University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Madison - Wisconsin
Corporate investments in climate-tech start-ups are a growing but overlooked aspect of energy innovation. According to a new report from Morgan Edwards, a professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her lead co-author at University of Maryland, these investments should be more fully considered as methods to advance climate technology.
University of Wisconsin-Madison pediatrician Bruce Klein is trying to save bats. At first blush, as a physician scientist who is head of pediatric infectious disease at the American Family Children's Hospital, Klein's involvement in a continent-wide effort to conserve wildlife species is perhaps a little unexpected.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a University of Wisconsin-Madison based research center another five years of funding to develop sustainable alternatives to gasoline, diesel and other hydrocarbon fuels as well as products currently made from petroleum.
Even in their dark isolation from the atmosphere above, caves can hold a rich archive of local climate conditions and how they've shifted over the eons.
Do blooms also like it cold? Lake Superior researcher and international team of scientists help communities better understand harmful algal blooms.
Approaching the 3-year anniversary of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many can attest to the mental health challenges that came with the sudden changes to everyday life as the disease took hold.
Gene therapies have the potential to treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, but they face a common barrier - the blood-brain barrier.
Three million people in the United States have had opioid use disorder, and another 1.5 million people have dealt with methamphetamine misuse within the last year alone.
While recent studies and polls indicate the nation is in the midst of a mental health crisis, the situation in academia is even more grim: Within the high-stress, high-pressure, often socially isolated world of advanced education, graduate students experience depression and anxiety at six times the rate of the general population.
Editor's note: When it comes to helping Wisconsin residents and the state's economy, you Can't Stop a Badger .
A budding collaboration between the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center and Chiang Mai University in Thailand took a grand turn with a visit to the Royal Palace in Bangkok.
Unintentional weight loss in people with Down syndrome may predict the onset of Alzheimer's disease long before typical cognitive symptoms like memory loss and dementia are apparent.
Gene therapies have the potential to treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, but they face a common barrier - the blood-brain barrier.
A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has successfully combined genomics with machine learning in the quest to develop accessible tests that allow earlier detection of cancer.
Retinal cells grown from stem cells can reach out and connect with neighbors, according to a new study, completing a "handshake" that may show the cells are ready for trials in humans with degenerative eye disorders.
