New test can curb losses of potatoes in storage
UW-Madison researcher Zahi K. Atallah has developed a test that helps farmers identify in their fields potato crops that will not store as long as others, resulting in fewer crop losses.
Category: State & Global
Health toll of climate change seen as ethical crisis
The public health costs of global climate change are likely to be the greatest in those parts of the world that have contributed least to the problem, posing a significant ethical dilemma for the developed world, according to a new study.
Project aims to reduce risks of falls among the elderly
Worries about money and losing our health – not to mention fear of death – can all rush in as we age. But with one-third of elderly Americans suffering falls every year, the simple fear of falling again is what often ends up changing lives: Keeping people from going out, isolating them from friends and accelerating their physical decline.
Speaker to discuss environmental justice in Latino communities
Devon Pena, a scholar-activist who has studied social and environmental issues in Mexican-American communities of the West, will give a free public lecture Monday, Nov. 12, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Panel to highlight global perspectives on education
A group of doctoral students will offer global perspectives on education in “Schooling Around the World: Sights, Sounds, Stories and Travels,” a special program sponsored by the Department of Educational Policy Studies (EPS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday, Nov. 14, to mark International Education Week.
Panel highlights global perspectives on education
A group of doctoral students will offer global perspectives on education in “Schooling Around the World: Sights, Sounds, Stories and Travels,” a program sponsored by the Department of Educational Policy Studies on Wednesday, Nov. 14, to mark International Education Week.
Wildfire drives carbon levels in northern forests
Far removed from streams of gas-thirsty cars and pollution-belching factories lies another key player in global climate change. Circling the northern hemisphere, the conifer-dominated boreal forests – one of the largest ecosystems on earth – act as a vast natural regulator of atmospheric carbon levels.
Researchers examine world’s potential to produce biodiesel
What do the countries of Thailand, Uruguay and Ghana have in common? They all could become leading producers of the emerging renewable fuel known as biodiesel, says a study from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
UW–Madison a top producer of U.S. Fulbright students
University of Wisconsin-Madison students fared well in landing international fellowships with The Fulbright Program, which announced its 2007-2008 fellows list in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education.
Grant from Thai Embassy boosts Thai studies
The Royal Thai Embassy has granted University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies nearly $100,000 to support the university’s Thai studies program.
Is a strike on Iran inevitable? Iran expert to speak on campus
News reports from Washington, D.C. and Tehran differ on the reasons why the U.S. may seek to attack Iran in the coming months. Neither country disputes the fact, however, that Iran is next on the list of targets in President Bush’s “War on Terror.”
Iran expert to speak in Madison
UW-Madison will host one of the country’s experts on Iran at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, for the speech “Is a U.S. Military Strike on Iran Inevitable?”
Researchers examine world’s potential to produce biodiesel
What do the countries of Thailand, Uruguay and Ghana have in common? They all could become leading producers of the emerging renewable fuel known as biodiesel, says a study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Festival to showcase environmental films in November
From travelogue-expedition films to the experimental avant-garde and the worlds of Walt Disney and Jacques Cousteau, cinema has been central to how we think about nature and the environment.
Online program helps working nurses earn bachelors’ degrees
The BSN@Home program — a joint initiative of five UW System schools, including UW-Madison — provides nurses with associate degress the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree without disrupting work or family life.
Two deans’ reviews begin
Reviews are under way for School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Daryl Buss and Division of International Studies Dean Gilles Bousquet.
Washington Post editor Chandrasekaran to give annual Nafziger lecture
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of “Imperial Life in the Emerald City,” the best-selling account of the botched U.S. effort to rebuild Iraq, will deliver the annual Ralph O. and Monona H. Nafziger Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 17.
Smithies’ work at UW-Madison underpinned Nobel Prize in Medicine
The gene targeting work for which North Carolina biologist Oliver Smithies was recognized for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine has a distinct Wisconsin flavor.
Alumni discuss importance of languages in careers
On Monday, Oct. 15, UW-Madison’s Language Institute will host three alumni for a panel discussion titled “Language for Life: Languages and International Development.”
UW historian named one of Smithsonian’s top young innovators
Jeremi Suri, a University of Wisconsin-Madison historian whose work is reshaping views of how political power is forged in a globally connected age, has been named one of Smithsonian Magazine’s “37 Under 36: America’s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences.”