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.
Letter to the editor: UW’s Dave O’Connor and Tom Friedrich are to be congratulated on their swift response to the Zika virus, a horrifying emerging disease.
A new study out of UW Madison shows the amount of noise pollution in your home could hinder your little ones academically.
Smokers may worry that trying to quit will alienate them from other smokers, said coauthor Megan E. Piper of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But in practice, people who quit actually gain nonsmoking friends, she told Reuters Health by phone.
Smokers may worry that trying to quit will alienate them from other smokers, said coauthor Megan E. Piper of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But in practice, people who quit actually gain nonsmoking friends, she told Reuters Health by phone.
The IceCube experiment, a particle detector at the South Pole that uses the ice itself to measure neutrinos, has shown that (hints of an elusive fourth type of neutrino) were probably just a mirage. After a years of analysis, researchers haven’t found anything. “We don’t see this—unfortunately, actually,” says principal investigator Francis Halzen. “I wish we had.”
Scientists at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica who have been searching for mysterious particles known as sterile neutrinos have come up empty.
On the frigid central plain of Antarctica, where the sun rises only once a year, a set of 5,160 light sensors encased in a cubic kilometer of crystal clear ice sits poised to register the flash of passing quantum particles.
UW-Madison researchers working with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in the Antarctic looked for the particle known as the sterile neutrino but have determined it doesn’t exist.
An observatory buried deep in Antarctic ice has reported the results of its search for an hypothesized particle called the ‘sterile neutrino’: a total blank.
A finding of nothing doesn’t often get a run in research reporting, but an almost-certain conclusion that the hypothesised “sterile neutrino” doesn’t exist is an important one in the world of particle physics.
After conducting a diligent search for a hypothetical subatomic particle — the “sterile neutrino” — that would have filled in another blank of the Standard Model of particle physics, scientists at a particle detector in the South Pole are now almost certain that such a particle does not exist.
But samples from Pine Lake’s dead fish led to a scientific discovery in Goldberg’s laboratory at UW-Madison.
New research suggests that having a Plan B is not necessarily a good idea. In the study “How backup plans can harm goal pursuit: The unexpected downside of being prepared for failure,” Jihae Shin and Katherine Milkman, researchers at the University of Wisconsin Madison and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, respectively, found that backup plans diminish the desire to achieve the primary goal in the first place.
Scientists say they’ve discovered a new virus during an investigation into a largemouth bass die-off in Forest County’s Pine Lake.
Cellectar, a publicly-traded company, was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert.
When it comes to saving energy, three-toed sloths are on a league of their own—panda bears, koalas and opossums can’t beat them—according to a research paper by Jonathan Pauli and Zachariah Peery, of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “We really expected them to have low metabolic rates, but we found them to have tremendously low energy needs—much lower than their cousins, the two-toed sloths, and the lowest documented for any mammal,” Pauli says.
A team of researchers has come up with high-performance, micro-scale solar cells that outshine comparable devices by making sideways swipes. University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers’ miniature solar panels could power myriad personal devices – wearable medical sensors, smartwatches, even autofocusing contact lenses.
When people in Wisconsin think of the dangers that farmworkers face, they might envision extreme heat, malfunctioning machinery, or even unruly livestock. But they might be unaware of another serious threat: Hearing loss.
You never know what’s around the corner, but you also know never to say never — because in four years or so, you just might know exactly what’s hiding there.
Roelli credits John Jaeggi of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research with helping him develop and perfect the Little Mountain cheese.
Marty remembers looking outside the window of his room, seeing cars go by and thinking to himself, “How do you get in your car and just go, you know, just go about your day?”
Noted: It’s dangerous to give guards authority over someone’s length of sentence, especially in a privatized prison. A study out of the University of Wisconsin Business School last summer found that guards in private prisons write twice as many disciplinary reports than their public prison counterparts because these bad report cards cause the parole board to deny inmates who have documented history of behavioral problems. The end result is that the inmate serves more time. And earns more money for her jailer. Prisons have less to do with courtrooms than they do casinos – the house always wins.
Toddlers who spend a lot of time in a noisy environment may have a harder time learning to speak, a small study suggests. That’s because background noise – especially the kind that comes from voices on the television or radio – can make it tough for young children to learn new words, said study co-author Brianna McMillan of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Based on research by UW-Madison scientists Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann and licensed exclusively to FluGen by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the vaccine deletes a key gene in the influenza virus so the virus can infect the body’s cells and replicate once but cannot spread through the body and produce the flu infection.
