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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.

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.

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.

Six visiting international scholars will be in residence during the 2002-03 academic year under the Fulbright Visiting Scholars program.

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.

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.

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.

A potential new treatment for patients with metastatic prostate cancer has demonstrated anticancer activity in some patients in a clinical trial.

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.

Bernice Durand, professor of physics, is being honored for years of leadership in promoting diversity at the university.

University 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.

Wisconsin state government may face significant financial problems through 2010, says a government finance expert.

A 3,200-pound rare white rhinoceros has been buried near Picnic Point on campus for nearly two decades. Starting today, May 15, staff members from the departments of zoology, geology and wildlife ecology plan to excavate the skeletal remains.

A new, massive iceberg has broken off from Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, according to polar-orbiting satellite imagery taken Friday, May 10, at the Antarctica Meteorological Research Center .

Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries. E-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Study: Whites link crime, African Americans Perceptions of crime in a particular neighborhood may be due to the presence of young African-American men, according to a new study by two UW-Madison researchers. The study, by …

Thanks to university biomedical engineers, scientists soon may be able to fabricate elaborate palm-sized “laboratories” more easily and for about a quarter of the cost of current methods.

University engineers have invented a method of characterizing and managing the multiple channel paths generated when antenna arrays are used at a wireless transmitter and/or receiver.

A new device developed by UW-Madison students and faculty may bring the cumbersome breast biopsy procedure up to date.

Engineering researchers have developed novel algorithms that significantly simplify signal processing and improve performance of antenna arrays used in wireless communications systems.

Mechanical engineering professor Frank Fronczak and his graduate students have hit upon the idea of a “variable valve timing actuator” aimed at making engines work better.