The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes (NHLBI), in collaboration with the FDA, has awarded the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention a $368,000 grant to study the use of menthol cigarettes at UW-Madison.
Tammy Baldwin readily admits she has a soft spot for academic researchers and the federal dollars that often help to support them. Her grandfather was a UW-Madison biochemist who worked at the Institute for Enzyme Research for decades.
The serene peacefulness of Crystal Lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin is somewhat misleading. That?s because just below the water?s surface a war is being waged against an invasive fish species foreign to the state called Rainbow Smelt.
First, two teams of virologists created more dangerous versions of the deadly H5N1 flu. Now they want to give the H7N9 virus, which has already sickened at least 134 people and killed 43 people in Asia, a few new capabilities: drug resistance, faster transmission between people and the ability to sneak past the immune system.
Two years ago a pair of scientists sparked fears of a devastating virus. Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Centre, in Rotterdam, separately found ways to make a strain of bird flu called H5N1 more contagious.
Fake web traffic has long plagued the online publishing world, but Dr. Paul Barford, computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin, is claiming the problem might be worse than suspected. And it?s costing some of the top online advertisers millions in wasted ad impressions.
Aeromedical evacuation is one of the world?s riskiest professions and accident rates are going up. But, the UW College of Engineering Flight Simulation Lab is working to reverse that trend.
People who suffer sudden cardiac arrest at a fitness center are more likely to survive than those stricken at other indoor locations such as restaurants or malls, according to a new study by Dr. Richard Page, chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
More than 45,000 dogs and 68,000 monkeys have been killed in Madison at UW-Madison and Covance over the past 10 years, according to reports submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture by each facility. Many of these animals have endured multiple experimental procedures and profound environmental and social deprivation.
Gov. Scott Walker announced plans Wednesday for new University of Wisconsin buildings for dairy and meat science, according to a release.
The nations largest dairy research center is getting a big makeover.
World-renowned flu researchers, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Yoshihiro Kawaoka, are proposing the same kinds of experiments on China?s deadly bird flu virus that scientists voluntarily agreed to halt last year on a different, potentially deadly strain of bird flu.
Forget No. 2 pencils, or even the new computer-based common-core exams that have schools across the country scrambling. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are convinced the tests of the future will look like Crystals of Kaydor, a role-playing video game about aliens. (Registration required.)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is doing research that could help the Food and Drug Administration decide whether to ban menthol cigarettes.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention has received a $368,000 grant to study the use of menthol cigarettes.
The Titan Arum plant began blooming inside UW-Madison?s D.C. Smith Greenhouse around noon on Thursday, August 1 and should reach full bloom sometime Thursday evening.
It?s a peaceful morning on Trout Bog, just outside Boulder Junction in Vilas County. And though the sound of oars splashing into the still water provides the ambience of a typical Northwoods boat ride, the voyage Ben Crary and Matt Bodin are on is anything but average.
Researchers who used a thick plastic curtain to divide a northern Wisconsin lake in half are wrapping up their 30-year study on air and water pollution.
Here?s a good reason to help your coworkers with an upcoming project or presentation: Altruists in the office are more likely to be committed to their work and are less likely to quit their jobs, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But beyond all that, researchers found perhaps the biggest benefit of office altruism: Those who help others are happier at work than those who don?t prioritize helping others.
Column by Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
If a paperback on your summer reading list was published anonymously, you?d probably notice. But if this article lacked a byline, or tonight?s episode of Wilfred didn?t credit a writer, you might not bat an eyelash.
Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler don?t have the typical academic offices or lives. The husband-and-wife UW-Madison education professors have built successful careers around the study of video games in promoting learning.
There?s a new tick in Wisconsin, and it?s a nasty little bugger. “These are more aggressive than our normal ticks,” said UW Madison expert Susan Paskewitz.
A.J. Bussan, a potato and vegetable specialist with University of Wisconsin Extension, says central Wisconsin farmers are doing a better job at growing profitable crops while at the same time making less of a demand on local water supplies.
SatCam is one of several smartphone apps which hope to take user submitted data to improve weather research and forecasting. However, it?s the only one so far to give something directly back to the user in return.
Because I?m such an unabashed weather geek, I check in most days with the awesome blog of the [UW-Madison’s] Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. This morning was no exception, and what I found was a short post about a possible midget typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean.
Wrap your head around this: Expensive sports helmets with lots of padding may not offer greater protection, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. When researchers recorded the age, price, and brand of 2,000 high school athletes? football helmets, it appeared that none of those factors had any impact on who got concussions and who didn?t.
An aggressive tick that can trigger a disease causing fever and fatigue has an increased presence in Wisconsin, bug experts say.
An aggressive tick that can cause a disease marked by fever, fatigue and possibly an allergy to meat is showing up this year in Wisconsin like never before, a UW-Madison entomologist said Monday.
“If they get a signal….or a little bit of movement then they may actually aggressively hunt you,” said Professor Susan Paskewitz, talking about the Lone Star tick.
There?s a new, potentially troublesome tick to track in Wisconsin. It?s not a deer tick or a wood tick, and this lone star tick has nothing to do with Texas. ?Lone star actually reflects the little white spot on the back of the adult female,? said University of Wisconsin-Madison entomology professor Susan Paskewitz.
An archaeology trip to the ancient city of Troy led by UW-Madison researchers has been postponed until next summer because of an unexpected move last week by the Turkish government to suspend permits for archaeology work this summer.
