MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Navy has awarded a team of computer science researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over $6 million to work on developing technology for better performance, management and security of container software.
In recent years, dairy farmers have become accustomed to cheap, flexible labor, said Jill Lindsey Harrison, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty member who studied the rise in immigrant dairy workers in Wisconsin, a trend that started around 2000.
Ane says that the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center, a plant biotechnology center at UW-Madison, provides the expertise that would be required to translate findings from poplar research to cereals like corn, wheat and rice.
Republican state lawmakers are once again looking to put restrictions on the use of human fetal tissue in research being done in the state.
Plants producing their own nitrogen would require less fertilizer and reduce environmental pollution, and researchers at UW-Madison will be studying it thanks to a grant from a federal agency.
Plants producing their own nitrogen would require less fertilizer and reduce environmental pollution, and researchers at UW-Madison will be studying it thanks to a grant from a federal agency.UW-Madison and University of Florida researchers will share a $7 million grant from the Department of Energy to study how some plants partner with bacteria to create usable nitrogen, then transfering this to the bioenergy crop poplar.
At a Wednesday lecture regarding Alzheimer’s disease, medical professionals discussed simple measures individuals can take to prevent or slow the effects of dementia.
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at UW-Madison will be continuing its groundbreaking research for years to come, thanks in part to a multi-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.
Researchers from UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee can take some credit in the Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to three researchers, for the discovery of gravitational waves originally predicted by Albert Einstein.
Researchers have discovered that good fathers make for healthier kids – at least among marmosets.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee say they’re excited about this year’s Nobel Prize in physics being awarded Tuesday to two researchers from California, Barry Barish and Kip S. Thorne, and Massachusetts scientist Rainer Weiss. The Milwaukee campus helped the award-winners with a major breakthrough.
A team of computer science researchers at UW-Madison have been awarded over $6 million to work on security for one of the newer components of computering, known as container technology.
Trans people live in Wisconsin, and they are valuable members of our communities. If the Wisconsin Idea drives our fine university to benefit the people of this great state, then the work at the Trans Research Lab is the Wisconsin Idea in practice.
“This is a very important time of their life, where they’re growing independent, making career decisions and planning a future,” said Traci Snedden, a UW-Madison assistant professor of nursing leading the research. “If their academic experience is affected because of their cognitive deficits, there potentially could be long-term ramifications.”
Malia Jones said despite government rules, parents are reluctant to vaccinate their child.
A growing number of states — 35 so far — have created performance-based funding models that tie portions of appropriations for public colleges to outcome measures such as degree production or student graduation rates. A new research paper examines results of performance-funding formulas in Ohio and Tennessee, which are home to two of the most established of such policies. Advocates also cite the two states has having particularly sound approaches to performance funding.
A Voter ID law and presidential candidates’ failure to show up in the state contributed to a surprising drop in voter turnout among Wisconsin college students, said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison.
The study, by researchers at Indiana University, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota, found that plant inspections worked well when they were conducted by someone new, rather than by an investigator already familiar with the manufacturing facility.
We’ve all heard the phrase “happy cows”, but a study being done at UW-Madison proves just what it takes to help bovines achieve udder bliss.
A cancer researcher in Madison will receive a $185,000 grant to study breast cancer.
They have mystified astronomers for decades. Fast radio bursts or FRBs are ephemeral but incredibly powerful radio bursts from space, which some have dubbed ’alien signals’ – and astronomers admit they know virtually nothing about them. Now, a new neutrino telescope could help uncover the mystery.
The study from UW-Madison estimates that up to 23,000 people in Dane and Milwaukee counties did not vote in November 2016 because of the state’s voter ID law.
“It’s a new class of astronomical events. We know very little about FRBs in general,” explains Justin Vandenbroucke, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist who, with his colleagues, is turning IceCube, the world’s most sensitive neutrino telescope, to the task of helping demystify the powerful pulses of radio energy generated up to billions of light-years from Earth.
11.2 percent of registered voters in Dane and Milwaukee counties were deterred from casting ballots in the 2016 presidential election because of Wisconsin’s Voter ID law, according to a survey conducted by a UW-Madison political science professor.
A study released Monday estimates 16,800 or more people in Dane and Milwaukee counties were deterred from casting ballots in November because of Wisconsin’s voter ID law.
To get an idea of how dire the situation is in hurricane-battered Puerto Rico, take a look at these before-and-after photos of the island.The images, from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite [and the UW–Madison Cooperative Institute of Meteorological and Satellite Studies], offer aerial views of the US commonwealth.
Nearly 17,000 registered voters in Dane and Milwaukee counties may have been deterred from voting in the 2016 presidential election because of the state’s voter ID requirement, according to a UW-Madison study released Monday.
Around the world, efforts are ramping up to try and uncover the mystery of fast radio bursts – extremely powerful, milliseconds-long radio bursts from somewhere out beyond the solar system.
Rebecca Brinkman moved to Baraboo, Wisconsin, an hour north of Madison, from Ohio in the spring of 2016 for a job as a zookeeper. She worked from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day before rushing to her polling place.
MADISON, Wis. – Six percent, or 9,000 people, in Dane and Milwaukee counties were prevented from voting in the 2016 presidential election because they lacked an ID, according to a recent study.
