He worked at Argonne National Laboratory, UW-Madison and the Wis. State Laboratory of Hygiene, where he was the first chemist hired to administer the PKU Laboratory Certification Program after state law mandated such testing on newborns.
Noted: This year Cain was assigned to oversee cleanups of two of the four largest manure spills in the last 15 years ? at the biodigester site near Waunakee last month and at UW-Madison?s Arlington Agricultural Research Station in February.
A treatment being studied at UW-Madison could change the prognosis. Ellie is among nine patients who have taken dopamine, a drug for Parkinson?s disease, to see if it improves their vision.
A sexual assault survey students will receive in their inboxes over winter break will launch the next step in a campaign aiming to improve how the campus perceives and prevents sexual violence.
Two developments in Madison highlight a national debate about prescription painkillers: the formation of the Wisconsin Pain Coalition in October and a U.S. Senate investigation of organizations including UW-Madison?s Pain and Policy Studies Group.
Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing at UW-Madison, said this week that he plans to apply, citing the department?s ?long, sustained history of both professionalism and progressivism.?
Jim Delany, the $3-million-a-year commissioner of Big Ten athletics, was the central figure in a big New York Times story last week about the conference?s rapid and lucrative expansion.
If the University of Wisconsin football team couldn?t play in a Bowl Championship Series bowl game this season, the next best thing was playing the best possible opponent in a quality environment.
Gov. Scott Walker said he?s committed to giving state universities more flexibility in how they operate but said it will only come about with a more robust dedication to transparency and accountability by campus leaders.
A new policy first rolled out in March concerning alcohol at UW-Madison events will take effect next year and apply a uniform set of standards to university events on and off campus, the university announced Thursday.
UW-Madison needs to raise its profile in Washington, D.C., to better compete for federal grant money, officials say.
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will play in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament next season in Paradise Island, Bahamas.
Before Mike Eaves became the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey coach in 2002, he played 367 games in the NHL and another 160 as an All-American center at UW.
When Kelly Sheffield took over as University of Wisconsin volleyball team nearly a year ago, he quickly realized he had the makings of an NCAA tournament team.
UW-Madison is gearing up to be a more influential player in the competition for federal research grant money in Washington, D.C., and Chancellor Rebecca Blank says it?s about time.
Cellular Dynamics International, the company founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, will develop five induced pluripotent stem cell lines from patients with two types of muscular dystrophy.
Lauren Carlini has made quite an impact at the University of Wisconsin since arriving as the nation?s top prep volleyball player.
After missing nearly two full games with a hamstring injury, it appeared University of Wisconsin senior linebacker Chris Borland might be penalized when it came to individual awards ? especially after failing to make the finalist list for the Butkus Award, given to the nation?s top linebacker.
What better way to show an interior designer the exact color you want than by allegedly stealing a painting?
At 7 p.m., Tuesday, Wisconsin Environment, Family Farm Defenders, UW-Madison?s Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, the Madison Information Shop and the Socially Responsible Agricultural Project will host ?When a factory farm comes to town: The environmental and social costs of factory farming in Wisconsin.?
She retired after 19 years of service at the age of 70 from the UW Madison Retinopathy Reading Center where she was a research coordinator.
Graphic ads depicting animal testing began appearing on Metro Transit buses Monday, a decision the transit agency said it is powerless to stop.
Just like parents themselves, ?I think the professional community is really split? on the issue of children and screen time, said Heather Kirkorian, an assistant professor in the Human Development and Family Studies department at UW-Madison.
According to Department of Natural Resources records, a pipeline breach in February at the UW-Madison?s Arlington agricultural research station in the town of Leeds in Columbia County also released 300,000 gallons of manure.
A new report shows the University of Wisconsin System lost 1,182 faculty members during the 2011-13 biennium.
University of Wisconsin senior linebacker Chris Borland, who plays with such ferocity every second he?s on the football field, was asked recently about the ?mental transformation? that takes place when he puts on his helmet.
For the first time in more than a quarter-century, UW-Stout will start the next academic year with a new chancellor. Charles Sorenson, leader of the Menomonie campus since 1988, announced Monday he?ll retire effective next August and be replaced by someone who, if history can be believed, might stay for a while.
Keen on finding a better way to awaken those dormant connections, he teamed up with Gordon Mitchell at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and his colleagues, who were studying the effects of sleep apnoea ? or interrupted breathing ? in mice.
The University of Wisconsin football team will still go bowling in Florida, it?s just that the game will probably be a few hundred miles north of the desired destination.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will make its first NCAA tournament appearance in six years Friday when the Badgers host in-state rival UW-Milwaukee in a first-round match at the UW Field House.
