The following events for the week of Nov. 19, 2006 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may be of interest to the general public and the media. All events are free and the public is welcome, except where noted.
Wisconsin ecologists have ventured into remote parts of Iceland to explore a startling phenomenon in which trillions of gnat-like bugs periodically rise up to form hovering swarms so thick they resemble waves of morning fog.
The new discovery of a lethal gene may explain why pregnancy rates in dairy cattle have dropped sharply in recent years, a UW–Madison researcher says.
Wisconsin ecologists have ventured into remote parts of Iceland to explore a startling phenomenon in which trillions of gnat-like bugs periodically rise up to form hovering swarms so thick they resemble waves of morning fog.
With Wisconsin’s general election just around the corner, on Tuesday, Nov. 7, Wisconsin Week asked the three candidates for governor — Jim Doyle, Nelson Eisman and Mark Green — a series of five questions related to UW–Madison and higher education. Here are their responses.
As an historian, Susan Lee Johnson finds few subjects of American history more irresistible than the California Gold Rush, a movement that unfolded so fast and furiously that it must seem like watching history get shot from a cannon.
While millions of young people use the Internet to build expansive social networks, most political campaigns never manage to take the training wheels off the technology, using it mainly for tightly controlled, one-way communication. Communication professor Michael Xenos is studying the disconnect between new media and old politics.
Cynthia Enloe, one of America’s pre-eminent theorists of gender and the military, and Research Professor of Women’s Studies and International Development at Clark University, will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, Nov. 9.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison program that has helped Wisconsin apple growers reduce pesticide use without sacrificing fruit quality has a new name and a broader mission.
A team of researchers led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher have identified the role of a protein that is important in stimulating the cells of the immune system, whose role is to take quick and effective action when agents of disease reinvade the body.
In response to increased environmental concerns and, more recently, skyrocketing oil prices, a University of Wisconsin-Madison research team is working to perfect bio-based plastics that hold up well in use, yet break down quickly in a landfill.
University Health Services (UHS) recently hired two new doctors, Brent Nielsen and Jacob Prunuske. Jonathan Zarov of UHS sat down with the two to hear their thoughts on working in college health. An edited transcript of their recent conversation follows.
Though in clinical use for decades, a small, sweet-tasting compound is revealing a startling new face as a potential cure for epilepsy.
The 18th Annual Colloquium on Aging, to take place at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison on Wednesday, Oct. 18, will feature the work of a number of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists.
The pressing issues of an increasingly strained global environment require a broad societal response – including the systematic assignment of monetary value to the services nature provides such as water purification and climate regulation, according to an assessment of the findings of a study of the health of the world’s ecosystems.
An assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is working to teach how important the family is to Hispanic and Latino parents in caring for adult children with disabilities.
In the month following the traditional Labor Day kickoff of the 2006 election campaign season, television stations in nine Midwest markets devoted an average of 36 seconds to election coverage during the typical 30-minute local news broadcast, a new analysis conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows.
In an effort to foster public understanding regarding reports of misconduct by members of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band, Chancellor John D. Wiley and band director Mike Leckrone today disclosed the nature of some of the reported behavior.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental engineer and her graduate student are among researchers on a multi-institutional team who have mapped the metagenome of elusive phosphorous-eating organisms key to thousands of wastewater treatment processes in the developed world.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have put forward an intriguing theory that introduces a whole new dimension to the debate on what might be causing stronger and more frequent storms.