WASHINGTON — Nearly 17,000 registered Wisconsin voters — potentially more — were kept from the polls in November by the state’s strict voter ID law, according to a new survey of nonvoters by two University of Wisconsin political scientists.
In a study published last month in the journal Psychological Science, a team of psychologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reported that positivity was related to improved health markers in Americans, but not in Japanese people.
Noted: Other telescopes have also been looking at the extreme universe of high-energy particles by searching for highly energetic neutrinos and gamma rays. “The energy density in the extreme universe observed in cosmic rays, in neutrinos and gamma rays turns out to be the same,” says Francis Halzen at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the principal investigator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. “This may point at common sources and not be an accident.”
Republicans can and will quibble with the mostly left-leaning UW-Madison over what its professors teach, what kinds of activism its students engage in, and which speakers are welcomed to campus and which draw protests.
Wisconsin Public Radio reports that two University of Wisconsin-Extension agents Greg Blonde and Ryan Sterry have developed the Corn Silage Pricing App, which uses data from national and local reports to estimate prices.
After Hurricane Harvey’s widespread flooding resulted in the surfacing of millions of mosquitos that hampered recovery efforts, two UW-Madison students headed to Houston last Wednesday to assist with the infestation.
Two UW-Madison students are helping to control an issue plaguing cleanup crews in southeastern Texas: a post-floodwater mosquito boom.
UW–Madison: Kindergartners starting school this year across the state enter the educational system with widely different preparation levels.
Noted: The cold-resistant missing parent remained a secret until 2011 when Dr. Chris Hittinger from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an international team of geneticists and microbiologists from the U.S., Portugal and Argentina identified S. eubayanus in wild samples from a Nothofagus tree in Patagonian forests.
Focusing on one sport rather than participating in multiple different sports could lead to more stress for young athletes, one study found.
Cockroaches, mice, cats and dogs can make asthma worse, but exposure to the pests and pets during infancy can lower the risk of developing the breathing disease, according to a national study led by a UW-Madison doctor.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students traveled to Houston after Hurricane Harvey to aid in mosquito control and study mosquito-borne diseases.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students are in Texas helping identify the millions of nuisance mosquitoes that are hampering Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts and raising concerns about mosquito-borne diseases as floodwaters recede.
MADISON – As the floodwaters recede in Houston following Hurricane Harvey, millions of mosquitoes have emerged to blanket southeastern Texas, hampering recovery efforts and raising public health concerns about mosquito-borne diseases.
Bill Tracy has spent the last 30 years thinking about and breeding new varieties of corn at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station.
UW-Madison’s Center For Healthy Minds is providing its “Kindness Curriculum” to preschool teachers. Thousands of teachers have requested the curriculum, including Sesame Workshop. The researchers at the Center For Healthy Minds consulted on kindness episodes for the 47th season of “Sesame Street” premiering Sept. 18 on Wisconsin Public Television.
Noted: To put the effects of storm winds into perspective, Steve Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, compared a brisk wind to hurricane-level gusts.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Wild critters can’t heed health agency warnings to take refuge indoors from the pall of wildfire smoke smothering the West.
As an infectious disease doctor, Nasia Safdar is a detective of sorts at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.
Noted: Farms in DeForest, Waunakee, Sun Prairie and Fitchburg are participating in a project to help clean up Dane County lakes. Around nine farms are partnering with Dane County land and water resources department, UW-Extension, Yahara wins, and the natural resources conservation service.
Noted: These actions were initiated based on mathematical models utilizing data generated by techniques and technologies substantially developed at UW-Madison.
Bees aren’t necessarily welcome at picnics and outdoor events, but they are essential for pollinating crops worth millions of dollars to the Wisconsin economy. To that end, UW-Madison and UW-Extension staff in Dane County are working with the Dane County Environmental Council to increase bee education and get the most out of bee-friendly land use and development.
What will happen to the forests of Yellowstone if a changing climate means not only old forests burn, but young ones, too? That’s what (former UW graduate student) Brian Harvey and his colleague, Monica Turner, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, are here investigating. Yellowstone’s recent fires offer a rare natural experiment to see how forests regenerate after burning and reburning at short intervals.
A new trove of fossil bones found in a cramped South African cave is adding to our understanding of an unusual cousin of modern humans, scientists announced today.
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology found that despite concerns over climate change, the conditions of Wisconsin’s lakes have remained relatively stable over the past 20 years.
This is a tale of two forests, Densetown and Stumptown, whose paths diverged after a succession of wildfires. One illustrates the historic resilience of the dense Yellowstone pinelands; the other portends a much sparser future for these forests under climate change.
The UW-Madison lab that checks deer carcasses for chronic wasting disease says new scientific research shows the importance of testing. Keith Poulsen at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, says it would be a mistake to not get your deer tested for CWD this fall.
We can now watch Irma and Jose’s stunning fury nearly in real time. Researchers and engineers at the Space and Science Engineering Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison stitched together daytime and nighttime imagery for a full, composite picture of the storms, made available to TIME.
Renowned scientist Richard Davidson and science writer Daniel Goleman collaborated on a new book that explores a simple, yet transformational, idea: Good mental hygiene.
The UW-Madison lab that checks deer carcasses for a deadly brain disease said Monday there may be increased urgency for hunters to test for chronic wasting disease this year based on new scientific research.
