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Eating less linked to healthier brain in old age

June 26, 2000

Eating less may be good for the health of your brain, and may help keep debilitating ailments such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases at bay. That is the message derived from a pathbreaking study that employed a powerful new gene-scanning technique to analyze activity in thousands of genes to create a molecular portrait of the aging brain in mice.

Finding sheds light on addiction relapse

June 23, 2000

UW Medical School researchers have found that the memory of drug use can alter an area of the brain not traditionally implicated in addiction.

A month’s rain: Record for a century

June 16, 2000

Madison's 30-day rain total ending June 15 has broken all records in the past century, university researchers say.

Building better engines through natural selection

June 14, 2000

Computer models developed at UW–Madison are helping engineers design high-performance engines of the future, by using genetic algorithms to simultaneously increase fuel efficiency and reduce pollution.

Prairie atlas expands botanical horizons

June 2, 2000

A new publication, "The Atlas of the Wisconsin Prairie and Savanna Flora," promises to expand our botanical horizons by cataloging, describing and mapping the distribution of Wisconsin's prairie and savanna plants.

Biosciences campus before and after BioStar

June 1, 2000

These maps show the current biosciences campus and the proposed campus under BioStar.

Basic facts: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

June 1, 2000

History: WARF was created in 1925 to protect UW–Madison biochemist Harry Steenbock’s major vitamin D discovery, a breakthrough that led to the eradication of…

WARF commits $80 million to BioStar

June 1, 2000

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has pledged $80 million to the university's BioStar Initiative over the life of the 10-year bioscience building project.

International Institute receives $6.1 million

May 25, 2000

The International Institute will receive more than $6.1 million in federal grants over the next three years for five existing programs and two new centers.

Great Lakes ‘seasons’ may reflect a warming trend

May 24, 2000

Scrutinizing a 139-year record of Great Lakes water levels, a UW–Madison scientist has discovered a dramatic shift in the seasonal changes in water levels on the Great Lakes.

UW leads landmark lung cancer study

May 23, 2000

Researchers from the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center announced May 22 results from a landmark research trial that shows chemotherapy offers survival benefits for advanced lung cancer patients.

Conference to focus on affordable housing issues

May 22, 2000

A Milwaukee housing conference sponsored by the Business School will focus on the overriding policy issues that affect affordable housing today and will guide the future.

Space station beckons ice cloud project

May 22, 2000

Sometime in the year 2003, if all goes well, a UW–Madison experiment, designed to probe the nearly invisible ice clouds of Earth, will be hitched by astronauts to the International Space Station.

Sun Microsystems supercomputer to advance genomics

May 18, 2000

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and UW–Madison today, May 18, announced the expansion of a decade-long relationship enabling the campus to acquire a $2.5 million supercomputer for genetics research.

Advances

May 16, 2000

(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.)…

50 years later, they’re gone

May 16, 2000

After a half-century, the 'temporary' buildings on the west end of campus have crumbled under the claw of an excavator, making way for something more permanent - the Engineering Centers Building.

Better pest controls mean safer potatoes

May 16, 2000

University research is helping state potato growers dramatically reduce the chemicals they use to manage what traditionally has been a pesticide-intensive crop.

Scientist’s goal: Control mosquito-borne diseases

May 11, 2000

The very thought of it can make you itch. Bruce Christensen pops open the door of a sealed research room about the size of a walk-in freezer. Except this room radiates with dank, tropical heat and is full of cloth-covered containers crawling with armies of hungry mosquitoes.

Wildlife collection will aid study of species

May 11, 2000

James Borman has moved on to the happy hunting ground, but his legacy will touch people throughout Wisconsin. Over his lifetime, he assembled a massive collection of preserved wildlife specimens from North America and elsewhere. Borman, who died in 1999, willed the collection to the university.

Sleep apnea likely to lead to hypertension

May 10, 2000

Armed with the strongest evidence to date, researchers at the UW Medical School have established that sleep apnea -- episodes of breathing pauses during sleep -- is likely to be an important cause of hypertension.