Quoted: “We used to expect the middle class to grow. That was kind of a given. And we’ve had nearly 20 years where it hasn’t,” said Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a progressive policy institute on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus.
The funding formula stemmed from a 2003 study of the school-funding process by a pair of college professors — Larry Picus of the University of Southern California and Allan Odden of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It’s called the “Tick App” and it was designed by researchers at UW-Madison to help gather information about where certain ticks may be across the state.
How resilient are Yellowstone forests when it comes to frequent fires? Kelly April Tyrrell of the University of Wisconsin–Madison provides this look at how researchers are addressing the issue.In August 2016, areas of Yellowstone National Park that burned in 1988 burned again. Shortly after, in October 2016, ecologist Monica Turner and her team of graduate students visited the park to begin to assess the landscape.
In a recent study, researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin documented significant temperature increases and lower precipitation levels that threaten the biodiversity and ecosystems of the parks: Glacier National Park — loss of greenery, melting glaciers; Yellowstone, the world’s first national park — devastation of whitebark pine forests.
Wednesday Nite @ the Lab, which started in February 2006, allows the public to hear campus scientists — and occasionally researchers from other universities — share their expertise.
“This can easily bulk up the stool, reduce constipation, and eliminate excess gas and bloat. With about 3g of fiber in each fruit, it represents about 10 percent of the daily recommended amount of fiber,” lead researcher Sherry Tanumihardjo from the University of Wisconsin- Madison said in the review study.
As per a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute on Aging, women in their midlife are more stressed as compared to both men and women of other age groups.
Noted: The INFOS website was developed by Chin Wu, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after the death of 15-year-old Tyler Buczek in 2012.
It was summer on the Pacific coast and Ani Michaud, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was standing at a small fish tank in the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, peering through a camera’s viewfinder.
Without these safeguards, you would think that an organism would have little chance to evolve or thrive. But researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered an ancient lineage of yeasts that are doing just that.
A report by the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs found nearly one-third of the more than 2,000 people surveyed reported skipping a test or treatment due to costs.
The complexity and cost of health care is a concern for people across the country. Having insurance helps, but a survey of public employees in Wisconsin finds many don’t understand their policies and most would have a hard time coming up with money for a medical emergency.
Officials from the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Found say changes are underway that could help the public bring medical inventions to the marketplace. The ideas were outlined at a recent startup and technology forum in Milwaukee.
Alta Charo, a UW-Madison law and bioethics professor, said patients might not realize that stem cell injections from umbilical cord tissue are different from bone marrow transplants — which are approved and have been performed for decades — and experimental therapies using embryonic or induced pluripotent stem cells, for which clinical trials are in early stages or have not begun.
Dr. Tim Kamp, director of UW-Madison’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center, said patients should be aware that the (stem cell) injections carry risks with no proven benefit, as the treatments haven’t been subject to rigorous clinical trials required before federal approval.
The declining lake trends ice are one way to show Wisconsin residents the different influences and economic effects climate change can have on a community, said John Magnuson, aquatic ecologist and emeritus director of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “We are losing winter as we knew it,” Magnuson said. “We are degrading our sense of place.”
Quoted: “Stress makes us choose more energy-dense foods, more comfort food,” says Myoungock Jang, one of the researchers and a University of Wisconsin–Madison nursing professor, in the press release. “When young kids are exposed to this kind of food environment, that influences the eating patterns they are learning.”
“We saw these areas where everything was combusted and we hadn’t seen that previously,” says Turner, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has closely studied Yellowstone’s response to fire since 1988. “That was surprising.”
Researchers from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health worked with more than 2,700 players from 88 high schools around the Midwest. They found that players who wore headgear were just as likely to get a concussion as those who did not.
Motorists on Highway 182 last week may have glimpsed three men working to construct a small, science-fictionesque device in a field off the road. Measuring about 10 feet high, this gangly structure will soon be part of an international atmospheric research project slated to take place this summer.Funded by the National Science Foundation, the project will build upon the nearly 30 years worth of atmospheric data gathered at the WLEF-TV tall tower, located about 10 miles east of Park Falls. Quotes AOS Professor Ankur Desai.
What is the “most promising job” in 2019 according to Tech Republic? If you answered “data scientist,” you’d be correct. The field saw a 56 percent increase in job openings in the U.S. over the past year. What’s more, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts businesses will create 11.5 million jobs in the data science/analytics area by 2026. Given this trend, it should come as no surprise that higher ed donors, ranging from alumni to institutional funders, are digging deep for university initiatives in this area.
A recent study, conducted by a team of scientists from University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas at Austin, has looked at a type of molecule from the immune system of lampreys, called “variable lymphocyte receptors” (VLRs).
In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, scientists led by Eric Shusta from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, detail how molecules extracted from sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) – a common northern hemisphere jawless species – could be used to ferry medications to targets within the brain.
A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas at Austin used mouse models with brain cancer. Their findings now appear in the journal Science Advances.
A 2017 study by the University of Wisconsin found that more than half of transgender and nonbinary youths said they had negative experiences with mental health professionals based on their gender.
The idea that satellites could be used to forecast weather sprang from the sharp mind of a little known atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Verner Suomi is in fact widely known within the meteorological community as the rock star of weather satellite technology.
The company said the plan will rely on “significant” new renewable-energy resources and reducing the use of fossil fuels, as well as helping customers become more energy efficient. MGE said it will work with scientists at UW-Madison to evaluate the goal and ensure it is consistent with the IPCC assessment.
