Stories indexed under: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery

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• In quest for less risky drugs, scientists listen to neurons March 27, 2007 Since the 1950s, doctors have been ordering medications such as Ritalin to ease symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and prescriptions now number in the millions. Still, though highly effective, so-called “psychostimulant’” drugs are not without risks, leaving many seeking safer alternatives, especially for children.
• Study focuses on closing school achievement gap March 13, 2007 Despite decades of interventions and billions of dollars spent, a large gap in school achievement stubbornly persists between underprivileged children and their more advantaged peers. With funding from the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery seed grant program, UW–Madison scientists will now bring their collective expertise to bear on one important, but overlooked, cause of this troubling problem.
• Breaching a gateway to the cell, drug discovery March 13, 2007 With support from the Discovery Seed Grant Program, Wisconsin scientists are poised to bring a novel approach to finding new medicines by deploying the atomic force microscope — the foremost tool of the nanotechnologist — to screen agents as they dock with critical cell receptors.
• Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery seed grant winners named Feb. 21, 2007 The research program of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gets underway today (Feb. 21), as officials announce the results of a campus-wide competition for the institutes' Discovery Seed Grants.
• Construction manager chosen for Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Jan. 23, 2007 Findorff Mortenson, a joint venture of J.H. Findorff & Son of Madison and M.A. Mortenson of Minneapolis, will build the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Morgridge Institute for Research on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, officials announced today (Jan. 23).
• Morgridge Institute seeks director Dec. 19, 2006 The Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin seeks nominations and applications for the position of Executive Director.
• 35 research teams invited to submit proposals Sept. 25, 2006 Thirty-five research teams encompassing a wide array of disciplines have been selected to submit full proposals as part of the Discovery Seed Grant Initiative at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
• Architects chosen to design Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Sept. 20, 2006 Uihlein Wilson Architects of Milwaukee, together with Ballinger of Philadelphia, will design the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Morgridge Institute for Research on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, officials announced today.
• Seltzer named interim director of Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Aug. 8, 2006 Marsha Mailick Seltzer, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center and an internationally recognized scholar of developmental disabilities, has been named interim director of the new Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
• Historic gift will drive research innovation April 3, 2006 The largest individual gift ever to benefit UW-Madison - $50 million from alumni John and Tashia Morgridge - will pave the way for pioneering scientific collaboration at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.