Category Science & Technology
UW-Madison biochemist wins Shaw Scientist Award
Ophelia Venturelli's research may lead to the ability to engineer behaviors among beneficial microbes in the gut ecosystem, which could be used to enhance their resilience to invasion by pathogens or unintended impairment from antibiotics. Read More
UW-Madison spinoff highlighted as innovation success story in national report
“American-Made Innovation Sparking Economic Growth” identifies 102 companies that trace their roots to federally funded university research. Read More
Patient’s cells used to replicate dire developmental condition
“This is the first demonstration of using a patient’s cells to model a blood-brain barrier defect,” explains Eric Shusta, a UW–Madison professor of chemical and biological engineering and a senior author of the new study published today. Read More
As computing moves to cloud, UW–Madison spinoff offers faster, cleaner chip for data centers
A UW–Madison professor has formed a startup to advance a streamlined chip design that will run up to 10 times faster than those now inside data centers. Read More
UW program aims to update buildings so dairy cows can be happy
Wisconsin farmers consult with the UW's Nigel Cook, an expert in scientific treatment of dairy cows — which, Cook says, is sensible, humane and profitable all at once. Read More
South African cave yields yet more fossils of a newfound relative
The discovery of the new Homo naledi fossils, representing the remains of at least three juvenile and adult specimens, includes a “wonderfully complete skull,” says UW–Madison anthropologist John Hawks. Read More
New center brings together biologists, engineers to improve crops
The phenotyping center at the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center aims to develop new ways to measure plants and address novel questions about what factors influence crop performance. Read More
Study measures air pollution increase attributable to air conditioning
The study shows the electricity production associated with air conditioning causes emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide to increase by hundreds to thousands of metric tons. Read More
From test tube to plate, UW–Madison program keeps potatoes clean
The Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program, a 104-year-old program run by UW–Madison, is dedicated to supplying Wisconsin farmers with quality, disease-free tubers. Read More
Geologists use radioactive clock to document longest earthquake record
UW-Madison geoscience department researchers have peered back in time more than 400,000 years to illuminate a record of earthquakes along the Loma Blanca fault in New Mexico. Read More
New book gives personal account of pioneering Yellowstone research
In a new book, “A Scientist in Yellowstone National Park”, UW–Madison Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology Tom Brock has written a personal account of life as a field researcher. Read More
Brain boot camp: New technology aims to accelerate learning
UW-Madison researchers are part of an effort to develop a low-cost, easy-to-use system that aims to accelerate learning by stimulating nerves in the head and neck to boost neural activity in the brain. Read More
Oberhauser named director of Arboretum
Internationally known monarch butterfly researcher Karen Oberhauser, a University of Minnesota conservation biologist, is returning to UW–Madison, where she studied as an undergraduate. Oberhauser has accepted the position of UW–Madison Arboretum director. Read More
Advances breathe new life into Madison infection-detection company
A UW–Madison spinoff called Isomark is working to introduce a new infection-detection technology into hospital intensive care units. Read More
Speakers are needed to connect with Wisconsinites at science festival
The Wisconsin Science Festival and UW–Madison Speakers Bureau are looking for passionate, creative faculty, staff and graduate student speakers to visit communities throughout Wisconsin. Read More
Aldo Leopold’s words once again broadcast to the state
In celebration of Earth Day, one of his successors will read portions of conservationist and former UW professor Aldo Leopold’s radio addresses that originally aired more than 80 years ago. Read More
Natural experiment, dogged investigation, yield clue to devastating neurological disease
After a 29-year quest, Ian Duncan, a professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has finally pinpointed the cause of a serious neurologic disease in a colony of rats. Read More
Marriage made in heaven: Digital inhaler add-on offers slick aid to asthma care
Propeller Health makes an add-on device for inhalers that communicates with a smartphone that records the use of routine preventative medicines and “rescue” medications intended to open constricted airways. Read More