Using lab-grown human neurons, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an effective assay for detecting botulinum neurotoxin, the agent widely used to cosmetically smooth the wrinkles of age and, increasingly, for an array of medical disorders ranging from muscle spasticity to loss of bladder control.
The spring semester will be bursting with arts events across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus during the university’s Year of the Wisconsin Idea.
UW–Madison staff and faculty will have multiple opportunities to offer their perspectives on the campus’ human resources system in several formats this month.
Maurice Meisner, Harvey Goldberg Professor Emeritus of History, passed away at home in Madison on Monday, Jan. 23. He was 80.
Mark Castillo pilots a state van pool van with an even hand.
Two new appointments to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Nonprofits were announced this week by School of Human Ecology Dean Robin A. Douthitt.
UW-Madison, after carefully listening to students, is adjusting the way it administers placement testing, beginning this year.
They’ve become the subject of myriad YouTube “how-to” videos. Entire department of transportation websites explain how to navigate them. And, they elicit more than a little anxiety and confusion in the minds of drivers entering, circling and exiting them.
In his new book, “Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor,” UW-Madison English professor Rob Nixon asks: how can environmental writers craft emotionally involving stories from disasters that are slow-moving and attritional, rather than explosive and spectacular?
Steve Ackerman, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, has been named Interim Associate Dean for the Physical Sciences in the UW-Madison Graduate School. He assumed his new post Jan. 13.
Last fall, the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison bid successfully for the same National Institutes of Health core grant that the late Harry Waisman first won 45 years ago.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor has received the Order of Service Merit (red stripes medal) from the president of South Korea for his contributions to the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project, a multi-billion-dollar river restoration project in that country.
Wendy Crone, a professor of engineering physics and interim associate dean of physical sciences in the UW-Madison Graduate School, has been named the school’s associate dean for graduate education.
Jim Steele, 59, associate registrar for student records, died Tuesday, Jan. 24, after a lengthy illness.
With photo identification now mandatory for participation in Wisconsin elections, faculty and staff are encouraged to inform students about the UW–Madison voter identification card, available for free at the Wiscard office in Union South.
The author of an upcoming Nature paper about H5N1 argues in a Nature Comment article today that research into deadly pathogenic viruses must continue if pandemics are to be prevented.
On Jan. 24, 2012, patrons collect their made-to-order food from a pickup counter at the newly renovated Der Rathskeller in the Memorial Union. The renovation includes a revitalized layout of the ordering and payment area, plus a new menu with German influences. Photo: Jeff Miller
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have renamed their newest Earth-observing satellite after Verner Suomi, a longtime UW-Madison professor who often is called the father of satellite meteorology.
Nominations are being accepted for the 2012 Classified Employee Recognition Awards (CERA).
Hundreds of students transfer to UW-Madison in the spring semester, and thousands more do it in the fall.