A program through the Department of Communicative Disorders and the Sertoma Club of Madison turns used hearing aids into credits to purchase new hearing aids for qualified recipients.
The Morgridge Institute for Research and the Graduate School are sponsoring a two-day symposium open to faculty and academic staff interested in exploring the interfaces connecting the mathematic, computational and biological sciences, and the major impact of these evolving interactions on research, education, training and discovery.
Local jazz singer Jan Wheaton, with the Jan Wheaton Quintet, will perform in a fundraising event to benefit UW-Madison campus child care centers.
Mathematics teaching assistant Sam Eckels works with students from his second-semester calculus class during a “Sidewalk Math” session held May 13, just outside Van Vleck Hall. The study session was offered to help students prepare for upcoming final exams. Photo: Bryce Richter
It started off pretty simply. Danielle McIntosh, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior graduating in biological systems engineering, was intrigued by a friend who brought his hula hoop over to her apartment. She and her roommates would try out practicing with the hoop, and she found herself thinking about it even when her friend wasn’t around.
Photos by Jeff Miller. James Groce competes in the 400-meter dash during the Wisconsin Twilight, a two-day track and field event held May 9-10 at the McClimon Memorial Track. Groce won the 400 meters in 47.34 seconds and was also a member of the winning 400-meter relay. Read about the men’s and women’s performances at …
Three crew members of UW Health Med Flight lost their lives late Saturday when the helicopter crashed a few miles outside of La Crosse.
John and Betty Moore
On Friday, May 9, at 5:37 p.m., the UW-Madison Police Dispatch Center received a call from a student at Chadbourne Hall, 420 N. Park St. reporting a disturbance in the cafeteria. Police officers arrived within several minutes and learned that the suspects had left the area. During the course of the investigation, seven individuals were …
Invitrogen Corp. and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation announced today (May 8) that they have signed a license for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) patents for the development of research tools.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and FluGen have signed license agreements for a technology that has the potential to significantly improve the way influenza vaccines are manufactured.
Timothy Kamp, a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has been awarded the inaugural Schuster Prize for excellence in advancing cardiovascular medicine at the school.
After selling the first company he founded for more than $1 million, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering alum Chad Sorenson wasn’t sure what to do next.
Viruses are masters of deception, duping their host’s cells into helping them grow and spread. A new study has found that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can mimic a common regulatory protein to hijack normal cell growth machinery, disrupting a cell’s primary anti-cancer mechanism.
As vice president and chief financial officer of Plexus, a global electronics manufacturing corporation in Neenah, Wis., Ginger Jones was skeptical. She wasn’t sure college students could come up with sound, practical advice her business could use.
As France’s parliament considers a landmark bill that would outlaw media images glamorizing the extremely thin, psychology researchers are reporting some of the most definitive findings yet on how these images affect women.
Molly Jahn, dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, serves Babcock ice cream to faculty and staff during an Employee Appreciation Ice Cream Social held on Bascom Hill on May 8. Jahn was one of several campus administrators and program directors volunteering their scooping services. The event often coincides with May 7 state …
As gas prices edge toward $4 a gallon, commuting costs are taking a bigger and bigger chunk out of the family budget. But it’s not just gas; you need to add in the costs to buy, insure and maintain a car and then park it on campus.