A recently published two-year study of urban canids in and around Madison, Wisconsin, sheds light on the issue. Researchers used radio collars and statistical analysis to assess the movement and home ranges of coyotes and foxes through a mosaic of residential, commercial, and public natural areas, including tallgrass prairie and oak savanna located within the University of Wisconsin–Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
Research shows the loss of young adults raises the cost of schools, public services, and recreation for individuals. The Applied Population Lab at the UW-Madison projected that 15 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties will have smaller populations in 2040 than they did in 2010.
“None of the plants were ever actually attacked,” says University of Wisconsin-Madison ecologist John Orrock. “We just gave them cues that suggested an attack was coming, and that was enough to trigger big changes in their chemistry…”
Two UW-Madison biomedical researchers have been awarded the prestigious Hartwell Foundation Award to help in their research advancing children’s health.
Wisconsin’s rural counties saw an estimated 9 percent fewer 20- and 30 year-olds in 2010 than they would have if their population from 2000 had remained static, according to data from the Applied Population Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That’s compared to a statewide average loss of less than 1 percent. And looking at just 20 year olds, that figure jumps to a loss of 34 percent in rural counties.
Noted: The National Conference of State Legislatures says helmets saved an estimated 1,630 lives in 2013. The organization, citing a 2009 report by the University of Wisconsin Medical School, also says several studies have proved the obvious, that medical costs from motorcycle crashes are higher for riders without helmets.
An endowed grant for the school was also announced today.
Quoted: “We are excited to infuse the initiative with a new class of inspiring and novel projects that continue to showcase UW-Madison’s highly competitive and forward thinking world-class faculty and staff researchers,” said Norman Drinkwater, interim vice chancellor for research and graduate education.
On Thursday, Wessinger gave a talk entitled “The Cult Narrative and the Branch Davidians,” at UW-Madison, arguing for a more nuanced understanding of religious movements. The talk was a product of a joint effort between the university’s Religious Studies Program and School of Journalism and Mass Communication to help journalists better cover religious subjects.
Two UW-Madison researchers believe that their discovery of protein agents responsible for causing chronic wasting disease near mineral licks in Dane and Iowa counties strengthens longstanding theories that gathering spots for deer are hot spots for transmission of the disease.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study has found that a transmission “hot spot” for chronic wasting disease in deer may be at salt or mineral licks.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study has found that a transmission “hot spot” for chronic wasting disease in deer may be at salt or mineral licks.
Joseph had one of the most complicated heart conditions his doctors had ever seen. To plan his surgery, they 3D-printed a copy of his heart. Features physicians at UW Health.
UW senior Brandon Nwadinobi helped his mentor look into inconsistencies in grant peer review.
Scientists detected the prion that causes chronic wasting disease in soil and water at mineral lick sites in south-central Wisconsin, according to work published Wednesday by University of Wisconsin researchers.
Noted: “We have seen an increase in the types of tick-borne pathogens. So this is very real,” cautioned Lyric Bartholomay, associate professor in School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also co-directs the Upper Midwestern Regional Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease.
Even though today we can easily measure external forces during movement, we still lack the ability to measure the underlying muscle-tendon forces that generate human movement. Previous measuring methods have provided only limited information on the human tendons and muscles. Fortunately, new wearable device technology and research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)—led by mechanical engineering professor Darryl Thelen and graduate student Jack Martin—have determined a new non-invasive method of measuring human muscle-tendon force and movement.
Noted: Indeed, the few antibias trainings that have been proven to change people’s behavior make this case. One training, developed by Patricia Devine and colleagues at the Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, looks at bias as a habit that can be broken. Their approach—which I’ve written about before—consists of a couple of hours of modules based on what the researchers see as three essential elements of an antibias intervention: awareness of the problem, motivation to do something about it, and strategies for what to do. The strategies include observing stereotypes arise and mentally replacing them, actively looking for situational explanations for a person’s behavior, and trying to imagine what the world would look and feel like from another person’s point of view.
