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Video games teach balance, reduce symptoms in autistic adolescents

January 6, 2022

Waisman Center researchers hope to identify outcomes of balance training that will be meaningful to autistic adolescents and contribute to their quality of life.

COVID questions: What’s the difference in the tests?

January 6, 2022

What is the difference between antibody, antigen, and PCR testing? Should my 12-year-old get a pediatric or adult dose?

Two UW–Madison teams chosen 2021 WARF Innovation Award winners

December 15, 2021

Researchers who created a device for detecting explosives and a cross-disciplinary group working at the frontiers of medicine and nanotechnology have taken top honors from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

In a busy and productive 2021 for UW–Madison research, these stories stood out

December 14, 2021

University Communications covered a range of insightful, fun and important research developments. The writers who brought you those stories chose these as particularly memorable.

Badger Talks – Does omicron change our pandemic future?

December 10, 2021

Can we expect new variants to continue to emerge? Ajay Sethi discusses this in the latest Badger Talks and offers guidance for what we should do about it.

COVID questions: Which booster?

December 9, 2021

I had my second COVID-19 shot in late January. Which booster should I get? If you had Covid a year ago, and had a Pfizer vaccine in April and May, is the booster necessary?

UW teams up with NFL on research designed to reduce head injuries in athletes

November 23, 2021

Researchers will collect data from high-tech mouthguard sensors that measure impact speed, direction, force, location and severity of head impacts.

COVID questions: Thanksgiving; boosters

November 9, 2021

This ongoing series answers questions about COVID-19 and the pandemic. Today: Should we feel OK traveling for the holiday? Is it safe to mix the vaccines?

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine pediatric clinical trial to focus on ages 6 months to 5 years

November 8, 2021

“This is the final frontier. Our very youngest children need to get the vaccine and we need to make sure they are safe,” says Bill Hartman, co-principal investigator of the KidCOVE clinical trial at UW–Madison.

Call for proposals in second round of Research Forward initiative

November 2, 2021

In its recent and historic annual gift announcement in support of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation designated $10.5 million to…