Category: Research

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 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.

A Madison company said Thursday it has been awarded $16 million to manufacture stem cell lines for research.C

We?re unearthing a piece from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the archives of Aldo Leopold to try to inject a little spring in cold, mid-March.

Federal inspectors have cited a University of Wisconsin-Madison research lab after a cat was burned.

The Association of Women in Agriculture is asking its alumni and other supporters to mark their calendars for AWA Day, being held April 6 at the Lowell Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

Federal inspectors have cited a University of Wisconsin-Madison research lab after a cat was burned.It was an incident that occurred last spring in a UW Madison lab ? a cat was burned on its leg. The kitty had a hand warmer to keep it warm, when it slipped onto its leg and burned it. The lab has been cited, but no penalties were issued.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison research lab has been cited by federal inspectors after a cat was burned.

Federal inspectors have cited a University of Wisconsin-Madison research lab after a cat was burned.The U.S. Department of Agriculture noted in the lab?s records that a hand warmer keeping the cat warm slipped onto its leg and burned it last April.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison lab was cited by the United States Department of Agriculture after inspectors noted in the lab?s records that a handwarmer keeping a cat warm slipped onto its leg and burned it last April.

In a powerful demonstration of reprogrammings potential to treat human disease and injury, scientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison turned a rhesus monkeys skin cells into early brain cells, then implanted them successfully in the monkeys brain.

MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – UW Madison scientists say a recent stem-cell experiment could lead to a future cure for Parkinson?s disease.Neuro-scientist Su-Chun Zhang said his team converted skin cells from a rhesus monkey into early brain cells ? and they then implanted them in the same monkey?s brain.

UW-Madison scientists transplanted brain cells derived from monkeys? skin into the monkeys? brains and watched the cells develop into mature brain cells, according to a new study.The findings, published in the journal Cell Reports, illustrate the potential for personalized medicine, where treatments are designed for each individual patient.

For the first time, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers successfully implanted stem cells generated from skin cells into the region of a monkey?s brain that was affected by Parkinson?s disease, according to a study released Thursday.

Scientists have taken cells from rhesus monkeys? skin, turned them into neural cells, then implanted them successfully into the monkeys? brains. After six months, the transplanted cells showed no scarring and looked healthy and normal?except that they glowed green, a characteristic the scientists added to the cells so they could find the cells later.

“This is the biggest crowd ever,” was the common greeting among attendees at the 16th Bi-annual Badger Invitational Dairy Sale held at the historic Stock Pavilion on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ag campus last Saturday, March 9.