Some 600 or 700 million years ago, before animal life made a sudden evolutionary shift and diverged into nearly all the major animal divisions we know from fossils, primitive animals were inventing the genes that would make it all possible.
Chronic high blood pressure can be linked to sleep apnea, researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medical School have found.
“I called a meeting this morning with Primate Center officials to obtain information about all exceptions that were made to the June 15, 1989 policy between the Primate Center and the Henry Vilas Park Zoo. That policy states that the Primate Center’s monkeys housed at the zoo will not be used in studies involving invasive …
A $4.8 million equipment grant from Intel Corp. to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will help expand the arc of ‘Condor,’ a UW-inspired program that turns idle desktop computers into powerful research tools.
The women’s soccer team has a Web site where they are posting a daily digital diary and photo album of their 13-day training and cultural trip to Europe.
UW-Madison is easing the telecommunications challenge for people who cannot use a standard telephone – and its efforts have earned it a state award.
High-growth companies that expect they will need financing in the near future can receive expert assistance at one-day workshops being presented throughout the state in August by The Enterprise Center of the School of Business. The four workshops will help rapidly growing businesses assess their financial needs and focus on successfully identifying and obtaining the …
The head of library services at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, Larry Jacobsen, has won the 1997 American Society of Primatologists Distinguished Service Award.
After saying it delayed the decision as long as it could, the UW System Board of Regents approved fall semester tuition rates at its July 25 meeting.
Mark Luker, director of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) and chief information officer at UW-Madison, has accepted a position as vice president of Educom, a nonprofit consortium of 600 colleges and universities.
Starting Aug. 1, parking meter rates on campus will increase to 75 cents per hour, the same as downtown rates in the City of Madison.
The 13th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning will be held Aug. 6-8 at the Holiday Inn West in Madison, drawing 1,000 people from around the country.
More than 50 low-income and minority kids from Madison received a fun, fast-paced introduction to UW-Madison last week, through a new program that mixes academics with athletics.
Rajit Gadh wants to unshackle design engineers from the mouse and the keyboard, giving them an approach to computer design as natural as chatting with a colleague.
James E. Dahlberg, the UW-Madison Hilldale professor of biomolecular chemistry, has been elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology.
Peter Eisinger, Hawkins Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and former director of the Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs at UW-Madison, has accepted a teaching position at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich.
The School of Business has one of the nation’s top 25 ‘Techno MBA programs’ according to an assessment of graduate business school Information Systems programs in Computerworld.
The School of Business has one of the nation’s top 25 ‘Techno MBA programs’ according to an assessment of graduate business school Information Systems programs in Computerworld.
Kenneth B. Davis Jr., James E. and Ruth B. Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law, has been named interim dean of the Law School.
Stephen Robinson, professor of industrial engineering and computer sciences, has won a top international award for mathematical programmers.