UW System students will have the chance to attend one of the world’s most innovative campuses, as the system ranked 13th in Reuters’ 2016 list of top 100 innovative universities.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and two other universities have received a seven-year, $8.6 million grant to study one of the biggest, and perhaps most difficult goals of stem cell scientists — creating heart tissue in the lab for people who’ve suffered severe heart attacks.
Seven and a half hours of boredom, plus 30 minutes of terror. That’s how Dr. Michael Spierer, a Madison-based psychologist, describes the typical police officer’s shift. Eight hours of paperwork and petty crime, with the knowledge that a high-pressure and dangerous turn of events may be just around the corner. Chronic stress is inherent to the job, he says.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are gathering opinions about drones and other technologies available to journalists, and The Post-Crescent will host two focus groups in October.
Stem cell pioneer James Thomson and biotech entrepreneur Ralph Kauten received achievement awards at the 2016 Wisconsin BioHealth Summit in Madison on Tuesday.
A group of psychology researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison discovered a breakthrough with those who have blindness to motion. In the journal published Wednesday, Madison psychology Professor Bas Rokers says blind motion comes from a failure inside the brain, and not the eyes
David Thomas is looking over his life’s work at the Spooner Agricultural Research Station in northern Wisconsin. After 26 years with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the professor of sheep genetics and management is retiring and the research station’s dairy sheep program is going along with him.
Droughts, floods and heat waves are becoming more common in various parts of the world thanks to climate change. As part of our weeklong look at climate change, Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson talks with Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the public health impacts of global warming.
Donald Trump is a master in the use of traditional news outlets and social media, said Chris Wells, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Government regulators have no idea how often laboratories working with some of the world’s most dangerous viruses and bacteria are failing to fully kill vials of specimens before sending them to other researchers who lack critical gear to protect them against infection, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
Noted: While studies are underway and advocacy groups and others scramble for better answers, specialists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison have teamed up with their counterparts in Oregon, as well as with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and health care records software giant Epic Systems, to build a program that helps predict whether an older person will fall. It not only calculates the risk — it steers physicians to preventative treatments.
The nation’s longest-standing poverty research center right here in Madison has been selected to be the nation’s only federally-funded poverty research center.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have found a way to coax peripheral nerve cells into repairing damaged axons. Peripheral cells extend outside the central nervous system into the arms and legs and are responsible for sensation. They contain long fibers known as axons that transmit impulses from the brain. They can be damaged in diseases such as diabetes, causing pain.
Satellites observe our planet’s weather from space — observations that are the backbone of weather forecasts. Without them, forecasters would not be able to monitor hurricanes, thunderstorms or blizzards. If we are to improve our weather forecasts, we must support our nation’s satellite programs. And there are two bills in Congress that intend to do just that.
A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Aarhus University in Demark say they have an idea of where climate change will push more species together.
Monkeys being used for research has been a long-lasting debate, especially when things go wrong.
Noted: Marian Mateling is a graduate student and research assistant in the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The recently announced discovery of the invasive starry stonewort in the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal is more extensive than previously thought.
The overcast sky is clearing as a wave of moderate thunderstorms moves off to the east. On rolling, sandy terrain northeast of Tomah, in the heart of cranberry country, rows of short shrubs called aronia have reached two feet in height.
“These are “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) – not Drones” – proclaimed Brian Luck of the UW-Madison Biological Systems Engineering Department to the visitors seated on the three tractor drawn people movers.
The worms are not like the other night crawlers. They are not from around here. When held they thrash and jump. They do not live deeply, but they are very good at sucking down their food and passing it out in a gravelly residue.
Noted: “We don’t behave at all like the ideal picture of engaged citizens neutrally and dispassionately analyzing the evidence before casting their ballot,” says Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism.. “It’s not how people work.”
While earthworms are generally welcomed in soils for their ability to break down dead leaves and other organic matter into nutrients the plants can absorb, the invasive Asian jumping worm does so at an astounding rate, potentially accelerating the losses of nutrients from soils and harming native plants.
Noted: Researchers Jihae Shin from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Katherine Milkman from the University of Pennsylvania recently published a study that suggested that simply thinking about a backup plan can reduce performance on your primary goal, and ultimately hurt your chances of success.
Wisconsin has 2.94 million jobs — more than ever before — and unemployment has fallen to 4.2 percent statewide as of July, down from a peak of more than 9 percent in 2009, the report by the UW-Madison Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) said.
“Earthworms are the kind of organisms we call ecosystem engineers. They change the physical and chemical properties of the ecosystem as they dig and feed,” University of Wisconsin-Madison zoologist Monica Turner said in a statement. “But nobody really understood if these Asian worms would have the same effect as the European worms we have had here for many years.”
If you want to get your hands dirty next week you can get some food for yourself and benefit local food pantries. The UW-Madison Agricultural Research Station east of Rhinelander, along with the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association and area food pantries host a ’A Night On The Farm’.
BEIJING — On Aug. 8, cutesy graphics and laconic messages of blocked content replaced 12 years of flourishing conversation about China’s intrusive family planning policies on the home pages of Fuxian Yi’s social media accounts.
The Zika virus is not spreading from vaccines or chemicals. It’s not a part of some big scheme by the U.S. Congress or pharmaceutical companies. Yet, rumors and conspiracy theories like these fill the screens of Facebook users.
As Hurricane Hermine hit land last night, researcher Derrick Herndon could tell you step by step where it’s heading.
It’s not unusual for children to worry or be nervous at the beginning of the school year. But some students, especially girls, have sustained anxiety that can develop into a disorder, doctors say.
