Today, in labs across the country, potentially lifesaving work with human embryonic stem cells is being put on hold as a result of the stunning recent court ruling blocking further federal support of this revolutionary research.
If the skies are clear Monday night, people in the area willing to stay up very late can view a rare total lunar eclipse.And if you?re in a partying mood, UW-Madison?s Space Place will be holding an eclipse viewing party from midnight until 5 a.m.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
The moon is expected to be shadowed by the earth starting late Monday and UW-Madison is celebrating. Jim Lattis, director of the astronomy department?s Space Place, says the eclipse will start subtly about a half hour before midnight Monday, with the moon becoming fully shadowed by 1:40 a.m. Tuesday.
Quoted: UW-Madison Space Place director Jim Lattis, a science historian.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor 100 years ago wanted to do a long-term study on the ancient building material, so numerous cylinders of the mix of cement, water, sand and stone were made. Then the study began. For 100 years.
This week, workers and researchers from UW-Madison completed what may have been the most challenging construction job in the university?s history, 8,000 feet deep in the ice under the South Pole. They buried the last of 86 strings of detectors that are the heart of a massive scientific instrument called IceCube. It is the world?s largest neutrino detector, under construction since 2004 and designed to capture data on the high-energy particles from deep space as they zip through the crystalline Antarctic ice and collide with the atomic nuclei of frozen water.
Noted: Led by Samuel Munoz, now a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin Madison, researchers found that climate and human changes seemed to happen in step. Paleo-Indians, hunter-gatherers known for elegant fluted arrowheads chipped from stone, lived in the region from about 13,500 to 11,250 years ago, when the area had a tundra-like landscape with spruce and sedges. They may have hunted caribou.
The University of Wisconsin and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the completion of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory this weekend. Located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, the world?s largest neutrino observatory has been ten years in the making. The final string of optical sensors was installed on Saturday, December 18, 2010.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have finished building an observatory at the South Pole that could help detect some of the tiniest particles in the universe.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is meeting to celebrate a lunar eclipse Monday night.
Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association pledged $500,000 to renovate and expand UW-Madison?s renowned dairy plant at Babcock Hall. The project is still in its infancy. Cheese Makers? pledge is meant to help kickstart a fundraising effort, said John Umhoefer, executive director.
In a fascinating new report, investigators found that it is not just the number of degrees or years of education that make a difference, but another factor ? class rank.The findings come from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which has been following more than 10,000 people who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957.
Why does prayer help people through hard times? To find out, a graduate student in sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison interviewed 62 women who were the victims of partner violence.
Test scores of students at independent charter schools in Milwaukee were no better in reading and math than those of Milwaukee Public School students, a study released Thursday says.
The report, released by the School Choice Demonstration Project and conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Arkansas, compared the reading and math scores of 2,295 students attending 10 of the 14 independent charter schools in grades three through eight with a carefully matched sample of 2,295 students from MPS for the 2006-?07 school year.
During the last 50 years, participants in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study have helped researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explore the experience of careers, family life, family and education in America.Now, the groundbreaking sociological study ? which has involved more than 10,000 graduates of Wisconsin?s high school class of 1957, along with their siblings and spouses ? will serve as the seminal study on aging and the effect of those life experiences. A column by UW-Madison researchers Pamela Herd and Carol Roan.
During the last 50 years, participants in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study have helped researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explore the experience of careers, family life, family and education in America.
Richard “Jim” Brown recalls his first day on the job, in October 2005, as a veterinarian at the UW-Madison?s Research Animal Resource Center (RARC). His first assignment, he says, involved working with primates.
New research done at the UW-Madison says boosting use of satellite data could help predict when thunderstorms will hit.Some predictions about thunderstorms come surface observations or weather balloons, and while satellites are often used, UW researchers say not enough data is collected about instability of air between 15,000 and 32,000 feet.
Catching up on a couple higher education-related items …
….The race is on for faculty across the UW System to join unions. With final exams and the end of the fall semester upon us, it appears it’ll be February before elections will be held.
