Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries. E-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Report: child-care improvement initiative is paying off Based on a recent report from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, the initiative to improve child care throughout Dane County is paying off. Last March, the city of …
Four UW Athletics administrators have been given new titles and additional duties now that Al Fish, associate athletics director, has been named associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and management effective Jan. 6.
Irwin Goldman, an affable associate professor of horticulture knows a lot about beets. As part of his faculty research, he grows beets, breeds beets and studies beets.
As we exercise to keep the holiday trimmings from garnishing our waistlines, we’re more likely to burn one type of fat, according to a new study by researchers in nutritional sciences.
Nothing conveys the hue of extreme anger or embarrassment like the red of beets. Now, a new finding suggests beet red may signify something else: cancer protection.
Arsenic in drinking water is a problem just about anywhere in the world, particularly in developing parts of Asia. To ensure safer drinking water worldwide, researchers at UW-Madison have developed an adsorbent that can remove arsenic from water faster and more cheaply than current methods.
Milk does the body good, especially when it comes to detecting human ailments. In a new development by UW-Madison researchers, concentrated milk provides a tissue-mimicking material that could improve medical imaging.
WARF assists projects by filing for patents.
More than 70 UW-Madison students, mostly sophomores and juniors, will share findings from their mentored research projects this Thursday during a public poster session at Union South.
Following last issue’s news that more than 40 percent of dairy farmers either have no health insurance or plans that don’t cover all family members, a new study by UW-Madison sociologists shows that among the health care plans for the self-employed, farmers are the hardest hit.
Despite the known health consequences of smoking during pregnancy, about 48 percent of women smokers continue to light up after learning they’re pregnant, according to the second in a series of action papers published by the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
General Motors Corp. will fund a $5 million collaborative research laboratory at UW-Madison over five years to help develop cleaner, more efficient diesel and gasoline engines.
According to a study published in the current issue (Nov. 1, 2002) of the journal Ecology Letters, the current federally backed strategy to slow resistance to the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin could be altered to permit the normal application of pesticides to crop refuges without risking the overall resistance prevention strategy.
The university has narrowed the field of candidates for university registrar to four finalists.
Men with advanced prostate cancer that has become resistant to hormone therapy may be candidates for a new research study that seeks to determine whether a Vitamin D-like compound known as Hectoral enhances the impact of a chemotherapy treatment commonly known as Taxotere¨.
Although farming is one of the most dangerous occupations in Wisconsin, a new study from UW-Madison shows that more than 40 percent of dairy farmers either have no health insurance or have plans that don’t cover all their family members.
According to a new computer model, the towering groves of red pine trees characteristic of Minnesota’s Boundary Water Canoe Area could completely disappear unless fire is reintroduced.
In the race to cure cancer, researchers look for roadblocks that could stop cancer in its tracks, preventing it from spreading to other parts of the body. Scientists from UW-Madison may have found that blockade – an enzyme critical to the ability of cells to metastasize, a biological phenomenon by which cells migrate.
A professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine has developed a testing method that more precisely describes a cows’s level of Johne’s disease infection, thereby enabling farmers to make more informed decisions about disease management that could improve herd productivity.
Dairy farmers face health insurance crisis Although farming is one of the most dangerous occupations in Wisconsin, a new study from UW-Madison shows that more than 40 percent of dairy farmers either have no health insurance or have plans that don’t cover all their family members. Last spring, researchers from the university’s Program on Agricultural …