Tommy G. Thompson, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, presented a $7 million federal grant Sept. 12 to Dean Philip Farrell of the UW Medical School for construction of additional new space for the university’s Comprehensive Cancer Center.
It is the equivalent of the courageous soldier throwing himself on a grenade, says Jon S. Thorson, a professor of pharmacy and the senior author of a paper describing a newly-discovered method of antibiotic resistance published in the Sept. 12 edition of the journal Science.
Wisconsin workers are still reeling from the impact of the national recession that began in 2001, according to a study released by UW-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
Label a product “all-natural” or “organic” and consumers will pay more for it, according to a new UW-Madison study.
“More than 70 percent of us will die from a protracted, chronic illness where good planning will make a difference in the quality of our death,” says Karin Kirchhoff, a School of Nursing professor. Using a $2 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Kirchhoff will test a new approach of preparing patients and their families for the end of life.
UW-Madison is part of a collaboration of 11 Midwestern institutions selected as one of the new Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research.
John Valley, a UW-Madison geologist, and Aaron Cavosie, a graduate student in Valley’s lab, traveled to Beijing in mid-April, just as the city began to emerge as the hardest hit with reported cases of sudden acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
Marketing professors at the UW-Madison School of Business have been the most influential in the United States based on the frequency that their research findings were cited by other scholars, a recent study has found.
Staying healthy may involve more than washing hands or keeping a positive attitude. According to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it also may involve a particular pattern of brain activity.
An engineered mouse, already known to be immune to the weight gain ramifications of a high-calorie, high-fat diet, now seems able to resist the onset of diabetes.
Two researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine have picked up nearly one-half million dollars in research funding from the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
U.S. News and World Report has ranked UW-Madison the seventh best public university and the 32nd best overall university in its “2004 America’s Best Colleges” rankings, but university officials advise potential students not to use the rankings to select where they go to college.
Scientists have been able to document a rare example of molecular convergence, the process by which different animals use the same genes to repeatedly invent similar body patterns and structures
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is experiencing serious problems with the “SoBIG” email virus and has taken multiple steps to contain the problem.
By studying embryonic stem cells from a mouse, researchers at UW-Madison have identified a potential model system for elucidating the stages of normal pancreatic development, as well as for developing a much-needed source of insulin-producing cells for the millions of people who need them to treat their diabetes.
A new observatory that promises to give Wisconsin astronomers unique access to the southern sky is now a prominent feature on a remote South African plateau.
Models show that genes from crops rapidly can take over those in related wild plants.
Manufacturing the minute may have gotten cheaper and more exact, thanks to a new technique developed by an international team of researchers.
A growing compendium of research that suggests moderate alcohol consumption provides a cognitive boost at midlife is seriously flawed, according to a new study.
With the help of an obscure microorganism with ancient roots, scientists have discovered that critical biological processes at work today in humans and other animals were in place before the advent of multicellular life on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago.