In July, I accompanied Freund, of the University of Hartford, and two geoscientists, Harry Jol, from the University of Wisconsin, and Philip Reeder, from Duquesne University, to find Matilda’s final resting place.
As UW Arboretum heads into the fall burn season, we rediscovered a piece sent to Isthmus by Thomas J. Straka, a forestry professor at Clemson University in South Carolina. While studying forestry at UW-Madison, Straka spent much time at the Arboretum and he wants our readers to know about the Arb’s role in the Oscar-winning documentary, The Vanishing Prairie (available at Amazon.com).
Noted: Part I in a series.
It’s a story that Madison loves to hear.
Two plucky entrepreneurs, Kevin Conroy and Manesh Arora, are hired in 2009 to revive a moribund health-tech startup in Boston. They have the temerity to move it from the best-known metropolis in the country for medical innovation to the much smaller Madison, where Conroy had run Third Wave Technologies. Their company had but two employees.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists studying the cells of patients with the rare nervous system disorder Alexander disease have made a breakthrough that could shed new light on a host of more common diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
According to scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, stress re-wires the brain so that previously neutral scenes become unpleasant.The greater the stress, the bigger the change in smell.
New study explores vocal communication, infidelity in California mice, potential connection to humankind.
Masatsugu Toyota led the work as a postdoctoral researcher in a UW-Madison laboratory. Those two collaborated with researchers from Michigan State University, the University of Missouri and the Japan Science and Technology Agency.
An engineering research team at UW-Madison has invented a device which could dramatically speed up drug development.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are studying placentas from births at a local hospital to identify structural changes in fetal membranes that could help determine when a premature birth is likely to occur.
This week is Science-a-thon, the weeklong celebration of science, and University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists celebrated by talking with high school girls about getting involved in careers in the sciences.
FluGen, started in 2007 by UW-Madison flu researchers Yoshi Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann, is using a different tactic. It is based on the idea that people who acquire the flu naturally generally don’t get it again for a year or more.
Buxton and colleagues are continuing this research to the next study, in the transition to young adulthood, how sleep health trajectories may contribute to the emergence and persistence of modifiable disparities in sleep and well-being.Lauren Hale, Stony Brook University, and Lawrence M. Berger, University of Wisconsin-Madison, also participated in this work.
Study co-authors outline actions general public can take to reduce carbon footprint, preserve future of environment.
About $1.7 billion is spent on academic research every year in Wisconsin, with the funding coming from a mix of government agencies and private investors. Some people who follow the money say more could be done with it.
“What the study that the university of Wisconsin is hoping to accomplish, is look at other things that we haven’t maybe focused on before,” said Calkins. “Now we have the technology to look further into what some of those risk factors may be from a biological perspective and not just those environmental risk factors.”
A large-scale study from the University of Wisconsin in 2012 demonstrated that how we think about anxiety and stress can change how those feelings impact us.
“If the fungus dies, the ants die,” said Cameron Currie, a microbial ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the fungal-farming ants and their mutually beneficial relationships with other species.
Schalk, an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will discuss her book Wednesday in the East Rotunda of Powell Library, specifically addressing how able-mindedness is based on racial and gendered norms.
“A higher fraction of national parks are in extreme environments,” said Patrick Gonzalez, a forest ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley who authored the study with UC Berkeley colleagues and scientists at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Noted: For the 2018-19 school year, the district’s enrollment is 2,970, an increase of 33 students from the previous school year. That number is higher than what the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory (APL) projected in its study it completed for the district in June 2017. The APL’s projected number for the 2018-19 school year in its Residential Development Projections Model, located on page 26, was 2,950.
Crowds of all ages attended the annual Wisconsin Science Festival at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID) building this weekend.
Wisconsin Technology Council President Tom Still estimates about $1.7 billion is spent on public research in the state each year, about $1.1 billion of which is at UW-Madison. He says the Medical College of Wisconsin makes up about $300 million, while UW-Milwaukee makes up $60 million.
Lehigh University researchers, along with collaborators at University of Wisconsin-Madison, evaluated the role of a protein called scarlet in a fruit fly model of Parkinson’s disease.
The university’s Morgridge Institute for Research is studying placentas from births at UnityPoint Health-Meriter to identify structural changes in fetal membranes that could be associated with preterm births.
Another lab at UW-Madison is also reporting progress toward the hydrogen economy. A team led by Materials Science and Engineering professor Xudong Wang is part of an effort to use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Solar energy would be a much cleaner way to obtain hydrogen gas. But the team ran into a problem: the silicon panel used as the catalyst doesn’t last long enough.
After eight years of searching, UW-Madison scientists found the cause of a rare genetic blood disorder.
Elizabeth Haynes and Jiaye He from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, US, shot the winning video of the developing zebrafish over 16 hours using selective plane illumination microscopy.
A starving polar bear. A US Senator with a snowball. Images of the opposing sides of the issue of climate change.
Quoted: Bill Tracy, an organic corn breeder and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says, “Many CRISPR-induced changes that could happen in nature could have benefits to all kinds of farmers.” But, the NOSB has already voted on the issue and the rules are unlikely to change without significant pressure. “It’s a question of what social activity could move the needle on that,” Tracy concludes.
Noted: In the first article, the authors, experts in science communications, Michael Dahlstrom from Iowa State University and Dietram Scheufele from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, both in the US, argue that we must exert the utmost care in telling the stories of science.
Noted: According to research reported in Science Daily, this coloring of the sky is due to a phenomenon called scattering. “Scattering affects the color of light coming from the sky, but the details are determined by the wavelength of the light and the size of the particle,” University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists said.
