The UW was the only institution in the U.S. to have frequent access to a ‘giant meat laboratory’ in its backyard. Students saw the application of meat science and technology at the plant. Company personnel (some became UW adjunct professors) provided lectures for UW classes and the company provided internship and employment opportunities for UW students.
For more than three decades, the Comparative Ocular Pathology Lab of Wisconsin has quietly helped veterinarians diagnose eye diseases while amassing an archive used by researchers in dozens of countries to study human and animal diseases.
There is a little room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that is filled with the eyeballs of animals — everything from the duck-billed platypus to the two-toed sloth to the boa constrictor.
New technology developed in part by UW-Madison researchers is speeding up the discovery time for new molecules from fungi. We’ll find out how it works and why fungi are a potential-rich place to look for new disease-fighting agents.
UW–Madison Arboretum ecologist Brad Herrick interviewed on-site about the invasive asian jumping worm
And a second study, authored by UW-Madison athletic trainer Jerod Keene, involving more than 1,200 high school athletes, found no differences in self-reported quality of life over two years of follow-up, regardless of whether or not they’d had a concussion.
New technology developed in part by UW-Madison researchers is speeding up the discovery time for new molecules from fungi. We’ll find out how it works and why fungi are a potential-rich place to look for new disease-fighting agents.
There have also been efforts to reduce the amount of phosphorus—mainly in cow manure—from running off of farm fields into the Madison watershed. But things like manure digesters or voluntary management practices aren’t having much of an impact, according to Jake Vander Zanden, an aquatic biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Limnology.
Supercell thunderstorms are giant tempests with powerful rotating updrafts at their cores—and one out of every four or five spawn tornadoes. Most of these twisters are little, but some can grow fierce. To predict the rare killers, and thus give more targeted warnings, meteorologists need to better understand how tornadoes form. But simulating a supercell thunderstorm and the tornado it produces involves hundreds of terabytes of data—an amount so vast that Leigh Orf, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, had to use a supercomputer to make it happen.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison have found that sleep helps improve brain performance by shrinking synapses in the brain. A synapse is the area where cells pass messages to other cells.
Noted: In 2013, Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his colleagues reported that even one day of mindfulness meditation can impact the expression of genes. In their study, 19 experienced meditators were studied before and after a full day of intensive meditation. For control, the researchers similarly studied a group of 21 people who engaged in a full day of leisure. At the end of the day, the meditators showed lowered levels of activity of inflammatory genes—exactly the kind of effect seen when one takes anti-inflammatory drugs. The study also showed lowered activity of genes that are involved in epigenetically controlling expressions of other genes. The state of one’s mind, it seems, can have an epigenetic effect.
High levels of the air pollutant ozone still plague a few Wisconsin counties along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Over the past month, a team of scientists, including at UW–Madison, has been taking to the sky and water to better map the origin of some of the chemicals that create the harmful ozone in the lower atmosphere .
A UW-Madison alum who used to sleep with the cows as an undergraduate has been selected to oversee the university’s 11 agricultural research stations.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 11 agricultural research stations across the state will soon be under new leadership. Mike Peters has been named director of the network of ag stations, where he will replace the retiring Dwight Mueller.
If you’re looking for a different frosty way to cool off this summer, consider the Bofanna Bar. Produced in Madison, the distinctly different ice cream bars launched last October.
Scientists have known for a long time that air pollution is worse on hot days. For example, ozone pollution levels are higher on the hottest days of the year.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 11 agricultural research stations across the state will soon be under new leadership. Mike Peters has been named director of the network of ag stations, where he will replace the retiring Dwight Mueller.
Quoted: “Many women in the mindfulness group used the skills to avoid pain medication in early labor and then opted for epidural when things became more intense, but as a more intentional, mindful choice, versus out of fear of the bodily sensations of labor,” said lead study author Larissa Duncan of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There are about 300 agriculture-related research projects going on at the Arlington Agricultural Research Facility, a part of the University of Wisconsin’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
But only one of them – the dairy research facility, opened in 2008 – was a focus of Saturday’s event.
It’s no secret Donald Trump benefited from rural voters. But Democrat or Republican, they usually tell Katherine Cramer – who has spent a decade visiting residents of small-town Wisconsin – the same thing: it’s the cities that get all the breaks, and then have the gall to look down on them, too
When Hannah DePorter’s plant breeding and genetics lab at UW-Madison grows beets, only a fraction of what the students harvest winds up being used for research.
Noted: Melih Eriten is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Every day while working in a university lab, biology student Hannah DePorter sees produce grown for research wasting away in compost piles.
Some UW Madison students are taking their design to the next level in a competition for Space X.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are using oil that comes from a gland on chickens’ tails to improve survival at fish farms. The discovery could have global implications for the Atlantic salmon industry.
There’s an online dating site for nearly everybody, but can too many choices be problematic?
Keep Wildlife Wild is a partnership between Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wildlife rehabilitators across Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison that aims to educate the public on when to intervene with young, injured or orphaned wildlife, and when it’s better to stay on the sidelines.
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are seeking to do what has only become possible in recent years: use imaging technologies to illuminate the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and its effect on the still-living brain.
Internet users may soon notice a boost in performance thanks to a team of UW-Madison researchers who published an atlas of its physical structure around the world.
