Year: 2018

Using easy-to-interpret graphics, charts and text, the Budget in Brief tells UW-Madison’s budget story. Chancellor Rebecca Blank requested this tool in 2013 when she arrived on campus.  She describes the Budget In Brief as “an easily digestible document that provides information on state revenues, research funding, our auxiliary operations, student financial aid, and UW’s statewide …

A Look Back at Wisconsin Biohealth Advocacy: BioForward and UW-Madison Legislative Advocacy Update Join Ben Miller, UW-Madison Assistant Vice Chancellor for Government & Corporate Affairs, and Crystal Potts, UW-Madison Director of State Relations, as they share details from last year’s budget and its impact on both the university and Wisconsin’s biohealth community. Learn more about …

Each month, UW–Madison shares stories from across campus capturing the Wisconsin Idea in action. The latest edition of our newsletter includes more hope for patients with NF1, a rare genetic disease. It includes a video update on start ups in Wisconsin and the latest in the search for new antibiotics. Check out these stories and …

As a new ad campaign from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation tries to attract young adults to Wisconsin, a study by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers explores 12 communities that are already maintaining or increasing the number of young adults. Amid all the talk of emigration and brain drain among young adults, the Gaining and Maintaining …

Amid predictions that this year’s flu vaccine will offer limited protection, medical researchers are renewing their focus on a universal flu vaccine. A universal flu vaccine would offer more broad protection than today’s vaccines, which must be targeted at viral strains deemed dangerous many months before flu season begins. The problem is that the flu …

It’s a quintessential cranberry scene: Thigh-deep in a flooded bog full of millions of floating berries, two farmers extol the merits of products made from the tart red fruit. Most of the year, however, the bog is dry and the ripening cranberries cling to a dense tangle of woody, low-growing vines. That’s when people like …

  In an ambulance rushing a heart attack victim to the hospital, every second counts. If the ambulance and traffic signals could work together to clear traffic, the time saved could be a life-saver. The technology allowing transportation infrastructure and moving people and vehicles to “talk” to each other — switching signals to green just …

Instructors from eight UW System schools and more than a dozen other colleges and universities are taking a week out of their January break to meet in Madison in search of a crucial discovery — antibiotics. From Jan. 8 to Jan. 12, the instructors will be trained to join the Small World Initiative (SWI), an …