That’s the key takeaway from a recent study published in Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance. Researchers from Villanova University and University of Wisconsin found that charities earning a seal of transparency from the nonprofit GuideStar gained an average of 53% more contributions one year later.
In the U.S., some ranchers worry about wolf attacks on their livestock as the native predator is reintroduced to more areas, according to information from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. However, for livestock owners in Chile, wolves are not the potential threat; pumas are
It’s the new year, a time when many are turning to resolutions — including diets. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are testing a new model of a weight loss intervention device. It zaps a nerve into making your stomach feel full so that you eat less.
“The implications are huge,” Omar Ohrens, a postdoctoral scholar in environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and lead author of a study on the findings, said in an interview.
In addition to federal action, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy found that more than 42,000 jobs were created between 2013 and 2016 because of the state’s Manufacturing and Agriculture Credit. The center’s study reported that more than 88 percent of tax credit recipients were small businesses, with incomes of less than $1 million.
Of those, 87% were reported by the private company Charles River Laboratories. Similarly, in the second highest state, Wisconsin, ~80% nonhuman primates were reported by the private company Covance Laboratories. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, which houses one of the seven National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Primate Research Centers, reported the remaining ~20%.
Noted: After stints in Switzerland and Canada, Khorana found a research position at the Institute for Enzyme Research, a “vanguard of chemical biology” at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
In was his decade-long stint here, he “helped to decipher how RNA encodes for the synthesis of protein,” the ground-breaking research which helped him land the Noble Prize in 1968.
Noted: A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that the children the researchers examined who were in out-of-home placements consistently struggled with academics more than children in stable living situations.
The team, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says it hopes the results lead to doctors ’prescribing’ one of the activities to their patients in addition to the annual flu shot.
The researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Extension say female leaders they studied were nervous about going door-to-door asking for signatures to get on the ballot and that they also didn’t want to challenge an incumbent.
As for the search for life in the clouds of Venus, a paper published this autumn in the journal Astrobiology by a team led by Sanjay Limaye at the University of Wisconsin-Madison presents an argument for how and why it ought to be pursued further — now more than ever. And it hinges on data we’ve been able to uncover here on Earth. (Story also includes link to limnology site.)
“Three…two…one…engine ignited, and we have liftoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket and Dragon.”
On Dec. 15, 2017, Simon Gilroy listened to that countdown as he gazed across a river separating a mass of scientists from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida. He was a couple of miles from the site, but as close as you could get without being inside the rocket.
“The pulses correlate with the stomach’s motions, enhancing a natural response to help control food intake,” said Xudong Wang, a professor of materials science and engineering, in a prepared statement.
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Noted: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Products Laboratory, located on the UW-Madison campus, also has been closed. Its employees include 60 research scientists.
UW-Madison’s patent-licensing arm actively concealed information from another university about their shared patent, misled its research partner about the patent’s true financial value and kept 99 percent of the patent’s royalties to itself, according to a federal judge’s ruling.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers may have come up with a new solution for treating morbid obesity: A small device that when surgically attached onto a person’s stomach can make someone feel more full after eating.
If you resolve to meditate or exercise this year — and follow through — you might reduce your chance of getting a cold or the flu, according to a UW-Madison study.
A tiny weight-loss device developed by UW-Madison researchers could someday be implanted on people’s stomachs to trick their brains into thinking they’re full.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison may have discovered a new way to tackle worldwide obesity, a major risk factor for a plethora of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
Noted: Lipscomb said she and her team — Terence Johnson at the University of Notre Dame, Laura Schechter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Jean-Francois Houde at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — did not set out to oversee the system long-term. The professors worked with an NGO and handed the project off to Senegal’s government after finishing their research in 2016.
Noted: List includes story about research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Waisman Center.
Adults living with autism spectrum disorder may face a higher risk of developing certain health issues — such as cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive problems — than the rest of the population.
A new study finds University of Wisconsin-Madison Division 1 athletes are in better mental shape than their classmates.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists believe they may have come up with a way to stem the tide of obesity-related disease and illness and improve quality of life for hundreds of millions of people worldwide who suffer from weight problems. These scientists have created what they say is a safe and easily implantable weight-loss device that in lab experiments, aided rats in shedding nearly 40% of their body weight.
Noted: Emory University got three citations and University of Wisconsin, Madison, got two citations in the same period. Each of those institutions has about 1,900 primates.
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a small implant that could prove to be a major breakthrough in the battle against obesity. Using the recent strategy of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), the implant has led to a 40 percent body weight loss in rats.
According to a new scientific paper lead by Kevin D. Burke, researcher at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, if we continue our current level of greenhouse gas emissions, in just twenty years our planet will resemble the overall climate conditions of the mid-Pliocene period.
A new study has found the less access student athletes have to athletic trainers, the less likely they are to have concussions properly identified and managed.
Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce president Zach Brandon said the Milken report shows the value of “supporting and investing in a world-class research university” and the importance of learning through experience.
Noted: Lovell, 90, grew up in Milwaukee, graduating from Juneau High School where he met his future wife Marilyn in the cafeteria lunch line. He studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for two years and then earned an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. He earned his pilot’s wings and was a Navy pilot and test pilot before being selected in 1962 for the space program.
Edna Chiang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program at UW-Madison and is the next speaker in the on-going series “Science On Tap” in Minocqua.
