“Communicating the science of climate change provides one example where the scientific community must do more,” write UW-Madison chemistry colleagues Bassam Shakhashiri and Jerry Bell in an editorial published in the April 5 issue of the journal “Science.” “Climate change affects everyone, so everyone should understand why the climate is changing and what it means for them, their children, and generations to follow.”
Scientists have implanted human embryonic stem cells into mouse brains and restored both memory and learning function.
Earlier this month, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the winners of its 2013 Cool Science Image contest. From an MRI of a monkey?s brain to the larva of a tropical caterpillar, a micrograph of the nerves in a zebrafish?s tail to another of the hairs on a leaf, this year?s crop is impressive?and one that certainly supports what Collage of Arts and Sciences believes at its very core. That is, that the boundary between art and science is often imperceptible.
The well-respected Dictionary of American Regional English is facing funding problems ? just as it is about to go digital.
A software program that allows people with limited medical training to scan Pap smear slides and provide nearly immediate results to patients has won first place in the Qualcomm Wireless Innovation Prize competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Children who displayed only seven of 12 recognized autism symptoms were diagnosed more than four years later on average than kids with all 12 symptoms, researchers found.
The University of Wisconsin-Stout will receive more than half a million dollars to study how wetlands in the Chippewa Valley are being affected by development.
While research suggests autism can be reliably diagnosed by age 2, fewer than half of children with autism spectrum disorders nationwide are being identified by age 5, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison published this week.
While classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison can be rigorous with long hours of study, a group of UW students spent much of this semester eating hamburgers.
A Republican-sponsored bill that would ban the sale or use of aborted fetal tissue for research in Wisconsin is being circulated in the Legislature two years after it failed to pass.
Dear Editor: The letter from Gerard Schultz regarding avian influenza studies at UW-Madison asks important questions. In short, is the work done safely and securely? The answer is yes, of course. Otherwise, we would not be doing it.
Sharon Dunwoody, a professor who specializes in science communication at University of Wisconsin?s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has won the Hilldale Award for professors in social science.
A bill to ban the sale or use of aborted fetal tissue for research in Wisconsin would ensure scientific integrity, said a lawmaker who plans to reintroduce the measure after it failed two years ago.But UW-Madison and biotech officials said the bill would hamper important research, including studies on cancer, influenza and diabetes.
UW-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka plans to study the new bird flu virus that has caused a human outbreak in China.Kawaoka, who researches many kinds of influenza viruses, plans to study the H7N9 virus that has killed at least seven people in China, UW-Madison spokesman Terry Devitt said Tuesday.
The UW Carbone Cancer Center joined the Stand Up to Cancer Pediatric Dream Team on Sunday.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist is awaiting access to an avian influenza virus that has killed at least seven people in central-eastern China over the past week so his research team can unlock the virus? secrets by infecting mice and ferrets with it.
Stem cell researchers will gather in Fitchburg on Wednesday for the eighth annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium, with this year?s meeting centering on cell-based therapy for heart and vascular disease.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will have access to a $14.5 million grant for cancer research.
The public got a look inside UW-Madisons medical learning facilities to see just how students are taught to help people and animals who are sick.
Take a look at the stories from around our area and world that are making news today.
Six-year-old Mina Highsmith brought Totoro, a stuffed magical creature from a Japanese animation film, with her on Sunday to the UW School of Veterinary Medicine.
LONDON: Scientists in the Dutch city of Rotterdam know precisely what it takes for a bird flu to mutate into a potential human pandemic strain – because they?ve created just such mutant viruses in the laboratory.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the University of Wisconsin and Michigan State University $125 million to continue their work on advanced biofuels.
The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center in Madison received a five-year, $125 million federal grant to continue its research.
Michigan State University says the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $125 million to the East Lansing school and to the University of Wisconsin to continue their work on advanced biofuels.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor James Thomson received the McEwen Award for Innovation, an award given for ground-breaking stem cell research Thursday for his research in the area.
f a research center could be compared to a baseball player, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at UW-Madison is an All-Star.The center, started in 2007, has been given a new five-year contract from the U.S. Department of Energy, paying the center $25 million a year.
Dear Editor: Well, Madison, are your children safe? A research program at the UW-Madison may place them all in danger in the event of a viral release. Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka has been performing bird flu experiments there, beside the cows and ice cream, that could cause a global pandemic. There would be only a short interval to quarantine an outbreak, and Madison, do you have a plan for that? Has the state inspected this operation for safety? Is there sufficient security to stop a terrorist break-in?
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will continue to fund its three bioenergy research centers for another five years. The funding is subject to congressional appropriations. Here are the details.
Three individuals with outstanding lifetime contributions to the meat business are set to be inducted into the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame at a May 2 recognition ceremony. They include an immigrant who found the American Dream; an academic who became a captain of the meat processing business; and an entrepreneur who founded a firm that has become the backbone of a community.
Newly published research suggests that Greenland?s ice melted super fast last summer, and the world?s ice could soon melt faster than anybody had anticipated ? all because of pretty white clouds hanging low above frigid seas.
Washington ? The U.S. Energy Department said Thursday it wants to extend funding for three bioenergy research centers for another five years as part of a $125 million proposal.
Congressman Mark Pocan met with constituents Wednesday in Madison to talk about the federal sequester budget cuts. He spoke with researchers and faculty at U.W. Madison which will lose $35 million in the current year, with cuts to follow for the next nine years, and thus will result in a loss of scientific research grants.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Sangtae Kim received a prestigious South Korean award Wednesday for his research work in the fields of science, engineering and math.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members expressed concern Wednesday to U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., that the sequester, a series of automatic federal spending cuts that recently took effect, could have a devastating impact on research programs.
UW-Madison engineering professor Sangtae Kim has been honored by his native South Korea for his accomplishments in engineering research.
?Politics can be a brutal business with beautiful outcomes,? says Dave Cieslewicz.That?s one of the lessons the former Madison mayor hopes to get across in the political science course he is currently teaching as an adjunct professor at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison, one of the nation?s top public research institutions, is opening normally closed doors: Its 11th annual science expeditions open house will be held April 5-7.
Ever place your keys in your pocket, only to start looking for them a half-second later? According to a study performed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it?s not because you?re going crazy?it?s because you?re stressed.
The first weather satellite to successfully report global weather data from space was launched 53 years ago this week. An institute within the University of Wisconsin?s has surfaced two of the first images sent back, though there?s some debate as to which of the two came first. The pictures show the earth in grainy black-and-white, but it?s easy to make out the cloud covering that NASA and NOAA used as proof that such satellites could be useful in making meteorological predictions.
The arms of spiral galaxies in our universe are caused and sustained by giant molecular clouds, according to astrophysics research.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – A Purdue professor has been awarded the 2013 Ho-Am Engineering Prize from Korea, which is the highest engineering research award issued by that nation.
Spiral galaxies have long been the subject of astronomers? research as no definitive conclusion has been made over what actually causes them. Now, however, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have helped solve this mystery, stating that they?ve proven that the spiral arms are persistent, long-lived, and self-perpetuating.
There has been a lot of talk about spiral arms in disk galaxies and this is what perhaps has intrigued researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. They have revealed in The Astrophysical Journal that the stellar spiral arms are not transient features as hitherto believed.
Spiral galaxies are beautiful astronomical realities that have long been the cause of speculation, with no definitive conclusion having been made over what causes them. Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have helped solve this conundrum, stating that they?ve proved the spiral arms are persistent, long-lived, and self-perpetuating.
Potential federal budget cuts in research funding has been a hot-button issue for public institutions across the nation and although a recent report said cuts will have a limited impact on universities, campus officials are not yet certain how the cut will affect research at the University of Wisconsin.
It?s wrong to profit from wrecking the planet.? So says Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. Climate change has become, front and center, a moral issue: Will human society turn away from burning fossil fuels in time to prevent catastrophic changes to the Earth?s climate, human society and the ecosystem? What kind of world will we leave for future generations?
An atmospheric river is a term used to describe a relatively narrow region in the atmosphere that transports water vapor outside of the tropics northward. They are typically a few thousand miles long and 100 miles wide. There can be three to five of these ?rivers? at any time covering the hemisphere.
Noted: Although hutches pose challenges when the weather is wet ? particularly for the people taking care of calves ? it is not recommended to add an additional roof over the hutches as this will limit ventilation, says Becky Brotzman, veterinarian and associate outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
Before 2005, Sandra Adell had never set foot in a casino. But when a friend of the then 59-year-old professor at the University of Wisconsin?Madison asked Adell to accompany her to the Ho-Chunk casino about 45 minutes away from her home, she obliged. As Adell walked through the casino floor, she thought to herself, “Why in the world are all these people here?” She sat down at a machine, and by the time she got up, she was hooked.
A team of five students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison La Follette School won first place for strategies they proposed to combat childhood obesity in a national public affairs competition in Washington, D.C., last weekend.
New findings from nonhuman primates suggest that an overactive core circuit in the brain, and its interaction with other specialized circuits, accounts for the variability in symptoms shown by patients with severe anxiety. In a brain-imaging study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health describe work that for the first time provides an understanding of the root causes of clinical variability in anxiety disorders.
Ever wonder how pet microchipping works, or whether you have what it takes to become a veterinarian?The University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and UW Veterinary Care, the school?s veterinary medical teaching hospital, will open their doors to the public April 7 in Madison.
Actor James Cromwell, who broke in on a UW Board of Regents meeting on Feb. 7 to protest cruelty to cats used in university research, settled his case Monday by paying a fine for a civil offense.
As the buzz grows louder over the science of bringing extinct species back to life, a conservation biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is sounding a note of caution.
MILWAUKEE — While interest in mindfulness meditation as a stress reliever has grown through the years, there?s been little evidence to support that it helps those suffering from chronic inflammation conditions in which psychological stress plays a major role.Until now.
The elimination of a key milk production report that lost its federal funding could lead to uncertainty in the dairy industry and price hikes for some dairy products.
The State Building Commission has approved a $75 million science center at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
The State Building Commission has approved a $75 million science center at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Cellular Dynamics International is getting a $16 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to develop several thousand stem cell lines that will become the basis of a stem cell biobank for use by researchers worldwide.