Noted: Scientists have long used rhesus macaques in psychological research. In the 1950s, a University of Wisconsin comparative psychologist named Harry Harlow performed a series of sometimes-shocking studies on the monkeys.
Each dollar of net farm income results in an additional 60 cents of economic activity, according to University of Wisconsin research.
Months after being found on the streets of Chicago missing the bottom half of his hind legs, a brown tabby cat has a new name, a new home and now — with the help of some University of Wisconsin-Madison students — a pair of prosthetic legs.
In this month’s installment of Field Notes, Scott Bowe of Kemp Station discusses trees and their resistance to decay fungi.
The Wisconsin dairy industry, challenged in numerous ways, remains an inescapable presence in the state — from the remaining number of small family farms dotting the landscape from county to county to the sprawling mega-farms housing thousands of cows.
Noted: A 2017 study by the University of Wisconsin found that more than half of transgender and nonbinary youths said they had negative experiences with mental health professionals based on their gender.
From the front line of the Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history, NOVA tells the stories of residents who had to flee for their lives during the 2018 fire season. Scientists race to understand what’s behind the rise of record-breaking megafires across the American West take to the forest, and even a fire lab, in search of answers. FEATURING: Monica Turner
Even so, the results highlight the need for further research to explore whether statins might one day be prescribed to prevent glaucoma, which is not currently an approved use of these pills, said the co-author of an accompanying editorial, Dr. Yao Liu of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine is one of three schools involved in the trial. The treatment will be tested on dogs, last week UW-Madison researchers started administering the treatment.
In Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s quest to relocate the Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food & Agriculture (NIFA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the top sites for the relocations on May 3. UW is an alternate.
Trees are cool — and for cities, the more, the better.
A tabby cat has new back legs, with the help of some University of Wisconsin-Madison students and a 3D printer.
Some University of Wisconsin graduate students are giving a severely injured cat new life.Sgt. Stubbs lost his back legs earlier this year in a train accident in Chicago.
Thirty-two faculty members at UW-Madison have received research fellowships for the 2019-20 academic year, in arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences and biological sciences.
Trilly, a 9-year-old Gordon setter with fluffy brown and black fur, lay down on a raised table surrounded by doctors, veterinary technicians and photographers in UW Veterinary Care’s Oncology Clinic.
Two Republican legislators want to spend nearly $8 million annually to create dairy research programs at three University of Wisconsin System schools.
Two Republican legislators want to spend nearly $8 million annually to create dairy research programs at three University of Wisconsin System schools.
Quoted: Of the five researchers Poynter reached out to, only one responded saying that fact-checking was in the scope of their project for Social Science One. But for Sebastián Valenzuela, a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying how fact checks affect misinformation on Facebook is still tough even with the data-sharing tools.
“It’s a bit more tricky for our project because the information on whether the shared link on Facebook was sent or not to a third-party fact-checker (which is the easiest way of measuring whether fact checks affected fake news sharing) is not available for Chile,” said Valenzuela, the lead researcher for one of the winning abstracts, in an email to Poynter.
Noted: His death rocked the department that he had started at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—there was no apparent successor—and his students scattered across the globe, carving out niches for themselves in areas of academic scholarship in which they would become experts. Now, 50 years after his death, we’re taking a long-overdue look at Robinson, who mentored some of today’s top Buddhist thinkers and set the groundwork for Buddhist higher learning in the US.
Designing vehicle presents challenges both technical and otherwise.
Noted: This past weekend, the pair of tropical cyclones resembled mirror images of each other, spinning at roughly the same longitude, but in opposite directions, as noted in a satellite loop of atmospheric moisture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Richard Davidson spoke on his work surrounding mindfulness practices, cultivating well-being through meditation.
Quoted: “There are a lot of buildings and there is a lot of woodland vegetation and they are close to each other, and there is a lot of fire,” said Anu Kramer, a wildfire scientist at the Silvis Lab at the University of Wisconsin who conducted the research. “When those things come together that is when you are going to see a lot of destruction.”
Richard Davidson is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he has studied emotion and the brain for the past 35 years. Davidson’s work focuses on happiness and compassion being learned much like any other skill.
Quoted: This is the first study of rip currents on the Great Lakes even though they have been a topic of discussion for a long time, said Chin Wu, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wu supervised Ph.D. student Álvaro Linares, who led the project.
“A rip current is a concentrated, strong offshore flow,” said Adam Belche, a coastal resilience outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. The standard speed is about 1 foot per second.
Quoted: “A cello sounds like a cello because of its size and shape,” Jacqueline Goldstein, a graduate student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy department, explained. “The vibrations of stars also depend on their size and structure.”
Premiering in April 2019, the documentary marks the 10-year anniversary of UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine, which trains and incentivizes medical students to practice in underserved rural communities around the state. The program aims to alleviate some of the most pressing rural health challenges, which the documentary investigates.
he Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin has spent nearly a decade developing dairy products that have an extended shelf life. “These kinds of products could last for months and months,” said John Lucey, the Director of the Center for Dairy Research.
So, instead of avoiding stress, we need to learn how to deal with it — and research shows that changing your perceptions of stress can literally save your life. In a 2013 TED Talk, health psychologist Kelly McGonigal describes a University of Wisconsin-Madison study that tracked 30,000 U.S. adults over eight years. The study was designed to explore how we think about stress, and how those perceptions can affect our health.
Students offered unique opportunity to share research in collaborative, appreciative environment.
One faculty member each from arts and humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, biology selected.