A UW-Madison scientist whose studies of Wisconsin’s freshwater lakes are known around the world has been awarded a prestigious prize recognizing his lifetime of research.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Madison have made a small device that would attach to the lining of a person’s stomach and use electricity to stimulate the nerves that tell your brain it’s full when you eat. As a stomach moves it sends that signal and ideally makes you feel full with eating far less.
Research from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health found that over 50 percent of children who have undergone an umbilical hernia repair are given opioids after surgery.
A bandage that generates a gentle electrical current could help wounds heal four times faster, research suggests.
July 12: Astronomers announced that a neutrino first detected in Antarctica had been linked to a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy, some 4 billion light-years from Earth. The finding was expected to help future detections of high-energy particles form space.
Climate change is altering America’s first national park so quickly that plants and animals may not be able to adapt.
One team of scientists visualized the threat communication systems within plants that help them fight back when under attack. Others presented the tantalizing suggestion of plant consciousness using anesthetic gas. And in rain forests, some plants’ fruits seem to send careful messages to specific animals, in order to spread their seeds.
“Studies like this remind us… that nature is far more complicated than we ever imagined,” says Warren Porter, who studies turtle ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but did not contribute to the study.
As for the search for life in the clouds of Venus, a paper published this autumn in the journal Astrobiology by a team led by Sanjay Limaye at the University of Wisconsin-Madison presents an argument for how and why it ought to be pursued further — now more than ever. And it hinges on data we’ve been able to uncover here on Earth.
As plants spring up on the landscape, they can invade small ponds and eventually overtake them entirely, said Christian Andresen, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin.
In an unusual move, NIH officials approached a University of Wisconsin researcher who works with so-called humanized mice from tissue left from infant heart surgeries to see whether he might be interested in expanding his research, according to another scientist familiar with that interaction.
New battery-free, easily implantable weight-loss devices developed by engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison could offer a promising new weapon for battling the bulge
Just in time for the holiday snacking and buffet season, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have invented an innovative weight-loss device that someday may be implanted in people’s stomachs.
In laboratory testing, the devices developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US helped rats shed almost 40 percent of their body weight.
Before scientists are fully confident that blazars can blast out high-energy neutrinos, researchers need to spot more of the wily particles, Murase says. To improve detection, an upgrade to IceCube will make the detector 10 times bigger in volume and should be ready by the mid-2020s, says Francis Halzen, leader of IceCube and an astrophysicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. If all goes well, the tiny particles may soon be revealing secrets from new corners of the cosmos.
This irony is documented in a newly published study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers Benjamin Zuckerberg and Jennifer McCabe. Their research focused on the city of Chicago.
House Republicans on Thursday worked to build a case for the Trump administration to stop federal funding of research on tissue from aborted fetuses while Democrats brandished a scientist’s letter that undercut the GOP claims. The letter was authored by Matthew Brown, a researcher at the University of Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
He has cited research by Matthew Brown, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who works on transplant immunology. In an interview, Brown said he was startled by such assertions, which he discovered when colleagues sent him a video of a Heritage Foundation forum where Prentice spoke.
The study’s lead author, Kevin Burke, worked with paleoecologist Dr. John Williams of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to assess the climatic characteristics of several geologic time periods, including the Early Eocene (beginning 56 million years ago), the mid-Pliocene (beginning 3.3 million years ago), the Last Interglacial (beginning 130,000 years ago), the mid-Holocene (beginning 7,000 years ago), the pre-industrial era (beginning in 1750), and the early 20th century.
“In the roughly 20 to 25 years I have been working in the field, we have gone from expecting climate change to happen, to detecting the effects, and now, we are seeing that it’s causing harm,” said Jack Williams, professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
More than twenty years after it was first discovered, an analysis of a remarkable skeleton discovered in South Africa has finally been published – and the specimen suggests we may need to add a new species to the family tree of early human ancestors. According to a study led by Travis Pickering of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Little Foot had an arm injury. He suspects she fell onto an outstretched hand during her youth, and that the resulting injury troubled her throughout her life.
Millions of years of evolution have given hibernators this seemingly miraculous ability to survive the equivalent of a stroke and its aftermath more than 30 times each year, all without signs of injury or distress. Hannah Carey, a physiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is another scientist who believes that solving the mysteries of how that happens might lead to treatments that could help prevent or reduce the harm to people who have a stroke.
William Straka, a researcher for the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explained that scientists often use the Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) to quickly detect and monitor likely snow cover.
“We developed this wearable bandage device that can significantly facilitate wound recovery. So, the device is self-powered, self-sustainable without any battery or electric circuit,” Xudong Wang, PhD, an author of the paper and professor of material science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Healthline.
“If we think about the future in terms of the past, where we are going is uncharted territory for human society,” Kevin Burke, the study’s lead author and a paleoecologist researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, told university press.
University of Wisconsin researchers say the Earth’s climate could warm to temperatures seen up to 50 million years ago.
A new paper by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison paints a stark picture of climate changes taking place.
Our current rate of warming will quickly lead us back to a climate that predates the evolution of modern humans, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That kind of rapid change has no direct comparison in all of Earth’s multi-billion year history.“The only thing that comes to mind is a meteorite impact,” says co-author Jack Williams, a paleoecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
If the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are left unchecked, the Earth’s climate will be similar to how it was 50 million years ago by 2150. This period, known as the Eocene, was characterized by an ice-free Earth and an arid climate across most of the planet. This is the conclusion of new research published by UW–Madison researchers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that used leading climate models and archaeological data to compare Earth’s future with its past.
