Tag: research

A nutritional scientist is leading a 10-state study that will examine the barriers to healthy eating among young adults and test a strategy to overcome the obstacles.

Mysteries of the stuff that underpins all life soon will become less murky with the help of a new, big research magnet at a campus lab.

Vjekoslav Miletic, a professor of comparative biosciences, studies why some physical pains persist and what may be done to relieve them.

Counting a few hundred thousand bats sounds about as easy as herding a few thousand cats, but a university researcher is successfully tallying the winter residents at one of the largest bat hibernation sites in the Midwest.

How are things going in the views of Wisconsin residents? Pretty well, and economic and personal fortunes are expected to improve, according to the most recent Badger Poll.

The newly approved INFUSE Bone Graft promises to reduce pain and recovery time for the more than 190,000 Americans who undergo lumbar spinal fusion surgery each year.

Even from space, wildfires raging near Show Low, Ariz., are standout features of the landscape, as satellite images show.

Wisconsin residents surveyed in a recent Badger Poll back the Pledge of Allegiance in schools.

President George W. Bush enjoys wide backing in the Badger state, says a new poll conducted by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center.

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.

The university has narrowed the field of candidates for Graduate School dean to three finalists.

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.

In a world where dangerous chemicals abound, a small microbe may have a big future.

A new study of abused children suggests that experience can alter the way people see emotions.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers are headed to northern Wisconsin to continue a long-term study that is revealing how air pollution affects northern forests.

Engineering professor John Kao’s latest invention is sort of like a molecular version of Jell-O salad.

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.