Stories indexed under: Stimulus funding

Total: 8

  • Snowshoes Keeping Midwest culture alive Oct. 29, 2009 As stimulus spending goes, the impact of the $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant to the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures is fairly easy to quantify. It’s worth one associate director.
  • Cleaner, greener drug manufacturing Oct. 29, 2009 Nearly all pharmaceuticals are derived from crude oil and other simple chemical feedstocks through a series of complex, wasteful conversion steps.
  • Heart diagram UW to begin research into disparities in heart and lung disease Oct. 22, 2009 With the help of a $5.2 million federal stimulus grant, the School of Medicine and Public Health is developing a program to focus on disparities in heart and lung disease in Wisconsin, two of the most significant causes of death and disability both in the state and nationally.
  • Instrumentation experiment Scientists hope to mimic nature's dynamos Oct. 9, 2009 In the cosmos, all celestial objects - planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies - have magnetic fields. On Earth, the magnetic field of our home planet is most easily observed in a compass where the needle points north.
  • Lab pipette Tracking bacteria evolution Aug. 11, 2009 Figuring out how unfriendly bacteria prepare themselves and future generations for life outside the friendly environment of their hosts could have a direct impact on public health.
  • Walleye Quantifying the lake food web Aug. 11, 2009 Wisconsin’s fish are what they eat, but is the pantry stocked exclusively from within the lake food web?
  • Woman in wheel chair Harnessing an Alzheimer’s blocker Aug. 11, 2009 Regina Murphy, chemical engineering professor, and Jeffrey Johnson, pharmacy professor, are working together to disrupt a potential cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
  • Switchgrass GLBRC receives $8 million in Recovery Act funding Aug. 6, 2009 The Department of Energy (DOE) Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has received $8.099 million in new funding from the U.S. Department of Energy through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide crucial support for plant cell wall imaging and sustainability research.