Category Science & Technology
Contest seeks amazing science images
Doing science can be cool, but seeing science in new ways and using new tools can be transformative. Read More
Second Science Café focuses on future fuels
The new Science Café series being held in the Town Center at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building devotes its second installment to the future of fuels. Read More
Book discussion and exhibit highlight Go Big Read selection
Even if you don't recall fallout shelters and duck-and-cover drills from the 1950s, a book discussion and exhibit will provide a window into that era and this year's Go Big Read selection. Read More
Chance finding reveals new control on blood vessels in developing brain
Zhen Huang freely admits he was not interested in blood vessels four years ago when he was studying brain development in a fetal mouse. Read More
Waisman Center: Celebrating 40 years of advancing knowledge about developmental disabilities
From her perch as director of the Waisman Center, and with an insider’s knowledge of its work to advance our understanding of developmental disability and the people it affects, Marsha Mailick sees a hopeful microcosm of the best attributes of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Despite drought, heat and higher costs, state farm income was second highest ever
Despite the challenges brought on by prolonged drought and record-breaking heat, Wisconsin farmers earned $3 billion in net farm income in 2012, the second highest amount on record. Read More
Wisconsin scientists honored for records of invention
Four University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members - Hector DeLuca, James Dahlberg, Thomas Lipo and Max Lagally - are among 101 innovators elected to the charter class of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Read More
Online engineering graduate programs ranked in top 10 by U.S. News
For the second year in a row, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top ten schools offering high-quality online graduate engineering programs. Read More
Zerhouni, former NIH director, to speak at Jan. 22 event
Elias Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health from 2002 to 2008, will be in Madison Jan. 22 at the invitation of BioForward, the association that represents Wisconsin’s bioscience industry. Read More
Morgridge Institute for Research welcomes new CEO
The Morgridge Institute for Research, a private, nonprofit biomedical research institute affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, announced today the appointment of Dr. Brad Schwartz as chief executive officer. Read More
UW–Madison anthropologist, students featured in NOVA Neandertal documentary
Perched on a corner of a table in his biological anthropology lab, John Hawks is surrounded by an array of human skulls, jaws and skeletons – and a film crew complete with lights, camera and a microphone dangling over his head. Read More
Researchers: Online science news needs careful study
A science-inclined audience and wide array of communications tools make the Internet an excellent opportunity for scientists hoping to share their research with the world. But that opportunity is fraught with unintended consequences, according to a pair of University of Wisconsin–Madison life sciences communication professors. Read More
One step closer: UW–Madison scientists help explain scarcity of anti-matter
A collaboration with major participation by physicists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has made a precise measurement of elusive, nearly massless particles, and obtained a crucial hint as to why the universe is dominated by matter, not by its close relative, anti-matter. Read More
UW-Madison’s Trisha Andrew honored for energy research
Trisha Andrew, an assistant professor of chemistry at UW–Madison, has been named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 in Energy. The list recognizes talented young innovators whose work holds potential for the energy landscape of the future. Read More