An experimental Ebola virus vaccine made at UW-Madison will be used in a clinical trial expected to start in Japan in December, the researcher behind the vaccine said last week.
To find out, Ellen Damschen, a plant ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her colleagues set up a large-scale experiment at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Historically, the land was used for farming.
Researchers measured 239 plant species over 18 years as part of a habitat experiment at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, said the study’s lead author Ellen Damschen, an integrative biology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Like compound interest in a bank, the number of species increases at a constant rate each year, resulting in a much larger bottom line over time in habitats that are connected by a corridor than those that are not,” lead author Ellen Damschen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says in the press release.
A two-decade research project headed by a UW-Madison professor has shown that minor modifications to the landscape can dramatically improve the chances of plants in increasingly rare and fragmented ecosystems.
While climate research continued at UW-Madison, collaboration efforts stalled, said Stephen Vavrus, a UW climate scientist and co-director of WICCI. “Not having open involvement with the DNR, things definitely slowed from our end,” Vavrus said. “We’re optimistic the tide has turned.”
When Pyran’s chemical engineering team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison embarked on their new project aimed at tackling the enormous problem of replacing oil to make paints and plastics, they had a feeling they would generate some interesting research, but the discovery they made surprised even them.
The lead on the project, Dr. Yao Liu, is a glaucoma specialist, eye surgeon and assistant professor at UW-Madison.
But he is not the only World War II soldier coming home after decades, as researchers at the University of Wisconsin have a list of Wisconsin natives they are trying to identify and bring home.
The 37-year-old Pompey was hired to replace the retiring Leckrone this fall, and faces the challenge of leading the band with enthusiasm and equanimity. Some fans have already noticed changes — in particular, an updated playlist — but it’s Pompey’s goal to give the fans the same Wisconsin band they know and love.
He’s nearly 80-years-old, but he is still young at heart.
Column by Aaron Olver, Managing Director of University Research Park in Madison.
The UW-Madison Police Department is wishing Koval the best, writing in a Facebook post, “Thank you for your tireless work to keep our community safe, and for your great partnership with UWPD.?”
Allee Willis, the songwriter behind hits like Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” and the “Friends” theme song, joins Mark and Charlotte to talk about her career.
Rev. Carmen Porco, the subject of this new book, and the author UW-Madison Professor Dr. Chuck Taylor both sit down with Neil Heinen to share a preview of the remarkable life and journey of the man recognized as one of the leading experts on fair housing in the world.
Maureen Smith is a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She along with other members of the school developed a report to show health care disparities in Wisconsin. They gathered information from 25 different health systems across the state.
Quoted: “Every couple of months there’s been a different plan,” said Steven Deller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “First it was 13,000 jobs. Now it might be 1,000 jobs. They’ve really scaled back on what they plan to do.”
Quoted: A study guide titled “Robert Hooke, Hooke’s Law & the Watch Spring”, written by Shusaku Horibe from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, explains that “the determination of longitude was a major problem by the mid-seventeenth century … One needed a clock able to keep accurate time on long voyages at sea … The development of portable and jerk-resistant watches that could be taken on ships and could keep accurate time for extended periods was an obvious economic concern.”
For many years, Rod was also an Associate Clinical Professor at UW-Madison where he taught surgery to Ophthalmology residents.
She taught in liberal studies at UW Madison until she retired.
University of Wisconsin-Madison geochemist and paleoclimatologist Andrea Dutton told The Associated Press that she was stunned when she learned earlier this month that she had been selected.