A new UW study has confirmed a link between Alzheimer?s disease and diabetes.
America?s research universities, among the most open and robust centers of information exchange in the world, are increasingly coming under cyberattack, most of it thought to be from China, with millions of hacking attempts weekly ? including thousands a day at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
More than 50 years ago, (now-emeritus UW-Madison botany professor) Hugh Iltis crouched high in the Peruvian Andes to search for a dropped camera filter and found a patch of tiny pinkish violets no bigger than a penny growing in a spot so remote it?s possible no one had seen that type of flower before or since.
When scientists from the University of Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources, and other agencies lowered a plastic curtain into a pristine hourglass-shaped lake in the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest in 1984, it drew national attention. The barrier blocked water and effectively split Little Rock Lake into two basins.
In a recent study, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers asked more than 1,000 people to read a blog post about nanosilver technology. Half of the participants were exposed to civilized reader comments on the post, and the other half were subjected to profanity-laden screeds and putdowns.
The new strain of H7N9 bird flu virus has traits that potentially could spark a worldwide flu outbreak, according to a new laboratory study [conducted by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin?Madison] involving virus that was found in humans, then given to animals.
A new bird flu virus responsible for at least 37 deaths in China since March ? more than a fourth of those it infected ? has the potential to spark a global outbreak, a team of researchers led by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo concludes in findings published Wednesday.
A new kind of bird flu that has killed 43 people in China shows potential in the lab for sparking a global outbreak, according to a study by UW-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
Researchers tested the ability of the H7N9 virus to infect several mammal species including ferrets and monkeys. They found that as well as readily invading the lungs, it could be spread like seasonal flu by coughing and sneezing.
Before the nearly 70,000 babies born in Wisconsin each year go home from the hospital, five drops of blood are collected from a prick of their heels.
For years, John Powless tried cutting and watering grass in his Middleton backyard to simulate playing on Centre Court at Wimbledon.
A new kind of bird flu that has killed 43 people in China shows potential in the lab for sparking a global outbreak, according to a study by UW-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
A leaf-cutter ant carries an inch-long piece of a leaf in the model colony in the Microbial Sciences Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The ant will carry the leaf fragment to a fungus garden to be digested and decomposed into food for the ants. The work may provide ideas for biofuels.
General Electric Co. CEO Jeffrey Immelt will speak to the University of Wisconsin regents Friday morning at a regularly scheduled meeting.
MADISON (WKOW) — You may have seen the video that quickly went viral this week. The moment 3-year-old Grayson Clamp heard his father?s voice for the first time.
Madison ? Look at a leaf-cutter ant colony, and it?s a bustle of activity, with ants bringing pieces of leaves in, spreading them around on a honeycomb-like bed of fungus, and weeding the garden to remove waste and pests.
A blood test for the molecule CA-125 isn?t precise enough to screen for ovarian cancer, but research at UW-Madison on a related protein could yield a better test and a better way of treating the disease.
With some strains of tuberculosis resistant to many antibiotics and the only vaccine not very effective in adults, scientists around the world are trying to develop better drugs and immunizations for the disease.
It?s thought that traumatic brain injury may play a role in whether someone develops Alzheimer?s. Scientific advances are allowing researchers to test this idea with willing Vietnam veterans. Sterling Johnson is a neuropsychologist at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health who is collaborating on the national study.
A blood test for the molecule CA-125 isn?t precise enough to screen for ovarian cancer, but research at UW-Madison on a related protein could yield a better test and a better way of treating the disease.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says you may see a few new faces next time you visit the ag research stations at Hancock, Marshfield, West Madison and Lancaster. In the past six months the university has hired or promoted five individuals to leadership roles at those facilities to fill vacancies created by retirements and transfers.
It?s thought that traumatic brain injury may play a role in whether someone develops Alzheimer?s. Scientific advances are allowing researchers to test this idea with willing Vietnam veterans. Sterling Johnson is a neuropsychologist at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health who is collaborating on the national study.
University of Wisconsin researchers have undertaken a genomic study involving patients with cystic fibrosis, aiming to uncover data that explain variation in symptoms among those afflicted with the genetic lung disease. And researchers believe that bioinformatics and other new resources give them an “edge” in the fight to improve treatments, according to the university?s release.
A second economic study shows that Wisconsin?s sluggish economy isn?t being plagued by a skills gap between job openings and job seekers. The team of researchers from UW-Madison, working on behalf of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Legislative Council, found that ?only a few occupations may see a skills shortage in coming years.?
Public interest groups that earlier unsuccessfully sought to remove embryonic stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation have asked a federal appeals court to reopen the case challenging one of the patents, which they say should be invalidated because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Buoyed by the Supreme Court?s ruling last month invalidating gene patents, two advocacy groups on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to similarly forbid a patent on human embryonic stem cells held by the University of Wisconsin?s research marketing arm.
Research by UW-Madison’s Dominique Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele and Sara Yeo shows that scientists who interact more frequently with journalists on Twitter have higher academic impact (using h-index) than peers, as do scientists whose work was mentioned on Twitter.
Quoted: ?There are years when we get so much rain that we literally flush them out of their typical breeding sites,? University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri told the newspaper. ?You need 10 to 12 days of standing water to push mosquitoes in the summer. If you get excess amount of rain, you flush them out and they never get going.?
