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Comm Arts professor puts terror talk under rhetorical microscope
Nearly every American has watched President George W. Bush address the nation in the days since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. UW–Madison assistant professor of communication arts Susan Zaeske watches too, but her interest is piqued by more than just updates on the hunt for Osama bin Laden or the war in Afghanistan. Read More
Antibiotic combo deadly to moths
Scientists may have exposed a chink in the armor of an insect that annually defoliates thousands of acres of forests and that, so far, has defied every effort to control it. Read More
Can tamoxifen help patients with Lou Gehrig’s disease?
Prompted by his observation of an ALS patient who subsequently developed breast cancer, a UW Medical School researcher has found that the drug tamoxifen significantly delayed movement problems and prolonged survival in a group of 40 mice with an ALS-like disease. Read More
Physical activity, quality of life go together in older women
The more physically active a woman over 60 is, the higher the overall quality of her life, a new study says. Read More
UW gets federal support for ‘Ice Cube’
The university is slated to receive $15 million in federal funding for the first phase of a groundbreaking, Antarctica-based neutrino telescope. Read More
Employee ‘work memory’ affects rotation scheduling
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. Read More
Study probes perceptions of Wisconsin’s business climate
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. Read More
Four UW–Madison faculty named AAAS fellows
Four members of the UW–Madison faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read More
Dairy to handle BST milk
The Babcock dairy plant will no longer certify that its fluid milk supplies come from herds that avoid use of supplemental bovine somatotropin (BST). Read More
Cell lines hold promise for drugs, birds
Scientists at UW–Madison have coaxed into existence a new line of cells from birds that could remake the poultry industry. Read More
Avian cell lines have broad technological potential
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. Read More
School-family project prepares for national rollout
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. Read More
Anthrax breakthrough reported
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. Read More
Accumulated change courts ecosystem catastrophe
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. Read More
Hemp won’t replace other crops: study
Even if industrial hemp production became legal, few U.S. farmers would find the crop profitable, according to a university study. Read More
Emeritus engineering professor pulls plug on electric chair’s reliability
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. Read More
New study: Changing roles benefit men and women
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. Read More