Psychologist adds scientific insight to loaded label of ‘psychopath’
A University of Wisconsin-Madison psychology professor has devoted much of his career to the study of psychopathy.
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Underwater treadmill benefits patients at Vet School
Reupert, a beagle who could not walk immediately following surgery for a herniated spinal disk, was the first patient to benefit from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine’s new underwater treadmill therapy.
UW-Madison seeks input on draft LTE policy
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking input on a draft policy that would reshape the way it uses limited term employees (LTEs), Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell announced Tuesday.
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Study reveals how attention deficit drugs work
Although millions depend on medications such as Ritalin to quell symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), scientists have struggled to pinpoint how the drugs work in the brain.
Campus leaders reflect on Denice Denton’s life, career
Current and former faculty, staff and administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reflected today on the life and career of Denice D. Denton, a former faculty member here. Denton, who was chancellor of the University of California-Santa Cruz, died Saturday, victim of an apparent suicide.
Researchers study why waste in bioreactor landfills degrades in haste
Part of Craig Benson’s laboratory looks – and smells – like a landfill. It’s not that the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering is excessively messy. Rather, he’s studying bioreactor landfills, a relatively recent technology in solid-waste management that may help landfill owners make better use of their land-and of the waste itself.
UW researchers reveal insights on silicon semiconductors
“Smaller. Faster. Wildly complex.” This could easily be the motto for semiconductors-the materials that, among lots of other advances in electronics, allow cell phones to continuously shrink in size while increasing the number of their mind-boggling functions.
Teachers to embark on weeklong ‘Here at Home’ cultural tour
Twenty-six K-12 teachers from around Wisconsin will join University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members and undergraduates on an eight-day “Here at Home” cultural tour of the state June 23-30.
NewsLab’s Midwest News Index tracks local TV coverage
The Midwest News Index (MNI) has begun tracking the content of local television news in nine markets spanning five Midwestern states as part of a study that will be the most comprehensive examination ever conducted on the content of local broadcast news.
New ‘nicotine vaccine’ treatment to be tested in Madison
An innovative new approach to treating tobacco addiction — an experimental nicotine vaccine — will be tested in Madison starting this month.
Researchers find new clues to biochemistry of ‘anti-aging’
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found that sirtuins, a family of enzymes linked to a longer life span and healthier aging in humans, may orchestrate the activity of other enzymes involved in metabolic processes in the body.
E. coli work identifies new keys to regulation of bacterial gene expression
The cellular process of transcription, in which the enzyme RNA polymerase constructs chains of RNA from information contained in DNA, depends upon previously underappreciated sections of both the DNA promoter region and RNA polymerase, according to work done with the bacterium E. coli and published today (June 16) in the journal Cell by a team of bacteriologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences prepares for sweet instruction
Candy makers from around the world will gather in July at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences for two weeks of sweet instruction in the art and science of making candy.
Financial well-being varies from farm to farm
How a farm family fares financially depends not only on how much it earns from farming, but also on how much it relies on that income, according to agricultural economist Ed Jesse, writing in Status of Wisconsin Agriculture 2006.
Wisconsin dairy barns are a bit fuller this year
Some Wisconsin dairy cows may find themselves with less elbow room this year. The number of dairy cows in the state grew by 3,000 last year. This was only the second year since 1985 that Wisconsin’s dairy herd didn’t shrink (the other was 1994). From 1985-2001, Wisconsin lost an average of 33,000 cows per year.
Diet, aging study gains $7.9 million grant
A pioneering long-term study of the links between diet and aging in monkeys will continue through 2011 with the help of a new $7.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
New project lets real users gang up on software bugs
Ben Liblit offers a bold prediction regarding all of the complicated software programs churning away in your computer: They have bugs. All of them. Guaranteed. Liblit has developed a novel program that lets real software users fight back with cooperative bug detection techniques.
Chemists forge a new form of iron
An international team of chemists has discovered a new and unexpected form of iron, a finding that adds to the fundamental understanding of an element that is among the most abundant on Earth and that, in nature, is an essential catalyst for life.
Physicists persevere in quest for inexhaustible energy source
As gas prices soar and greenhouse gases continue to blanket the atmosphere, the need for a clean, safe and cheap source of energy has never seemed more pressing.