Tag College of Letters & Science

Psychologist to explain 3-D perception to National Geographic audience

October 7, 2011

Bas Rokers, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will illustrate how our brains process visual motion and depth during the three-part National Geographic television series "Brain Games."

Decade of effort yields diabetes susceptibility gene

October 6, 2011

Ten years of meticulous mouse breeding, screening and record-keeping have finally paid off for Alan Attie and his lab members.

Eleven professors appointed to named professorships

October 6, 2011

Eleven distinguished faculty members have received named professorships, some of the highest honors for established faculty.

Clocking the mosh pit of interstellar space

October 5, 2011

The space between the stars in the Milky Way and all other galaxies is full of dust and gas, the raw materials from which stars and planets are made.

UW–Madison researchers win White House science award

September 29, 2011

The White House has named a pair of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers and a recent alumnus to a list of the country's most promising researchers.

UW–Madison program provides reconditioned hearing aids

September 28, 2011

A hearing aid recycling program that helps provide services to low-income individuals is under way, led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Communicative Disorders.

Sociologist celebrates 50 years of teaching at UW–Madison

September 27, 2011

Longtime professor Joe Elder is being honored for his 50 years of teaching.

Excitement builds as environmental studies major opens to students

September 26, 2011

The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s new environmental studies major was mentioned in a U.S. News and World Report article that spotlighted nine “hot college majors” from around the nation. The mention of the new major came as students began signing up for the new undergraduate major in environmental studies at UW–Madison.

New faculty eager to make their mark

September 23, 2011

Some come directly from graduate school; some come from established careers at major universities. All of the new faculty members at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are excited to get to work.

Study: Advantages of single-sex schooling a myth

September 22, 2011

As Madison deals with a proposal to establish a single-sex charter school, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of psychology is one author of an article that calls the scientific case for single-sex schools "pseudoscience."

Innovation awards go to biochemist, micro-engineer at UW–Madison

September 20, 2011

Two University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have received the prestigious National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award.

UW–Madison professor named fellow of British Academy

September 19, 2011

William Courtenay, University of Wisconsin–Madison Hilldale Professor and Charles Homer Haskins Professor Emeritus of History, has been elected a corresponding fellow to the British Academy.

UW–Madison economist publishes book on U.S. financial crisis

September 19, 2011

In the summer of 2007, University of Wisconsin–Madison economist Menzie Chinn was among those who started to think something was amiss with the U.S. economy.

Special exhibitions mark opening of Chazen Museum’s new building

September 13, 2011

The Chazen Museum of Art will celebrate the opening of its new 86,000-square-foot building and its expanded role as a hub for the arts on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and a leading cultural resource for the region on Oct. 22.

Study reveals critical similarity between two types of do-it-all stem cells

September 11, 2011

Ever since human induced pluripotent stem cells were first derived in 2007, scientists have wondered whether they were functionally equivalent to embryonic stem cells, which are sourced in early stage embryos.

Two UW–Madison academic staff educators receive teaching awards

August 29, 2011

Two University of Wisconsin–Madison educators are among the recipients of the UW System's 2011 Alliant Energy Underkofler Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

Irrigation’s impacts on global carbon uptake

August 25, 2011

Globally, irrigation increases agricultural productivity by an amount roughly equivalent to the entire agricultural output of the U.S., according to a new University of Wisconsin–Madison study.

Poverty and national parks: Decade-long study finds surprising relationship

August 22, 2011

If so many poor people live around national parks in developing countries, does that mean that these parks are contributing to their poverty? Yes, according to the conventional wisdom, but no, according to a 10-year study of people living around Kibale National Park in Uganda that was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

500 years ago, yeast’s epic journey gave rise to lager beer

August 22, 2011

In the 15th century, when Europeans first began moving people and goods across the Atlantic, a microscopic stowaway somehow made its way to the caves and monasteries of Bavaria.