Aztalan State Park is deceptively bucolic. On a sunny day, it?s a field of green grass on sculpted mounds of earth. The sweltering silence carries whispers of wind and the nearby Crawfish River. Occasionally, a cry of a peacock from a nearby farm pierces the air.
For a few hundred years beginning more than 1,000 years ago, Aztalan was a community of about 500 people of mainly the Mississippian culture.
New research co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor suggests that students admitted to elite universities or colleges under affirmative action policies are not necessarily harmed by the fact they may lack the same academic preparation as their peers, as critics contend.
Editorial: The journal Nature opposes the bill ? to ban research with ?any material derived from any cell or tissue of an unborn child? ? introduced by André Jacque, a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
New research co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor suggests that students admitted to elite universities or colleges under affirmative action policies are not necessarily harmed by the fact they may lack the same academic preparation as their peers, as critics contend.
To an outsider, Wisconsin might seem a state divided by differences. We have a proud agricultural heritage, yet manufacturing provides our financial base. Our diverse and varied landscape includes urban architecture, old growth forests, prairies and dairy farms, all serving vital and important roles. We have intense political ideologies, with passionate points of view on both the left and right. Even our climate reflects a state filled with contradictions ? as it has not been changing in a uniform fashion.
A new study concludes that students who benefit from affirmative action programs do just as well as other students, at least at the University of California?s most competitive schools.
Professor and Waisman Center scientist Ruth Litovsky talks about Waisman research underpinning advancements in technology allowing deaf children to hear, following a day-long Waisman event on Sunday for families who may benefit from new therapies. [Includes video.]
On May 14th and 15th, the UW-Madison Global Health Institute and the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds engaged with the Dalai Lama and an interdisciplinary group of global thought leaders to explore the potential contributions of mindfulness meditation to sustainable global health.
Are poor people actually biologically dumber than the rich? Do MRI scans of brains suggest that poor children (many of them minorities) lack the gray matter for long-term memory, complex learning, and the moderation of emotional behavior?
Children are often the collateral damage of the U.S. incarceration system. Approximately one in 28 have a mom or dad who?s behind bars, a rate that?s up from just a couple years ago. But thanks to research at UW-Madison and programs in Dane County, kids are getting more help.
Enjoy a nice crisp apple recently? Chances are you can thank a honeybee for that. Like to snack on almonds or perhaps sip a glass of orange juice in the morning? Those foods were also made possible by bees.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison are studying enzymes found in leaf-cutter ant colonies that may be used in biofuel production.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? Wisconsin?s potato growers have helped create a new professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which is expected to lead to promising advances in potato breeding. DNA sequencing and other biotechnology have helped speed plant breeding in many food crops. But the potato is a different story.
“Sesame Street” has created its first Muppet whose parent is in jail. And some people aren?t happy.
In his lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hongrui Jiang has designed a new kind of solar panel that incorporates energy storage right in the panel.
A UW-Madison spine surgeon omitted a sterility risk in a report about a controversial bone substitute but emphasized a surgical benefit, even though both factors were not statistically significant, a new review says.
Wisconsins potato growers have helped create a new professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which is expected to lead to promising advances in potato breeding.
Compared to a lot of hard-line conservatives these days, lifelong Republican Mark Bugher almost sounds like a Democrat.
They don?t seem to make ?em like Mark Bugher anymore. And that?s really too bad.
Legal and ethical experts on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus give today?s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on genetic patents mixed reviews. The court ruled unanimously that patents on naturally occurring genetic material are not allowable.
A bill approved on Wednesday (after a raucous roll call vote) by the State Senate requiring women seeking abortions to receive ultrasounds represents only one of several battles being waged by abortion foes in Wisconsin this year.
Video games have had their fair share of controversies over the past few decades. Games like Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 have all caused some measure of public outrage for their depictions of violence. However all three games had two things in common ? they do not suggest they are anything but pure fiction, and the violence means the games have a mature rating, suitable only to those 17 or more years old,
A research team at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has demonstrated the viability of a design for solar panels that can simultaneously generate and store electrons harvested from sunlight in a single device.
It?s brought to you by the letter P ? for prison. PBS?s ?Sesame Street? is moving from ABCs and counting numbers to offering its young viewers a bigger lesson in life: how to cope when Mommy or Daddy lands behind bars.
A snowy winter and a rainy spring have helped breed more mosquitoes in Wisconsin.University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pelliterri said standing water in flooded ditches and other spots is just what mosquitoes like. Green Bay has seen more than three-quarters of an inch of rain in June after having about three-quarters of an inch above normal rainfall in May and April.
Mosquitos are expected to thrive in Wisconsin this summer in a return to a normal season. ?If they haven?t received their first mosquito bite, it?s coming,? says University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri of fellow Wisconsinites.
What has more consciousness: a puppy or a baby? An iPhone 5 or an octopus? For a long time, the question seemed impossible to address. But recently, Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, argued that consciousness can be measured?captured in a single value that he calls ?, the Greek letter phi.
