Tag: research

We all do it. We make judgments about others based upon their clothes, hair style, body shape, piercings or other manifestations of appearance.

UW-Madison is one of only thirteen U.S. colleges and universities selected by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for its prestigious Scholars Program.

There is more to beauty than meets the stranger’s eye, according to results from three studies examining the influence of non-physical traits on people’s perception of physical attractiveness. The studies show that people perceive physical appeal differently when they look at those they know versus strangers.

Almost 90 percent of college students who were daily smokers and 50 percent of occasional smokers were still smoking four years later, according to a study conducted at UW-Madison and just published in the current issue of Health Psychology.

John Rudolph’s “Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education,” Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Thanks in part to dynamite and the gold-seeking Mexican fishermen who detonated it in the late 1970s, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old shell mound.

Taking into account enrollment changes and rising costs, per-pupil spending on K-12 education declined during the past two years in 35 states that educate three-quarters of the nation’s public school students, a study by a researcher at UW-Madison shows.

The work promises to greatly amplify the number of cells that survive their enforced hibernation, that remain undifferentiated and that are more readily available for research. What’s more, with more survivors, genetic variability becomes less of an issue.

To assist policy-makers and social scientists, a project on the UW-Madison campus is providing difficult-to-obtain information and research on the impact of some campaign finance laws.

To assist policy-makers and social scientists, a campus project is providing difficult-to-obtain information and research on the impact of some campaign finance laws.

Without detailed insight into the vast and diverse world of public health, even the most intrepid researcher looking for insightful data would soon be lost in a maze of agencies, government bodies and disparate databases. But an emerging information technology tool known as the Public Health Information Network, formerly the Health Alert Network, promises university researchers, public health officials, emergency responders and others unprecedented access to the trove of public health data now being collected and made available online, some of it for the first time.

The Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory’s new facility provides services never dreamed of by the state legislators who, in 1913, mandated a soil testing facility for Wisconsin farmers.

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, William F. Vilas Research Professor, anthropology, “Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History,” University of Chicago Press, 2002. Near the end of World War II, almost 1,000 highly educated student soldiers “volunteered” to serve as pilots in Japan’s tokkotai (kamikaze) operations, even though Japan was losing the war. …

Working to help cell-phone users take advantage of the limitless minutes now included in many calling plans, UW-Madison engineers have developed a device that can significantly improve the quality of the transmitted signal on even less battery power.

An answer to the long-standing riddle of whether the Earth’s ice ages occurred simultaneously in both the Southern and Northern hemispheres is emerging from the glacial deposits found in the high desert east of the Andes.

The discovery of the willowy microscopic crystals may open a broad new window to human understanding of biomineralization, the same process that produces bone, teeth and shell, some of nature’s toughest and most intriguing biological materials.

As the United States and other countries move toward fuel cells as a source of power, researchers at UW-Madison are moving toward a better understanding of how to improve the function of these power sources.