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Physical activity, quality of life go together in older women

November 6, 2001

The more physically active a woman over 60 is, the higher the overall quality of her life, a new study says.

UW gets federal support for ‘Ice Cube’

November 6, 2001

The university is slated to receive $15 million in federal funding for the first phase of a groundbreaking, Antarctica-based neutrino telescope.

Advances

November 6, 2001

(Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries by e-mailing: wisweek@news.wisc.edu.) Advances gives…

Employee ‘work memory’ affects rotation scheduling

November 5, 2001

Many service and manufacturing industry employers believe that cross-training their employees can help cover during turnover and absenteeism, while at the same time, increase workers' level of interest in their jobs.

Study probes perceptions of Wisconsin’s business climate

November 2, 2001

In a recent study among executives across the United States, UW–Madison Business School professor Jon Udell finds that executives outside the state hold a favorable image of the state's business climate, but Wisconsin executives generally are even more positive about factors concerning the quality of personal and business life in the state.

Four UW–Madison faculty named AAAS fellows

November 2, 2001

Four members of the UW–Madison faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dairy to handle BST milk

October 30, 2001

The Babcock dairy plant will no longer certify that its fluid milk supplies come from herds that avoid use of supplemental bovine somatotropin (BST).

Cell lines hold promise for drugs, birds

October 25, 2001

Scientists at UW–Madison have coaxed into existence a new line of cells from birds that could remake the poultry industry.

Avian cell lines have broad technological potential

October 24, 2001

Scientists have coaxed into existence a new line of cells from birds that could remake the poultry industry, provide new methods for manufacturing pharmaceuticals in the sterile encasement of the egg, and even help preserve endangered birds such as the California condor and whooping crane.

School-family project prepares for national rollout

October 24, 2001

The U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance has awarded $1.8 million to UW–Madison senior scientist Lynn McDonald for her research project, The Families and Schools Together Project: Building Relationships.

Anthrax breakthrough reported

October 23, 2001

Researchers at the Medical School's McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and their collaborators at Harvard Medical School have found the receptor -- a docking structure -- that anthrax toxin binds to in order to enter cells.

Advances

October 23, 2001

(Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries by e-mailing: wisweek@news.wisc.edu.)…

Accumulated change courts ecosystem catastrophe

October 10, 2001

Subjected to decades of gradual change by humans, many of the world's natural ecosystems - from coral reefs and tropical forests to northern lakes and forests - appear susceptible to sudden catastrophic ecological change, an international consortium of scientists reports today, Oct. 11, in the journal Nature.

Advances

October 9, 2001

(Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries by e-mailing: wisweek@news.wisc.edu.)…

Hemp won’t replace other crops: study

October 9, 2001

Even if industrial hemp production became legal, few U.S. farmers would find the crop profitable, according to a university study.

Emeritus engineering professor pulls plug on electric chair’s reliability

October 9, 2001

In the last 111 years, more Americans have died by legal electrocution — 4,324 — than through any other method of execution. But now the long era of the electric chair is drawing to a close, and Theodore Bernstein, emeritus professor of electrical and computer engineering, is one of the hands that is pulling the plug.

New study: Changing roles benefit men and women

October 8, 2001

Contrary to longstanding theories of gender and psychology, women and men can benefit by taking on more than one traditional social role, such as worker or parent, report two researchers in the October issue of American Psychologist.

Police remind fans about game day security measures

October 5, 2001

UW-Madison police remind all football fans that security measures enacted for last week's game remain in effect for this Saturday's contest between the Badgers and the Indiana Hoosiers.

UW-Madison to study charter schools

October 5, 2001

The La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW–Madison has been awarded a $650,000 federal grant to study how well charters schools are working in Wisconsin.

Molecular snippets hold viruses at bay

October 3, 2001

In a surprising find, scientists have uncovered the antiviral properties of an obscure class of peptides that may someday provide a powerful way to curb the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.