More Wisconsin insurers and employers are realizing the value of covering quit-smoking treatments, according to a survey by the UW-Madison Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI), which found that coverage of smoking cessation medications increased 32 percent from 2002 to 2004.
The 43rd annual Resident Course in Confectionary Technology for professionals run through June 24 on the UW-Madison campus.
A walk in Muir Woods with Glenda Denniston quickly turns into a zigzag scramble from every tree to shrub to wildflower. She snaps photos every few seconds, excitedly musing on every green thing around.
Ruthanne Chun, a clinical veterinary oncologist who joined the staff this month of the School of Veterinary Medicine, is dedicated to finding new and better ways to treat animals with cancer.
Andy Garcia-Rivera, senior consultant for research compliance at Cornell University, has been named as director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Safety.
Two of five national awards given by the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) recognizing academic achievement went to students at the School of Veterinary Medicine.
An accounting professor at the School of Business has been named one of the nation’s 100 most influential people in finance.
Reto Huber, a sleep researcher at UW-Madison, will receive the Sleep Research Society’s “Young Investigator Award” at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Denver on Tuesday, June 21.
Gov. Jim Doyle appointed Thomas Loftus and Christopher Semenas to the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents.
The Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries are calling for donations of books, CDs and records for their semiannual book sale, to be held Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 12-15.
The 56-bell Memorial Carillon on campus will be featured in a series of recitals on Sunday afternoons, from June 26-Aug. 7, and Thursday evenings, from July 7-28.
Two UW-Madison psychologists were in June elected to top positions of leadership at the American Psychological Society (APS), together filling two of the society’s 10 governance slots.
Local diners looking for distinctive food and historic ambience will soon find something new at an old favorite. Starting this month, the University Club is serving two special features as part of its lunch offerings: A new summer menu and a dining room that’s open to the public.
Luoluo Hong, dean of students at the UW-Madison, has accepted a position at Arizona State University beginning Aug. 1, Chancellor John. D. Wiley announced today (June 13).
In order for contractors to continue the paving of University Bay Drive along the east side of the new Lot 76 parking ramp, the intersection of University Bay Drive and the Lot 60 road will be closed on Tuesday, June 14. All traffic going to and from Eagle Heights and Shorewood, including campus buses, will be detoured around University Hospital.
Although it has taken just 60 years for humans to put many freshwater lakes on the eutrophication fast track, a new study shows their recovery may take a thousand years under the best of circumstances.
By devising a novel way to package the genome of a common human tumor virus – the virus that causes common warts, genital warts and that is implicated in prevalent cancers – scientists have paved the way for making the pathogen far more accessible to biomedical science.
In the time it takes to read this sentence, your fingernail will have grown one nanometer. That’s one-billionth of a meter and it represents the scale at which electronics must be built if the march toward miniaturization is to continue. Reporting in the June 3 issue of the journal Science, an international team of researchers shows how control over materials on this tiny scale can be extended to create complex patterns important in the production of nano-electronics.
Whether it’s a stretchy mozzarella or an easy-to-slice Swiss, cheesemakers aim to provide consumers with high quality, consistent products. To this end, they often try to improve texture and flavor by controlling for factors like acidity and the breakdown of milk proteins by enzymes. However, the key to better Cheddar may lie in undissolved calcium salts, according to a report by UW-Madison cheese scientists published recently in the International Dairy Journal.
UW-Madison’s corpse flower finally began its anticipated bloom today at about 12:30 p.m., and the public will have many chances to catch a glimpse – and a whiff – of the experience with extended Botany Greenhouse hours until midnight tonight.