Senator Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton) and Diane Hardt, tax administrator for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and co-chair of the Streamlined Sales Tax Project, will discuss Internet taxation and more at a half-day workshop on e-business legal issues sponsored by the UW Consortium for Global eCommerce.
Even as it busily prepares for a landmark symposium on African-American activist W.E.B. Du Bois, the Department of Afro-American Studies is reinventing itself.
A UW-Madison professor will be part of a 10-day fact-finding trip during May to investigate Cuba’s transformation from chemical-intensive, industrial agriculture to sustainable and organic agriculture.
Wherever we live, pollution lives with us. Whether it’s chemical runoff from farms or loud music booming down the street, pollution touches us not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally, according to a new book by Colleen Moore, a psychology professor at UW-Madison.
With the help of a novel scheme developed by chemists at UW-Madison for chemically modifying diamond, the age of the inexpensive, compact sensor that can continuously scan airports, subways and battlefields for the slightest trace of biological weapons may be at hand. Coupled with modern electronics, the new sensors would not only be able to detect nearby biological agents, but also sound alarms and even call for help.
UW-Madison and its patent management organization, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, rank near the top of the university intellectual property class of 2002, according to the United States Patent Office.
1992 Disclosures: 174 Patents: 41 1993 Disclosures: 152 Patents: 57 1994 Disclosures: 154 Patents: 53 1995 Disclosures: 202 Patents: 47 1996 Disclosures: 227 Patents: 69 1997 Disclosures: 218 Patents: 65 1998 Disclosures: 221 Patents: 85 1999 Disclosures: 319 Patents: 90 2000 Disclosures: 309 Patents: 80 2001 Disclosures: 301 Patents: 88 2002 Disclosures: 293 Patents: 81
Capitalizing on what they learned from studying lowly tapeworms, scientists at UW-Madison believe they may have found a way to make drugs more effective in their delivery. This research holds out the promise of lowering dosage and cost, and eliminating wasted medicine.
New device stops table saw kickback; Measuring the sickness factor of colds; Toning the tongue
Rod Nilsestuen, the new secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, will be the featured speaker at an agricultural issues forum.
Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend a Wellness Fair on Saturday, March 1, from noon until 4 p.m. at the UW-Madison Natatorium, 2000 Observatory Drive.
A strategic alliance to help Wisconsin manufacturers apply e-business technologies to benefit supply chain collaboration was announced today by the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnershipand UW-Madison’s Consortium for Global eCommerce.
By studying these children adopted from Eastern European orphanages and the developmental problems they face, researchers from UW-Madison have developed a better understanding of how certain early childhood experiences can alter the development of the brain and, as result, also alter the development of particular skills or abilities.
You may not know it, but you took a course in linguistics as a baby. By listening to the talk around them, infants pick up sound patterns that help them understand the speech they hear, according to new research from UW-Madison. But this research also shows that some patterns are easier to identify, suggesting that the development of human language may have been shaped by what infants could learn.
A quick and painless technique recently developed by UW-Madison researchers could help clinicians identify signs of coronary heart disease (CHD), a condition that claims the lives of 2,000 Americans every day.
According to “How Smokers Are Quitting,” the third in a series of action papers based on interviews with Wisconsin smokers, nearly one-half of Wisconsin smokers tried to quit last year, and more than 70 percent have tried sometime in their lifetime. Although new methods for quitting double or triple their chances for success, most smokers are still trying to quit “cold turkey.”
During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat a maximum of 2.5 billion times, says UW-Madison cardiovascular physiologist Richard Moss. Does that mean that falling in love — an activity that increases the rate at which the heart beats — could shorten your life?
How well a student learns academic skills depends on attitudes and behaviors affecting participation, according to Stephen Elliott, an educational psychologist, and James DiPerna, a researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
An inflammatory disorder of the bladder that affects 750,000 Americans, 90 percent of whom are women, has baffled doctors for years. New findings from veterinary surgeon Dale Bjorling suggest that estrogen could be a key factor.
Ninety-year-old emeritus professor of botany John Thomson, recognized as a world authority on Arctic lichens, has completed a new book, Lichens of Wisconsin.