Two University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professors are recipients of the 2005 Cottrell Scholars Award from Research Corporation, a foundation for the advancement of science that supports research at American and Canadian universities. Helen Blackwell of chemistry and Gary Shiu of physics were among the 13 recipients of the $100,000 award this year.
The Graduate School is hosting the Summer Research Opportunities Program Conference Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, in collaboration with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.
John White, a cell biologist and biomedical engineer at UW-Madison, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the highest scientific accolade granted in the United Kingdom.
UW-Madison’s Center for South Asia, with support from the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, will take 13 Wisconsin K-12 educators to India this summer on a curriculum development mission.
A UW-Madison engineering student group has garnered international recognition for its work in helping to build basic infrastructure systems in the poor, war-torn African country of Rwanda.
Health care is something that most people working in Wisconsin’s offices, factories, stores and other places of employment don’t have to worry about. For Wisconsin farm operators, the story is different.
Wildlife managers stunned Wisconsin’s conservation community in 2002 when they announced that three whitetail deer shot near Mt. Horeb had tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. This was the first time CWD had been found in the wild east of the Mississippi River . Unchecked, the incurable brain-wasting disease could seriously disrupt Wisconsin ‘s much-loved (and hunted) deer herd.
Maximizing crop yields is fairly simple — good soil, cooperative weather, a productive hybrid with plenty of fertilizer. But we’re no longer living in a simple world. Fifty years ago, most farmers — and many university researchers — worked to maximize yields. Today, the big challenge is to minimize environmental impacts while maintaining farm profits.
Patents and business plans were far from Jiwan Palta’s mind when he joined the faculty of the College of Agricultural and Life Science’s horticulture department in 1982. Twenty-three years later, he’s well acquainted with both.
Dairy farmers wear a lot of hats during a typical day – mechanic, nutritionist, agronomist, accountant, and veterinarian. They do those jobs well, but sometimes a fresh look at a farm operation can come in handy – like when potential profits are slipping away and none of the usual tricks seem to staunch the flow.
Hundreds of UW-Madison students head to Mexico each spring. Almost all of them spend their time at beach resorts, shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of other U.S. students. They return with great suntans. UW-Madison students Chad Staudinger and Kristin Noeldner also went to Mexico. They spent their time in central Mexico, shoulder to shoulder with Mexican farm crews and hundreds of cows.
UW-Madison’s giant stinky flower is now just a click away.
The Counseling and Consultation Services (C&CS) of University Health Services (UHS) will be closed from Tuesday, June 7, to Tuesday, June 14, to accommodate the unit’s move from 905 University Ave. to offices at 115 N. Orchard St.
Remember when you got kicked out of class for chewing gum? The 43rd annual “Resident Course in Confectionary Technology” will train the next generation of professional candy-makers on June 12-24 – and chewing gum in this class is required.
By merging the latest principles of lithography and self-assembly block-copolymer techniques, researchers at UW-Madison and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland developed a hybrid approach that maximizes the benefits and minimizes the limitations of each approach to nanomanufacturing.
College of Engineering researchers have discovered a new way to make a diesel-like liquid fuel from carbohydrates commonly found in plants. “It’s a very efficient process,” says researcher George Huber. “The fuel produced contains 90 percent of the energy found in the carbohydrate and hydrogen feed. If you look at a carbohydrate source such as corn, our new process has the potential to create twice the energy as is created in using corn to make ethanol.”
On June 4, eleven area high school students will receive Certificates of Graduation for completing an intensive information technology training program called the Information Technology Academy (ITA).
Angela Byars-Winston, assistant professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology, received a $206,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a three-year study aimed at improving the retention of minority students in undergraduate life sciences and engineering programs at UW-Madison.
The growers of a rare flower, the giant but malodorous titan arum or “corpse flower,” say a large plant that blossomed four years ago is about to blossom again, and may be on a record-setting pace for cultivated titan arums.
“We are witnessing the systematic dismantling of public higher education in this state, a function of a lack of collective will among our public policy makers – governor and legislators alike – to set aside partisan differences and address the long-simmering structural problems that year after year plague public funding of social, civic and educational programs. We continue to endure band-aid ‘solutions’ to a problem that continues to expand, predictably resulting in biennial political confrontations between the governor and the Legislature over how best to trick the problem into becoming someone else’s worry a few years down the road. The road, unfortunately, is ruinous, and we’re already well down a path from which it will take years to recover.”