The University of Wisconsin Center for Nonprofits will study the role nonprofit/community-based health and social service organizations played in reducing disparities in infant mortality. A $50,000 award provided through the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research was announced this week and will make the research effort possible.
When it comes to sustainable business practices, Serigraph has done everything from finding less environmentally hazardous ink solvents to charging employees for a cup when getting coffee from the vending machine.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty member has received an award from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to increase the well-being of children and families by advancing evidence-based policymaking.
Inspired and led by freshwater scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researchers eager to understand global ecosystems from end to end are now monitoring a series of buoys in lakes on every continent except Africa. Each buoy carries instruments to measure fundamental data on the weather above the water and the temperature and chemistry below it.
Borrowing computing power from idle sources will help geneticists sidestep the multimillion-dollar cost of reconstituting the flood of data produced by next-generation genome-sequencing machines.
Using novel screens to sort through libraries of drugs already approved for use in human patients, a team of Wisconsin researchers has identified several compounds that could be used to treat a rare and deadly neurological disorder.
The University of Wisconsin- Madison Police Department is currently investigating three separate incidents in which cash was stolen from either women’s purses or a man’s wallet while they were left unattended in non-public areas. The three thefts were all reported in the afternoon on Monday, July 12 from the following locations: the Genetics Building, an …
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics ranked in the top 50 US hospitals in seven medical specialties, according to the 2010 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals” guide.
Year after year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has produced top numbers of Peace Corps members, working to extend understanding around the world. But recent graduates also continue to make a measurable impact on educational equity here in the United States.
A group of elite Chinese student-athletes and coaches is expected to arrive in Madison on Friday, July 23, marking the start of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Chinese Champions Program.
Victoria F. Nourse, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, was nominated Wednesday (July 14) by President Obama to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Nourse teaches courses in legislation, statutory interpretation, constitutional history, and criminal law. Nourse has written more than two dozen articles on Congress, statutory …
Dietram Scheufele, professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the winner of the 2010 Krieghbaum Under-40 Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Robert J. Lavigna, vice president for research at the Partnership for Public Service, has been named the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s human resources director.
This summer, there’s no cooler place to be than in the lab for two dozen scientifically minded middle-school students.
Two new studies, involving a newly identified gene, show that Alzheimer’s disease could be diagnosed as much as 20 years before symptoms develop.
A review is under way for College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) Dean Molly Jahn.