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Potato industry commits $5M to support UW–Madison potato and vegetable research program
Wisconsin's potato industry has made a commitment to raise $5 million over the next 10 years to support the UW–Madison's potato research program, to continue a decades-long partnership.
UW-Madison team at Hyperloop competition
After more than a year of intensive work, a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison students is ready to test its futuristic high-speed transport vehicle on SpaceX’s Hyperloop test track in California.
GOES-16 offers Earth’s first light in true color
After spending months in space, quietly orbiting the Earth, the next-generation geosynchronous satellite has broken its silence and sent back its first images, with help from UW–Madison.
Watching gene editing at work to develop precision therapies
University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers have developed methods to observe gene editing in action, and they’re putting those capabilities to work to improve genetic engineering techniques.
UniverCity Alliance: Resources and savings for Wisconsin cities
The UniverCity Alliance provides communities with resources to help develop solutions for urban growth and development issues. Monona is the first participating city; partnerships in other Wisconsin locations will follow.
UW-Madison spinoff releases new module to help women, doctors decide on mammogram
HealthDecision, LLC, a 7-year old startup with deep roots at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has just released the fourth module in a series intended to help doctors and patients share decisions.
Important new insights into the influence of poverty on child maltreatment
A new set of studies published this week and edited by researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the first to try to get at the causal mechanisms behind the economic factors that are strongly associated with child maltreatment.
‘Magic’ plus UW science equals world-champ cheese
Wisconsin cheese is at least as old as the state. The University of Wisconsin–Madison has one of the world’s great institutions of dairy food science,…
Startup harnesses stem cells for new medical uses
Stem Pharm’s custom materials support growing human cells to evaluate potential drugs or serve as replacement tissues for regenerative medicine.
Center helps make radiation treatment for cancer safer
Tracking down and eliminating errors is radiation therapy is the stock-in-trade of the Center for the Assessment of Radiological Sciences, an organization born at the UW–Madison in 2012.
Sesame Street brings UW center’s kindness curriculum to kids
Sesame Street is emphasizing kindness in its upcoming season with the help of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a research center that studies the science of well-being and how it can be nurtured.
Scholarship to prepare international students for global development leadership
The new program will help prepare young leaders to fight poverty and improve quality of life around the world.
Telling the tale of midlife in the United States
MIDUS is a national longitudinal study on aging explicitly focused on midlife, including transitions from young adulthood to midlife, and from midlife into old age.
Video: Welcome back to campus!
Lori Berquam, UW–Madison's vice provost for student life and dean of students, welcomes new and returning students back to campus.
UW organ transplant, donation programs have record year
The UW Health Transplant Program, celebrating its milestone 50th year of service in 2016, and UW Organ and Tissue Donation both experienced one of their busiest years on record.
UW-Madison astrophysics innovator Lawler wins national award
James Lawler is a professor of physics known for devising techniques to measure the chemical elements in the sun and other stars.
UW-Madison places Sigma Chi fraternity on suspension
The University of Wisconsin–Madison chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity, 221 Langdon St., has been suspended from all university activities until March 1.
Nuts and bolts business meets 21st century tech, with help from UW
Endries International has made key advances with the help of the UW E-Business Consortium, a collaborative group of businesses founded in 1998 at the UW–Madison College of Engineering.
Calorie restriction lets monkeys live long and prosper
Settling a persistent scientific controversy, a long-awaited report shows that restricting calories does indeed help rhesus monkeys live longer, healthier lives.
Trueba: Office of Compliance is a value-added campus resource
Approaching a year under its belt, UW–Madison’s new Office of Compliance is now focused on building a campuswide network of compliance partners, director Cathy Trueba says.