With 110 faculty affiliates across more than 40 departments, UW-Madison’s Institute on Aging is developing a composite picture of aging in America. A searchable Internet digest of the institute’s research can be found at the institute’s web site. Here’s a sampling of some ongoing projects: The best exercise for older age For older people looking …
The UW Medical School is launching two large new studies aimed particularly at those cigaratte smokers who have tried — and perhaps tried again — to quit.
Kidney transplants between siblings with slightly different tissue types are as much as 28 percent more likely to survive long-term when maternal tissue types are used to determine the donor, a new study from the UW Medical School suggests.
Thanks in no small measure to Norman Fost’s continuing leadership, medical ethics is widely appreciated as a highly relevant field with the potential to profoundly affect individual lives as well as national policy.
The scientific study of emotion, an area once considered too ‘soft’ for serious inquiry, is developing a solid future at UW-Madison.
Bruce Kittle belongs to a select group of lawyers: those with seminary degrees.
Prejudice strikes most people as a learned behavior, but a study of grade school kids exposes prejudice as a much cagier beast, waiting to rear its head at the slightest provocation.
The international spotlight focused on James Thomson with the news Nov. 6 that his team had cultured human embryonic stem cells in the laboratory.
A new Madison project doesn’t involve higher taxes or a referendum, but it does require a positive pregnancy test and a history of allergies or asthma.
A new consortium developed by UW-Madison engineer Raj Veeramani provides companies with an unbiased resource when navigating the new landscape of electronic commerce.
What started as a challenge to improve disabled access for a local outdoor recreation club put a team of UW-Madison engineers on the road to a better bike.
As far as epic battles go, UW-Madison chemist Charles Casey’s work this summer on a high-stakes legal battle between Dow Chemical and Exxon Corp. falls in the realm of Goliath vs. Goliath.
A two-year federal grant will help a team of UW-Madison researchers join forces with community organizations in Dane County to identify the service needs of women with substance abuse and mental health problems who are victims of violence.
Stephen Malpezzi, a real estate professor in the School of Business, has developed a statistical model explaining the demand for golf based on economic and demographic variables.
The dream of one day being able to grow in the laboratory an unlimited amount of human tissues for transplantation is one step closer to reality.
Embryonic stem cell facts
Considering the Chinese as essentially and forever authoritarian – as many Westerners do – denies the complexity of culture and its capacity for change, says one of the nation’s leading Sinologists.
Two UW-Madison molecular biologists will receive $1.8 million over three years to help develop a system to rapidly identify the function of genes specific to plants.
Diagnosing some suspicious breast tumors could become simpler and more reliable through a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) approach being tested at UW Hospital and Clinics as part of an international study announced October 22.
A UW-Madison professor is one of 17 researchers across the country who have received a total of $40.5 million over five years to promote integrative graduate education and research training.