A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist made a significant discovery that could affect children with autism. Study author Dr. Cara Westmark says, changing an autistic child?s diet could decrease the number of seizures they have.
Noted: The remains will go next to the University of Wisconsin for an anthropologist and odontologist to inspect. The lab there will also test the DNA to confirm the French results. The family has invited J-PAC to observe the process but has opted not to give the remains to the agency to examine independently.
It sounds like an awesome wintertime trip: Snowmobile to the middle of nowhere, set up camp and fly radio-controlled airplanes for a couple of weeks. Now take that same scenario and move it to Antarctica in the austral summer. Throw in a 10-hour snowmobile ride across the hard, wind-carved snow surface.
NASA has launched an interactive map of the Milky Way galaxy, constructed over 10 years from over two million infrared Spitzer images.
A team of Wisconsin scientists has stitched together a dramatic 360-degree portrait of the Milky Way that reveals never-seen-before details of our galaxy.
Noted: Bob Aschenbrock, chief judge of the competition, said the success by Wisconsin cheesemakers goes back to the quality of the milk produced by the state?s farmers and the work of the state agriculture officials and the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison.
Noted: Professor John D Lee, of the University of Wisconsin, made his comments ahead of an Road Safety Authority (RSA) conference on driver distraction taking place in Dublin today.
IF A robot bleeped and squeaked with personality like R2D2 from Star Wars, would you like it better? What if it glanced into the distance when you asked it a question, as though pondering its response?
Noted: Myers was pointing to research done by the Cooperative Children?s Book Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which has counted the number of children?s books featuring people of colour since 1985. Ten years ago, of 3,200 books received by the centre, 171 were about black people, 95 about American Indians, 78 about Asians and 63 about Latinos. Last year, these numbers had fallen, with 93 of 3,200 books about black people, 34 about American Indians, 69 about Asians and 57 about Latinos.
Quoted: The study, which appears in the current issue of Child Abuse & Neglect, was also co-authored with Lawrence Berger of the University of Wisconsin.
The Weather Channel visits the Dairy Research Center at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station to examine the science of keeping cows happy and healthy in the winter.
An article Tuesday in the Local section about fines against the University of Wisconsin-Madison for violating USDA animal care regulations mischaracterized a citation involving the death of a dog as being more serious than it really was. The dog was treated correctly by researchers, but they failed to report the incident to an appropriate manager.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is paying $35,000 in fines to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for violations related to the care of research animals, the university announced Monday in a release.
UW-Madison has been fined more than $35,000 by a federal agency for seven violations of federal animal research treatment standards, the university announced Monday.
The University of Wisconsin?s animal research lab has agreed to pay more than $30,000 in fines for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act.
The Cooperative Children?s Book Center of the University of Wisconsin ? Madison found that of the new children?s books they received at their center, less than 3 percent focused on black people and even fewer were by black authors (about 2 percent, according to the CCBC.)
Officials with the University of Wisconsin Madison say the campus will pay over $35,000 in fines to the USDA, for violations that involved the care of research animals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has paid a $35,000 fine to settle several animal research violations, including burning a cat and euthanizing a dog without notifying the supervising veterinarian.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has agreed to pay a $35,000 fine to settle animal welfare violations.
Noted: Stacie Robinson and co-authors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Alberta-Edmonton reported in the journal “Ecological Applications” that 41% of deer from the CWD core area of Wisconsin demonstrated resistance to CWD.
One of the ways that radiation causes illness is by damaging our DNA. University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist Michael Cox and his team wanted to find out whether they could breed the common bacteria E. coli to be more resistant to radiation damage. So they took a group of E. coli, bombarded it with radiation until 99 percent of the microbes were dead, and then bred a new generation from the survivors. After 20 rounds of this, they wound up with a group of E. coli that could repair radiation damage after being blasted with ionizing radiation that was four orders of magnitude greater than what their ancestors could endure.
Noted: Leanna says he was reluctant to seek help, or even admit that anything was wrong. But after he took part in a paid study of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he began practicing meditation. The experience completely changed his life, he says, and brought him the peace of mind that had eluded him since he went into combat years before. Now, Leanna teaches mindfulness and deep breathing to other veterans as part of Project Welcome Home Troops.
Dealing effectively with oil and chemical spills could be made easier with the help of an improved form of aerogel developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Participating in any archeological expedition requires a lot of skill and expertise in order for it to be successful. However, a dig that recently took place in northeastern South Africa had an especially unique qualification for any potential archeologists or excavators?the ability to squeeze through a tiny space called the International Postbox and repel down into a cavern named The Cradle of Humankind for its remarkable contents approximately 30 meters below.
A prevalent health problem in the developing countries of the tropics and subtropics is helminth or parasitic worm transmission. Among the most common parasites is a hookworm or a nematode roundworm with hooked mouthparts known to cause tissue obstruction, anemia and infestation in the stomach.
Noted: Uejio received his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in environmental studies, where he worked on the study with other researchers from UW-Madison, the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation and the U.S. Agriculture Research Service.
Twelve University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students will present their research at the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda to legislators Wednesday, according to a university press release.
An Academic Staff representative raised concerns at an assembly meeting Monday regarding a committee appointment made last month by the Academic Staff Executive Committee.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA ? Small satellite-tracking devices attached to sea turtles swimming off Florida?s coast have delivered first-of-its-kind data that could help unlock they mystery of what endangered turtles do during the ?lost years.?
