The producer of “Brokeback Mountain” found inspiration for the film’s cast in a popular 1996 book by Wisconsin writer Will Fellows, which chronicled the lives of gay men in Midwest farm families.
A professor of history at the UW-Madison has authored a book available this month that explores evidence of a 50-year legacy of U.S. government-sponsored forms of psychological torture.
The old wooden cigar box was left on the museum doorstep. Inside was a small collection of minerals, a piece of petrified wood, a prehistoric stone knife, and some loose antique labels. But the box also harbored a puzzle. Where did the collection come from? To whom did the minerals belong?
Weather lovers have a new tool at hand to obtain weather information on demand through a PDA-friendly weather Web service created by Russ Dengel at UW-Madison.
A perfect storm of fiscal and political trends is rapidly forcing the privatization of America’s public universities, according to a recently-released book authored by UW System President Emeritus Katharine Lyall and Kathleen Sell, the UW System’s former chief budget officer.
Ants that tend and harvest gardens of fungus have a secret weapon against the parasites that invade their crops: antibiotic-producing bacteria that the insects harbor on their bodies,UW-Madison researchers report in today’s issue of Science.
Singers, dancers, designers, technicians and managers can perform before Midwest theatre producers at the 30th annual Statewide Theatre Auditions, Feb. 10-11 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union. The program is produced by the UW-Madison department of liberal studies and the arts.
The UW-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center on Nanostructured Interfaces and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication are offering an intensive two-day course and fellowships for journalists interested in exploring the science and engineering of nanotechnology.
Long before the finishing touches are made to the UW-Madison’s Microbial Sciences Building, a small but significant bit of science has emerged from the hole where the $120 million, 330,000 square-foot structure is emerging.
Scientists have long known that chronic deforestation can spawn a jungle of environmental woes. But now, a study confirms that vanishing forests inflict more than environmental damage: they may cause human diseases, too.
Scientists working at the WiCell Research Institute, a private laboratory affiliated with UW-Madison, have developed a precisely defined stem cell culture system free of animal cells and used it to derived two new human embryonic stem cell lines.
With an equal rate of incidence and mortality-the number of those who get the disease and those who die from it-Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is a brain cancer death sentence. Scientists at UW-Madison are working on a new radiotherapy technique for fighting GBM with the element gadolinium — an approach that might lead to less invasive treatments that offer greater quality of life for patients.
The university community gets reminded – and reminded again – of how difficult and challenging 2005 was on many fronts. But the year also delivered some tremendous gains where it matters most and is recognized the least – in the classrooms and laboratories.
Five-year contracts with incoming head football coach Bret Bielema and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez have been finalized, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley announced today.
Come January, UW-Madison Professor Ann Hoyt will once more head to the nation of Ghana in Sub-Saharan Africa, to continue her work of documenting consumer cooperatives around the globe.
Two UW-Madison projects to study advanced materials and fuels for current and future nuclear reactors received roughly $1 million this month under the Department of Energy Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI).
A team of UW-Madison scientists suggests that a branch-by-branch account of animal relationships over a vast expanse of time is difficult to reconstruct because early animal evolution occurred in bunches.
An experienced higher education administrator has been named associate dean for executive education by the UW-Madison School of Business.
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A team of Canadian and American scientists working at the UW-Madison Synchrotron Radiation Center reports the first-ever finding of elevated levels of creatine — the newly discovered agent of Alzheimer’s disease – in brain tissue.