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Helping Wisconsin dairy farms produce ‘brown gold’

February 20, 2015

In the heart of Wisconsin, a project is underway to produce energy from a resource in little danger of running low: cow manure, also known as "brown gold." Read More

Contest seeks another round of amazing science images

February 10, 2015

To highlight the visual and scientific value of scientific imagery, the fifth annual Cool Science Image Contest is soliciting the best images from students and faculty and staff scientists on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. Read More

Campus push to address crisis in U.S. biomedical research

February 10, 2015

The growing realization that the American biomedical research enterprise is unsustainable and requires a comprehensive fix will be the subject of a wide-ranging campus conversation to take place over the next few months. Read More

Sidebar: Sessions set to discuss biomedical research crisis

February 10, 2015

A series of campus-wide discussions to gather feedback and ideas from researchers — faculty, staff scientists, postdocs, and graduate students as well as administrative staff — on what many people believe is a crisis in U.S. biomedical research has been scheduled for March. Read More

UW botanist harnesses the grid to illuminate crop growth

February 4, 2015

With help from the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), botany Professor Edgar Spalding is applying this astronomical sense of scale to our understanding of corn. Spalding uses the HTC capabilities pioneered by Miron Livny, Morgridge Institute for Research chief technology officer, to quantify the incredibly complex process of corn growth from seed to vigorous seedling — not just one at a time, but over thousands of samples. Read More

Laying a foundation for treating ALS, spinal cord injury

February 2, 2015

Su-Chun Zhang, a professor of neuroscience and neurology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Waisman Center, and his research team have published a unique model for learning more about the role of human astrocytes today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation today. The findings may lay a foundation for the treatment of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and debilitating spinal cord injuries. Read More

Slideshow: Learning lessons by following Madison’s foxes and coyotes

January 30, 2015

Last year, a family of foxes — complete with roly-poly kits — took up residence on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and made the city its playground. With winter in full swing, the foxes and their larger dog-like counterparts, coyotes, are out there again, roaming the wilder (and often not so wild) parts of the city and campus. This year, David Drake, a UW–Madison associate professor of forest and wildlife ecology, is welcoming the public to join him and his research team as they go out and radio collar the animals in an effort to track and better understand these urban canids. Read More

Learning lessons by following Madison’s foxes and coyotes

January 30, 2015

Last year, a family of foxes — complete with roly-poly kits — took up residence on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and made the city its playground. With winter in full swing, the foxes and their larger dog-like counterparts, coyotes, are out there again, roaming the wilder (and often not so wild) parts of the city and campus. This year, David Drake, a UW–Madison associate professor of forest and wildlife ecology, is welcoming the public to join him and his research team as they go out and radio collar the animals in an effort to track and better understand these urban canids. Read More

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation near the top of the patent charts for 2013

January 29, 2015

In 2013, with 160 patents, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) was near the pinnacle of the university patent heap. Read More

Yin retirement closes UW–Madison sound localization lab

January 23, 2015

After nearly 40 years of distinguished teaching and research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, neuroscience professor Tom Yin has opted to retire, a decision he made more than a year ago when his National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant was up for renewal. Read More

‘Kindness curriculum’ boosts school success in preschoolers

January 23, 2015

Watch Richard Davidson discuss this project at the 2015 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Over the course of 12 weeks, twice… Read More

Calculating the future of solar-fuel refineries

January 23, 2015

A team of University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers has developed a new tool to help plot the future of solar fuels. In a paper recently published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, a team led by chemical and biological engineering Professors Christos Maravelias and George Huber outlined a tool to help engineers better gauge the overall yield, efficiency and costs associated with scaling solar-fuel production processes up into large-scale refineries. Read More

Study shows Brazil’s Soy Moratorium still needed to preserve Amazon

January 22, 2015

Today, fewer chicken nuggets can trace their roots to cleared Amazon rain forest. Read More

Rare neurological disease shines light on health of essential nerve cells

January 22, 2015

Ian Duncan is a Scotsman with the iron discipline and stamina of a competitive marathoner, triathlete and cross-country skier. As a neuroscientist at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he's applied his tenacity to a rare genetic disorder. Read More

Doing it for the team: Business study tests motivational techniques

January 21, 2015

Noah Lim, an associate marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business, is shedding light on sales incentives that could help managers devise incentive programs with better returns on investment. Read More

UW computer scientists enhance robotic manufacturing

January 20, 2015

Some industrial robots are hulking, highly specialized pieces of machinery that are cordoned off by cages from human factory workers. Read More

New research project funded by Department of Defense will enable faster, better coding

January 16, 2015

Pliny, a new research project for writing more error-free, secure code, is being funded by a four-year, $11 million grant recently announced by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the U.S. Department of Defense. UW–Madison computer scientists will collaborate with their counterparts at Rice University in Houston (which will lead the project), the University of Texas at Austin, and the company GrammaTech. Read More