Patrick Sims’ brain is crowded with the lives and chatter of imaginary people. He’s been listening to them since they moved in some 12 years ago when he visited America’s Black Holocaust Museum on Milwaukee’s north side.
Using a class of drugs being clinically tested to treat other kinds of cancer, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health found that the drugs were the first to stop the latent form of EBV infection from causing disease.
For expectant mothers, catching even a mild case of the flu could stunt brain development in their newborns, according to a new study conducted in rhesus macaques.
The benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation policies are likely to outweigh the near-term costs of implementing those policies, according to a new study.
From insulin resistance to urban planning policy, a new project funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program will apply the widest possible lens to barriers to health and physical activity among Latino youth in Milwaukee.
Jan. 21, 2010 TO: Editors, news directors FROM: Stacy Forster and Jenny Price, University Communications, 608-262-0930 RE: TIP/CAMPAIGN FINANCE EXPERTS In a major decision today (Jan. 21), the U.S. Supreme Court peeled away limits on corporate spending in federal campaigns, allowing corporations and labor unions to openly support candidates in presidential and congressional elections. The …
Many anglers in Wisconsin are unaware of laws designed to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species and protect the state’s lakes and rivers, according to a recent statewide poll.
Chancellor Biddy Martin has asked the university community support relief efforts for victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti.
Two flu shot clinics will be held on Friday, Jan. 22, for students and employees.
Charles Darwin let more than two decades pass between his return to England aboard HMS Beagle and the publication of “Origin of the Species.”
Shanica Adkins, the late University of Wisconsin-Madison senior killed in a Dec. 31 auto accident, is being remembered as a kind and passionate young woman who was dedicated to helping others.
Although many industry observers see nonprofit investigative news organizations as the future, the emerging journalism model brings a host of new ethical issues.
As the spring semester gets underway, tap into your creative side and enter the “On, Wisconsin!” video competition, commemorating the song’s 100th anniversary. Hum it, strum it, play it, or say it — the contest, which runs through mid-April, invites students, alumni and Wisconsin fans around the world to submit videos of themselves or others …
Most humans are blissfully unaware that we owe our healthful existence to trillions of microbes that make their home in the nooks and crannies of the human body, primarily the gut.
Times were hard for farmers across the country in 2009, but they were harder than average for Wisconsin farmers.
Wisconsin’s two public doctoral research universities will join forces in the first campuswide program to promote collaborative research projects involving faculty at both universities.
“Wisconsin bears in zoos may not be in an environment as extreme as something like a tropical zoo,” says Kurt Sladky, assistant professor of and section head of the special species health service in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Even in Alaska and northern Canada, the temperature can get up …
Tens of thousands are feared dead after the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti this week. These UW-Madison experts can provide context and analysis for interested media.