A leading researcher on the interface between science communications and politics is Dietram Scheufele of the UW-Madison’s Department of Life Sciences Communication. In a recent paper for the National Academy of Sciences, Scheufele said the “knowledge deficit model” of science communications misses the boat.
Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll, executive producer of the doc Mass Extinction: Life At the Brink, on why mankind’s days are numbered.
Noted: Over all, research finds that single-sex education does not show significant academic benefits — or drawbacks. Janet Hyde, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who analyzed 184 studies covering 1.6 million children around the globe, said the studies showing increased academic performance often involved other factors that could not be disentangled from the effects of the single-gender component.
A recent study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison offers one of the most detailed records of the variation in temperature between cities and the surrounding rural areas, known as the urban heat island effect.
Researchers at University of Wisconsin studied brainwaves to determine how interpretation of reality differs from imaginary thought in the human brain.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison started mapping pollution in the country by following grievances about it on social media.
Most drugs now used to treat the flu have a straightforward strategy: attack the virus. But a new study out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison proposes that it might be possible to take another approach. Researchers there have discovered a way to reduce the cellular material inside a person that influenza cells use to multiply. A news release from the university likens it to “cutting the fuel line on a bank robber’s getaway car.”
In order to better understand how the brain works, one of the areas cognitive neuroscientists are exploring is how it functions while we are dreaming and how we process information while we observe actual events.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison vice chancellor says the university needs to do a better job of explaining how academic research benefits the state after the state Assembly speaker suggested changes might be needed.
Researchers led by UW-Madison Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka released a study on Thursday containing new methods to counteract the influenza virus.
Each year, 13,500 children are diagnosed with cancer in the United States, thats more than a classroom of kids a day. A new clinical trial being used right here at home is showing promise, bringing hope to families when they need it most.
China has some of the world’s worst pollution. But tracking it in all but the biggest cities can be impossible since local governments don’t release any data to the public.
A study probing directional flow of information in the brain has revealed that opposite pathways are at work when perceiving reality and daydreaming.
It may be the timeliest — and most troubling — idea in climate science. Back in 2012, two researchers with a particular interest in the Arctic, Rutgers’ Jennifer Francis and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Stephen Vavrus, published a paper called “Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes.”
Tweets across the world of words like “haze, sunny, cold” are being analyzed by researchers at University of Wisconsin to determine areas of high pollution.
The University of Wisconsin has recently acquired a rare collection of lichen specimens – about 60,000 of them, to be exact. The director of the Wisconsin State Herbatarium talks about the collection, and what we can learn from lichen about the world’s ecosystem.
The effects of multiple sclerosis could be relieved by sending electric pulses through a patient’s mouth.
Levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere shows seasonal changes, dropping during the summer as growing plants inhale, then rising as they exhale and begin decomposing the their growing season, and now researchers say they’ve determined a significant role of agriculture in that phenomenon.
New research released Wednesday shows an increase in crop production has caused levels of carbon dioxide to rise and fall seasonally to a larger degree, with fluctuations growing by 50 percent in the last five decades, according to a UW-Madison news release.
Hector DeLuca is the embodiment of nearly a century of University of Wisconsin research into Vitamin D, and he’s working to extend that reach for at least another generation or two.
Isthmus contributor Bill Lueders reported on the life, death and research of r04040 at UW-Madison in the November 13 issue, and discussed his story with WORT producer Dylan Brogan on that day’s edition of In Our Backyard.
Through stem cell research, two Madison men who suffer from a genetic condition that causes blindness and hearing loss are receiving experimental treatment.
Anyone interested (in) the use of animals in research at UW-Madison can now go to its animal research page and read about incidents involving the escape of 36 primates, deaths of three monkeys and burning of another that brought four citations this fall for failing to comply with USDA standards. But that’s only because of the work of an Ohio-based animal rights group with tactics that Eric Sandgren, director of UW’s Research Animal Resources Center, says are “inappropriate.”
Thumbs Down: To Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Burlington, for disparaging University of Wisconsin research.
The giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way may be producing the mysterious high-energy neutrinos, NASA scientists have found.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Saturday a $100 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge, the largest single contribution from individual donors in the flagship’s history.
A coalition of scientists from University of Wisconsin, Florida Atlantic University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have made a discovery: Fat turtles are better swimmers than their thinner counterparts. The findings were so unexpected, researchers thought they made a mistake at first, Warren Porter, a professor of zoology at UW who worked on this project, said.
UW-Madison cell and regenerative biology professor James Thomson and his team of scientists recently made new strides in their extensive stem cell research.
The recent announcement of a multimillion-dollar federal grant to study the sleep habits of mice and fruit flies has Darold Treffert aroused.
Simon Gilroy and his team of researchers from University of Wisconsin’s botany lab recently welcomed the delivery of over 1,000 plant seedlings from the International Space Station.
The University of Wisconsin has a lot to be proud of – but there is one dark spot. Even as one of the nation’s top schools, with one of the best athletic departments in the Big Ten and nationally recognized professors, diversity issues on campus remain the elephant in the room that no one seems to want to focus on.
The School of Medicine and Public Health has won the largest grant in its history — $70 million over seven years for its continuing work on a project called the Inner-City Asthma Consortium. The work, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is part of a nationwide effort aimed at preventing asthma and reducing its severity in inner city children.
