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Research on hive microbes may lead to better understanding of honeybee disease

September 4, 2012

If you spot a honeybee in the UW–Madison's Allen Centennial Gardens and are wondering where it came from, look up.

Reduced brain connections seen in people with generalized anxiety disorder

September 3, 2012

A new University of Wisconsin–Madison imaging study shows the brains of people with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) have weaker connections between a brain structure that controls emotional response and the amygdala, which suggests the brain's "panic button" may stay on due to lack of regulation.

UW scientists probe, attack late blight in potatoes

August 31, 2012

As the annual potato harvest begins, Wisconsin farmers continue to check their fields for late blight, the ferocious plant disease that caused the 1848 Irish potato famine and fueled massive emigration from Ireland.

Resistance in the ghettoes: New explanation focuses on history, political experience

August 30, 2012

What drives some people to succumb to oppression while others fight back? Is it culture, willpower, luck or experience? In a new study of Jewish resistance to Nazi genocide in Poland and the Soviet Union, Evgeny Finkel roots the answer in experience.

Summer’s no snooze on campus

August 30, 2012

Campus is not dormant during the summer. Though they may not quite match the hustle and bustle of the fall and spring semesters, the summer months are filled with activity at UW–Madison.

UW plans new research and teaching facilities to support dairy, meat and poultry processors

August 27, 2012

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is moving ahead with a $75-million initiative to upgrade research and teaching facilities to support the industries that make some of the state's most iconic agricultural products.

UW–Madison researchers expanding study on human resilience

August 27, 2012

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Institute on Aging are studying how adults overcome social and economic challenges and whether it matters for their health, with a special focus on human resilience in the face of adversity.

Researchers explore a sustainable bio-based chemical economy

August 23, 2012

With cyanobacteria, carbon dioxide and sunlight, a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers aims to create a sustainable alternative source of commodity chemicals currently derived from an ever-decreasing supply of fossil fuels.

West Nile’s ‘super spreader:’ How about the American robin?

August 23, 2012

The 2012 outbreak of West Nile virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promises to be the largest since the disease was first detected in the United States 13 years ago.

Morgridge Institute’s Velten named a top young innovator

August 22, 2012

Andreas Velten, an associate scientist with the Morgridge Institute for Research, has been recognized by MIT’s Technology Review as a TR35 honoree for 2012.

Compounds shown to thwart stubborn pathogen’s social propensity

August 21, 2012

Acinetobacter baumanni, a pathogenic bacterium that is a poster child of deadly hospital acquired infections, is one tough customer.

Eight faculty named to WARF professorships

August 21, 2012

Eight members of the UW–Madison faculty have been appointed to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation named professorships in 2012.

Sunflowers inspire more efficient solar power system

August 15, 2012

A field of young sunflowers will slowly rotate from east to west during the course of a sunny day, each leaf seeking out as much sunlight as possible as the sun moves across the sky through an adaptation called heliotropism.

Research shows how computation can predict group conflict

August 13, 2012

When conflict breaks out in social groups, individuals make strategic decisions about how to behave based on their understanding of alliances and feuds in the group.

Million-dollar Keck Foundation grant funds UW–Madison genome research

August 8, 2012

An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to fund research into creating synthetic genome "foundries."

Learning machines scour Twitter in service of bullying research

August 1, 2012

UW-Madison researchers have been teaching computers to scour the endless feed of posts on Twitter for mentions of bullying events.

Forget blizzards and hurricanes, heat waves are deadliest

August 1, 2012

In the pantheon of deadly weather events, heat waves rule.

High-tech silver dressings ward off infection in wounds

July 31, 2012

Applied onto the business end of artificial skin, nanofilms that release antibacterial silver over time can eradicate bacteria in full-thickness skin wounds in mice.

Collaborative computing, pioneered at UW–Madison, helped drive LHC analysis

July 31, 2012

When scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced the appearance of a new particle among the pieces of smashed protons, Miron Livny saw a huge scientific success.

Uhlrich to oversee campus research policy

July 31, 2012

Daniel Uhlrich, a professor of neuroscience in the School of Medicine and Public Health, has been appointed associate vice chancellor for research policy.