The globalization of higher education and research has become a high-profile issue in the United States and Europe. Higher-education systems in the two regions are changing rapidly and, in the process, generating both enhanced linkages and heightened competition.
Through the efforts of Aloys Habimana, a group more than 25 students received a first-hand view of how genocide occurs, lessons that can be learned from tragedy and how justice can play a role in healing.
Up to 60 percent of “ecosystem services” that support life on earth, such as food, water and climate regulation, are crumbling at an unsustainable rate, members of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) project report here today (March 30)
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Biologist David Gilroy hopes this month to begin detecting signals from a legendary fish species, one that has captured the hearts of scores of anglers. The scientist is on the trail of the majestic taimen, the largest trout species in the world.
Credit union marketers no longer view offering online products and services as means of differentiating themselves from competitors, but as a necessity for doing business, according to a recently-released research report on online marketing trends by the UW E-Business Consortium.
Karl Mahlburg, a young mathematician, has solved a crucial chunk of a puzzle that has haunted number theorists since the math legend Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his revolutionary notions into a tattered notebook.
Taking a new approach to the painstaking assembly of nanometer-sized machines, a team of scientists at UW-Madison has successfully used single bacterial cells to make tiny bio-electronic circuits.
A squirrel-sized primate with white hair dancing out of its ears, the common marmoset finally may dispel tired stereotypes about promiscuous fathers in the animal kingdom.
Aiming to thwart persistent bacterial infections and better control group behaviors of certain microorganisms, scientists are creating artificial chemicals that infiltrate and sabotage bacterial “mobs.”
David Noyce hopes to help drivers predict the future – by warning them of weather-related driving conditions ahead.
Liberals who gleaned most of their news from television in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks increased their support for expanded police powers, bringing them closer in line with the opinions of conservatives, a study by a UW-Madison researcher shows.
Writing in the March 8 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, groups led by Medical School Professor James Dahlberg and his collaborator Wayne Tam, at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, report that elevated cellular levels of a particular microRNA, known as miR-155, may be diagnostic of some human cancers, notably lymphomas.
The Complete Idiots’ Guide to Simple Home Improvement (Penguin-Putnam, 2005) David Tenenbaum, staff writer, The Why Files science education Web site at UW-Madison How did those dining room windows get to be so seedy looking? It can’t be all that hard to replace them, can it? “Most people would buy whole new windows, but there …
The willingness to call out in distress to get help from others appears to be regulated by two brain systems with very different responsibilities, according to a study by researchers at UW-Madison.
Findings by researchers at the Medical School support the validity of a new, non-invasive skin cholesterol test to help identify patients at increased risk for heart disease.
Brain tests at UW-Madison suggest that autistic children shy from eye contact because they perceive even the most familiar face as an uncomfortable threat. The work deepens understanding of an autistic brain’s function and may one day inform new treatment approaches and augment how teachers interact with their autistic students.
In an effort to pin down the elusive nature and qualities of one of nature’s most intriguing subatomic particles – the neutrino – scientists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, in Illinois will soon send a beam of the ghostlike particles coursing through subterranean Wisconsin to a detector deep in a mine in northern Minnesota.
“Parameter Estimation and Inverse Problems,” Cliff Thurber, professor of geology and geophysics (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005)
Climate change will not only bring about a warmer world, it is also very likely to set the stage for an unhealthier one.