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Modernists to meet in Madison
The cream of creative thinkers from the fields of literature, philosophy, the arts and more will meet in Madison from Thursday, Oct. 31, to Sunday, Nov. 3, to consider new ways of approaching rapid and widespread changes in all sectors of society. Read More
WARF West Coast office opens
The patent and licensing organization of the university has become the first university technology-transfer institution in the United States to launch a satellite office. Read More
Research leads to higher quality pork
A compound long used for baking and treating indigestion has a new use. UW–Madison researchers have discovered that sodium bicarbonate improves the quality of meat from pigs and other livestock. Read More
UW joins ‘Big Ten’ nuclear engineering consortium
As the issue of nuclear power in the United States re-emerges, the U.S. Department of Energy has recently awarded $10 million to a consortium of four "Big Ten" schools recognized as leaders in the field of nuclear engineering, among them UW–Madison. Read More
Study sheds light on Down syndrome and language
Countering the claim among researchers that language learning in children with Down syndrome ends during the teen-age years, a new UW–Madison study shows that certain language skills continue to improve well beyond the teen-age years, suggesting that adolescents with Down syndrome should continue programs for language learning. Read More
IRP designated an area poverty research center
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has designated the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW–Madison as one of three Area Poverty Research Centers. Read More
UW unveils new cheese with scandinavian roots
Cheesemakers at the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, within the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, unveiled recently a new specialty cheese for Wisconsin cheese producers. Read More
UW-Madison leads $26 million study on aging
While we all age, we age in different ways. But exactly why we age differently remains much of a mystery. A new $26 million study led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, however, plans to make the reasons more clear. Read More
UW gets $35 million for math and science education
Capitalizing on a tradition of pioneering research, training and outreach to improve the way science and math are taught in the nation's schools, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has tapped UW–Madison to lead a new $35 million effort in science and math education reform. Read More
Military reservation home to rare species
While it serves many miltary uses, Wisconsin's Fort McCoy Military Reservation also provides a sanctuary for rare native plants. Read More
Novel form of vitamin D shown to grow bone
A novel form of vitamin D has been shown to grow bone in the lab and in experimental animals, a result that holds promise for the estimated 44 million Americans, mostly post-menopausal women, who suffer from or are at risk for the bone-wasting disease osteoporosis. Read More
Political television advertising spending escalates, study finds
More than $300 million has been spent by candidates on television advertising in races for the U.S. House and Senate, as well as in a number of highly competitive, record-spending gubernatorial contests across the nation, according to a new study by a university political scientist. Read More
Deconstructing dams
Emily Stanley, a river ecologist at the Center for Limnology, has found that dam removal allows not just fish and canoes, but also damaging nutrients, to barge through the water system. Results of the study, which focused on dam removal sites along the Baraboo River and Koshkonong Creek in Wisconsin, were recently published in the journal BioScience. Read More
UW-Madison study returns biology to the basics
We may be living in the age of biotechnology, but science still has some very basic questions to answer. And, one of them is 'What microbes live in lakes?' Read More
Linguistics professor documents endangered Menominee language
Professor of linguistics Monica Macaulay is recording and documenting the rapidly vanishing Menominee language, a traditionally oral language markedly different from any European counterpart. Read More
Researchers identify enzyme that turns on RNA
Scientists have long searched for triggers that activate ribonucleic acid (RNA), a key component in gene expression. Now, in the Thursday, Sept. 19, issue of the journal Nature, scientists from UW–Madison report that they have found an enzyme that activates RNA, which could lead to new ways of regulating genetic information. Read More
UW Hospital performs state’s first islet cell transplant
A UW Hospital transplant team has delved into the cutting edge of medical technology by performing Wisconsin's first pancreatic islet cell procedure. Read More