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Eat your vegetables, take your medicine
As a plant geneticist and breeder who has long been interested in the link between human health and agriculture, Irwin Goldman is working to understand and apply such links in the modern diet.
Grad school dean finalists named
The university has narrowed the field of candidates for Graduate School dean to three finalists.
Poll: Residents happy, but skeptical
Wisconsin residents are generally happy to live here but do not express pride in government, says the second in the University of Wisconsin Survey Center's series of Badger Polls.
Microbe eats formaldehyde
In a world where dangerous chemicals abound, a small microbe may have a big future.
Experience alters how we perceive emotion
A new study of abused children suggests that experience can alter the way people see emotions.
H.S. students discover science
The 26 high school students who take part in the Summer Science Institute through July 26 will discover first-hand what research can offer to them.
New satellite technique helps spot fast-growing fires
Spotting forest fires in remote areas will be faster and easier this summer as fire-weather forecasters begin using a new technique that automatically detects wildfires in environmental satellite imagery.
Bugs beat all in biodiversity
When it comes to biodiversity, nothing can beat insects - especially beetles, says Dan Young, an entomologist with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Between 70 and 80 percent of all animals are insects, and more than one out of every four animal species on earth is some type of beetle.
Study shows how pollution affects tree growth
Researchers are headed to northern Wisconsin to continue a long-term study that is revealing how air pollution affects northern forests.
Gelatin bandage may aid tissue repair
Engineering professor John Kao's latest invention is sort of like a molecular version of Jell-O salad.
Study: Over $100 million in political TV ads in 2002
Contestants in gubernatorial primaries in four big states -- Texas, California, Illinois, and Pennsylvania -- accounted for more than $64 million of the $107 million spent on political television advertising so far in 2002.
NSF gives $1.4 million for math and science education
A $1.4 million boost from the National Science Foundation will help university graduate students, faculty, and staff work with K-12 teachers to improve math and science education.
Prevention program to receive national recognition
On Friday, June 7, the university's Families and Schools Together (FAST) program will receive national recognition as a model program for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) at a ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Study: Filaments of gas pervade Milky Way
Using a new sky survey instrument called WHAM, astronomers have detected a faint gas that spreads into the far reaches of the galaxy and sometimes forms distinct strands that stretch halfway across the sky.
Fulbright visiting scholars announced
Six visiting international scholars will be in residence during the 2002-03 academic year under the Fulbright Visiting Scholars program.
Agency’s aggressive patent management protects public, professors
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has been patenting and licensing UW research for more than 75 years. Today, WARF has one of the most envied file cabinets in science, with about 1,700 active patents ÷ including not one but two patents resulting from James Thomson's stem-cell work.
SSEC aids severe storms study
Two university research centers will support a massive field experiment to better measure humidity, rainfall and overall moisture in the air and how it all changes.
Professor is an advocate for improving end-of-life care
To social work professor Betty Kramer, pondering how you'll leave this world isn't especially morbid or ghoulish. As an expert in the field of end-of-life issues, including grieving and palliative care, she's spent much of her career thinking about how people can prepare for death.
Study reveals anticancer activity
A potential new treatment for patients with metastatic prostate cancer has demonstrated anticancer activity in some patients in a clinical trial.
New hearing test simulates noise of real world
Researcher Ruth Litovsky has developed a hearing test that simulates the noisy real world, and the results could improve our understanding not only of hearing but also of developmental and learning disabilities among children.