy women taking hormone replacement therapy who are concerned about Alzheimer’s disease: University of Wisconsin-Madison research shows no increased risk for the most common type of dementia. But it also didn’t find any benefits to the brain.
The nonprofit foundation has filed an $18.5 million claim against the UW System and its Board of Regents over a set of failed development projects that they financed for the school.
The Madison Metropolitan School District partnered with UW-Madison to give kids in high school a chance to explore a future career in health care and veterinary medicine.
Noted: A basketball phenom at Pius XI High School and a University of Wisconsin-Madison point guard, Shawna is a DJ and founder of the clothing line #DaretoBe.
The Big Ten commissioner, who addressed the media to open Big Ten Media Days on Monday, said the conference needs to “double down” on the educational element of sports gambling after a Supreme Court ruling this summer allows for states to legalize it.
Noted: Patrick Iber is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
We work and live in a time when historical knowledge has become intensely politicized. That knowledge is political is hardly new, but the rise of Donald Trump has heightened the polarization. His administration governs with a torrent of disorienting dishonesty, and his cry of “fake news” seems to mean less that the news in question is false than that it tells a story about him that he finds discordant with his self-image. Journalists — writers of the first draft of history, as the cliché goes — have struggled to balance their responsibility to reporting discovered facts with reporting the views of those who reject those facts.
Finding the funniest captions for hundreds of cartoons in The New Yorker magazine is not the ultimate application of an artificial intelligence tool developed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Quartz: “Journalists have obligations to relay information within real contexts. To put fake food—and what appears to be Western food and alcohol at that—in front of these subjects and staging them to cover their faces feels exploitative,” said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The National Transportation Safety Board released a report on a small plane crash in Lake Erie that left a pilot and five passengers dead. Among the victims was a UW student.
