When off-the-rack messages about the dangers of drinking and driving were falling flat, officials in some rural Wisconsin communities gambled on a more unconventional tack advocated by a retired UW-Madison business professor.
By developing a computer model that mimics how children learn to read, two researchers from UW-Madison and Stanford University track the development of a skilled reader, ultimately showing that phonics gives readers an edge, especially early on.
A new technology developed by a research group headed by Nimmi Ramanujam, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at UW-Madison, will be a “third eye” during breast biopsies and can increase the chance for an accurate clinical diagnosis of breast cancer.
As people remake the world’s landscapes, cutting forests, draining wetlands, building roads and dams, and pushing the margins of cities ever outward, infectious diseases are gaining new toeholds, cropping up in new places and new hosts, and posing an ever-increasing risk to human and animal health. A team of experts warns that widespread changes in the global landscape are providing new opportunities for dozens of infectious diseases.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s national champion FutureTruck will be featured alongside the first hybrid sport utility vehicle available to consumers at the UW-Madison College of Engineering Wednesday, July 7.
Doctors are failing to identify smoking status in about half of the adolescent patients they have seen, according to a UW-Madison study. Physicians addressed tobacco use even less with younger teens, missing an opportunity to intervene with those experimenting with tobacco use.
Thanks to a landmark study involving the UW Health Sports Medicine Center, physicians and coaches can evaluate the effectiveness of methods widely used to measure body composition and predict the minimum weight an athlete should maintain.
Maps are tools to show you where you are going, but they can also show you where you came from. That principle drives the work of Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales, who study ancient maps, oral traditions and the movement of domesticated crops to learn more about the origins of native people in the Americas.
In an effort to increase the number of UW-Madison researchers working with human embryonic stem cells, WiCell has agreed to waive the $300 fee for taking its two-day stem cell training course.
Charged with creating a new device for a senior design course in mechanical engineering, a team of students immediately knew their goal.
Farm wives, conservationists, small-town entrepreneurs, inner-city single mothers, corporate executives, faculty, students: The experiences of women from all walks of life in Wisconsin are being collected by a group of undergraduates.
Wisconsin’s share of government jobs is not out of proportion to other states, challenging the idea that the state is a high tax-and-spend state, a new study by researchers at the UW-Madison and UW-Oshkosh reveals.
Tramping parcel after parcel of Wisconsin’s north woods, botany researcher David Rogers is finding less and more.
Brian Rowan, professor of educational studies and former associate dean for research at the University of Michigan, has been selected as director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research in the School of Education.
Papa Demba Sarr has been named director of International Student Services (ISS).
Patients with head and neck cancer appear to survive nearly twice as long after receiving a new drug known as Erbitux (scientific name: cetuximab) in conjunction with radiation therapy compared with patients treated solely with radiation therapy.
David Williamson Shaffer, an assistant professor of learning science, has won a $585,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how professions can serve as models for student learning.
A group of researchers from the Medical School, the Waisman Center and Mirus Bio Corporation reports a critical advance relating to one of the most fundamental and challenging problems of gene therapy: how to safely and effectively get therapeutic DNA inside cells.
The Wisconsin RFID Conference, scheduled for Thursday, June 17, in Waukesha, will teach business and technology leaders how RFID technologies are poised to revolutionize inventory tracking through the supply chain. The conference will be held at the Country Inn Conference Center.
CALS teams up with the USDA Forest Service to create maps of the wildland / urban interface.