If there is a crystal ball for the estimated 300,000 people in the world whose lives began with the help of in-vitro fertilization (IVF), it exists in the furry form of Petri, a 25-pound rhesus macaque still living at UW-Madison.
According to Joanne Cantor, UW-Madison professor of communication arts, television and movies present a constant parade of monsters of every description, “ready,” Cantor says, “to pounce on your child’s psyche at any moment.”
An enormous, subversive and particularly potent threat to your child’s well-being is probably in your living room with her or him right now.
Fannie LeMoine, a champion of academic excellence and an architect of undergraduate enhancement programs at UW-Madison died early this morning (Aug. 18) following a 20-year battle with leukemia.
Studying a descendant of the 1918 influenza virus that killed at least 20 million people worldwide, UW-Madison virologists have discovered a new molecular trick some viruses use to transform from dangerous to deadly.
Donald R. Peterson, emeritus professor of agronomy at UW-Madison, died of a heart attack Saturday, Aug. 8 in Madison. He was 73 years old.
Dairy scientist Margaret R. Dentine has received the J. L. Lush Award in Animal Breeding in recognition of her outstanding research accomplishments in dairy cattle breeding.
Twenty high school juniors and seniors in the Engineering Summer Program for minority students recently completed seven weeks of intensive study, touring, hands on training and eye-opening seminars from faculty, staff and industry.
Elton D. “Abe” Aberle, dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at UW-Madison, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Animal Science.
UW-Madison has hired a new director to oversee one of the major elements of campus life: housing.
Two studies published in recent months indicate that Lake Superior bald eagles and Wisconsin River ospreys are nesting successfully despite the presence of DDE, PCBs and dioxin in their blood.
How reliable will UW-Madison’s computing environment be when January 1, 2000, rolls around? If computer specialist Robert Irons achieves his goals, the university’s most crucial computing networks will be bug-free a full six months…
Herman Goldstein, emeritus law professor at UW-Madison, has been named to a fellowship with the New York-based Open Society Institute, part of the Soros Foundations Network.
With new living quarters completed, the colony of stumptailed monkeys owned by the UW-Madison Primate Center is headed Aug. 24 for San Antonio’s Wild Animal Orphanage.
A computer model being honed by UW-Madison scientists may help predict climate-related population booms of Aedes aegypti, a mosquito whose disease-transmitting ways already puts half the world’s population at risk.
Beginning this morning (Tuesday, Aug. 4), there will be another temporary closing of Observatory Drive between Elm Drive and Linden Drive (near Willow Creek) in order for workers to complete a steam pipe replacement project begun in late June.
A new reception and information desk at the Kohl Center will assist visitors who want to get a closer look at the athletic facility.
The first wave of more than 300 faculty and staff settled into new digs this week in UW-Madison’s almost-completed, $35.6 million Biochemistry Building, which is slated for an October grand opening.
Madison Gas and Electric Co. announced today (July 29) it will contribute more than $1 million toward a new and expanded innovation center at the UW-Madison Research Park.
University Theatre concludes its summer season with a production of Smash, an adaptation by award-winning Minneapolis playwright Jeffrey Hatcher of George Bernard Shaw’s novel An Unsocial Socialist.