My monkey died as he lived — in seclusion, for the benefit of others. His name was r04040. He was euthanized on April 28, 2010, two days after his sixth birthday. More than four years would pass before I made the records request that reacquainted me with his reality, and apprised me of his fate.
Twitter is becoming a must for researchers after a US analysis found it can boost their profile by more than 50 per cent. A University of Wisconsin-Madison study has found Twitter is an indispensable outreach tool, amplifying the benefits researchers reap by engaging with traditional media.
A longstanding University of Wisconsin project researching asthma in people living in the inner city got a $70 million grant, marking the largest award ever for the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
When David Baum was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, he pondered, as students are wont to in the small hours after the bar has closed, one of biology’s most basic questions. It was this: how did eukaryotic cells (the complex sort that make up every plant and animal as well as lots of unicellular creatures like amoebas) evolve from prokaryotic ones (bacteria and their kin) which are much simpler?
Noted: research on Usher syndrome by Dr. David Gamm of ophthalmology; Mike Walsh is a social media specialist for UW Athletics.
A cure for Usher syndrome is far from reality. But Dr. David Gamm of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center is among those working on it. UW System Regent David Walsh, whose family is affected by the disease, helped raise more than $1 million for Gamm’s research. The money jump-started the ophthalmologist’s lab and brought in other grants.
As many as a quarter of low-income Wisconsin college students have trouble making the rent or paying utilities, but colleges across the country typically lack systematic programs to help students meet basic needs, a newly released study by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab found.
UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has been given its largest grant ever, a $70 million, seven-year grant to continue research on asthma in inner-city children. The grant is from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Then there is Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, threatening to tie University of Wisconsin funding to job creation. The university is not a job training school; it is a world-class research institution that is providing us the evidence to implement policies to combat climate change and eradicate disease through stem cell research.
A local karate studio had a lot to celebrate today. Many of the students graduated to a new belt level and they also made a very important donation.
Even as we react to this current [Ebola] crisis, we must also step back and look at the broader context. How can we develop better treatments for this and much more common diseases afflicting millions of Americans? Better yet, how can we prevent them?
It may come as no surprise that state Republican leaders, in the flush of electoral victory, are targeting University of Wisconsin funding in the next legislative session. But the scorn for the university evident in Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ post-election remarks struck some observers.
Researchers at the UW-Madison Department of Botany, led by professor Simon Gilroy, received more than 1,000 containers of frozen plants from space Thursday.
When David Baum was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, he pondered, as students are wont to in the small hours after the bar has closed, one of biology’s most basic questions. It was this: how did eukaryotic cells the complex sort that make up every plant and animal as well as lots of unicellular creatures like amoebas evolve from prokaryotic ones bacteria and their kin which are much simpler?
UW-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka has once again halted controversial flu research, this time in response to a White House request that researchers stop such work during a federal review of the risks and benefits.
Two researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison have been awarded a five-year, multi-million dollar federal grant to study the brain activity of fruit flies and mice during sleep.
Katie Brenner, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin – Madison who is developing ways to help the early diagnosis of illnesses in premature infants, has been selected for one of five Women in Science Fellowships across the country.
University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $440,000 federal research grant to study a program designed to make kids more financially literate.
As cases of a worrisome respiratory virus continue to pop up in the Middle East, scientists who study it in the U.S. are struggling to understand how they’ll be affected by a government moratorium on certain kinds of experiments.
The co-chairman of the Legislature’s powerful finance committee doesn’t sound too optimistic that the University of Wisconsin System will get the additional $95 million it wants in the next state budget.
Citizens against UW-Madison’s monkey experiments will hold a protest prior to the Board of Regents meeting Nov. 6 from 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. at the intersection of Johnson Street and Lake Street on the UW-Madison campus.
A UW Madison researcher says close to forty percent of the state’s lakes could contain invasive species.
The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has announced it plans to close its Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory on the west side of Madison and consolidate services at the Soil and Forage Analysis Laboratory located in Marshfield. The move will happen gradually over the next year and is expected to be completed by November 2015, says Richard Straub, CALS senior associate dean.
Noted: Joining the Dalai Lama on the platform was Richard Davidson, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the first scientists to work with the Dalai Lama. “I’m reminded how lonely the journey was at the beginning,” said Davidson. “There were fewer than 10 people doing this research on the planet.”
Inspiring others to pursue their goals, whatever they may be, is the overarching goal of Keven Stonewall, a 19-year-old UW-Madison sophomore who has made incredible breakthroughs in colon cancer research.
Two UW-Madison graduate students in chemical engineering have made recent developments for 3-D printer technology with the help of grants, providing an easier method to print objects in color.
A great deal has been written about the changing face of the traditional family.With these changes in family dynamics, come similar shifts when divorce enters the picture. Dr. Maria Cancian, a professor of Public Affairs and Social Work at The University of Wisconsin Madison, takes a look at the landscape of divorce and custody in modern times.
Justin Vandenbroucke, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Levi Simons, director of citizen science at the LA Makerspace in Los Angeles, lead one group, which for the past four years has been working to build an app that teachers and students can use to create their own cosmic ray experiments. It’s called DECO, Distributed Electronic Cosmic-ray Observatory.
