“One of the things that the research is suggesting right now is that young people, in particular, have a tendency to move towards emotions like anxiety and anger, which are activating – you know, they compel you to do something,” said UW–Madison’s Dekila Chungyalpa, director of The Loka Initiative.
“It’s an exciting time for hibernation biology,” said Hannah Carey, UW–Madison professor emerit of Comparative Biosciences. “People from outside of traditional hibernation world are wanting to come in and collaborate.”
Lead researcher Bryan Heiderscheit, a UW-Madison orthopedics professor, said the main goal is to advance the understanding and prevention of hamstring injuries that are the most common ailment for NFL players.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research, tasting cheese is serious business.
“Everything is prescribed, down to what temperature we taste at, how many chews we do, how forcefully we chew and a lot of other things that standardize how we taste,” said Brandon Prochaska, a sensory coordinator for the center, during a recent appearance on WPR’s “The Morning Show.”
Widely used chemotherapy drugs don’t attack cancer the way doctors thought, according to a UW-Madison study that identifies a new mechanism that could improve the search for new drugs and help tailor treatments for patients,
“It’s a totally different mechanism than the field had been thinking about for the last several decades,” said Beth Weaver, a UW-Madison professor of cell and regenerative biology who is senior author of the study, published recently in the journal PLOS Biology.
A calorie is not just a calorie. That’s the lesson University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers said they demonstrated in a new study where mice lost weight while eating more.
“And they’re fitter throughout their lifespan, too,” said professor and metabolism researcher Dudley Lamming. “So they’re still able to run and climb, and they don’t grow as frail as normal animals do as they age.”
New research out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that pollution and biodiversity are factors that can change how vulnerable animals are to disease or parasites.
Jess Hua, an associate professor in the department of Forest Wildlife and Ecology at UW-Madison, said diseases affecting various animal species are “emerging at unprecedented rates” and biologists are trying to learn why.
This is the first year the short course is being held at UW-River Falls. But the program is nothing new.
The short course is actually the UW system’s oldest training program in the agricultural sector, originating in 1886 at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison is going to start providing broad financial support to students who are enrolled members of federally recognized tribes in the state – Carla Vigue, the UW’s director of tribal relations, considered the significance of this initiative.
UW Hospital’s charity care was 0.9% of revenue last year after dipping to 0.7% in 2021, with the hospital helping 44,109 patients last year, up from 32,017 the previous year.
Two UW Hospital surgeons who performed gender-altering surgeries on a woman who now claims the procedures were done without proper informed consent have denied her claims, and UW Hospital has asked a judge to dismiss her lawsuit against the doctors and the hospital.
It’s been 30 years since those Badgers changed the trajectory of not only a football program, but the entire athletic department, and you could argue the university as a whole.
I’m excited to let you know that we’re going to celebrate that team this week leading into the 30th anniversary of Wisconsin’s 21-16 win over UCLA in the 1994 Rose Bowl.
Courts and Congress likely will have a say in the near future on whether NCAA athletes should be considered employees and whether they should get a share of expanding media rights revenues. The implications are “worrying” for UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin.
“Our student-athletes are also students; they’re primarily students,” Mnookin said in a September interview with BadgerExtra. “We’d actually like them to be students first and foremost. And I have a lot of unease about what the set of spiraling consequences could be if that were to transform.”
Letter to the editor: Now put the other outstanding six-time national champion Wisconsin Badger women’s hockey on the front page each and every day. They deserve more front-page news than Badger football, because what has their record been in the last five or six years compared to Women’s hockey?
Guest column: Fairness is at the heart of justice, and even a small child understands and asks for fair treatment. Justice’ most recent political name is diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Diversity, equity and inclusion are fast becoming a polarizing concept in our state, like previous opponents changed the meaning of affirmative action from positive to negative.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professor Robert Yablon gives insight into why the Wisconsin Supreme Court threw out the state’s election district maps and where things could go from here.
Wearing a smile on your face can be interpreted differently depending on where you live. We talk with UW-Madison professor of psychology Paula Niedenthal who’s explored smile culture around the world for decades.
Smartphone application Purposity and the UW Madison Student Financial Aid Office will provide a space for people to donate gifts to college students in need this holiday season and beyond.
