Tapping the potential of using video games in the classroom, in such varied fields as physics, Revolutionary War history and environmental engineering, is the aim of a new project being led by a UW-Madison researcher and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
When Katherine Cramer Walsh picked up a coffeepot and started pouring java for the regulars in a Michigan coffee shop one morning, she began three years of intimate research that revealed how ordinary people make sense of politics through casual conversation.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $10 million to a team of researchers headed by geneticist John Doebley to study the molecular and functional diversity of the maize (corn) genome.
Shawn Francis Peters, coordinator, Odyssey Project, Integrated Liberal Studies Program; “The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights,” University Press of Kansas, 2003. In the late 1960s, members of an Amish community in New Glarus, Wis., removed their children from public schools. When the state claimed truancy and took Jonas Yoder and two other …
In an effort to secure our country from future terrorist attacks, researchers at UW-Madison are developing techniques not only to prioritize possible targets, but also to develop effective risk-reduction and resource-allocation strategies.
Probing the last genomic frontier of higher organisms, an international team of scientists has succeeded in sequencing a little understood – but critical – genetic domain in rice.
Lasers do everything these days – from removing tattoos to playing music on compact discs. Now, in the great dairy state of Wisconsin, lasers have been harnessed to an entirely new purpose: slicing cheese.
In four months, when flower buds spring up from the ground, you may wonder how plants know it’s time to bloom. This question has baffled plant biologists for years. Now, scientists at UW-Madison have an answer: a gene that functions as an alarm clock to rouse certain plants from a vegetative state in the winter to a flowering state in the spring.
A team from the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center has taken some of the first critical steps to putting stem cells to use to understand early development and maternal and fetal health.
By studying the “memory” of the respiratory system, a group of researchers from the UW-Madison has identified a key player – a protein called BDNF that’s involved in learning – responsible for the body’s ability to keep breathing properly, despite the challenges it may face.
A new $900,000 state-of-the-art mobile tissue digester promises a safe and efficient way to dispose of as many as 15,000 samples of deer tissue to be tested in the coming months by the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for the presence of chronic wasting disease.
Dane County businesses are predicting increases in revenues and profits in the coming year, according to a survey sponsored by the UW-Madison School of Business and First Business Bank.
A historical examination of amphibian deformities – frogs with extra legs growing out of the abdomen, for example – suggests that these aberrations are not a new phenomenon, but part of an emerging disease that could jeopardize the survival of these organisms.
Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries. E-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Laboratory focuses on traffic A basement room in Engineering Hall crowded with traffic signals, stop signs and computer equipment is the new Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory. Here, assistant professor David Noyce and associate professor …
As utility companies search for ways to avoid blackouts, like the one that shut down the northeastern corner of the United States last summer, one idea comes from UW-Madison.
With a slight tweak of temperature, geneticist Barry Ganetzky’s flies drop like, well, flies.
Like junkies without drugs, mice without running wheels crave what they lack, suggesting that some animals can develop an addiction for exercise, report scientists in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal Behavioral Neuroscience.
A group of 12 students at UW-Madison is looking at Wisconsin’s smart growth law, which requires every local government in the state to adopt a community plan by 2010.
UW-Madison has received a $600,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help enhance sustainable economic growth in the state’s plastics industry cluster.
Rachel Feldhay Brenner, professor of Hebrew and Semitic studies, “Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-visioning Culture,” UW Press, 2003.