Category: Research

Project hopes to better local economies, environment using national grant funding.

Raising Wisconsin’s minimum wage to $15 an hour would bring raises to one in seven workers and reduce racial and gender pay gaps, according to a new report from COWS, a University of Wisconsin-Madison think tank.

The study, which is government-funded, aims to determine if a combination of targeted brain stimulation and meditation practices will decrease the number of suicides.

The Center for Healthy Minds and the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness are leading a study at the University of Wisconsin exploring suicide prevention methods that combine targeted brain stimulation with meditation, according to UW News.

Graduate student builds unique intelligence model, optimizes resources.

“We are trying to study the impact of the app, which focuses on mindfulness and mental exercises integrated into daily life.”

The positive impact the FHLBanks have on housing affordability and a functioning mortgage market in this country has also been clearly demonstrated. A recent University of Wisconsin study estimates that the activities of the FHLBanks reduce interest payments on mortgages by $13 billion each year and make more than $130 billion of additional mortgage credit available each year.

Teaching faculty in the University of Wisconsin Integrative Biology Department Scott Hartman spoke on how thermal modeling is an effective tool for predicting the End-Triassic Extinction period Sept. 28 at Birge Hall.

Dr. Dixon Kaufman, director of UW Health’s Transplant Research Center, worked with a team of UW-Madison researchers and specialists at Stanford University to optimize compatibility between host and recipient transplants.

“If you have a dysregulated dopaminergic, serotonergic or neurogenic system, exercise could help re-regulate that system,” UW professor Dane Cook says.

Michael Light, another co-author of the study and a professor of sociology at UW-Madison, noted the percentage of Black men more likely to go to college has increased and is trending upward.

In their research, which was a collaborative project with scientists at USDA-ARS, UW-Madison, UC-Davis, Bayer, and other collaborators from Poland, the authors also found that areas of the carrot genome under strongest selection by humans were genes involved in flowering.

While we know that stress is associated with health problems, plenty of people with high-stress lives are thriving. How is that possible? In 2012, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison published a seminal study looking at how 28,000 people perceived stress in their lives.

In a recent publication, University of Wisconsin Life Sciences Communication assistant professor Sedona Chinn and University of Michigan Communication and Media assistant professor Ariel Hasell look into the effects of “doing your own research” on COVID-19.

A detailed study done by the University of Wisconsin, show that despite the widespread agreement on both sides of the isle that the tax code needed radical reform, every reform effort was cautious in the extreme.

Every year, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin catalogs thousands of new books a year for various measures of diversity. In 1994, just 2% of children’s books were either by or about the Latino community — a community that comprises nearly 20% of America.

The first of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences colloquium series began Sept. 25 spotlighting University of Wisconsin professor Daniel Vimont’s summer research. Vimont developed stochastic-dynamic models to understand and predict the 2023 El Niño event.

Soon, they’ll need even more help. The average age of a farmer is 57.5 years old, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s most recent estimates. With older farmers about to retire, estimates indicate that young people won’t be able to fill the gap; A 2022 survey conducted by The National Young Farmers Coalition and the University of Wisconsin Survey Center found that this is primarily because land is so expensive.

Associate dean for clinical trials at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Dr. Nasia Safdar spoke about “Gracefully Sharing Your Awesomeness with the World” Thursday. Safdar’s talk is part of UWSMPH’s Pathology Grand Rounds series.

Badger fans packed the stadium for the season opener Saturday despite temperatures soaring over 90 degrees.

Keith Gennuso of the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute says the reason Hispanic life expectancy is worse in El Norte is likely linked to centuries of discrimination. “Unjust housing policies and forced land dispossessions, immigration enforcement, racial profiling, taxation laws and historical trauma, among numerous other issues, all act as barriers to equal health opportunities for these populations at the border, with known impacts across generations,” he noted.

University of Wisconsin-Madison population geneticist Aaron Ragsdale, who wasn’t involved in the research, says the study raises some very intriguing questions about human evolution during a time period from which both genetic and fossil data are relatively scarce. “I am eager to see if their results are replicated using other methods,” Ragsdale says.

Adrian Treves, a predator-prey ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who sits on Peer’s board, said no proper studies exist on whether the hunts protect livestock. Rather, more studies have been conducted on how the kills affect populations of caribou, moose, elk and other wildlife, and a 2020 meta analysis of available science found little evidence that they increase populations.

Many us of are familiar with the phrases ’Hey, Alexa!’ or ’Hey, Siri!’ But how familiar are the voice activated systems with your own voice? Digital security engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have found these speaker identification systems can be easily fooled.

Professor of electrical and computer engineering Kassem Fawaz and doctoral student Shimaa Ahmed have developed a mathematical model that could allow almost anyone to imitate the resonance of another person’s voice with a simple tube. As long as a person could nail down the frequency of a voice with a PVC pipe that, based on the algorithm, had the correct width and length, they could trick the security technology 60% of the time.