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.
More than half a million Wisconsin workers ? or, one of every five in the state ? would get bigger paychecks if Wisconsin increases the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour from the current $7.25 an hour, according to a report released Monday by the UW-Madison?s Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS).
We all know Earth is a pretty cool place, but it?s been cool longer than previously thought. Using two dating techniques, scientists have confirmed that a tiny zircon, a mineral belonging to the group of neosilicates, from Western Australia?s Jack Hills region is indeed the oldest fragment of Earth?s crust, dating back 4.4 billion years.
Field ecologists go to great lengths to get data. Radio collars and automatic video cameras are among their tools for documenting the natural world.
An international team of researchers led by scientists at UW-Madison have revealed new details on how Earth became habitable.
Researchers at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery have developed a spongelike material called an aerogel that could become a sustainable way to clean up oil spills. Quoted: Shaoqin “Sarah” Gong, associate professor of biomedical engineering.
Geology professor John Valley and his graduate student have found the oldest piece of Earth’s crust yet discovered.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A new report gives state officials low marks for their lack of control over agricultural and industrial pollution that pose threats to Green Bay.
Chicago has won a $70 million grant from the Defense Department for a research center for digital-manufacturing technology, a new facility that could dramatically raise the city?s profile beyond being a hotbed for startups.
Chicago will be the site of a digital manufacturing institute backed by $70 million in federal money and another $250 million in private and other government funding, giving the city, once a factory town, a better chance to re-establish its credentials as a modern maker of things.
While it?s already possible to wirelessly recharge smartphones in cars, those cars need to be equipped with a special charging pad that the phone has to be placed on. Thanks to a newly-developed “nanogenerator,” however, it might eventually be possible to place the phone anywhere in any car, letting the vehicle?s vibrations provide the power.
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A tiny crystal found in Australia ? the oldest rock yet known ? has been dated to 4.4 billion years old, only 100 million years younger than Earth itself.
LONDON: A tiny fragment of zircon extracted from a remote rock outcrop in Australia has now been designated the “oldest piece of Earth ever found”.
The state Assembly has approved a bill that would allow University of Wisconsin institutions to perform classified national security research.
The state Assembly is set to take up a bill that allow University of Wisconsin institutions to perform classified national security research.
The census? preliminary numbers were in disagreement with annual statistics provided by the USDA that have shown a decline over the past five years of state agricultural land that has been diverted to other uses, according to Bruce Jones, an agricultural economics professor at UW-Madison.
The state Assembly has approved a bill that would allow University of Wisconsin institutions to perform classified national security research.
It has been a long three months since we camped out at the site of the Rising Star caves outside Johannesburg, and the summer growth has erased the signs of our presence. There?s no evidence of the Science Tent, and the paths we wore through the chunks of dolomite are now under grasses and red wildflowers.
A multi-university team of engineers has developed what could be a promising solution for charging smartphone batteries on the go, without an electrical cord, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Thursday.
Farmers have traditionally gathered and saved seeds from one growing season to plant in the next. But this age-old tradition is being threatened by corporations that are increasingly restricting access to seeds through patents.
A funding shortfall that will force the closing of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Synchrotron Radiation Center near Stoughton is an example of how tight federal budgets are causing the United States to fall behind in global scientific research and development to Asian nations, said director Joseph Bisognano, a professor of engineering physics.
Five researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health received a two-year, $100,000 grant each to pursue innovative research and education in health, according to a university press release.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will hold Design Summit 3 Thursday, a forum focusing on ?human-centered design? and innovation, with the intent of fostering conversation between researchers at UW-Madison and associates in the industry, according to a university press release.
A unique particle accelerator housed in a University of Wisconsin physics lab has attracted scientists from across the world and nation for years, but due to federal cuts the lab has officially been slated for closure on March 7.
New solar panels created by Sunpreme and tested at the University of Wisconsin have passed preliminary tests and could be on their way to usage at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in South Pole.
Story highlights research by Dr. Margaret ?Gretchen? Schwarze, a UW-Madison vascular surgeon and bioethicist.
Why does a couple become a couple? Love? Friendship? Security? Someone to talk to? Economics?
A provision to exempt University of Wisconsin System research from open records requests was removed from a bill to allow classified research on campus Monday.
Newly released research from a UW-Madison professor finds income inequality will continue to go up in the years to come.
Newly released research from a UW-Madison professor finds income inequality will continue to go up in the years to come.
Three finalists have been selected to be interviewed to lead Discovery to Product (D2P), a new venture at UW-Madison to boost the entrepreneurial efforts on campus.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher is piloting an Australian exercise program designed to help reduce falls among the elderly — the leading cause of injury for that age group.
A controversial measure to shield University of Wisconsin research from public records requests died a sudden death Monday morning before its first scheduled legislative hearing.
A bill that would allow University of Wisconsin System campuses to conduct classified research that would be exempt from state open records law was taken up in committee Monday.
MADISON, Wisconsin ? The head of the state Assembly?s colleges committee said Monday he won?t allow the panel to vote on a bill that creates sweeping open record exemptions for University of Wisconsin System research.
Scientific research at University of Wisconsin campuses would be shielded from public records requests until it?s published or patented under a controversial bill scheduled for a first hearing on Monday before the state Assembly?s higher education committee.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation isn?t the only organization accusing Apple Inc. of infringing on a high-tech patent. A few days after WARF filed suit against the technology giant, a Texas-based company did the same based on a different complaint.
A bill to shield University of Wisconsin research from public records requests, scheduled for a first hearing Monday morning, has hit turbulence.
Scientists say tests to put extra strong solar panels in the Antarctic have been successful.University of Wisconsin researchers simulated freezing weather conditions to put ?double glass? solar PV panels through their paces, including sub-zero temperatures for lengthy periods of time.
Related to recent UW research.
Early farmers boosted Earth?s temperature by 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) over a period of 8,000 years, a new study suggests.
