The Cancer Researcher Had An Impact On Many Graduate Students.
Even as a girl growing up in Germany, it was impossible for Ilse Riegel’s parents to get her to sleep.
Quoted: Reto Huber, who conducted the study at the University of Wisconsin laboratory of Giulio Tononi in Madison
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Quoted: Dr. Nadine Connor, Research director, for the ear, nose and throat division of the University of Wisconsin’s Hospitals and Clinics. (Audio.)
Quoted: Dr. Bret Larget, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Rosemary Keefe wants male professors in the sciences to realize that if women in their classrooms aren’t speaking up, it may have more to do with their social training than not knowing the right answer.
Necedah, Wis. — THICK PATCHES of mosquitoes and bursts of heavy rainfall do little to damp the enthusiasm of cranberry grower William Hatch. On a small, sandy plot at a far edge of his 450-acre marsh lies a thin layer of scrubby vegetation that stands to bring star status to one of the most unsung fruits.
A study-abroad program is giving two UW-Madison graduate students the chance to experience how laboratory research procedures differ outside the United States.
The U.S. Senate approved two bills on Friday, quickly and quietly, that would ratchet up the prosecution and punishment of people who violate copyright law by swapping songs or movies online, or who surreptitiously make video recordings of films in theaters. (Subscription required.)
Quoted: David Redell, a wildlife researcher for the University of Wisconsin.
Two major problems that plague clinical gene therapy work may have finally been solved by a new gene delivery approach that effectively and safely sends genetic material to target cells while eliminating potentially fatal immune responses to viruses typically used to carry DNA into cells.
A new research center focusing on breast cancer will be built at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a $7 million National Institutes of Health grant announced last week.
A stronger focus on embryonic stem cell research has followed the death of former President Ronald Reagan from Alzheimer�s Disease. (Fourth item.)
Quoted: David Beebe, an associate bioengineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, said the ability to build structures smaller than.
Quoted: Professor Kenneth Mayer and his colleagues at the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Doctors are failing to identify smoking status in about half of the adolescent patients seen, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study.
Federal and local health officials at a University of Wisconsin health conference Wednesday said information technology holds the key to better health care.
Say no to gasoline. Forget hybrid cars. Several Texas Tech students are going straight to hydrogen.
Quoted: Clive Svendsen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist.
Reuter – Foss Among Those Helped By Uw Otolaryngology Clinic
On stage, mezzo soprano Kitt Reuter-Foss is every inch the professional. Audiences never knew of her private torment or just how close she came to calling it quits in 1999.
The University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a second $7 million federal grant, this time to fight breast cancer.
A bicycle ride to raise awareness about the crucial need to help Wisconsin’s next generation of dairy farmers begins its journey on Friday.
Promising that if elected he would be “a president for science,” Sen. John F. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, laid out plans on Thursday to spend more federal dollars on the physical sciences, engineering, and high-risk defense research, as well as to allow every federal science agency to create prizes to encourage technological advances. (Subscription required.)
Quoted: Kristin Lucas Hall, a graduate student at UW-Madison
The University of Wisconsin, in conjunction with other groups, is launching a campaign to convince state legislators that they should not place limits on human embryonic stem cell research. It’s a worthy initiative for a variety of reasons.
Quoted: Pat McBride, who recently was named associate dean for students in the UW Medical School
Madison-based Tetrionics, a contract manufacturer of pharmaceutical ingredients, has been acquired by St. Louis-based Sigma-Aldrich Corp., a publicly traded firm that makes chemicals for research laboratories. Terms were not disclosed.
Two local biotech companies have signed deals with much larger companies that they believe boost their credibility while giving them access to much larger markets.
Sometime very soon a rare plant in a University of Connecticut greenhouse will bloom – and immediately draw crowds to what in all likelihood is the most vile-smelling flower in the world.
Quoted: Mohammad Mehdi Fayyaz, director of the university’s botany department greenhouses and botanical garden. (Reg. required.)
STORRS, Conn. – Wait till the neighbors get a whiff of this. A giant exotic plant that has not bloomed in the Northeast in more than 60 years is ready to flower at the University of Connecticut’s greenhouses. The “corpse flower” has the odor of 3-day-old road kill, and UConn botanists couldn’t be more excited
Wisconsin is blessed with large public national and state forests, amounting to about 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively, of our forested land.
Donald M. Waller is a professor of botany at the UW-Madison
Quoted: Robert Goodman, a professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin
As the old political saying goes: In your heart, you know they’re right
Quoted: Dale Schoeller, a nutrition professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The University of Wisconsin and its allies in the business community are going on the offensive in the effort to keep state lawmakers from limiting human embryonic stem cell research.
My father’s slow retreat in the face of Alzheimer’s disease was typical of how it robs people of their lives.
Quoted: Daniel Kammer, a UW-Madison professor of engineering physics, engineering mechanics and astronautics; UW-Madison’s Wilton Sanders, senior physics scientist. Sanders; John Santarius, UW-Madison senior engineering scientist
Quoted: Timothy Baker, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin
Quintessence Biosciences Inc., a Madison biotechnology firm working to develop biological research products, has established a scientific advisory board to guide the company’s cancer products research.
Quoted: Arnold Ruoho, a pharmacologist at the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison
After nearly a year of preparation, and an eight-hundred mile journey to the nation’s capital, students from University of Wisconsin-Madison captured their national title at the 17th annual ASCE/MBT National Concrete Canoe Competition.
This past May, Nancy Reagan said at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation dinner that “Ronnieââ?¬â?¢s long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him. Because of this, Iââ?¬â?¢m determined to do whatever I can to save other families from this pain. I just donââ?¬â?¢t see how we can turn our backs on this.ââ?¬â?¢Ã¢â?¬â?¢ The former First lady was referring to stem cell research.
Three producer members of the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin are adding international flair to their operations this summer by hosting student interns from Monterrey Technical School, Queretaro, Mexico. The student interns are participating in a Mexican-United States Dairyland Partnership between their school and the University of Wisconsin’s Babcock Institute.
The University of Cambridge announced on Monday that it was creating a new $30.3-million center devoted to studies of stem cells. (Subscription required.)
Backed by the unusual endorsement of 48 Nobel laureates, Senator John Kerry on Monday accused the Bush administration of letting ideology trump science, and promised to lift the limits on federal financing of stem-cell research and to build an economy “based on innovation, ingenuity and imagination.”
