I&D

• UW-Madison undergrads win NASA habitat design competition July 1, 2011 It's an inflatable home fit for an asteroid: Designing a prototype habitat that looks like giant tent for the next generation of space explorers, an interdisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students has won the NASA eXploration Habitat Academic Innovation Challenge.
• Stem cells from patients make 'early retina in a dish' June 15, 2011 Soon, some treatments for blinding eye diseases might be developed and tested using retina-like tissues produced from the patient's own skin, thanks to a series of discoveries reported by a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researchers.
• Research establishment spawns research-supply spinoffs June 9, 2011 For a century, Wisconsin's traditional metal-working industries spawned a broad and profitable series of tool-and-diemaking firms that marketed nationwide.
• Children of divorce fall behind peers in math, social skills June 2, 2011 Divorce is a drag on the academic and emotional development of young children, but only once the breakup is under way, according to a study of elementary school students and their families.
• Livestock risks from Wisconsin wolves localized, predictable June 1, 2011 It's an issue that crops up wherever humans and big predators - wolves, bears, lions - coexist.
• University spinoffs represent a new face for agricultural production May 25, 2011 Agricultural experts at University of Wisconsin-Madison have long played a key role in a state known for corn, milk and cheese.
• New approach simplifies Parkinson's surgery May 24, 2011 University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics has become the second academic medical center in the country where neurosurgeons can perform deep-brain stimulation in an intra-operative MRI suite.
• Human brain’s most ubiquitous cell cultivated in lab dish May 22, 2011 Pity the lowly astrocyte, the most common cell in the human nervous system.
• New ‘corn atlas’ shows which genes are active during each stage of plant growth May 10, 2011 Just as a road atlas helps travelers find their way, a new corn atlas will help plant scientists navigate vast amounts of gene expression data from the corn plant, as described in the May 10 issue of The Plant Journal.
• Heart cells derived from stem cells used to study heart diseases May 6, 2011 A research team at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is the first to use heart cells derived from stem cells to specifically study certain genetic mechanisms of heart diseases.
• Karen Holden advises Sesame Street financial education initiative May 2, 2011 Karen Holden, UW-Madison Center for Financial Security affiliate and professor emerita of consumer science in the School of Human Ecology, served as an adviser on the recently launched Sesame Street financial education initiative "For Me, for You, for Later: First Steps to Spending, Sharing, and Saving."
• Scientists detect early warning signal for ecosystem collapse April 28, 2011 Researchers eavesdropping on complex signals emanating from a remote Wisconsin lake have detected what they say is an unmistakable warning - a death knell - of the impending collapse of the lake's aquatic ecosystem.
• Astronomy technique could help assess deadly melanomas April 26, 2011 As a young graduate student with a passion for surfing, Andy Sheinis soaked up a lot of California sun.
• Worm studies shed light on human cancers April 20, 2011
• Study shows patient’s own cells may hold therapeutic promise after reprogramming, gene correction April 4, 2011 Scientists from the Morgridge Institute for Research, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of California and the WiCell Research Institute moved gene therapy one step closer to clinical reality by determining that the process of correcting a genetic defect does not substantially increase the number of potentially cancer-causing mutations in induced pluripotent stem cells.
• Milwaukee vouchers boost students’ chance of graduating, enrolling in college, researchers find March 30, 2011 Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Arkansas have found that a school voucher program in Milwaukee increases the likelihood of a student graduating from high school and enrolling in college.
• UW-Madison lake scientist gets world's top water prize March 22, 2011 Noted University of Wisconsin-Madison limnologist Stephen Carpenter has been awarded the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize, the world's most prestigious award for water-related activities, it was announced in Stockholm, Sweden today (Tuesday, March 22).
• Engineering students win top honors for electric snowmobile March 14, 2011 There wasn’t much snow on the ground in Madison, Wisconsin, this weekend, but there was plenty in Houghton, Michigan, as a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students continued their tradition of dominance at the 2011 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge.
• TomoTherapy sold, but medical physics spinoffs continue to benefit Wisconsin March 9, 2011 The announcement March 7 that TomoTherapy Inc., a Madison producer of sophisticated cancer treatment equipment, was sold to Accuray, a California maker of equipment for radiation surgery, spotlights the economic impact of the Department of Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• UW-Madison artist wins international visualization challenge Feb. 28, 2011 Watch yourself around Kandis Elliot's art, because it may be smuggling things into your brain.