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Tour de Touchdown raises funds for Children’s Hospital
When University of Wisconsin football fans want to see their team play a road game, they take a car or perhaps a plane. Not so for some Sigma Phi Epsilon members when the Badgers play at Indiana on Saturday, Nov. 8. Nine representatives of the fraternity will participate in a three-day bike ride to Bloomington, Indiana as part of its 18th Annual Tour De Touchdown to raise money for American Family Children's Hospital's Child Life programs, which involve playtime activities and other events to reduce the stress of hospitalization for patients and families.
Will the economy prompt greater use of generic drugs?
The expense of the daily dose of medicine is a bitter pill for many Americans. Yet, more than half of those taking prescription drugs are not taking advantage of an economical option: generic drugs.
Practical experience for law students garners national attention
Real-world work for students has brought honors to the Law School.
Curiosities: How do public health officials determine which strain of influenza to create vaccines for each year?
This year’s influenza vaccine in the United States contains three strains of the influenza virus. Last March, experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease…
Research on human embryonic stem cells marks 10-year milestone
Ten years ago today (Nov. 6, 1998), the publication in the journal Science of a short paper entitled "Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts" rocked biology - and the world - as the all-purpose stem cell and its possibilities were ushered into the limelight.
Recent sightings: Voting on campus
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Union Theater: Busy with an eclectic lineup
The Wisconsin Union Theater has a knack for booking some of the hottest and most interesting performers around. That talent will be obvious in the next few weeks, as the theater is especially busy with an eclectic lineup that includes world music, tap dance, Cajun folk music, and songs and ballads with medieval and contemporary influences.
Union Theater commits to ‘going green’ with new Web site
The Wisconsin Union Theater launches a new, powerful, content-rich Web site.
Study: Flies may help humans make up for lost sleep
Fruit flies have been used in many kinds of medical research for years, but the joint lab of School of Medicine and Public Health psychiatrists Chiara Cirelli and Giulio Tononi was one of the first in the world to use them as a model for human sleep.
Professor spends 25 years making ‘prejudice puzzle’
In the 1980s, when equal rights were becoming a cultural norm in America, many psychology researchers encountered people who would respond in interviews that they were not prejudiced, yet their actions would still reflect a bias. The pessimists in the field would conclude that they simply were lying. But UW–Madison psychology professor Patricia Devine saw things differently.
School for aspiring vegetable growers set for January on campus
Aspiring fresh market vegetable growers can learn the fundamentals of the business from veteran growers and other experts at the 2009 Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers, Jan. 16-18, at UW–Madison.