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Suspect arrested in sexual assault case; safety guidelines stressed
[Updated at 4:02 p.m., Aug. 9, 2010] A suspect has been detained in an early morning sexual assault that occurred in the downtown area. One victim has positively identified the suspect as the person who assaulted her. Police said he is a white male in his early 20s from Portage, Wis. The UW-Madison Police Department …
Research examines the price of prison for children
It comes as no surprise that many children suffer when a parent is behind bars. But as rates of incarceration grew over the past 30 years, researchers were slow to focus on the collateral damage to children.
Curiosities: Is it safe to reuse plastic knives and forks?
Single-use kitchen plastics — such things as plastic eating utensils, cups and containers from cottage cheese, sour cream, chip dip, margarine, and milk — are ubiquitous and it may seem environmentally sensible to wash and reuse them. “Upon exposure to detergents and hot water, the plastic material can begin to degrade, allowing chemicals to leach …
Parent Program to host online chat for parents of new students on Aug. 10
The UW-Madison Parent Program will host a live Web chat designed for parents of first-year students from noon-1:30 p.m. (CDT) on Tuesday, Aug. 10.
UW med student honored as Medical Research Scholar
UW-Madison biochemist Henry Lardy dies at age 92
Henry A. Lardy, a distinguished professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, passed away on Aug. 4 at the age of 92.
Native pollinators: Key to sustainable fruit production?
As a group of students ogles wild flowers on a sunny day at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, the blooming dotted mint, iron weed and black-eyed susans are certainly glorious. But these adult students are not concentrating on the flowers. Instead, they are focusing on the insects busily pollinating those blooms.
Vaccinating college students against meningitis
H1N1 flu virus used new biochemical trick to cause pandemic
The influenza virus, scientists well know, is a crafty, shape-shifting organism, constantly changing form to evade host immune systems and jump from one species, like birds, to another, mammals.
Haiti mission deepens education of family medicine resident
UW-Madison diversity programs undergo realignment
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin and Provost Paul M. Deluca Jr. have approved a number of new initiatives to strategically align and enhance diversity efforts on campus.
Recent sightings: K-9 on board
UW-Madison police officer Brent Plisch rewards his canine partner, Odin, a German shepherd, while working on a training exercise behind the University Police building on July 29, 2010. Odin is a new addition to the police staff. Photo: Bryce Richter
Celebration marks 25 years of UW Med Flight
Study details autism’s heavy toll beyond childhood on marriages
The parents of grown children with autism are more likely to divorce than couples with typically developing children, according to new data from a large longitudinal study of families of adolescents and adults with autism.
Curiosities: Is it true that cell phone use can cause health problems?
The major concern with the electromagnetic radiation from cell phones is brain cancer, but most studies find “nothing definitive,” says Bruce Thomadsen, a professor of medical physics and human oncology at UW-Madison. The issue is very difficult to study for many reasons. For example, cell phone technology changes; phone users devote a varying amount …
To future archaeologists, old technology is beautiful technology
A couple of dozen students sit on plastic tarps under the trees at the edge of the Eagle Heights Community Gardens, at the west end of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Their professor – a noted archaeologist – faces them, sitting on his own tarp, much as he would while supervising a dig in his specialty area, South Asia. Within arm’s reach, UW-Madison archaeology professor Jonathan Mark Kenoyer has some raw materials of ancient technology: boxes of arrows, stone tools, horns, hunks of obsidian and flint, cords, a chalkboard and a box of Band-Aids.
The Red Shirt makes Badgers look good and feel good
Bucky Badger has been making a name for himself on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus since he was introduced in the 1940s. And now The Red Shirt is making a name for itself as well with the new third edition.
Restoring hope: UW Hospital donates $100,000 to transplant house
Alumni welcome new UW-Madison students at summer celebrations
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni in 24 U.S. cities are greeting new UW students this summer to celebrate the start of the students’ college experience.