“We really rely on NIH funding,” Jon Audhya, a professor and associate dean at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health said. “That reduction would have a huge negative impact on the institution. The university really couldn’t fill the gap.”
The Keck Foundation awarded UW-Madison researchers a $1.3 million grant to research nitrogenase, an enzyme in part behind the origins of life on Earth. We talk with the head researcher of the project for a review of humanity’s understanding of life’s origins.
Vanessa Sperandio, professor and chair of the medical microbiology and immunology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has studied how the connect between the intestinal system and the brain — called the gut-brain axis — plays into addiction. Sperandio explained that E. coli, the bacterium famous for making people violently ill, always lives in our guts. She found that when there’s an overgrowth of E. coli, a person becomes more susceptible to cocaine addiction.
“If you have an expansion of E. coli … you enhance … cocaine addiction behaviors, cocaine seeking behaviors, cocaine administration behaviors,” she said.
There are countless examples of gut bacteria influencing our lives. Maggie Alexander, an assistant professor of medical microbiology and immunology at UW-Madison, is studying how the gut-brain axis affects autoimmune diseases, where the immune system attacks healthy parts of the body.
“There’s been this really strong connection of microbiota and autoimmune conditions,” Alexander said,
“Ideally, parents should think about their child’s heart health even before their child is born,” said Dr. Amy Peterson, a professor of pediatrics in the department of pediatric cardiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Social media may be playing a role in pushing the birth rate down, in part by promoting the perception that people should really only have children if they can give those children what we might think of as ‘Pinterest-perfect’ lives,” said Jessica Calarco, an award-winning sociology researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“We really rely on NIH funding,” Jon Audhya, a professor and associate dean at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health said. “That reduction would have a huge negative impact on the institution. The university really couldn’t fill the gap.”
New strategy offers roadmap to limiting opioid prescription.
American universities are spending far too much on consulting firms. Recent investigations reveal staggering numbers: $51 million at the University of Wisconsin, $4.7 million at the University of Florida, and similar seven- and eight-figure contracts across the nation.
Andrew Reschovsky, a professor emeritus of public affairs at UW-Madison, said sometimes it makes sense for a state agency to contract out services when it doesn’t have the staff or knowledge for the work. Without the outcome of cost-benefit analyses or other information, it is impossible to know when contracting out makes sense without querying each agency, he said.
University of Wisconsin System Chief Information Officer Steven Hopper said Workday’s implementation will be smooth and will create a foundation for growth.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vosaims to remove racial DEI efforts and steer toward conservative inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Meanwhile, the price of conventional eggs is beholden to supply and demand, said poultry specialist Ron Kean of the University of Wisconsin Extension.
“The price of those really goes up and down according to national demand,” Kean said. “I like to think of it like gasoline prices, where it can really fluctuate a lot.”
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of Puerto Rico’s colonial history in the visuals for the Grammy Award-winning rapper’s new album.
UW founders first approach plans to transform entrepreneurship, drive statewide economic growth.
We aren’t yet in a constitutional crisis, but we are in the middle of a constitutional revolution, says Howard Schewber, an emeritus professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Trump’s barrage of executive orders is radical, according to Schweber, because it denies Congress the authority of its power over the president.
He earned a BSEE from UWMadison and later worked as an electrical engineer for UW and the State of Wisconsin.
