Parents leave the hospital with a newborn who looks perfectly healthy. But a short time later, their doctor calls to say that the baby has had an abnormal screening-test result and needs follow-up testing.
The bright lights, big crowds and bustle that make the holidays fun for most of us often do just the opposite for people with Alzheimer’s and those who care for them.
Some of the most common minerals in biology, including those in bones and shells, have a mysterious structure: Their crystals are positioned in the same orientation, making them behave as one giant crystal, even though they do not look like a faceted crystal.
As another year on this thriving campus wraps up — and a new decade is about to begin — University Communications photographers have chosen a sampling of images from 2009.
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering mechanics students took home $4,500 in prizes from the second annual EMA Senior Design Competition, held Dec. 14 on the UW-Madison campus.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced that 10 members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty have been elected fellows of the organization.
TO: Editors, news directorsFROM: Stacy Forster, University Communications, 608-262-0930 RE: TIP/END OF THE DECADE EXPERTS On Jan. 1, 2000, CD players were still the music accessory of choice, George Bush was governor of Texas, Barack Obama was a member of the Illinois state senate, Osama bin Laden had yet to become a household name and …
TO: Editors, news directorsFROM: Chris Barncard, University Communications, 608-890-0465, barncard@wisc.edu RE: TIP/DEER HUNTING AND MANAGEMENT HEARING EXPERTS AVAILABLE As Wisconsin’s 2009 gun deer-hunting season passed with a nearly 30 percent decline in the deer kill, it was the barbs that were flying as hunters and legislators took aim at the regulators who manage the state’s …
A documentary highlighting the powerful history, rich culture and impact of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s fight song, “On, Wisconsin!” premieres on the Big Ten Network at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 21.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a $10.1 million, five-year grant to an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineering professor Xiaochun Li.
A fundamental rule of wildlife ecology says that diverse habitats foster greater biodiversity: The Amazon has far more species than Greenland. But how do habitat and biodiversity relate in a state like Wisconsin, with its range of farms, forests, wetlands, cities, suburbs and highways?
Urbanization is one of the most important trends of the 21st century, yet we don’t have a good idea of how much land cities occupy.
UW-Madison students, faculty and staff can help prevent burglaries and thefts during finals and the upcoming winter break by using common sense and taking simple security precautions.
An entomology research team from UW-Madison aims to squash a grub that plagues as many as one-third of Wisconsin’s approximately 1,100 Christmas tree farms.
With the excitement of a snow day behind them, University of Wisconsin-Madison students returned to the libraries to write the semester’s last research papers and study for final exams, which begin Thursday, Dec. 17.
For a generation of students raised and nurtured at the computer keyboard, it seems like a no-brainer that computer-assisted learning would have a prominent role in the college science classroom.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have achieved a nanoscale laser structure they anticipate will produce semiconductor lasers in the next two years that are more than twice as efficient as current continuous-wave lasers emitting in the mid-infrared.