Of course, with the new Republican leadership coming into power in just weeks, who knows what the future holds. Gov. Jim Doyle gave university faculty and academic staff the right to form unions in the summer of 2009, when he signed his 2009-11 state budget. How quickly this right can be wiped away remains to be seen.
Collective bargaining issues also remain an important topic to academic staff working across the UW System. However, there remains no indication most faculty or academic staff on the UW-Madison campus are interested in forming unions.
Exercise and diet were each linked to a lower risk of age-related degenerative changes in the eyes, but both combined, along with a lack of smoking, caused a “particularly profound lowering” of the risk — by more than 70 percent, study author Dr. Julie Mares of the University of Wisconsin in Madison told Reuters Health.
It?s the same advice that mothers everywhere have been giving for years, but now there?s science to back it up: Eating veggies is good for the eyes. A new study from the University of Wisconsin confirmed that women who have a healthy diet, exercised regularly and didn?t smoke were less likely to suffer macular degeneration as they got older. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision problems in older people in the United States, researchers said.
A new report shows the air quality at bars and restaurants that had been found to have unhealthy air has improved 92 percent since Wisconsin enacted a smoking ban statewide more than five months ago, according to state officials.
The Department of Health Services joined the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center in looking at the air quality of 200 bars and restaurants before the smoking ban and after.
The report, published by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, measured air quality in more than 200 Wisconsin bars and restaurants both prior to and after the ban?s enactment.
Prayer can help victims of domestic violence deal with their situation and emotions by using coping methods such as venting, a small new study suggests.
Satellite data may give weather forecasters the ability to predict potentially dangerous thunderstorms hours in advance, a U.S. researcher says.
In a study of victims of violent relationships with intimate partners, U.S. researchers found prayer helped them vent their anger.
A very unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man living in Berlin of infection with the AIDS virus, but doctors say the approach is not practical for wide use.
According to a UW-Madison study, good grades by high school graduates some 50 years ago may be a factor in good health near retirement age. A study looking at academic performance of 7,000 Wisconsin high school students from 1957 shows the better the students did in school, the better health they had later on in life.
At University Research Park 2, a ribbon of concrete curb curls toward the grove of hardy trees, and graders have smoothed out paths that will become the business park?s main roads.Infrastructure work has begun at the Far Southwest Side site of what officials hope will become another engine of opportunity for the Madison area. Even though building construction probably won?t start until 2012, the 270-acre site bordered by Mineral Point and Pleasant View roads and Highway M could eventually have as many as 10,000 employees, plus houses, shops and restaurants, and a total value that could top $400 million, said research park director Mark Bugher.
According to a study led by Chaeyoon Lim, a sociology professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the reason religion makes us happy may have more to do with friends than with faith.
Quoted: Bruce Thomadsen, a professor of medical physics at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
UW-Madison wants to lease a Blue Mounds facility as a holding zone for monkeys, allowing the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center to increase the size of its animal colony. The 20,000 square-foot building is owned by Harlan Laboratories, an animal research lab, which closed its operations there in March. The space would be used to quarantine macaque monkeys new to UW-Madison.
Class rank is important for more than just wowing college admissions officers and securing bragging rights. According to new research out of UW-Madison, the better your grades were in high school, the healthier you are years later. It’s not the first time that education has been associated with physical well-being ? more degrees equal better health ? but a study published in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior shows that it’s not only more schooling but performance that makes a difference.
Growing up with divorced parents presents plenty of challenges to children, many of which are well-documented. Time to add another one: college tuition.
Class rank is important for more than just wowing college admissions officers and securing bragging rights. According to new research, the better your grades were in high school, the healthier you are years later.
Good grades in high school might not just help the mind, they might help the body, too
Though he retired 10 years ago from his work as a limnologist at UW-Madison, John Magnuson remains one of the most recognizable and authoritative voices on issues related to climate change in Wisconsin. As a zoologist and as director of the Center for Limnology, Magnuson focused on long-term ecological research on lake systems and the influence of climate change on inland waters.
