Category Science & Technology
Ecological restoration on lakeshore working on historic ground
The ongoing ecological restoration along the shoreline of the University of Wisconsin–Madison has reached a hillside near Eagle Heights that was once the summer home to hundreds of graduate students. The goal in the Tent Colony Woods, which is cut by gullies and invaded by exotic trees and shrubs, is to create a sustainable and ecologically diverse tract of sloping lakeshore forest.
UW School of Veterinary Medicine advances spinal cord injury treatments
A full recovery from a spinal cord injury? Don't hold your breath.
Before Rhythm and Booms, learn the science of fireworks
Before the first rocket lights up the night sky on Saturday (July 3), stake out a seat at the Memorial Union Terrace at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and learn about the science behind Rhythm and Booms.
Gene regulating human brain development identified
With more than 100 billion neurons and billions of other specialized cells, the human brain is a marvel of nature. It is the organ that makes people unique.
Confronting toxic blue-green algae in Madison lakes
Harmful algal blooms, once considered mainly a problem in salt water, have been appearing with increasing severity in the Madison lakes, and a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers has geared up to understand the when, where and why of these dangerous "blooms."
Young UW–Madison freshwater scientists noted by Great Lakes group
Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Limnology won major awards at the recent meeting of the International Association for Great Lakes Research in Toronto.
UW eye researchers key to major study of diabetic eye disease
University of Wisconsin–Madison ophthalmologists analyzed thousands of eye photographs as part of a large study that says reducing blood lipid levels slows the progression of diabetic retinopathy, the most common diabetic eye problem and a major cause of blindness worldwide.
Stirring the ocean: Calculating the role of the oceans’ swimmers
The world's oceans, we know, are constantly shaken and stirred by the winds and the tides and other physical forces of nature.
TIP/High school students get hands-on with CSI science
Students from five Madison high schools are getting a first-hand view of cutting-edge forensic science and its high-tech tools this week on the campus of…
Changing sounds are key to understanding speech
On the printed page, c*ns*n*nts m*tt*r m*r* th*n v*w*ls.
Incidence of malaria jumps when Amazon forests are cut
Establishing a firm link between environmental change and human disease has always been an iffy proposition. Now, however, a team of scientists from UW–Madison, writing in the online issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, presents the most enumerated case to date linking increased incidence of malaria to land-use practices in the Amazon.
New technology promises to help drug makers go green
Production of a single kilogram of pharmaceuticals often yields hundreds of kilograms of chemical waste. Now, new chemistry developed by scientists at UW, combined with technology developed by researchers from Eli Lilly and Company, promises to dramatically reduce that waste stream for a key step in the pharmaceutical production process.
QRM center gives Wisconsin company a bright future
Five years and a series of joint projects later, an ongoing partnership between the UW–Madison Center for Quick Response Manufacturing and a Milwaukee company is having significant results.
UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee award Intercampus Research Grants
Eight hybrid teams of faculty from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been awarded the first batch of Intercampus Research Incentive grants, awards designed to foster inter-institutional collaboration.
University administration’s statement regarding Circuit Court ruling on submarine rescue studies
The university is reviewing Dane County Circuit Court Judge Amy Smith's decision to defer animal cruelty charges involving longstanding submarine rescue studies to a special prosecutor.
UW-Madison researcher named Hartwell Investigator
Dr. De-Ann Pillers, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, recently received a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award from The Hartwell Foundation, based in Memphis, Tenn.
Two young UW–Madison faculty win Shaw Scientist Awards
Two University of Wisconsin–Madison assistant professors will receive the 2010 Shaw Scientist Awards, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation announced today.
Powerful genome barcoding system reveals large-scale variation in human DNA
Genetic abnormalities are most often discussed in terms of differences so miniscule they are actually called "snips" - changes in a single unit along the 3 billion that make up the entire string of human DNA.
UW emeritus professor named acting director of NSF
Cora Marrett, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been named acting director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Marrett assumes her new duties June 1.