WASHINGTON — It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie: In April, China is said to have tested an invisibility cloak that would allow ordinary fighter jets to suddenly vanish from radar screens.
One training, developed by Patricia Devine and colleagues at the Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, looks at bias as a habit that can be broken. Their approach—which I’ve written about before—consists of a couple of hours of modules based on what the researchers see as three essential elements of an antibias intervention: awareness of the problem, motivation to do something about it, and strategies for what to do.
UW’s Automated Vehicle Proving Grounds is one of 10 federally designated labs testing autonomous vehicle technology, a distinction Wisconsin should be proud of, and which could lead to spinoff businesses and jobs.
UW-Madison’s recently released Origins project links together different academic fields to paint a picture of how scientists research Earth’s and mankind’s beginnings.
Noted: Fortnite does, to be sure, involve firearms, and is recommended for ages 13 and up. But its graphics are free of blood and gore. And though adults may worry that shooting games cultivate aggression, C. Shawn Green, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches video games, notes that, “there’s really no evidence that playing a violent video game would take someone who has absolutely no violent tendencies and suddenly make them violent.”
Girl’s soccer and football. What do they have in common? Concussions. The biggest prevention trial in the U.S. is happening right now at UW-Madison. But the lead researcher feels this type of research has yet to catch on in the soccer world.
(also published in the Council on Foreign Relations)
Young Mie Kim, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, collected controversial Facebook ads displayed over a six week-period before the 2016 elections. She found that one-half of groups purchasing these ads not only failed to file a report with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), but also had no IRS or online footprint indicating who they were.
Sometimes dairy scientist Michel Wattiaux approaches his research like a cop at a traffic stop. He uses a breath analyzer to check for problematic products of fermentation.Last spring, the UW-Madison researcher began using a specialized device to measure the methane being exhaled or belched by a group of Holsteins and Jerseys.
Research out of the University of Wisconsin–Madison found that by age three, kids can understand basic money concepts, such as value or exchange.
MADISON – Jeans are thirsty. The fibers making up their denim come from water-guzzling cotton plants, and plant scientists are on the hunt for ways to make this vital fiber more sustainable.
While winter may seem like it lasts forever, Wisconsinites have months and months for beloved pastimes like gardening, grilling out and, of course swatting at mosquitoes around the campfire. When it comes to these blood-sucking pests and other creepy-crawlies, each year can be a different experience, with weather patterns and other factors playing important roles in the behaviors of insects and other arthropods like spiders and millipedes, as well as other invertebrates.
The University of Wisconsin Campus Women’s Center hosted UW gender and women’s studies professor Araceli Alonso Thursday to discuss her her work studying human trafficking, and how she has applied her research to help Madison-area victims.
Marsha Mailick had been on temporary leave since January, according to the university. Norman Drinkwater will continue his role as interim vice chancellor until a permanent replacement for Mailick is found.
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison refutes the assertion that more undocumented immigrants in the U.S. correlate to an increase in violent crime.
I am not an athlete by any stretch of the imagination. But as someone who struggles with chronic back pain, I understand the perils of pushing an injured body too hard.So does a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers, which developed technology that could one day recognize when your tendons are revived and ready for action.
The Waisman Center has a new director. The organization at UW-Madison is one of only 14 Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers in the country. The new director Qiang Chang is our guest. He discusses current research on autism and Rett syndrome and explains how research and clinical service connect. Plus learn about the promise stem cell research holds for degenerative diseases such as ALS.
Undocumented immigrants in the U.S. does not contribute to an increasing crime rate, according to a new study conducted by a UW-Madison professor. This is despite the fact that immigrants are struggling with many socioeconomic factors shared by people who are more likely to commit crimes.
With no steering wheel, no pedals, one double-door entrance and little to distinguish its front end from its rear, the driverless vehicle tooling around UW-Madison on Tuesday morning was less a traditional car or truck than a computer-controlled pod on wheels.
A driverless shuttle made its way around the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday.
Bee populations face stressors in urban areas including loss of habitat, food resources, nesting locations.
