Category Science & Technology

New technology promises to help drug makers go green

June 16, 2010

Production of a single kilogram of pharmaceuticals often yields hundreds of kilograms of chemical waste. Now, new chemistry developed by scientists at UW, combined with technology developed by researchers from Eli Lilly and Company, promises to dramatically reduce that waste stream for a key step in the pharmaceutical production process.

QRM center gives Wisconsin company a bright future

June 14, 2010

Five years and a series of joint projects later, an ongoing partnership between the UW–Madison Center for Quick Response Manufacturing and a Milwaukee company is having significant results.

UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee award Intercampus Research Grants

June 9, 2010

Eight hybrid teams of faculty from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been awarded the first batch of Intercampus Research Incentive grants, awards designed to foster inter-institutional collaboration.

Saving the Point of Rocks

June 8, 2010

It may be one of the toughest rocks on Earth, but even Baraboo Quartzite is no match for a road crew.

University administration’s statement regarding Circuit Court ruling on submarine rescue studies

June 3, 2010

The university is reviewing Dane County Circuit Court Judge Amy Smith's decision to defer animal cruelty charges involving longstanding submarine rescue studies to a special prosecutor.

UW-Madison researcher named Hartwell Investigator

June 3, 2010

Dr. De-Ann Pillers, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, recently received a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award from The Hartwell Foundation, based in Memphis, Tenn.

Two young UW–Madison faculty win Shaw Scientist Awards

June 2, 2010

Two University of Wisconsin–Madison assistant professors will receive the 2010 Shaw Scientist Awards, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation announced today.

Powerful genome barcoding system reveals large-scale variation in human DNA

May 31, 2010

Genetic abnormalities are most often discussed in terms of differences so miniscule they are actually called "snips" - changes in a single unit along the 3 billion that make up the entire string of human DNA.

UW emeritus professor named acting director of NSF

May 28, 2010

Cora Marrett, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been named acting director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Marrett assumes her new duties June 1.

Organic solids in soil may speed up bacterial breathing

May 23, 2010

The "mineral-breathing" bacteria found in many oxygen-free environments may be "carbon-breathing" as well.

Master Gardeners seed UW–Madison horticulture scholarship

May 20, 2010

The SouthEast Wisconsin Master Gardeners have been sharing their gardens' abundance at an annual plant sale for years. They dig and divide thousands of perennials, everything from astilbes to zinnias, that shoppers stand in line to buy. Irises, daylilies and hostas are plentiful. Trilliums go quickly.

Biology “boot camp” to help incoming students through maze of UW–Madison biology

May 20, 2010

Incoming biology students at University of Wisconsin–Madison will get extensive new help navigating the tricky transition from high school to a university that has 31 different majors related to biology, funded by a $1.4 million undergraduate science education grant announced today by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Symposium celebrates 100 years of UW–Madison genetics

May 19, 2010

It's been an eventful 100 years.

Federal investment in basic research yields outsized dividends

May 13, 2010

Investment in basic scientific research may be one of the best ways to foster long-term economic growth locally and nationally, according to a report released this week by The Science Coalition.

Noted UW–Madison biochemist Robert Burris dies at 96

May 12, 2010

Robert H. Burris, a noted University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemist, died on Tuesday, May 11 at the age of 96.

For comfort, mom’s voice works as well as a hug

May 11, 2010

"Reach out and touch someone" - good advertising slogan, or evolutionary imperative?

It’s a small world (for small people) after all

May 10, 2010

Lab-coated and goggled, Troy Dassler's 15 third graders are itching to power up their digital optical microscopes.

In Europe, bison find plenty of room to roam

May 5, 2010

The European bison, a close relative of the American bison, has been on a slow road to recovery for almost a century. Europe's largest grazing animal once dwelled from central Russia to Spain, but by the beginning of the 20th century, habitat loss and hunting had reduced them to 54 animals.

Madison researchers field volcanic ash warning system

May 3, 2010

From a workstation in Madison, Mike Pavolonis hopes to lay eyes - satellite eyes, that is - on every natural chimney around the globe.

NIH reapproves WiCell’s H9 and three other Wisconsin stem cell lines for federally funded research

April 27, 2010

Today the National Institutes of Health reapproved the WiCell Research Institute's H9 (WA09) human embryonic stem (ES) cell line, the most used and cited in scientific research, for ongoing use in federally funded research.