On Friday (6/16), University of Wisconsin archaeologists will host a public event displaying artifacts at Aztalan State Park. Central Time spoke with Professor Sissel Schroeder about what the public can learn from these digs.
Online daters with lots of potential suitors are less satisfied and more likely to pursue other partners, new research reveals.
Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison are developing a video game that will guide K-12 teachers through the hazards of unconscious attitudes and assumptions that affect the way they see their students, a phenomenon called “implicit bias.”
Earth and its parent galaxy are living in a cosmic desert — a region of space largely devoid of other galaxies, stars and planets, according to a new study. The new study shows this model of the KBC void is not ruled out based on additional observational data, Amy Barger, an observational cosmologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was involved with both studies, said in a statement from the university.
A new UW-Madison policy allows researchers and instructors to use drones on campus for research or educational purposes.
If you’ve ever traveled between Portage and Madison on Highway 51, you’ve driven past it – the flagship research facility for the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, the Arlington Agricultural Research Station will play host to a crowd likely to number in the hundreds. It’s the site of the 40th annual Moo-Day Brunch, Columbia County’s traditional salute to the dairy industry.
“It’s always exciting to be here,” said Schroeder as she watched members of her team check the measurements on the westernmost pit. “This is the third consecutive summer on this project to discover and explore what daily life at Aztalan was like 900 to 1,000 years ago.”
If federal funding for indirect costs tied to research were cut by Congress, as proposed by President Donald Trump, the University of Wisconsin-Madison could lose tens of millions of dollars annually and be forced to narrow the breadth of its research enterprise, Chancellor Rebecca Blank warned in a blog post Tuesday.
LAKE MILLS — Three white tents offered tepid relief to several UW-Madison anthropology students as temperatures approached 90 degrees on a cloudless Tuesday afternoon.
A UW-Madison professor says it’s the golden age for podcasts, but he’s worried some of those podcasts may soon disappear.
French President Emmanuel Macron doesn’t kid around. Last week, the newly minted French leader delivered a bruising rebuke of Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris accord in a televised address. And in a jab at just how backward US climate politics have become, he invited American climate researchers to move to France.
University of Wisconsin-Madison lake researchers discovered the invasive mussel species in Mendota in 2015 and since then the mussels have spread rapidly.
According to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, our very own Milky Way galaxy may float near the center of one of these voids.
When Jing Li was a teenager living in Xuchang, China, her parents gave her an extraordinary gift.
Facing protests from senior scientists, including members of its own advisory board, the National Institutes of Health on Thursday abandoned a plan to help younger researchers by imposing a general three-grant limit.
While she had tried to get sober before, it wasn’t until her doctors treated her disease in several ways that she began recovering. Her treatment regimen includes enrollment in a methadone program, outpatient care and the use of a new smartphone app called A-CHESS, created by a UW-Madison professor.
Addiction CHESS, or A-CHESS, is designed to aid recovery and prevent relapse for people after they leave treatment for substance-use disorders.
Our galaxy is in a giant cosmic void that stretches 1 billion light-years across, according to recent research.
The Milky Way—and everything in it—exists in an enormous void in space that is largely lacking stars, galaxies and planets.
With 168 patents issued last year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison moved back into sixth place among 100 universities surveyed around the world last year, according to a news release from the school.
To think of the structure of the universe, and the distribution of matter within it, picture a chunk of Swiss cheese and its holes. Think of all the solid parts as all the invisible and unobservable dark matter and dark energy, while the holes — about 5 percent of the total — contain most visible matter. Add some veins between the holes, and those are like the filaments in space, making up the rest of the visible matter.
ARLINGTON — Another year, another tight state budget and another challenge to keep Wisconsin’s agricultural research stations available for agricultural scientists at UW-Madison.
ARLINGTON — The 2,000-acre Arlington Agricultural Research Station is a busy place these days, serving as the home of about 350 research projects at any one time.
President Trump announced Tuesday that he will keep Francis S. Collins as director of the National Institutes of Health.
More than $1 million was raised for cancer research at the Andy North and Friends golf tournament and dinner this week, according to a release.
Noted: The latest crop of contest finalists will present Tuesday at the 15th annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference at Union South in Madison, where 500 or more people will gather to hear speakers, panel discussions and more over two days ending Wednesday afternoon.
Noted: The magazine article focuses on the history of the BrainPort, created in the 1960s by the late UW-Madison professor Paul Bach-y-Rita, and how mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer uses the device.
Scientists at UW-Madison have come forward with responses to the U.S.’s withdrawal.
A collection of more than 2,000 mosses has been discovered at a University of Wisconsin-Madison building known for its plant specimens.
A collection of more than 2,000 mosses has been discovered at a University of Wisconsin-Madison building known for its plant specimens. The collection was found inside a cabinet at Birge Hall, where the Wisconsin State Herbarium is housed.Director Ken Cameron said the mosses were gathered in the 1920s by several people including retired Herbarium curator Lellan Cheney. Cheney, who served as served as curator 1891-1903, died in 1938.
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate of Engineering recently awarded a $1 million grant to the College of Menominee Nation and UW-Madison to further collaborate in engineering education and research, campus officials said Thursday.
Jeremy Morris is a futuristic thinker. While some are heralding podcasts as a trendy new medium, Morris is worrying about what will become of them in the future when we may not use iPhones, iPods or MP3s. Morris, an assistant professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founded PodcastRE, a project that aims to archive podcasts.