Attention all former high school over-achievers: Your past honor roll status has effects past college admission, according to a UW-Madison study.
An ongoing research study done on the University of Wisconsin campus for the past 50 years is now being called the seminal study on the ?baby boomer? generation by its researchers.
Numerous studies have shown that religious people report a higher level of well-being compared with the non-religious, says Chaeyoon Lim, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author of the study.
Carol and Gregory Schill flip through their high school yearbooks and an entire era comes roaring back to life, Bermuda shorts and saddle shoes, rock ?n? roll on the radio and quiz shows on TV.
Climate shifts over the past 13,500 years coincide with the emergence of new technologies and cultures in the early Indians of North America.
What you learn in school appears to be critical to your health, according to a study released on Tuesday. The long-term study of more than 10,000 Wisconsin residents who graduated from high school in 1957 concluded that the higher a participant?s school rank was, the lower the probability of worsening health as they approached retirement age four decades later.
“We already know (schooling) matters for things like your work and your earnings, but this proves it also matters for your health,” said Pamela Herd, an associate professor of public affairs and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Home might be where the heart is, but church is a good place to find happiness.Social scientists have long noted that people who are more religious profess greater satisfaction with life, and a new study led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison claims to find why this is so.
Student who gets top grades in high school have better health decades later than those who didn?t make good grades, U.S. researchers suggest.
Members of the University of Wisconsin?s faculty executive committee asked for input regarding a new committee that would oversee management and compliance of campus research during Monday?s Faculty Senate meeting.
Graduates from across Wisconsin, some 30,000 in all, took a survey on their post-high school plans. The data was used to help the University of Wisconsin System chart its future as higher education began to boom in the post-World War II era. The survey also served as a nudge for students, getting them to think about going to college.
Sociology assistant professor Chaeyoon Lim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison said: ?Our study offers compelling evidence that it is the social aspects of religion rather than theology or spirituality that leads to life satisfaction.
As important as your religious beliefs may be to you, they don?t necessarily make you happier, a new study in the American Sociological Review finds. What does make you more satisfied with your life, the study finds, is having friends at your congregation and a strong religious identity.
“Those are the people who give you the sense of belonging,” said lead study author Chaeyoon Lim, of the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Lim conducted the study with Robert Putnam, author of “Bowling Alone” and “American Grace.”
The grand opening of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery and the Morgridge Institutes for Research is a monumental moment in this city?s history. What the moment ultimately means for the human race remains to be seen. But the possibilities are limitless.
It is a boon to Madison that the public/private research facilities have been built here to lure the scientists and researchers and faculty who will find the discoveries promised by the facilities? names.
Innovation in America has been and continues to be one of the great strengths of our economy. This key driver comes from lots of different people and places, but especially from faculty and staff at universities that conduct extensive research. UW-Madison is an outstanding example, especially in the area of human embryonic stem cell research.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
The most important point in human embryonic stem cell research lies in whether or not it is ethical. While the embryos are not from aborted fetuses and are only days old, a significant question still exists: Is it morally right?…Let?s continue looking for answers, but reject embryonic stem cell research at UW-Madison and in the private sector.
In Sunday?s editorial you use the term ?human? embryonic stem cell research, thus identifying that the research is done on ?humans.? It is wrong to do research on humans if it hurts them or kills them. Therefore you and the University of Wisconsin are wrong to promote such research. Lord have mercy on the Wisconsin State Journal and the University of Wisconsin.
Sangtae Kim knows a thing or two about technology transfer, having worked as a UW-Madison and Purdue University scientist, a drug company executive and an official with the prestigious National Science Foundation.
During an opening ceremony, Gov. Jim Doyle praised the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery as the culmination of UW-Madison?s long traditions of interdisciplinary research, scientific breakthroughs and generous philanthropy.
A UW-Madison campus building intended to further scientific knowledge kicks off a series of grand openings today (12/2) The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery is designed not only for researchers, but also to spark interest in science among the general public.
Twin research institutes and a space designed for all to engage in science opened Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
