As darkness fell over the state capital Oct. 25, Makeela Magomolla, Tayah Dean and George Whitney led a group of more than 40 people on the winding paths of UW-Madison’s Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
The University of Wisconsin African Studies Program hosted a discussion Wednesday afternoon featuring UW Vice Provost and Dean of the International Division Frances Vavrus and other program directors. The discussion provided insights into the importance and future of international education amidst federal funding cuts.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter rehabilitation hospital to treat patients recovering from a stroke, neurological diseases or brain or spinal cord injuries is coming to Fitchburg.
A groundbreaking was held Thursday for the estimated $45 million inpatient facility, located at 5094 Greenmarket Place in Fitchburg, which is expected to be completed in early 2027. The 58,000-square-foot hospital will offer 40 private rooms.
There’s a certain kind of candy that instantly takes you back-not to Halloween or the movie theater, but to your grandparents’ house. It’s those shiny red-and-green strawberry candies that lived in a glass dish on the coffee table. Unwrapping one revealed a hard, glossy shell that eventually gave way to a soft, jammy center bursting with strawberry sweetness.
In a groundbreaking study that may redefine our understanding of chromosome stability and its link to certain devastating diseases, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have identified a critical new role for the human replication protein A (RPA).
So how can you tell when your favorite candy changes? I compared current labels on the packages of Mr. Goodbar, Rolo caramels, and Almond Joy with past ingredient lists using the crowdsourced database Open Food Facts, a U.S. Department of Agriculture ingredient database, and data compiled by Richard Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who each year writes down ingredients in common chocolate bars for one of his classes.
Does Halloween candy expire? Yes, but not in the same way that perishable items such as eggs, chicken and produce do. When candy goes bad, it’s “almost always a physical (drying out) or chemical (lipid oxidation, flavor change) change and not microbial,” Richard W. Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says.
