Expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act cost the federal government billions of dollars. But a University of Wisconsin-Madison study says it also saves money in a different federal safety net program.
A smile, like a picture, is worth a thousand words. Although most commonly associated with happiness, smiles can indicate nervousness, embarrassment and even misery. To add to their mystique and versatility, smiles can express sophisticated messages that influence the behavior of others in social situations.
The income gap between the rich and the poor remains near its highest level ever, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Budget Project and COWS at UW Madison.
MADISON, Wis. – Most experts agree, driverless car or autonomous vehicles are coming. Just when it will happen remains up for debate.
SoHE faculty associate Lesley Sager tells us how she and her students at UW-Madison are using the principles of design to solve problems and create better lives for people around the world.
All life on our planet, to some degree, evolves over time. Think of the furry land mammals that slipped into the water to catch a fish and surfaced – albeit millions of years later – as modern whales.
Cellphones, laptops, battery-operated flashlights, our electronics are getting smaller and our need for energy is getting larger. So what if there was a way to take those items and mix them with your everyday routine to create an eco-friendly way to recharge them? That’s the bright idea of Marianne Fairbanks who has two degrees in fiber arts.
Baits often consist of high-calorie foods like meat, candy or cookies. MacFarland, along with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sampled bear bait and native foods in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest for the study. They then compared those samples to tissues taken from black bears during the 2011-2013 hunting seasons.
Scores of Chicagoans and suburbanites retreat from the dog days of summer by heading to bucolic vacation spots around Lake Michigan.
The University of Wisconsin System says with more state money, it can boost engineering enrollments and training for other workers needed by a Taiwanese electronics company that has big plans to build a factory in southeastern Wisconsin.
Noted: Specifically, states with an increasing concentration of non-citizen residents lacking proper papers experienced “reductions in drug arrests, drug overdose deaths, and DUI arrests,” writes a research team led by sociologist Michael Light of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Noted: “The hope would have been that by targeting this, you could especially capture some of the people who early on fall off and get them to keep going for longer,” said Justin Sydnor, one of the report’s authors and a risk-management and insurance professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “These incentive programs did increase slightly how often people went, but only by about one visit, and then it really has no lasting impact.”
“We are seeing a lot of species shifting their ranges — locally and globally — in response to climate change,” said Jonathan Pauli, an associate professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
At a small cafe in Randolph, Wis., James Tinjum found himself surrounded by a dozen rapt diners, intrigued by the dedicated cyclist on a mission to promote wind energy.
“If passing the virus by casual contact were easy, I think we would see a lot more of what we would call secondary transmission in a place like the United States,” said lead researcher Tom Friedrich, from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Tammy Mocarski remembers her surgeon leaning over her as she woke up in recovery after having what appeared to be a harmless, pea-sized tumor removed from the crease below her left breast.
Scientists have cracked the science behind one of our most common facial expressions – the smile. They say the distinction between sincere and fake smiles that is often made is not entirely accurate.
Two horses died of a severe, mosquito-borne disease in the Tomah area this week, according to the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Lab.
If your only exposure to archaeology is watching the Indiana Jones movies, than let us quickly disabuse you of the notion that archaeologists spend their days dodging bullets and nabbing ancient idols.Archaeology is dirty work. The researchers that dedicate themselves to the discipline are a dusty sort, armed with an array of trowels, brushes and other tools for unearthing long-lost artifacts.It’s that kind of gritty, grimy, sweaty archaeology that’s a hallmark of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Archaeology Field School at Aztalan State Park.
It takes a hookworm four to six weeks to travel through the human body and reach the gut, where it latches onto the small intestine and sucks blood to sustain itself.
One University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is touring the Midwest on his bike to promote wind energy.
There are three distinct types of smile, a new study has revealed. People switch between ’reward’, ’affiliation’ and ’dominance’ smiles, using different facial muscle combinations to make them, according to researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The UW Trout Lake Station in Boulder Junction will be holding its 6th Annual Open House on Friday, August 4th from 1-5. The open house showcases much of the research done at the station as well as events for all ages, as interim station director Susan Knight describes.
In 2013, the Wisconsin’s wine industry supported more than 700 jobs statewide, generating about $151 million in sales and another $9 million in state and local taxes, according to a UW-Madison Extension study about the impact of the industry.
Carrie Laboski, Extension Soil Fertility/Nutrient Management Specialist, UW-Madison said with continued precipitation and water lying on fields in many areas, growers are concerned about nitrogen loss from corn fields.
Using improved travel data, Robert Schneider and Aida Sanatizadeh of UW-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning and Jason Vargo of the UW-Madison Global Health Institute calculated the rates of fatalities for walkers and bicyclists in 46 American regions with populations greater than one million.
Apple has gotten itself into a bit of a pickle. U.S. District Court Judge William Conley pounded the gavel on Monday ordering Apple to pay $506 million to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
Researchers at the Upper Midwestern Center of Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases, a CDC-funded center to increase surveillance efforts in the Midwest, have identified three individuals of the mosquito, Aedes albopictus, in Wisconsin for the first time, according to a press release.
Experiments that go according to plan can be useful. But the biggest scientific advances often emerge from those that do not. Such is the case with a study just reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. When they began it, Hector DeLuca of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his colleagues had been intending to examine the effects of ultraviolet (UV) light on mice suffering from a rodent version of multiple sclerosis (MS). By the project’s end, however, they had in their hands two substances which may prove valuable drugs against the illness.
