BP America Inc., the largest oil and gas producer in the United States and one of the largest investors in alternative energy, is making a gift of a solar-powered all-terrain electric vehicle to the Lakeshore Nature Preserve at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
An electric snowmobile built by student members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering Clean Snowmobile Team is now in Greenland, on loan to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the summer to support climate research projects at the Greenland Environmental Observatory (GEO Summit Camp).
An innovative program for collecting and disposing of unused medication was chosen as this year’s winner of the Lloyd D. Gladfelter Award for government efficiency and effectiveness.
We all know people who are tense and nervous and can’t relax. They may have been wired differently since childhood.
Between 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 1, and 8 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 11, the Integrated Student Information System (ISIS) will be unavailable to campus as it enters the final implementation phase of a major upgrade, which started in late 2007.
It’s Friday night, and the movie’s already spinning in the DVD player. You run to the kitchen to grab a gallon of ice cream and a spoon, but you find the tub nearly empty.
A UW-Madison biochemistry professor will stay at the university to join its Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center.
The UW-Madison Summer Choir will perform “I Hear America Singing” at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 11.
Amiri Baraka, the award-winning incendiary poet, playwright and founder of the Black Arts Movement, will give a special reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday, July 7, to open the third annual Spoken Word and Hip-Hop Educator’s Institute.
Students and community members take part in a Wisconsin Union Lakeside Cinema event featuring a screening of the 1971 movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” at the Memorial Union Terrace on June 23, 2008. Lakeside Cinema is a summer-long program that features contemporary and classic cinema favorites each Monday evening. See this summer’s schedule. …
“It’s true. There’s always one in every group,” says UW-Madison entomology professor and mosquito expert Susan Paskewitz. Photo: Jeff Miller That’s not to say mosquitoes target certain people because they’re tastier or have higher quality blood. Rather, it’s all about how easy you are to locate. “The main things are how you smell and how …
University of Wisconsin-Madison political science researchers are taking a key role in a federally funded project to improve the state’s ability to collect accurate election returns.
The UW-Madison Dance Marathon organization is looking for interested students to serve on its leadership council, responsible for planning and organizing the event, which is scheduled to take place beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27, and will last 16 hours.
The University of Wisconsin finished 18th in the 2007-2008 U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup, marking the 13th time in the 15-year history of the Directors’ Cup that the Badgers have finished among the top 25.
An ambitious startup company in Wausau is working on a project to develop tires that can withstand extreme punishment, even those meted out in military combat zones.
There has been much publicity lately about changes in the agricultural industry, accompanied by speculation that there will be fewer large-animal veterinarians.
The following is a list of public events currently scheduled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural Research Stations, the Kemp Biological Station and the O.J. Noer turfgrass facility.
Some microorganisms prefer the breaststroke while swimming. Others move along by essentially twisting their tail. How populations of bacteria and other microorganisms swim is more than just a matter of style, according to Mike Graham, University of Wisconsin-Madison Harvey D. Spangler Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
In a paper publishing online this week in Biological Psychiatry, UW-Madison psychology researchers report that Ritalin fine-tunes the functioning of neurons in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) – a brain region involved in attention, decision-making and impulse control – while having few effects outside it.
Following approximately 15 inches of rainfall during the first two weeks of June, algae collects on the surface water near the south shoreline of Lake Mendota. A closeup of the algae. Photo: Bryce Richter