Tag: research

The ever-popular holiday lectures of Bassam Shakhashiri, scientific spectacles intended to amaze audiences through the power and fun of science, are “sold out,” its organizer said Monday, Nov. 29.

The UW Comprehensive Cancer Center Tuesday, Nov. 23 received official approval to begin a clinical trial of the first human test of endostatin, a naturally occurring protein and potentially promising cancer treatment that has been shown to cut off the blood supply to tumors in mice.

Compared with established dairy farmers, new dairy farmers in Wisconsin are much less likely to be taking over the farm from their parents, and they’re more likely to use off-farm income to supplement their farm income, according to researchers with the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Massive clouds of gas, discovered long ago but only recently identified as being within the margins of the Milky Way, play a key role in the ability of the galaxy to churn out new stars by raining gas onto the plane of the galaxy, a new report suggests.

To encourage governments to remove barriers to the availability of pain medication, the Pain and Policy Studies Group of the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center is hosting a work group of international experts in cancer pain relief and narcotic regulation.

UW-Madison kicks off World AIDS Day Monday, Nov. 29, with a ‘Red Ribbon Rally.’

The UW-Madison Russian Folk Orchestra will present its first solo concert Saturday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m. in Music Hall on campus.

Scientists working with monkeys at UW-Madison have discovered new evidence explaining why retroviruses such as HIV in people and SIV in rhesus monkeys are so variable and difficult for the body’s immune system to target and kill.

Basil Tikoff, an assistant professor of geology and geophysics, is one of 24 U.S. scholars awarded a 1999 Packard Fellowship.

The world’s ocean scientists can learn a lot from the humble lakes of the Midwest, and a UW-Madison student has been asked to teach them.

Grounding mathematics problems in real-life contexts through video technology gives some low- and average-achieving students a double boost: They perform better on tests and then can apply what they learned to new projects.

With the help of the National Science Foundation, UW-Madison and four Wisconsin school districts have launched a comprehensive initiative to reinvigorate the way science and math are taught and learned at the primary, middle and high school levels.

Forcing students to simply repeat a grade doesn’t help children’s educational achievement, but enrolling them in high-quality early childhood programs does, a UW-Madison researcher has found in two separate studies.

Next time you’re tossing back a cold one, raise a toast to the folks at the Barley and Malt Laboratory on campus. The quality of American beer rides on their sifting and winnowing for better barley.

Two innovative campus grant programs help plug a gap between traditional federal and private funding sources.

According to the results of a pilot study conducted by physicians at the UW Medical School, protease inhibitors – key ingredients of the more popularly known ‘AIDS cocktail’ that has returned countless HIV patients to health – may also be putting them at risk of developing coronary artery disease.

The university will administer a four-university black studies consortium under a new grant from the Ford Foundation.

A new Humanities Center will take an interdisciplinary approach to improve partnerships and interaction between humanities and other disciplines on campus.

After he had joined the National Socialist Jungvolk in 1938, Jurgen Herbst began to realize that something was profoundly wrong in that organization, and, in fact, everywhere in Nazi Germany. Herbst, professor emeritus of history and educational policy, outlines his ideological transformation in ‘Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood Among the Nazis,’ just published by the UWPress.

Three examples of more than 200 projects funded by UIR grants that illustrate the leveraging of state money and the entrepreneurship of the university’s research community.