Led by wildlife ecologist David Drake at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, these researchers have observed behavior that suggests the critters may be more prone to peaceful coexistence than are their highly competitive peers in the state’s hinterlands.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and Shenzhen University actually developed the electrical stimulation device not the hat. What’s amazing about it is that it’s small enough to fit inside a regular baseball hat, doesn’t use batteries, and actually works.
The University of Wisconsin conducted a study that could be what Clinton relied on for the low end of the range. It involved a survey of 293 registered voters who didn’t vote in Dane and Milwaukee counties in the 2016 election.
Most high-school educators have backgrounds teaching subjects other than personal finance, so it’s no surprise that research like one 2010 University of Wisconsin–Madison study shows few teachers possess the confidence to teach the subject, even though a majority are willing to learn
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed a noninvasive, low-cost hair-growth-stimulating technology unobtrusive enough to fit under a cap.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a low-cost growth-stimulating technology that reverses balding.
The team, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tested it out on the back’s of shaved lab rats and found that when they moved it caused the flexible patch to bend and stretc
Reversing baldness could someday be as easy as wearing a hat, thanks to a noninvasive, low-cost hair-growth-stimulating technology, according to engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A new partnership with the United Negro College Fund and UW-Madison’s Counseling Psychology Department will be studying internship programs at six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) that have a high number of STEM graduates.
Jennifer Gaddis, assistant professor at UW-Madison and author of The Labor of Lunch spoke with America’s Work Force on Sept. 17 about getting better school lunches in schools.
Noted: Author Jennifer Gaddis discusses her new book about The National School Lunch Program.
Noted: The report was described as an enhancement of the nationwide County Health Rankings & Roadmaps compiled through a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
To overcome this hurdle, Xudong Wang at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleagues have developed a wireless patch that sticks to the scalp and generates electric pulses by harnessing energy from random body movements.
State Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, was unsurprised by the news and cited several blunderous Foxconn promises, including the Pleasant Prairie project.
Dmitry Chirkin from the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI), Martin Rongen from RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany), and others in the IceCube Collaboration have looked into the idea that the microstructure of the ice as it has been affected by ice flow has led to the formation of a birefringent polycrystal structure, which can explain the direction-dependent differences in attenuation.
The potential has also attracted the interest of American researchers, including those at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of California, Davis, and at the private company Mars Inc., who have studied the corn.
In 1942, alarmed by reports that Japanese forces were waging germ warfare in China, the Army decided to launch a secret program to develop biological weapons. It hired a University of Wisconsin biochemist, Ira Baldwin, to run the program and asked him to find a site for a new bio-research complex.
CEM is not alone in reconsidering the role nuclear energy could play. In fact, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in partnership with Idaho National Lab and the University of Wisconsin, have gone so far as to say nuclear energy is “essential” to expand energy access and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
UW-Madison engineers are making strides in reversing the effects of baldness, thanks to a new “growth-stimulating” technology.
To produce a single image of this year’s flooding, The Times analyzed six months of imagery from the VIIRS satellite provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration covering January to June 2019. The extent of flooding in each image was estimated by using an open-source model produced by the University of Wisconsin and described in an academic paper, and checked against accounts of local officials in affected areas.
Now researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison believe they have found a way to get these kids and their families the help they need.
Born in Cleveland and raised in Long Beach, Calif., Smith previously worked as the director of strategic planning and special projects for Catholic Charities of Madison, before his position with WID.
Trout Lake Station, just southwest of Boulder Junction, has been conducting research on area lakes and bogs for close to 100 years. Yet every year during their annual open house event, residents and visitors alike remark about how they never even knew the station existed.
“What people are seeing when they are looking into their backyards and along the shores of Lake Michigan, they are seeing a part of a huge wave of monarchs that are moving south right now,” said Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arboretum.
The senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Big Country with an Empty Nest” believes China has 115 million people fewer than the 1.4 billion people in the official data.
In a new study released this month, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison said that the most popular method of teaching about 9/11 and the War on Terror was showing a documentary or “similar video.”
UW, Foxconn plans for research sites, funding have made little progress.
Roughly a year since Foxconn Technology Group pledged $100 million to help fund a new UW-Madison engineering building and company-related research, the university said it has received $700,000, less than 1% of the original commitment.
Noted: If approved by lawmakers, the state would pay $180,000 annually to the University of Wisconsin MIA Recovery and Identification Project, which has helped find and identify the remains of three service members killed in Europe during World War II. While those military members were from other states, the dedicated group of UW volunteers and researchers will begin concentrating on bringing Wisconsin MIAs back home.
The eastern population of North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) migrates annually in early autumn to a mountainous region in central Mexico. The incredibly long distances covered during these journeys, and the striking sight of these butterfly populations on the move have captivated people’s imaginations. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Tenger-Trolander et al.1 document the loss of migratory behaviour in monarchs that had been bred in captivity over multiple generations.
It’s 1 p.m. and students gather in long lines as they wait to enter the lecture hall, a spacious wood-adorned auditorium at the top of Henry Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It’s a charismatic octagonal space that is 116 years old and the largest lecture hall on campus.
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, an interdisciplinary research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has announced that Derrick L. Smith is their new director of development.
Quoted: Currently, mostly families from higher incomes are able to help their autistic high school students succeed. According to an article by University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Adityarup “Rup” Chakravorty, “Children living in census tracts with lower socioeconomic development [are] less likely to be diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder than children living in areas with higher socioeconomic indicators.”