Spending just a few minutes looking through your own Facebook page can lead to a boost in self-esteem, but it can also cause users to become unmotivated.
Cellular Dynamics International, created by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson in 2004, plans to sell its stock on the public market, the first Madison company to go public in si
Cellular Dynamics International, created by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson in 2004, plans to sell its stock on the public market, the first Madison company to go public in six years.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers treating pain have found a way to sweeten up therapy by injecting sugar water into the knees of arthritis sufferers.
A new study from the UW-Madison?s Wisconsin Energy Institute calls for the state to take a new approach to energy policy as costs continue to climb and alternatives aren?t being pursued fast enough to replace the state?s dependence on coal.
bill aimed at outlawing the use of fetal body parts in research and experiments is causing a lot of concern within Wisconsins bio-tech industry.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests there is no skills gap keeping Wisconsin employers from filling their positions.
Another Wisconsin study has emerged that concludes the state does not face a substantial skills gap.
MADISON, WI (WSAU) Do you know about the ?skills gap? that politicians keep warning us about?
Even if you?re not living your best life you can make it look like you are on Facebook, and just glimpsing this idealized version of yourself can provide a rush of self-esteem, a new study shows.
When you think of things to do to improve your self-esteem or self-image, you probably don?t think about heading to Facebook. It might actually be the last place you think of, given that a percentage of people leave Facebook because of the negativity on the social network.
Forget a cup of coffee or power nap – the fastest way to boost your mood is to look at Facebook.
Certain linguistic manners can be used to help identify deception in business, experimental research has concluded. The use of complex and long-winded language and even swearing, could point to dishonesty by the person across the negotiating table.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have carried out an experiment in which human stem cells were used to help rats engineered to model amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known Lou Gehrig?s disease.
Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have reprogrammed cells from people with Down syndrome and used them to seek greater understanding of what goes wrong in the disorder.
Is it to naive to think that we as human beings can change the world and make it a better place to live? Have we as modern people lost hope and given up faith in the ability to change?
It?s not easy being the Dalai Lama. Not only are you handpicked for the job at age 2, with no real choice to become a firefighter, artist or cowboy, but you spend much of the rest of your life ? at least, this reincarnation ? answering the unanswerable.
Can people be taught to act more altruistically? Newly published research, measuring both brain activity and behavior, suggests the answer just may be yes.
Two thousand years after the Kizilburun shipwreck, excavating archaeologists have figured out exactly where it came from, where it was headed, and why. Sometime between 100 B.C.E and 25 B.C.E., a wooden ship carrying almost 60 tonnes of stone foundered in Aegean waters just off the coast of Turkey. It went down bearing its entire cargo, including eight massive drum-shaped blocks of white marble. Those blocks fit together to form part of a tapering column that likely stood more than 11 meters tall, plus a square uppermost piece: a Doric column.
Helen Weng, like thousands of other Madison residents, is reaching the end of that long crawl toward a Ph.D. Unlike many of the University of Wisconsin?s underpaid grad students, Weng already has had a taste of the limelight that is usually reserved for full-fledged professors.
Brain cells have been grown from skin cells of adults with Down?s syndrome in research that could shed new light on the condition.
If you?re kind of a jerk, but at least concerned about your jerk-ness, take heart: researchers say they?ve shown it?s possible to increase compassion in adults. The University of Wisconsin-Madison actually has a whole department dedicated to this kind of thing, the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, and researchers there set up an experiment recently to see if they could get a group of people to be more excellent to each other.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison is seeking to keep information about research from the public until it is published or patented, arguing that a research exemption to the state?s open-records law would allow the university to remain on equal footing with its competitors, according to the Journal-Sentinel, a Milwaukee newspaper.
An elementary school principal has inspired the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create a new wheelchair lift that could help make more places wheelchair accessible.
Madison ? The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking to limit the state?s open records law ? potentially through language slipped into the state budget ? to keep some research information from the public until it is published or patented.
Adult kids? relationships with their parents can be complicated, to say the least. And according to a new study out of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a father?s divorce and remarriage can make those relationships even more complex.
Wisconsin?s Tobacco Quit Line has seen a surge of calls since March, when a national campaign called Tips from Former Smokers started.A University of Wisconsin (UW) Madison tobacco researcher calls the campaign ?hard hitting? and personal.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students worked with a UW-Madison student on a mobile app that could reinvent the way people shop for groceries.
A recent MSN Money article noted that the shadow economy is “?estimated to have reached as much as $2 trillion last year, according to a study (.pdf file) co-written by Edgar Feige, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Richard Cebula, a finance professor at Jacksonville University.”
Newly published research has found that Lake Superior?s warming water probably is affecting its most abundant big fish.
New research indicates that Lake Superior?s warming water is probably already affecting its most abundant big fish: the cold water-loving siscowet lake trout. Increasing water temperatures over the last three decades have made conditions more favorable for chinook salmon, walleye and lean lake trout but less favorable for siscowet lake trout.The study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates that fatty siscowets have lost about 20 percent of their historic habitat because of the temperature changes that have already occurred.