A research team at UW-Madison was selected to work on a project designed to reverse blindness.
The computing industry sees carbon nanotube transistors as something of a Holy Grail. They promise not just faster performance and lower power consumption than silicon, but a way to prevent the stagnation of processor technology and the death of Moore’s Law. However, their real-world speed has always lagged behind conventional technology… until now, that is. University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have created what they say are the first carbon nanotube transistors to outpace modern silicon.
Fifty years ago this November, a B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed into a hill in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, killing all nine people on board.
Jaime Martindale, librarian at UW–Madison’s Arthur H. Robinson Map Library, helped find the exact site in northern Wisconsin of the 1966 crash of an Air Force B-52 bomber.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison geology major Ethan Heyrman spent the summer creating the “Digital Docent” on a fellowship through the Morgridge Center for Public Service.
Noted: Are you squirming a little? Curiosity piqued? If you’re still reading to find out the answer to the riddle, you may exemplify a form of motivation identified in many psychology research findings, more recently a study led by Evan Polman, Ph.D., an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A new generation of satellites is sending back an unheralded amount of data, measuring air pollution, pollen, smoke and much more. But is anyone paying attention? And is the data even available? NASA recently tapped Tracey Holloway, a UW-Madison environmental studies professor, to make sense of the data.
So-called “shoot em ups” are usually deemed — bad. However, a study done in part with a UW Madison researcher shows that’s not the whole story.
Mark Louden, author of “Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language,” surely has written the definitive guide to the subject. He also has definitively answered such burning questions as: “Is it ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’ or ‘Pennsylvania German’?” and “Is ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’ (or ‘German’) dying?”
In one study at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 90 people with knee osteoarthritis received either dextrose jabs, saline jabs or exercise therapy.
A new study from UW-Madison suggests not all women should get mammograms on the same schedule.
On TV and online, sensational headlines grab our attention: “You’ll Be Shocked What Happened Next!” or “17 Secrets Cruise Ship Workers Don’t Want You to Know.” These clickbait headlines work because we want to satisfy our curiosity, so we watch, or click.
A 2015 study from the University of Wisconsin found that private prisons in Mississippi (which has one of the highest incarceration rates in the state) handed down more violations and increased inmate sentences more frequently than their state counterparts, elongating the amount of time a citizen spends in a prison bed and, in turn, jacking up profits for the facility. States may want to consider increased monitoring to prevent excessive violations to keep costs in line or having contracts that don’t just reward operators for filling beds but require them to produce outcomes such as reduced rates of recidivism,” observed Anita Mukherjee, the study’s author.
Jihae Shin of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin and Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania carried out a series of studies to investigate how forming a backup plan affected people. The research was inspired by a conversation the two had when Shin was a PhD student of Milkman’s at Wharton and was thinking about how to land a job in academia.
Imbed’s nanofilm technology was developed in a laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison managed by Nicholas Abbott, an engineering professor at the school. Abbott is one of six Imbed co-founders listed on the company website. Another is CEO Ankit Agarwal, who worked in Abbott’s lab as a postdoctoral fellow, according to UW-Madison.
Landing your dream job is a daunting prospect for anyone. So you might be forgiven for thinking that the smartest thing to do when pursuing an ambitious career is also thinking up a Plan B, in case your Plan A goes wrong. Right?
A new study being conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nurses and the School of Medicine and Public Health will look at how concussions affect student athletes when they return to the classroom.
In recent years, communities, schools and families have sought to help people be better able to avoid money troubles by promoting financial literacy and, in turn, financial capability. A new national study shows these efforts are finding success in Wisconsin.
Noted: With fortune cookies in hand, American researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University approached 100 people and offered them the choice between the plain cookie and the chocolate-dipped one, at first without the promise of a revealing fortune. In this control group, the less-healthy cookie was far more tempting — with around 80 per cent of participants picking it.
UW-Madison plans to study the effects of concussions on academic performance among 200 Madison-area high school athletes.
UW-Madison plans to study the academic effects of concussions in 200 Madison-area high school athletes.
It’s good to have backup plans in case your goals don’t work out in your career or life. However, if you spend too much effort on figuring out the details of your backup plans, it can make you less likely to really pursue your first plan.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) ranks 7th among the world’s universities in U.S. patents issued in 2015, according to a report from the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association.
UW-Madison is one of the top universities in the world when it comes to getting patents for the work done here, according to a report released Friday.
Last October, Dave O’Connor and Tom Friedrich were talking about what they had learned about the emerging Zika virus when they realized they were in a sweet spot to take on an important public health research project. The University of Wisconsin-Madison not only has a School of Medicine and Public Health and a School of Veterinary Medicine, but the campus also offers facilities to breed and infect mosquitoes and has a primate center to allow for non-human primate experiments.
Paralyzing toxins inside Botox can travel to other parts of your body, an alarming newUniversity of Wisconsin Madison study reveals.
Noted: Stratatech was founded by University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Lynn Allen-Hoffmann in 2001. After watching a surgeon operate on a farmer who had suffered third-degree burns across 95% of his body, she transformed her research into a company that would focus on developing a skin replacement created with actual human cells.
Partnering with UW-Madison, the city will use the money to gain “robust intelligence” of how such a policy could work, said Ald. Maurice Cheeks, 10th District.
Imagine a smartwatch that’s powered by the sun rather than a lithium-ion battery. Or a contact lens that taps solar energy to adjust its focus automatically to help you see better.
