Category: Research

UW saw a gain in research expenditures overall with one decline in local, state funds.

Minnesota produced about $20.7 billion more in goods and services than Wisconsin in 2008, and by 2017, the difference was $27.1 billion. The widening wage gap between Minnesota and Wisconsin over the same 10-year period is remarkable, too. Minnesota reported wages and salaries totaling $11.9 billion more than Wisconsin in the first quarter of 2008. By the first quarter of 2018, that gap had nearly doubled to $22.4 billion.

The last, sustained ruffed grouse research in Wisconsin was conducted through the late 1980s by University of Wisconsin researchers Donald Rusch, James Holzwart and Robert Small. Their work was published in 1991 in the Journal of Wildlife Management.

New research (from UW–Madison’s Josh Pultorak and Catherine Marler) published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution shows that when these monogamous mice are separated from their mate and then reunited, the animals sometimes don’t handle it well—revealing a new side to their social lives and behavior.

The UW UniverCity Year program is sending a team of senior students from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to Juda’s 300 student K-12 school to create a proposal that would lower the facility’s energy expenses by 25 percent.

As an example, he pointed to the state’s voter identification law, one of the most restrictive in the country. In 2017, as reported by the Journal Sentinel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison study estimated that “thousands of registered voters in Dane and Milwaukee counties were deterred or prevented from voting” in the 2016 election as a result of the law, a form of suppression that “more heavily affected low-income people and African-Americans.”

Wisconsin. Just a few of the changes being debated by the lame-duck GOP legislature would affect voting rights, but they’d all have teeth. One rule would limit Evers’s ability to curtail the state’s voter ID; academics at the University of Wisconsin estimated that the voter ID law kept around 17,000 registered voters from the polls.

UW argues difficult application process implemented to protect research subjects, follow government guidelines.

A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that the ID requirement kept as many as 23,000 people from voting in two of the state’s most Democratic counties, Milwaukee County and Madison’s Dane County, with African Americans more than three times as likely as whites to be deterred from voting.

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin opened his lunchbox. Inside, he had three aluminum tubes, two filled with pureed meat and one with chocolate sauce. A peculiar lunch, indeed, but for Gagarin it was a peculiar day. He was in the middle of the first human spaceflight, and his less-than exciting spread was the first meal consumed in space.

Noted: The Tropical Cyclone Research Group at the UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center ended up in the middle of the heartland because of the groundbreaking work of atmospheric science professor Verner Suomi, who is widely credited with developing imaging technologies that spawned modern weather satellites in the 1960s and ’70s.

A team at UW-Madison has recently developed a wound-dressing that could speed up the healing process of injuries, both temporary and chronic.

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the patent-licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was ordered to pay $32 million to Washington University in St. Louis after a judge ruled that UW Madison violated a royalties contract between the two universities, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Milwaukee’s discriminatory housing policies from the 1940 through the 1970s are still largely defining residential patterns in the city, according to the report, which used research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The team’s research, led by professor Ian Duncan, which has been ongoing for nearly eight years, aims to repair the central nervous system in people with myelin disorders, particularly targeting MS.

My colleagues Joann Peck and Scott Swain and I conducted several studies to find out.

“I’d encourage [everyone] to please take your minds as seriously as you take your teeth. And nurture qualities like kindness because it will improve your well-being,” said Dr. Davidson, the founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Recently released results from a University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health study suggest athletic trainer availability in high schools can be critical to managing injuries such as concussions.

UW-Madison researchers will work with the association, USDA experts, and growers to develop the crop. “We can continue to work together to push the growers and advance an industry for the next generation of producers,” said Jed Colquhoun, a researcher with the UW-Madison horticulture department.

The partnership also will provide an opportunity for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW-Carbone Cancer Center to engage in research surrounding the health benefits of ginseng, according to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

The number of homes across the country built in WUI areas increased by 41 percent between 1990 and 2010, according to US Forest Service research headed by the University of Wisconsin Madison’s SILVIS Lab. While living away from bustling cities and closer to undeveloped landscapes has an appeal for many homeowners, it carries an inherent set of risks.

A 2011 study by the Applied Population Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found the number of men hunting in the state could drop to 400,000 or fewer by 2030.

The experts included Dan Vimont, the director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research.