Category: Research

Goldrick-Rab was traveling and unavailable for an interview. But the co-author of the report, the acting director of the HOPE Lab, Jed Richardson, said the findings should prompt institutions to act, if they have not already.“I would encourage colleges and universities to find out more about their students,” Richardson said. “There are definitely limitations to what we can accomplish with the resources we currently have to do this work.”

In a paper published last week in the journal Astrobiology, an international team of researchers led by planetary scientist Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center suggested Venus once had a habitable climate with liquid water on its surface for as long as 2 billion years.

In a story March 30 about coffee and cancer risks, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a University of Wisconsin-Madison health expert. She is Amy Trentham-Dietz, not Trenton-Dietz.

According to a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center we may have to think beyond the traditional when hunting for extraterrestrial life. In the study researchers have put forward a case that extraterrestrial life in the form of microbes could be living in the clouds of Venus.

The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute is awarding $2.8 million to research and education projects on the Great Lakes.

According to a first-of-its-kind survey released Tuesday by researchers at Temple University and the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, 36 percent of students on U.S. college campuses do not get enough to eat, and a similar number lack a secure place to live.

UW female mechanical engineering student emphasized importance of having a mentor in male-dominated field.

The UW-Madison Sea Grant Institute, which focuses on the preservation of the Great Lakes, announced Thursday a $2.8 million donation to fund research in the coming year.

The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute is awarding $2.8 million to Great Lakes research and education projects. Congress recently restored $76.5 million in Sea Grant funding nationwide. The Trump administration had proposed eliminating the program

A 2015 study in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Wisconsin, and Emory University looked at markers of inflammation in the body and found that “the health ramifications of high anger, or poorly controlled anger, may be stronger in African Americans with more, compared to less, education.”

This primal fight-or-flight response makes it hard to listen. And, according to an experiment conducted at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, things get even worse when we are in a position of authority.

Planetary scientist Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, putting forward a case for the atmosphere of Venus as a possible niche for extraterrestrial microbial life, said: “Looking forward, investigations into the actual habitability of Venus’ clouds would ideally benefit from a mixture of an orbiter, lander, airplane/balloons, and sample return missions.”

It took biologist James Thomson, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison 14 years to achieve it in monkeys. Three years later, using donated embryos that had gone unused in fertility treatments, Thomson struck again, creating the world’s first human ES-cell line.

The reasons for the orgasm gap are multi-faceted, and some of them will take a long time to remedy. Sex education that fails to teach sexual pleasure has been cited as one reason for the gap. A study from University of Wisconsin-Madison found a third of university-age women can’t identify their clitoris in an anatomy test. Communication, or a lack thereof, is one of the biggest obstacles in bridging the orgasm gap, according to the Durex Global Sex Survey.

The Weinert Center attracts many students.

UW senior’s research focuses on helping understand earliest states of cancer.

Recently, a study from researchers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison looked at how various U.S. news outlets unintentionally used tweets from the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-backed organization accused of meddling in the 2016 presidential election, in their reporting.

Dr. Burkard is conducting an international study of patients with metastatic breast cancer in hopes of unlocking the secrets to survival and finding more extreme survivors.

Psychology graduate student hopes study will help understand expressions of others.

Brad Herrick is Arboretum Ecologist and Research Program Manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, where the staff first noticed the destructive handiwork of Asian jumping worms in 2013. He’s been studying them ever since. Though our understanding of these organisms is in the very early stages, we talked about their biology, their impact, and what control tactics are being explored by scientists seeking a solution.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released the County Health Rankings report Wednesday, Wisconsin Public Radio reported . It measures factors that affect public health, such as access to health care, housing and employment.

The rocks were collected on the west Australian coast in 1982. They contained fossils of microorganisms 3.465 billion years old. Techniques revealing the chemistry which supported the microorganisms were developed years later. In late 2017, William Schopf from UCLA and colleagues from the University of Wisconsin revealed details of how the specimens lived.  Two of the species appear to have performed a primitive form of photosynthesis, another apparently produced methane gas, and two others appear to have consumed methane and used it to build their cell walls.

Doctors in Wisconsin may soon be able to look at a “weather map” of antibiotic resistance to help choose a drug for a patient’s infection, thanks to a project by UW-Madison pharmacy researchers.

Doctors in Wisconsin may soon be able to look at a “weather map” of antibiotic resistance to help choose a drug for a patient’s infection, thanks to a project by UW-Madison pharmacy researchers.

Research from a group of UW-Madison graduate students sheds new light on the potential relationship between gun ownership and mental health.

Institute for Research on Poverty worked on volume of proposals countering efforts to scale back social safety net.