Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Agriculture will hear from farmers, processors, corporate leaders and academics about competition and regulatory issues in the dairy industry at a workshop this week hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Some 2,000 miles separate Madison and Hollywood’s star-making machine, and it’s a 1,000-mile journey to New York’s Great White Way.
UW-Madison Vice Provost for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Ron Kraemer has accepted a position as vice president and CIO at the University of Notre Dame, effective Aug. 15.
In a first-of-its kind study, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison has been ranked in the nation’s top 20 medical schools for fulfilling its social mission.
Dale Burke, assistant chief of the UW Police Department (UWPD) at UW-Madison, will be retiring on July 1, 2010, after nearly 31 years with the department.
Establishing a firm link between environmental change and human disease has always been an iffy proposition. Now, however, a team of scientists from UW-Madison, writing in the online issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, presents the most enumerated case to date linking increased incidence of malaria to land-use practices in the Amazon.
Production of a single kilogram of pharmaceuticals often yields hundreds of kilograms of chemical waste. Now, new chemistry developed by scientists at UW, combined with technology developed by researchers from Eli Lilly and Company, promises to dramatically reduce that waste stream for a key step in the pharmaceutical production process.
A team of UW-Madison students took third place in the American Advertising Federation’s National Student Advertising Competition June 11 in Orlando, Fla.
The UW Police Department’s Badger Watch program is being honored as the nation’s 2010 Neighborhood Watch Program by the National Sheriffs’ Association.
In the 1990s, scientists began to wonder why birds in the Southwest ate the hot-tasting fruits of a wild plant called the “bird pepper.” Rodents had not been seen to dine on the pepper’s fiery fruits. Scientists fed bird seed to two species of birds, and then fed the same food coated with capsaicin, the …
Five years and a series of joint projects later, an ongoing partnership between the UW-Madison Center for Quick Response Manufacturing and a Milwaukee company is having significant results.
The UW Law School’s Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic has served up advice and assistance to more than 40 clients since it was launched last fall.
A research team at the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) at UW-Madison has developed a powerful new tool that promises to unlock the secrets of biomass degradation, a critical step in the development of cost-effective cellulosic biofuels.
Four scholars at UW-Madison working in the humanities have received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
UW-Madison is an international leader in foreign languages, offering instruction in more than 80 modern and ancient languages, from Akan-Twi to Zulu. The campus also houses 11 area-studies centers, the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages and the National African Language Resource Center.
A bustling construction site is on pace to become a vibrant new hub of campus activity as the new Union South at the University of Wisconsin–Madison takes shape. The $94.8 million new facility will provide dining, recreation, meeting and lodging spaces, replacing a faded building that was underused and awkwardly designed. The project is funded …