Tag Research
Plant compounds slow the growth of tumor cells
Researchers at UW–Madison report in the current issue of the Journal of Nutrition that small concentrations of two compounds from plants we eat suppress the growth of three kinds of human cancer cells in the laboratory. Read More
Baseball energizes registrar
Buried deep in new registrar Monty Nielsen's vita is a curious reference to baseball. What does being a registrar have to do with baseball? Everything, if you're Nielsen. Read More
Modeling the scientific method
University researchers have helped achieve a startling effect by using models to teach mathematics and science to elementary school students: Fifth graders are performing at 12th grade levels. Read More
Ultrasonic boom
They look more like stray computer parts than precision medical tools, but Amit Lal's research creations could give surgeons an incomparable new edge in medicine. Read More
International symposium on emotion slated for April 23-24
The fifth annual Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion, an international forum on the latest basic and clinical research dealing with emotion, will be held April 23-24 at Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison. Read More
UW guardrail design could improve highway safety for today’s larger vehicles
A UW–Madison engineer has developed a potentially safer higway guradrail made from composite materials. Read More
English professor masters art of interdisciplinary study
An indirect but critical connection exists between Madison's Spaightwood Gallery and the last cigarettes Andrew and Sonja Weiner ever smoked. Read More
Internet2 connection speeds data transfer
The university's connection to Internet2 is up and running. Read More
Study: Pharmacist demand reflects aging population
America's burgeoning elderly population, which is using sophisticated drug therapies in record quantities, has helped make highly educated pharmacists one of the hottest commodities in health care. Read More
UW cancer center one of two sites selected for clinical trial of cancer drug
The UW Comprehensive Cancer Center has been chosen as one of two sites in the nation to conduct human tests of endostatin, a promising potential cancer treatment that seems to work in part by disrupting the growth of blood vessels that nourished the tumors. Read More
Endostatin prospective patient information
Information for prospective patients of the endostatin clinical trial at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center. Read More
Acid linked to soil aging
Thirty-seven years of data collected from a plot at UW–Madison's Arlington agricultural research station is yielding alarming results: acidification from excess fertilizer is wearing out the soil. Read More
Detector in polar ice to hunt for neutrinos
This winter, after an extensive shakedown period, the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array or AMANDA, a novel telescope set kilometers deep in the ice at the South Pole, began its search for the ghost-like cosmic neutrino. Read More
Pesticide, fertilizer mixes linked to range of health problems
The natural mix of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, such as occurs when agricultural chemicals seep into groundwater, may have a broad range of effects on human and animal health, a new study shows. Read More
Guide offers tips for managing urban geese
Scott Craven, extension wildlife ecologist at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, has co-authored a 42-page guide that describes legal, effective ways of persuading problem geese to go elsewhere. Read More
Divining the matter-antimatter puzzle
Using the world's highest-energy proton beam, three UW–Madison scientists were among 85 researchers whose recent experiments helped peel away some of the mystery surrounding the relationship between matter and antimatter. Read More
UW researcher says school culture can be toxin – or tonic
The culture of a school - a web of values, traditions and symbols - can be toxin or tonic for education reform. Ignoring this powerful variable, however, can be a fatal mistake in reform attempts. Read More
Volunteers sought for study of autism, families
A new study at UW–Madison's Waisman Center focusing on autism and family life is recruiting Wisconsin participants. Read More
Prescription medication boosts success in quitting smoking
Smokers taking the medication bupropion were nearly twice as likely to have quit smoking one year later than those receiving patches alone or a placebo, according to a new national study published by UW Medical School researchers. Read More
UW expert makes sense of weird weather
La Niña may get the attention, but if forecasts of unusually wild weather this spring come true, lesser-known forces like "zonal" jet streams and "Bermuda highs" will be responsible. Read More