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Wisconsin scientists find a way to make human collagen in the lab
A team of scientists at UW–Madison reports the discovery of a method for making human collagen in the lab, opening the door to broader medical applications. Read More
Concentrating solar collector earns first place in creativity competition
An inexpensive, modular solar-energy technology that could be used to heat water and generate electricity won $12,500 and took first place in both the Schoofs Prize for Creativity and Tong Prototype Prize competitions during Innovation Days, held Feb. 9 and 10 by the University of Wisconsin–Madison's College of Engineering. Read More
UW-Madison releases 2006 Status of Wisconsin Agriculture report
The 2006 edition of the Status of Wisconsin Agriculture, which is available online this week, is produced by agricultural economists and other faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural Life Sciences. Read More
Study explains unexpected conductivity of nanoscale silicon
When graduate student Pengpeng Zhang successfully imaged a piece of silicon just 10 nanometers-or a millionth of a centimeter-in thickness, she and her UW–Madison co-researchers were puzzled. According to established thinking, the feat should be impossible because her microscopy method required samples that conduct electricity. Read More
World’s fastest image processor aids search for elusive form of matter
How do scientists drill down to the fundamental units of nature and sample conditions that existed right after the Big Bang some 15 billion years ago Read More
Engineering ‘Innovation Days’ set for Feb. 9-10
Throughout the fall semester, 52 UW–Madison undergraduates have learned to make their most creative ideas come to life. Read More
Like their pregnant mates, primate dads-to-be pack on pounds
Confirming what many have long suspected, scientists have found that male monkeys of two different species get heavier when their mates are pregnant. Read More
Business professor launches corporate reporting study
Lori Holder-Webb, an assistant professor of accounting and information systems at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business, is part of a four-person research team recently awarded a grant to research corporate reporting. Read More
Evidence unearthed of earliest African slaves in New World
Digging in a colonial era graveyard in one of the oldest European cities in Mexico, archaeologists have found what they believe are the oldest remains of slaves brought from Africa to the New World. The remains date between the late-16th century and the mid-17th century, not long after Columbus first set foot in the Americas. Read More
Employee Matters
This is the second in a series of three articles on retirement. This article will focus on health insurance and how sick- leave credits and Medicare come into play. Read More
Study: ‘Resume padding’ prevalent in college-bound students who volunteer
Although the rates of volunteerism among high schoolers appear to be healthy, a study by a UW–Madison researcher suggests that "resume-padding" - not simple altruism - may be the driving force. Read More
From 2D blueprint, material assembles into novel 3D nanostructures
An international team of scientists affiliated with the UW–Madison Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center has coaxed a self-assembling material into forming never-before-seen, three-dimensional nanoscale structures, with potential applications ranging from catalysis and chemical separation to semiconductor manufacturing. Read More
Fresh approaches needed to activist-academic alliances
Blending research with grassroots advocacy sounds like a smart idea. But in practice, says a sociologist at UW–Madison, partnerships between the worlds of academia and activism often end up lopsided. Read More
Canine cancer vaccine shows early promise
It wasn't publicized, other than by word of mouth, and still the UW–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine was overwhelmed with requests. Since 1998, the school's oncology department has been producing an anti-cancer vaccine for dogs diagnosed with melanoma. Read More
Survey analyzes Wisconsin, Upper Peninsula logging sector
Private woodland owners provide the majority of timber harvested in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and most owners choose to selectively cut, rather than clearcut, their woodlands, according to a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Michigan State University. Read More
Scientist brings international connections to UW stem cell work
Growing up in the Brazilian state of Goiana, Gabriela Cezar was deep in cattle country. And as far back as she can remember, she wanted to be a veterinarian. “My father was head of the national beef cattle research center in Brazil, so I was always exposed to animals,”said Cezar, who earned her veterinary medicine degree in her native country and has additional graduate degrees from Scotland’s University of Edinburgh and UW–Madison. But Cezar’s career path took a turn toward stem cell research early on. Read More
Study: Mentors make or break student success
Students in science often joke that finding a good research advisor can be almost as tricky as finding the perfect spouse. UW–Madison has a project in place that helps maximize the student-mentor relationship — especially in the sciences, where such partnerships can make or break careers. Read More
UW scientists unravel mystery of how flu viruses replicate
With the help of a long-studied flu virus, an electron microscope and a novel idea of how the virus aligns segments of RNA as it prepares to make virions, the particles a virus creates and sends forth to infect cells, one major puzzle of flu virus replication has been resolved. Read More