Some day, if billionaire inventor Elon Musk’s idea comes to fruition, humans will travel from city to city via Hyperloop.
Students from colleges and universities across the U.S. came together in Madison this weekend to discuss issues of public policy and their research surrounding these topics.
“This is a re-do,” said Peter Rafferty, a UW-Madison engineering researcher and head of the Wisconsin Automated Vehicle Proving Grounds project — a federally sanctioned initiative to test and research driverless technology in the state — regarding the shuttle rides scheduled on UW-Madison’s campus on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 24-25.
New research shows tribal forests in northern Wisconsin have older trees, and better plant diversity and tree regeneration than surrounding state or national forests. Researchers with Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison published their findings in a recent issue of the journal Ecology and Society.
Fox and coyote are friends. It’s not a plot for a new Wes Anderson film. It’s happening here, in the UW Arboretum.
Madison metal artist and sculptor Michael Burns, originally from the Kettle Moraine area, has at times drawn inspiration from the “intimate little hills” of that area. But for his work at the UW Arboretum — the large metal archways to Longenecker Gardens and the steel memorial benches — he looked to one of his predecessors for direction. No one, it appears, was more instrumental in setting the visual tone of the Arboretum than Albert F. Gallistel.
Katie Laushman remembers her first encounter with Amynthas agrestis. It was 2014, and the UW-Madison graduate student was working on an oak savanna habitat restoration in the UW Arboretum when a work crew member asked if she’d heard about the gardens’ newest inhabitant. He took Laushman over to a mulch pile and brushed away the top layer to reveal a bunch of writhing, wriggling earthworms.
Looking out over Curtis Prairie today, watching the tallgrass sway in the breeze, it’s hard to imagine it used to be farmland tilled with mules.
When Laurie Elwell was doing naturalist training at the UW Arboretum a few years ago, her class spent a day near a pond near the perimeter of the property.
A report published this month by a lab at the University of Wisconsin found 36 percent of 43,000 students attending two- and four-year colleges who were surveyed in 20 states had trouble getting enough to eat, threatening the academic success that’s key to overcoming poverty.
Barbara Bowers, associate dean for research and sponsored programs at the School of Nursing, will be formally inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honors Society Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame at ceremonies in Australia in July.
Sixteen new projects were funded by grants issued in early April.
Research will be conducted this summer in Madison, Milwaukee, Marathon County.
One in six of those groups was linked to Russia, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study here, and the identities of the rest of the 122 groups that are labeled “suspicious” are still unknown, an indication of the influence of “astroturf” or shell companies in U.S. politics.
Collaboration between a beer producer and a university garden is not your typical pairing, but Levi Funk and David Stevens have been determined to make it work.
More than half of the sponsors of ads on Facebook that featured divisive political messages ahead of the 2016 presidential election have little or no public paper trails, according to a study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When Young Mie Kim began studying political ads on Facebook in August of 2016—while Hillary Clinton was still leading the polls— few people had ever heard of the Russian propaganda group, Internet Research Agency. Not even Facebook itself understood how the group was manipulating the platform’s users to influence the election. For Kim, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the goal was to document the way the usual dark money groups target divisive election ads online, the kind that would be more strictly regulated if they appeared on TV. She never knew then she was walking into a crime scene.
As students filtered in for the first session of class in Russell Labs room A228 at the University of Wisconsin, they were greeted with a snack of venison sausage.
Five months after finishing nursing school, Angela Gibson reported to UW Hospital’s burn unit for a night shift that would change her life.
When ecologist John Orrock of the University of Wisconsin–Madison squirted snail slime—a lubricating mucus the animals ooze as they slide along—into soil, nearby tomato plants appeared to notice.
The report cites a 2014 study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, that suggested marriage can cause depression. The study looked at couples who had been married for 11 years and measured how often they frowned.
“Venus had plenty of time to evolve life on its own,” said lead author Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center, in a press release. In fact, previous research suggests that Venus could have once maintained a habitable climate with liquid water on its surface for as long as 2 billion years. “That’s much longer than is believed to have occurred on Mars,” he said.