Research shows lakes with no shoreline development generally produce bigger, faster-growing fish. Lakes with heavily developed shorelines, full of homes, lawns, beaches, and docks, have the opposite effect. Researchers at the UW-Madison Trout Lake Station in Boulder Junction want to know more about that dynamic.
U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl will donate $1.5 million to support faculty research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that addresses difficult public policy and governance issues, the university announced Wednesday.
Dr. Richie Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been meditating for more than 40 years, but it was the Dalai Lama himself who convinced him to dedicate his life to researching the effects of meditation on the brain.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation needs to explain to the public that it is not the patent troll it was made out to be in news reports about a whopping award in a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple last year, said WARF’s new managing director Erik Iverson.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will be providing about $5 million for 14 research and infrastructure projects at UW-Madison, the university announced on Tuesday.
A professor of Quantitative Genetics and Genomics in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has earned some national recognition. Dr. Guilherme J. M. Rosa was named the recipient of the 2016 American Society of Animal Science’s Rockefeller Prentice Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics during the group’s annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Having a job that requires complex social interactions — like mentoring and negotiating — might protect the brain from developing symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease by building up what researchers call cognitive reserves.
Serotonin is best known for eliciting feelings of happiness in the human brain, but scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have learned the hormone plays a role in milk production in dairy cows — and may have health implications for breastfeeding women.
Brain-challenging jobs — especially ones focused on people — may help shield a person’s mind against the ravages of age-related dementia, a new study finds. People who work in jobs that task the intellect are better able to withstand the effects of brain lesions commonly associated with Alzheimer’s disease, report researchers from the University of Wisconsin’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
Visitors are welcome to stop by and see one of the top research facilities in Wisconsin August 5.
A UW-Madison astrophysicist has been named winner of a prestigious award for her research in astrophysical plasma.
Toddlers make their fair share of noise. But they also have a lot of noise to contend with — a television blaring, siblings squabbling, a car radio blasting, grownups talking.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison set out to explain the sloth lifestyle and what makes it so special. Among other herbivores, and even other vertebrates, the sloth stands out and the research provides some insight into that specialty.
The environments children are in, including how much and the kind of stimulation they are exposed to, influence what and how they learn. Children need to zero in on information that’s relevant and ignore what isn’t. A new study has found that background noise makes it more difficult for toddlers to learn new words. The study also found that providing additional language cues may help young children overcome the effects of noisy environments. Conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the research appears in the journal Child Development.
When a sheriff’s deputy found a van parked at the edge of Sparkling Lake in Vilas County at 2 a.m. on July 7, chances are he expected to find something nefarious afoot. Instead, he got a crash course in fresh water ecology from graduate student Alex Linz.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have used DNA sequencing to unravel an 85-year-old mystery, pinpointing the genetic cause for Mauriac syndrome, a rare condition that affects children with poorly controlled Type 1 diabetes.
A melanoma researcher at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center is moving forward on a novel way to treat malignant melanoma.
Background noise from the radio or TV can make it harder for toddlers to learn new words, research suggests. Psychologist Brianna McMillan, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, said: “Learning words is an important skill that provides a foundation for children’s ability to achieve academically.”
Noted: The researchers, the University of Wisconsin’s Jihae Shin and the University of Pennsylvania’s Katherine Milkman, broke down the main finding of a study they’d recently published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes: Just thinking about a Plan B can diminish the amount of effort you’ll put into your Plan A, making it less likely that you’ll actually achieve whatever you set out to do.
The eagle known as Old Abe was a part of Civil War history. He was said to have instilled fear in enemy armies and was even wounded in battle on his travels with Wisconsin’s 8th infnatry regiment. But stories calling the eagle’s gender into question persisted through the decades. Today, we find out about the results of new genetic testing that reveal Old Abe was a boy, after all.
The obsession was born over Chinese food with a Tibetan monk.Dr. Charles Raison was working as an emergency room psychiatrist in Los Angeles, where he’d fallen in with a monk-turned-psychologist. Every Monday, they would have dinner at Panda Inn and talk Tibet.
The University of Wisconsin’s Hancock Agricultural Research Station is celebrating 100 years of research, vegetables, farmer partnerships, education and innovation.