Noted: The study, which appears in the current issue of Child Abuse & Neglect, was also co-authored with Lawrence Berger of the University of Wisconsin.
Universities throughout the Midwest are doing more and more organic agriculture research, and the scholarship is having an impact on the organic industry.
Scientists working on the bendable glass project at Los Alamos are teaming up with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain, and Tohoku University in Japan.
Quoted: The finding fuels the debate about how mimicry ? which helps to deter would-be predators ? works. ?This is a long-standing mystery in biology,? says Sean Carroll, an evolutionary developmental biologist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, who was not involved in the study. ?One of the most spectacular phenomena in nature is for two unrelated species to resemble each other.?
Success will hinge on something called ?transference,? says C. Shawn Green, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who studies the effects of games on the brain.
As the 100th anniversary of the passenger pigeon is observed, lecturer Stanley Temple asked the audience at the March 6 lecture to remember the passenger pigeon and learn from past mistakes.
3D printing is generally a monochrome affair. Full-color printers are expensive, so the more casual user is likely stuck printing in one or two colors.
Researchers cited in U.S. House budget chairman Paul Ryan?s scholarly preface to the Republican budget say the report selectively uses data to discredit the 50-year-old War on Poverty.
New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that when fathers come home after military service they must re-establish their parental skills and their relationships with their children.
Classified national security research could be done by University of Wisconsin System professors if a bill currently before the Legislature passes.
Barbara Wolfe, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said Ryan?s paper simply misstates the findings of one of her papers studying the effect of housing assistance on labor outcomes.
The Obama administration, constrained by spending caps imposed by Congress, suggested on Tuesday a federal budget for 2015 that would mean another year of cuts in the government?s spending on basic scientific research.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate working group presented a draft outlining changes to a research and graduate school position at a committee meeting Monday, recommending a division between the two roles.
The newly formed Digital Lab for Manufacturing will develop a variety of digital tools to enhance efficiency and lower the cost of manufactured products. The Defense Department kicked in $70 million to the effort, with companies and research universities throughout the country joining as partners.
A University of Wisconsin professor has received a research grant to study preventative measures for individuals at high risk for Alzheimer?s disease.
Quoted: Rama Maganti, director of UW Health’s epilepsy program.
Most Wisconsin farmers remain skeptical about climate change, although data show they have already begun adapting to shifts in weather patterns. Quoted: Paul Mitchell, associate professor of agricultural and applied economics; and Chris Kucharik, assistant professor of agronomy and Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
The SSTI (State Science and Technology Institute) praised the UW-Madison?s investment in its ?Discovery to Product? initiative to help move good ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace. That?s an idea funded, in part, by the Legislature?s UW System Incentive Grants. Only this month, the UW System and WEDC announced creation of a $2 million fund to help transfer technology from other system campuses.
A recent study, co-authored by one of our colleagues at UW-Madison, has suggested that reductions in Arctic sea ice, which have made the Arctic warmer, have effectively reduced the pole-to-equator temperature difference. This theory ? though plausible ? has not gained wide acceptance and is being challenged from a number of different perspectives.
A $50 million electron accelerator in Stoughton will make its last loops next Friday after federal funding cuts in 2011 gouged the UW-Madison research center of $5 million a year. The Synchrotron Radiation Center?s already diminished staff, estimated at a dozen, will lose their jobs.
Noted: Wisconsin Sea Grant is a statewide program of basic and applied research, education, and outreach and technology transfer dedicated to the stewardship and sustainable use of the Great Lakes and ocean resources. Its headquarters are at UW-Madison.
Have you seen the controversial Madison Metro bus signs depicting UW-Madison?s cat experimentation? What experiments are being done and why are animal rights groups upset? Find out more about why the experiments have caused such a controversy on this edition of A Public Affair!
It?s a relic that just may be old the Earth itself.Scientists have discovered a piece of the Earth?s crust that dates back roughly 4.4 billion years ? only a shade younger than the planet?s known origin.
Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will begin a two-year project to study the effects of aerobic exercise on the prevention of Alzheimer?s disease after receiving a research grant from the Alzheimer?s Association.
The University of Wisconsin is part of a new effort to make the United States more competitive in manufacturing.
UW-Madison is a research partner with the new “Digital Lab”, based in Chicago.
A material developed at UW-Madison could lead the way toward cheaper, faster cleanups of oil spills and other environmental hazards.
(CNN) — From a sheep ranch in Western Australia comes the oldest slice of Earth we know.
Rockwell Automation Inc. and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among 73 companies, nonprofits and universities that are investing in building a Midwest Digital Lab for Manufacturing at the University of Illinois.
From a sheep ranch in Western Australia comes the oldest slice of Earth we know.
From a grain of Australian crystal that measures the width of two human hairs, a UW-Madison researcher has unlocked important discoveries about the Earth?s crust ? namely, that it?s at least 4.4 billion years old, meaning Earth cooled enough to be lived on earlier than previously believed.
A liberal-leaning research group from the University of Wisconsin Madison is advocating for a higher minimum wage. A new report from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) says a base wage of $10.10 an hour will pump almost a billion dollars into the state?s economy over the next three years.
