University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Researchers ask hunters to refrain from shooting deer with radio collars

UW-Madison researchers are asking south central Wisconsin deer hunters participating in the fall hunt to refrain from shooting animals with radio collars. The collared animals have been part of an intensive survey of deer behavior and movement and research results from the study promise scientists and wildlife managers better insight into how chronic wasting disease (CWD) is spreading across Wisconsin’s landscape.

Conference to set deer-vehicle crash research agenda

More than 1.5 million drivers nationwide last year collided with deer on roadways around the country, and the costs related to this growing problem total more than $1 billion each year. On Oct. 24-25, nearly 70 researchers, administrators, engineers and ecologists from 20 states, Canada and Japan will meet in Madison to present findings and set a strategic agenda for deer-vehicle crash research, funding, technology transfer and education.

Fact sheet: University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor

Built in 1960, the university’s 1 megawatt reactor is about 1/3000 the size of a commercial reactor and is used for education, research and educational outreach missions involving other universities, emergency responders, school groups and scouts. (Photo: Michael Forster Rothbart) About the reactor Completed in 1960, the University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor is a fission …

Background on the UW-Madison Nuclear Reactor

For nearly 50 years, the research reactor at UW-Madison has been operated and maintained in a consistently safe and secure manner. Public research universities are by their nature open scholarly environments where knowledge is shared, and the research reactor lab at UW-Madison is no exception.

Book Smart

Fall 1991 found Francine Hirsch entering the Ph.D. program in history at Princeton, just as unprecedented change was unfolding in the former Soviet Union. Watching the Soviet Union dissolve, Hirsch elected to study the processes surrounding its formation some 70 years earlier. She found that once in power, the Bolsheviks knew next to nothing about …