Each year the University of Wisconsin-Madison picks a common book for the entire campus to read and discuss called the Go Big Read program. The book for the 2018-2019 school year is “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” by Dan Egan, a Milwaukee Journal reporter and senior water policy fellow at UW-Milwaukee.
Wissconsin Brewing Co., Heineken and University of Wisconsin–Madison students are partnering to brew the first wild lager brewed in North America.
Nobody does science like the Wisconsin Science Festival.
This year’s top winners, Elizabeth Haynes and Jiaye “Henry” He of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, captured a time-lapse video of a zebrafish nervous system as it developed over 16 hours. The entire thing was condensed into a 40-second clip.
In Wisconsin, researchers have raised similar concerns by showing that schools with more low-income families tend to produce lower FAFSA completion rates. Ellie Bruecker, a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral student who studies FAFSA completion rates, said there hasn’t been much movement in Wisconsin’s numbers.
Those who vaped and smoked, known as dual-users, were better able to do both than those who smoked only cigarettes, said Doug Jorenby, a UW-Madison professor of medicine and the center’s director of clinical services.
New research at the University of Wisconsin surrounding the effects of alcohol access found no evidence to corroborate parental supervision arguments supporting a lowered drinking age.
“People do not simply collect memories, knowledge, and skills in a linear fashion, but through myriad processes that interact over time to influence the way they make sense of the world,” said Cora Bagley Marrett, the former deputy director of the National Science Foundation, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and chair of the committee that conducted the report.
Researchers at UW-Madison have helped develop a new system that could make it easier to capture clean energy from the sun and deliver electricity in remote areas.
Scientists from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined precipitation data from 17 stations in the US and found dry or wet spells lasting four or more days occurred more frequently in recent decades.
“This has been kind of the holy grail for a long time,” said Joe Lauer, who grew up on a farm and is now a professor of agronomy at UW-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows that mouse couples who successfully make it through infidelity talk to each other in calm tones.
From October 11 – 14, the Wisconsin Science Festival will host a variety of panel discussions and breakout sessions, as well as fun and educational activities for science enthusiasts of all ages, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin.
Protecting crops from pests isn’t just a human problem. It turns out ancient ants dealt with it, too.Cultivators of fungus gardens, farming ants had a problem with a type of pathogen that consumed the fungus the ants were culturing, said Cameron Currie, the Ira L. Baldwin professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the lead researchers on a project studying the phenomenon.
Noted: UW-Madison genetics professor Chris Hittinger co-authored the study describing the breakthrough. He continued his wild yeast research in Wisconsin, and a few years later, he and a team of students found Saccharomyces eubayanus in a park near Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It was the first — and so far the only — time the species had been identified in North America. “Because Saccharomyces eubayanus has been so rarely isolated from the wild, this is really a unique opportunity for study,” Hittinger says. “It seems to be very rare.”
Noted: The main force behind the University of Koinadugu is a man who could have used it decades ago. Alhaji N’Jai managed to go to college in Michigan only after escaping his country’s civil war. Eventually he joined a post-doctorate program at UW-Madison. It was here, on the second floor of the Memorial Union, that he saw a display about the famed Wisconsin Idea.
“Straight then I said to myself ‘this is actually what we need in Sierra Leone,’” N’Jai says.
The project with the UW-Madison interns, overseen by professor Fred Madison, continued from 2010 to 2015. It examined the links between karst topography, groundwater, and dairy farm practices. As a result of those ventures, Geiser reports that mistakes were uncovered in the existing soil survey data.
The work was led by UW-Madison Professor of Bacteriology Cameron Currie and Hongjie Li, a postdoctoral researcher in the Currie lab.
Noted: The Nikon Small World in Motion Competition provides a window into the microscopic universe. The winning entry, announced on 27 September, shows the developing sensory nervous system of a zebrafish embryo filmed by Elizabeth Haynes and Jiaye He of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the United States. Second place went to a video showing a laser propagating through a soap membrane, and a tiny, bristly marine worm claimed third.
As Wisconsin becomes more and more diverse, so do its high school graduates. In 2000, for example, 10 percent of high school graduates in Wisconsin were students of color. By 2016, that number had more than doubled to 22 percent. But how are they fairing in the post-high school higher-education world?
UW-Madison will no longer receive $506 million in damages from Apple Inc, after the tech giant won a federal appeal against the university over patent rights for a computer processor Friday.
Public Affairs and Sociology professor Jason Fletcher examined figures from Add Health, a long-term national study covering adolescent to adult health. WUWM-FM reported. Fletcher’s findings were recently published in the Contemporary Economic Policy journal.
Apple won its appeal of a patent infringement case brought against the company in 2014 by the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. A federal appellate court in Washington, D.C., threw out part of the $506 million in damages originally awarded to the university by a federal court in Madison. It’s unclear how much has been thrown out.
A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a $506 million damages award against computer-maker Apple Inc. that had been awarded to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation after a jury in Madison found in 2015 that Apple had infringed on a WARF computing patent.
Noted: This year’s big winners were Elizabeth Haynes and Jiaye “Henry” He from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for their visualisation of a zebrafish embryo developing its sensory nervous system over 16 hours.
Winner: Video by Elizabeth M. Haynes and Jiaye “Henry” He, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. – A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher has found that when legal drinking starts at age 21, men are far more likely to drive drunk, get in fights or engage in risky sexual practices.
A new supplemental report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty finds that Milwaukee County still has some of the highest poverty rates in the state. We talk to Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics and a co-author of the report, about the economic disparities in the state’s most populous county.
Dr. Van Os’ research focuses on understanding, evaluating, and improving the welfare of dairy animals from a biological perspective. She shared her findings recently with dairy producers at the Dodge-Fond du Lac County Forage Council meeting at Lomira.
