Just in time for the holiday snacking and buffet season, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have invented an innovative weight-loss device that someday may be implanted in people’s stomachs.
In laboratory testing, the devices developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US helped rats shed almost 40 percent of their body weight.
Hundreds of colleges and universities have capitalized on demographic trends in the new century to establish a burgeoning sector of higher education known as Hispanic-serving institutions.
A state senator and longtime vocal critic of the University of Wisconsin System on Monday night labeled the exit agreement UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper accepted before resigning her chancellorship “a taxpayer-funded scam.”
Beverly Kopper will resign as UW-Whitewater chancellor effective Dec. 31 after allegations that her husband sexually harassed female staff members sparked calls for her ouster this past fall.
Following five years of service to UW-Madison, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Sarah Mangelsdorf is leaving to fulfill her dreams as president at the University of Rochester.
The leading rusher in the NCAA doesn’t just break tackles all over the football field. He also dashes off to class. Being a serious student means getting to his seat as early as possible.
The University of Rochester has chosen University of Wisconsin-Madison provost Sarah Mangelsdorf as its new president.
Proceeds will go to Helping Hands, which gives children the power to create holiday magic. Through their letters, children identify people in their communities that could use some help during the holiday season.
Lawrence Berger, director of the UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty, said in May that the goal is to put about $4,000 in the pockets of Dane County families. UW-Madison asked for creative ideas from throughout the community to build up the county’s middle class and hopefully narrow racial disparities.
A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak linked to UW Hospital’s water system has infected 14 people with the pneumonia-like bacteria, and three have died, a hospital official said Monday.
Noted: David Schwartz is a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and author of a forthcoming book about the history of McCulloch v. Maryland.
We have seen Foxconn make plans for “innovation centers” here in Racine, in Madison, Green Bay, Milwaukee and Eau Claire to support its high tech plant plans; we have seen it partner with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and with local universities and colleges to enhance training and skill development for workers and system processes; we have seen Foxconn pledge to mitigate environmental impacts by developing a zero liquid discharge wastewater treatment system that will more than halve its water needs at the Mount Pleasant campus — a state of the art system that was not required in its contract with Wisconsin.
Quoted: Bob Cropp, professor emeritus of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Wisconsin’s dairy farmers have had it tough.
Scientists have long debated where the wind rotations that lead to twisters in these thunderstorms begin. Now Houser, of Ohio University in Athens, and her colleagues have new data that upend this “top-down” idea of tornadogenesis. Story quotes CIMSS scientist, Leigh Orf.
My oldest daughter, Mara — who lived in Denmark during her junior year at the University of Wisconsin and for some time after she graduated — always brings the sweet-sour red cabbage (another recipe from the Dale Brown book) in sufficient quantity that there is plenty for everyone to take home.
