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UW–Madison teams up with Madison police to foster officer well-being

August 23, 2016

The collaboration will focus on whether mindfulness-based practices can help improve officers’ abilities to manage their daily and occupational stressors. Read More

The Mind’s Eye

August 23, 2016

We live in a three-dimensional world, but each of our eyes only receives a two-dimensional image. How does our brain combine these images? Research in… Read More

Musical Athletic Training

August 23, 2016

UW-Madison student Robert Medina saw athletic training as a clear career path to take, so he entered the program within the Department of Kinesiology.  It… Read More

Bucky’s Butchery

August 23, 2016

Bucky’s Butchery is operated by a team of UW–Madison undergraduate students. The retail shop and processing plant is located in the UW Meat Science and… Read More

Biophysicist, chemical engineer named Steenbock Professors

August 23, 2016

Paul G. Ahlquist, who explores virus replication, and James B. Rawlings, who develops methods to model chemical processes, are the 2016 recipients. Read More

Study: Some women need more frequent mammograms

August 22, 2016

One size doesn’t fit all women in clothing, and neither should all women have mammograms on the same schedule, a new national study concludes. Read More

UW-Madison named to inaugural class of Excellence in Assessment designees

August 22, 2016

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is being recognized as a national leader in performance-based student assessment. UW–Madison Monday was named as one of just 10 members of the inaugural class of Excellence in Assessment (EIA) designees. Read More

Campus area streets to be closed during UW–Madison move-in

August 22, 2016

Numerous campus area streets will be closed to accommodate the more than 7,500 University of Wisconsin–Madison students who will be moving into university residence halls. The big move-in days are Sunday, Aug, 28; Tuesday, Aug. 30; Wednesday, Aug. 31; and Thursday, Sept. 1. Read More

A better way to predict the weather on sea and over land

August 22, 2016

Scientists at UW–Madison have made new updates to old technology that will enable weather forecasters to make improved predictions of severe weather. Read More

UW–Madison map library pinpoints Sawyer County site of 1966 bomber crash

August 19, 2016

Staff at the Arthur H. Robinson Map Library at the University of Wisconsin–Madison used their resources to help track down the site where a 130-ton B-52 bomber crashed in the dark on Nov. 18, 1966, near unincorporated Hauer in Sawyer County in northwestern Wisconsin. Read More

Former Badger Jorgensen wins Olympic gold

August 19, 2016

Former Badger runner Gwen Jorgensen gave the United States its first gold in the Olympic triathlon Saturday. With a comfortable lead, she smiled broadly down the home stretch and then broke into tears after crossing the finish line. Read More

Fruit flies help explain differences between males and females

August 18, 2016

John Pool, assistant professor of genetics at UW–Madison, studies evolutionary genetics in his “fly room.” David Tenenbaum Vive la difference! Trust the French… Read More

UW experts contribute to NAS report on U.S. science literacy

August 18, 2016

Despite perceptions that too many Americans are ignorant when it comes to the realm of science, a new study reports that people in the United States actually “perform comparably to adults in other economically developed countries on most current measures of science knowledge.” Read More

Businesses spawned at UW–Madison take two of three pitch night awards

August 17, 2016

A “pitch night” at the Madworks business accelerator on campus made significant monetary awards to two Madison businesses with roots in UW–Madison Monday. Emonix won the $5,000 economic impact award for a patent-applied-for system that reduces salt usage in water softeners. Read More

Orientation: Then and Now

August 16, 2016

In the final installment of Then and Now, photographer Jeff Miller looks at campus through the lens of incoming students.

Gamer-Teacher collaboration yields nine middle school science games

August 16, 2016

Nine educational video games developed in an unusual collaboration between middle school science teachers and expert game developers have been released nationally by Field Day lab, a project of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Read More

Learning like humans, machines extend the reach of research

August 16, 2016

A growing group of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers is working on ways to use computers to make better use of human brain power. Read More

UW-Madison places highly in worldwide ranking of universities

August 15, 2016

MADISON – The University of Wisconsin–Madison has once again placed highly in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. The ARWU, conducted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ranked UW–Madison 28th in the world and 21st nationally. It is the second-highest ranking of any Big Ten school, just behind the University of Michigan, which came in 23rd. Read More