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Waste wallboard shows promise for the farm

April 13, 1999

One day those unused scraps of clean wallboard from construction sites and remodeling projects may be crushed and spread on agricultural fields. Read More

Study shows women’s farm role

April 12, 1999

Until agricultural economist Lydia Zepeda did her research, all the economic models of technology adoption assumed that farms had one decision-maker, typically the male head of the household. Read More

Lights! Camera! Learning!

April 12, 1999

A new School of Education project called the Kid-to-Kid Video Exchange Project aims to develop a network of K-8 classrooms that create and share videos as an essential element of their social studies curriculum. Read More

Study: Child abuse can alter brain development

April 6, 1999

A new study by a Seth Pollack suggests that an abused child's ability to recognize anger is strong enough to actually trigger biological changes, altering the way the brain processes anger. Read More

Plant compounds slow the growth of tumor cells

April 5, 1999

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

April 5, 1999

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

April 2, 1999

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

March 31, 1999

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

March 30, 1999

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

March 29, 1999

A UW–Madison engineer has developed a potentially safer higway guradrail made from composite materials. Read More

English professor masters art of interdisciplinary study

March 29, 1999

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

March 26, 1999

The university's connection to Internet2 is up and running. Read More

Study: Pharmacist demand reflects aging population

March 25, 1999

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

March 19, 1999

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

March 19, 1999

Information for prospective patients of the endostatin clinical trial at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center. Read More

Acid linked to soil aging

March 17, 1999

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

March 17, 1999

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

March 15, 1999

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

March 10, 1999

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

March 10, 1999

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