The transition from elementary to middle school is “extraordinary,” according to Geoffrey Borman, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, because students are leaving behind what’s become a comfortable, “caring” environment for an unknown school, which can often seem “imposing.”
Nearly 100 years ago in a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, psychologist Harry Harlow set out to understand the effects of parental love and affection on children as well as it’s deprivation. His belief that a baby’s first love, their mother, had a positive and lasting impact on their lives was in stark contrast to prominent figures in the medical and research fields of the early and mid-20th century.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced on Thursday the creation of its first new school in two decades, responding to high demand from students and a burgeoning need in the state’s workforce.
University of Wisconsin-Madison archeologists unearthed the remains in the 1960s before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers discovered the collection, officials said. The Corps was then tasked by a regional historic preservation officer to locate Alaska archaeological collections.
The NIH granted Dhavan Shah and John Curtin $3.42 million to work on a mobile phone app. The app seeks to prevent relapse amongst those recovering from addiction.
A pilot study analyzed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy finds that dementia patients given access to tablets loaded with apps for photos and music, and common apps such as YouTube, experience more positive moods. Half of the patients involved in the study saw improvements in their moods.
After their dad’s battle with Alzheimer’s, Deterding’s brother heard about an Alzheimer’s study being conducted at the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His brother was on the board of the Alzheimer’s Association, which is where he first learned about the study.
A pilot study analyzed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy finds that dementia patients given access to tablets loaded with apps for photos and music, and common apps such as YouTube, experience more positive moods. Half of the patients involved in the study saw improvements in their moods.
Monica Turner, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and a co-author of the study, says that impervious surfaces – like roads, sidewalks and buildings – absorb heat from the sun during the day and slowly release that heat at night.
The bill, authored by Sen. André Jacque of De Pere and Rep. Janel Brandtjen of Menomonee Falls, began circulating for cosponsors Wednesday and would prohibit the use of fetal tissue obtained from abortions for research or any other purpose.
Dr. Richard Davidson, Director of Center for Health Minds developed the mindfulness-based Kindness Curriculum for preschoolers to help them pay closer attention to their emotions.
Noted: A 2006 University of Wisconsin study revealed that viewers of local news in the Midwest got 2.5 times more information about local elections from paid advertisements than from local news. A 2004 study of 11 media markets by USC Annenberg found that only 8 percent of the 4,333 broadcasts during the month before the election had stories that even mentioned local races. The new shows featured eight times more coverage on accidental injuries than on local races.
Quoted: “I would not be surprised at all if I woke up tomorrow to hear that the measles outbreak had reached Wisconsin. Not surprised at all,” said Malia Jones, an assistant scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Population Laboratory.
“I would say that if a child was given the facts themselves and told what these diseases would be like to go through, they would choose to be given something that would not make them have to go through that disease,” said James H. Conway, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
We were particularly curious about the possibility that short- and/or long-term meditation training may impact social perception (i.e. how one is perceived by others),” said study author Simon Goldberg, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and affiliate faculty at the Center for Healthy Minds.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain have developed a new kind of virtual camera that appears to be able to see around corners.
The researchers used a suite of satellites to monitor the long-term variations in ultraviolet light. As Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at University of Wisconsin–Madison, explained:The difference between Earth and Venus is that on Earth most of the energy from the sun is absorbed at ground level while on Venus most of the heat is deposited in the clouds.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) released its annual “State of Working Wisconsin” this week, showing that since the passage in 2011 of Act 10 — the law that stripped public unions of bargaining rights — union membership has declined by 53.9%. That’s three times the decrease of 14.9% in neighboring Minnesota. The decrease nationally was 21.2%.
“It is hard to conceive of what would cause a change in the albedo without a change in the absorbers,” said Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and paper co-author.
A recent study conducted by a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows exercise can help slow the development of diseases like Alzheimer’s disease.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is teaming up to help one of the state’s smallest counties.
An information session was held in Durand for people to learn more about the “UniverCity Year” program, which is three-year partnership between UW- Madison and Pepin County.
A preternatural silence has surrounded the departure of one of the highest paid executives on the UW-Madison campus. It’s one more sign of the big changes rocking the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, UW’s independent patenting and licensing operation.
Noted: An innovation of a different sort happened in 1890 when Stephen M. Babcock perfected the first reliable butterfat-content milk test, providing an easy way for creameries and farmers to check milk quality.
Wednesday marked the first field day at the university’s Arlington Agricultural Research Station, where researchers shared what they have learned so far.
Researchers at UW-Madison are helping future astronauts get a better night sleep.
According to new research from Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, racial and ethnic gaps in criminal sentencing have declined significantly since the mid-1990s.
Quoted: Despite the publicity of CTE, doctors cannot predict whether a child will have it later on, says Julie Stamm, Ph.D., LAT, ATC, who researched the issue at the Boston University CTE Center. “We do not understand why one person gets it and the other does not get it,” adds Dr. Stamm, also a clinical assistant professor in the department of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Think back to what you still remember from science class. No, there’s no need to strain your brain recalling the particulars of cellular mitosis or the periodic table. Instead, consider the idea that spanned any science class from biology to physics: the scientific method, the five-step process for analyzing problems, collecting data and coming to a well-supported conclusion.
But what if the scientific method is actually inaccurate—or at best reductive? What if spending so much time on this framework is giving students the wrong idea about how rigorous work is done by scientists?
That’s the unusual hypothesis being made by John Rudolph, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “How We Teach Science: What’s Changed, and Why It Matters.”