Campus entrepreneurism: A decade ago, it was difficult to find organized entrepreneurial education programs on Wisconsin campuses, the exceptions being the Weinert Center of Entrepreneurship at UW-Madison and the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship at Marquette University.
Since Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican Legislature enacted sweeping changes to collective bargaining and teacher compensation, the number of junior and senior undergraduates enrolled in state teacher-training programs appears to have dropped, state data show.
Lingran Kong was a freshman at UW-Madison during the 2011 occupation of the state Capitol over Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker?s measure eliminating public workers? collective bargaining rights. She soon found herself locked down for three days and three nights there, at the heart of a political uprising that helped usher in a resurgence of labor activism across the country.
Filmmaker and UW-Madison graduate Jill Soloway, who was just in Madison two weeks ago presenting her first film ?Afternoon Delight,? was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award on Tuesday.
When Bill Gibson introduced his teenage students to a novel set in eastern Turkey about clashes between secular rules and deep Muslim beliefs, he didn?t worry about whether the story would resonate despite an absence of connection to the life they know.
This database contains payments made to the staff of Madison Area Technical College in the 2012-13 school year, including summer and interim sessions.
The prestigious Criterion Collection is renowned for releasing classic films, from Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? to Charlie Chaplin?s ?City Lights,? on Blu-ray and DVD. But the company?s blog recently went outside the home to showcase a theatrical screening at the UW-Madison?s Cinematheque program.
Basketball has always been at the heart of the Paige family.
Of all the achievements ascribed to the 26 seniors on the University of Wisconsin football team, one speaks louder to me than all the others.
The door to a new era is supposed to swing open here this weekend, but don?t tell that to members of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team.
The $417,000 announced today is in addition to grants announced in the spring that totaled $1,080,000 to community causes and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Laura Dresser has a passion for economic justice. Dresser is a labor economist and associate director of the UW-Madison?s Center on Wisconsin Strategy, also known as COWS, a nonprofit ?think-and-do? tank, as it calls itself, that highlights social and economic equality issues.
In 2008, my story about TV personality and UW-Madison instructor Patty Loew?s presentation on the Native American view of Thanksgiving drew the ire of Limbaugh, who read the story over the air as an example of how liberals in Madison must hate America.
When Ellie Leden was born, her hair was white as snow. Her eyes were blue but transparent.
MADISON (AP) ? University of Wisconsin students and researchers set out in ?word wagons? nearly 50 years ago to record the ways Americans spoke in various parts of the country.
Federal sequestration and the impact of those budget cuts on the University of Wisconsin will be on the agenda when U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, visits UW-Madison Tuesday for a public conversation hosted by PROFS, a faculty advocacy group.
UW-Madison police have released a surveillance photo of a woman suspected of stealing a painting valued at $700 from Union South.
The final design for the reconstruction of the west end of State Street at UW-Madison?s Library Mall will be introduced to the public at a public meeting Dec. 5.
A new program to help prepare women and minorities start their own businesses is being offered by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the UW-Madison Small Business Development Center
The program, in place at six community centers throughout Madison including Vera Court, was developed by UW-Madison and Edgewood College and funded by a $330,000 grant from the Madison Community Foundation.
UW-Madison researchers dealing with human or animal test subjects will have a new tool for navigating ethical uncertainties.
?If there is no snow on the ground, there is the potential for deer ticks to be active, any place in the state,? said Phil Pellitteri, UW-Madison entomologist and deer hunter. ?Usually it has to be somewhat sunny and about 40 degrees.?
During the past several weeks, University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen has refused to lobby in an effort to boost his team?s Bowl Championship Series profile.
Maybe Paul Bunyan?s Axe needs to come with instructions.
A small electrical fire in a UW-Madison hall early Friday afternoon created large amounts of smoke, forcing an evacuation and a large response from the Madison Fire Department. There were no injuries.
Did UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank lose out on a key economic position under President Barack Obama in 2011 because of something she wrote 19 years earlier?
Two college students from Wisconsin with deep interests in science are among this year?s group of 32 Rhodes scholars from the United States announced Sunday.
Noted: Applicants from outside the department could include Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing at UW-Madison and a former Madison police officer, who said he is considering seeking the chief?s job and is waiting to see the commission?s application materials before making a decision.
For a few brief moments on Thursday afternoon, Wayne Valliere was communing with his ancestors.
From deep below a sheet of Antarctic ice, UW-Madison researchers have identified invisible cosmic objects they think traveled there from black holes or other unexplored places literally galaxies away. They named the 28 extremely high-energy particles ? called neutrinos ? after characters from children?s television.