Research by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health found high schoolers who say they were highly-specialized in one sport had an 85% higher chance of lower extremity injuries than multi-sport athletes.
Dr. Mark Burkard, a UW Health oncologist heading up the research, got the idea for the study from Geisler’s remarkable story. After her cancer returned in 1982, she was told she had a 15 percent chance of living five years. But she has withstood recurrences in 2003, 2008 and 2013.
Quoted: “The significance is high because for almost 20 years there have been no real promising developments to alleviate, and certainly not to cure this disease,” said Dr. Emery Bresnick, director of the UW-Madison blood research program.
B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann was already growing human skin in an organotypic culture when she met the burn doctor who would change everything. The department of pathology and laboratory medicine faculty researcher and professor had been at UW–Madison 15 years when she made the serendipitous discovery that would ultimately lead to Stratatech, the Madison-based skin regeneration company she founded in 2000.
Look around you and imagine: All you can see—rustling birch leaves, purring cat, your hand against your knee—is less than 5 percent of what’s actually there.
The Badgerloop Pod looks sort of like the DeLorean from “Back to the Future,” winged doors stretched open to the sky.
Two months after mammary gland physiologist Laura Hernandez arrived at UW–Madison in 2011 to work on making dairy cows healthier, her daughter was born.
It’s been 15 years since UW–Madison College of Engineering emeritus research professor David Gustafson, who is not an addict or alcoholic, checked himself into rehab to better understand what patients go through. The end result of his Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies team’s work was A-CHESS, a revolutionary smartphone app designed to aid people in recovery that today has 6,000 users and is a finalist in Harvard’s 2017 Innovations in American Government Awards. Now, he has set his sights on helping a population he says suffers from similar issues of isolation and loneliness: senior citizens.
All researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison needed to do the trick was a splash of water in a black cup and a Popsicle stick for the insect to lay its eggs on.
Stem cells used to protect respiratory function.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a big-idea powerhouse.
Jim Tinjum, an avid bicyclist and professor of energy engineering and sustainability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is in the middle of a 1,250-mile biking trip dedicated to promoting wind energy.
In the wake of the Zika outbreak researchers at the UW Medical Entomology lab have been working for the past year trying to find this bug.
Graduate students from the University of Wisconsin have helped bring a little piece of Norwegian history to life in Mount Horeb.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medical Entomology Laboratory and health officials from the Department of Health Services and Public Health Madison-Dane County announced Monday that the Aedes albopictus mosquito was found in Dane County.
A UW-Madison research center that has used the university’s largest-ever federal grant to develop ethanol technology over the past decade will shift its focus to other alternative fuels after winning another major award from the U.S. Department of Energy.
“What we’ve discovered here is there are aspects of language that are affected earlier than we thought,” before or at the same time that memory problems emerge, said one study leader, Sterling Johnson of UW-Madison.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive a new, five-year round of funding for its energy research center that has produced 160 patents and spawned five start-up companies in its 10-year history.
Researchers have identified hearing loss, verbal fluency, and hospitalization as new factors that can provide clues about cognitive health and aid in early detection of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Old guys who hunt have been stepping up to help the Snapshot Wisconsin project, a booming citizen-based science initiative that’s using trail cameras to document what’s going on in our woodlands and other wild places when we’re not looking.
As U.S. Department of Justice Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller looks into whether President Trump’s campaign assisted Russia in targeting Wisconsin voters with fake news last year, a UW-Madison researcher is working to determine just how often Russia was placing such phony stories here.
A study done by the University of Wisconsin shows that keeping dairy cows ‘udderly’ content can lead to those cows producing more milk. For Five Star Diary in Elk Mound, that’s leading to a few farm upgrades.
“We’ve added sprinklers, we’ve added foggers and a lot of fans,” said Five Star Dairy owner Lee Jensen.
Amasino said some people may be expressing their opposition to monopolies in agriculture by being against the use of GMOs.
“It’s tough being a consumer these days when you’re confronted with all this information and misinformation,” he said. “But there is no question that certain technologies when deployed successfully by a company give that company a greater share of the market.”
Adena Rissman studies the ways human interaction with ecological systems can be harmonious or ruinous. As part of a $4.9 million National Science Foundation project, the UW-Madison professor delved into people’s attitudes about government policies that rely on voluntary anti-pollution measures and those policies’ failure to rid lakes of unnatural bacteria, algae and weed growth.
If you think scientists have it bad today, spare a thought for the early philosophers – some even got burnt for heresy. Philosopher Steven Nadler and graphic artist Ben Nadler talk us through their book, “Heretics!”
Bears, they’re just like us. And I’m not referring to a subset of hairy humans, but to some furry critters in Wisconsin whose diets contain a staggering amount of junk food. Seriously!
We talk to Jake Vander Zanden, an expert about the ongoing efforts to curtail the spread of Zebra mussels in Wisconsin lakes.
A chunk of ice the size of Delaware broke off from the Antarctic Peninsula this week. We’ll learn about why this happened and what it means for climate change around the world and close to home in Wisconsin.
Larva means never having to say you’re sorry. Although I’m sure caterpillars are at least slightly apologetic when they eat a plant that releases a chemical that turns them into cannibals — and then eat their pals.
The arms race between insects that eat plants and plants, has had millions of years to evolve some pretty amazing interactions. Not least the tomato plant that produces chemicals that make caterpillars turn into cannibals.
The DNR began working on the study in 2014 with help from the UW-Madison, and financial support from NASA and the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Program.
