Category State & Global
Snapshot Wisconsin: Trail cams to document state’s wildlife
With the help of satellites and a global crowd-sourced database, Wisconsin’s wildlife will soon have its prime time moment.
UW-Madison part of new search for signals from the early universe
A consortium of researchers, including scientists from UW–Madison, is planning a new observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Baldwin Wisconsin Idea grant winners announced
Projects both large and small will help the university contribute knowledge and resources across the state.
Honors jazz band inspires young musicians
Every spring, the UW High School Honors Jazz Band provides top-flight teaching to young instrumentalists throughout southern Wisconsin.
Biomass blues: Breaking up not so hard to do
A UW spinoff is advancing an audacious effort to convert biomass into three profitable streams of industrial chemicals.
Town of Dunn award highlights UW role in local land ethic
A talk with two of Wisconsin's most prominent wetland biologists occurs in a wetland located just south of Madison.
Cultivate Health initiative helps the school garden movement grow
Educational garden programs improve not just the health and well-being of children, but the choices they make regarding fruits and vegetables.
Rare ice data collected by early ‘citizen scientists’ confirms warming since Industrial Revolution
Data reveals increasing trends toward later ice cover formation and earlier spring breakup.
Antenna design turns entire vehicles into broadcasting equipment
UW–Madison engineers are working to increase the effective size of antennas by turning the military vehicles that carry them into transmitters.
Scientists describe new model to enhance Zika virus research
The model will allow researchers to better understand how the virus causes disease and aid in the development of vaccines.
Well-traveled journalist to visit campus as Science Writer in Residence
Alexandra "Alex" Witze, a contributing correspondent for Nature and Science News magazines, will be on campus for a week beginning April 18.
Students and their siblings share campus life at Sibs Day
There's spilled milk on the table, but no one is crying. Not only do people look quite happy, they’re experimenting with it.
Wisconsin Energy Institute adds spark to Crawford County classroom
Lisa Andresen is teaching science for the first time this year with the help of two WEI educator institutes she attended.
Donna Shalala keynote speaker for UW–Madison Global Summit for Women
The former UW–Madison chancellor will consider the status of women and well-being in Wisconsin and the world.
UW receives UN chair for global work on gender, well-being and peace
The chair will be the first in North America to interrelate the three areas through researchers, practitioners and advocates for knowledge exchange and collaboration.
Experience is the best teacher in creating a better STEM faculty
The Delta Program has helped to prepare hundreds of UW–Madison graduate students for faculty positions in STEM fields.
No snow, no hares: Climate change pushes emblematic species north
UW researchers report that the range of the snowshoe hare in Wisconsin is creeping north by about five and a half miles per decade.
Anthony Shadid Journalism Ethics Award goes to Associated Press team
The award from UW–Madison's Center for Journalism Ethics recognizes AP reporting that resulted in the freeing of 2,000 slave laborers in Southeast Asia.
NAS panel takes stock of U.S. science literacy
Professors Dominique Brossard and Noah Feinstein are exploring the association between knowledge of science and public perception of and support for science.
Study: Highly specialized high school athletes more likely to have certain injuries
Until now, little research has been done on sports specialization in high school athletes — and what that might mean for their health.