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Two receive awards for research to benefit children
Two University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have received three-year Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards to support research into fungal disease and therapy for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Volunteers needed as commencement marshals
All faculty and staff members – academic or classified – are welcome and encouraged to serve as marshals at this spring’s main commencement ceremony, held on Saturday, May 16 at Camp Randall Stadium. Interested persons may register by completing this online form by Friday, April 10.
Great run, sad end
“Make ‘em believe” was the slogan that kept Badgers fans going all season, even into the final seconds of a hard-fought NCAA championship that ended with a 68-63 loss to Duke.
Global Health Symposium spans disciplines, generations and the world
From avian influenza to empowering women in agriculture to improving access to pain medicines in Africa, Global Health Symposium 2015: Advancing Health in an Interconnected World gives the UW community a place to explore the complex determinants of health in Wisconsin and across the world.
Buckets, Bucky and brains: A look back, a Duke link
History and more about the NCAA championships
Advancing engineering for a better society: Los Alamos leader named UW–Madison Grainger Institute director
In June, Dan Thoma will become the first director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Funded in 2014 with $25 million from The Grainger Foundation of Lake Forest, Illinois, the institute is an incubator for transdisciplinary research in the UW–Madison College of Engineering.
Controlled prairie burns to take place in Lakeshore Nature Preserve
No cause for alarm: If citizens see smoke on the west end of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus this weekend, it's part of nature's plan.
Final Four brings together research powerhouses
The university communities of UW–Madison, Duke, Kentucky and Michigan State may have basketball foremost on their minds this weekend, but year-round those minds are performing extraordinary research.
Plowing prairies for grains: Biofuel crops replace grasslands nationwide
Clearing grasslands to make way for biofuels may seem counterproductive, but University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers show in a study today (April 2, 2015) that crops, including the corn and soy commonly used for biofuels, expanded onto 7 million acres of new land in the U.S. over a recent four-year period, replacing millions of acres of grasslands.
Team tracks the uncertain climate footprint of wetlands
When is a wetland a sink and when is a wetland a source?
Shadid Ethics Award honors Chicago Tribune staff
Three Chicago Tribune reporters and a photographer are recipients of the 2015 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics. Their revelations about serious abuses in Illinois' juvenile justice system brought about reforms and led to the resignation of the director of the state Department of Children and Family Services.
Q&A with Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education Marsha Mailick
Marsha Mailick talks about the challenges and opportunities the research enterprise faces during this time of transition and budgetary uncertainty.
Model helps Wisconsin city planners prepare to weather large storms
How society should respond to climate change may be a global-scale debate, but University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers know that preparing for climate change's impact on weather is a profoundly local problem.
Mailick to Lead UW–Madison Research, Graduate Education
Marsha Mailick, the former long-time director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Waisman Center, was named today by Chancellor Rebecca Blank as the university's first vice chancellor for research and graduate education.
A way with words
Thanks to Nigel Hayes, stenographers – and interesting words – are having a moment.
For soybean growers, hidden cost of climate change tops $11 billion
Even during a good year, soybean farmers nationwide are, in essence, taking a loss. That's because changes in weather patterns have been eating into their profits and taking quite a bite: $11 billion over the past 20 years.
Ready, aim, fire! Cancer-targeting mechanism underlies promising UW–Madison spinoff
For all their lethality, cancer cells don't look much different from healthy cells, a simple fact that causes endless pain and suffering. Finding cancer cells that have spread and threaten to grow into metastatic tumors is often a life-and-death matter.