Jurgen Herbst, professor emeritus of history and educational policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, outlines his ideological transformation in 'Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood Among the Nazis,' just published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Trace Research and Development Center has received $3.4 million for a project to make standard telecommunications systems more accessible for people who are older or disabled.
A new study says there's a big hole in the argument used by university officials who say collective bargaining with teaching and research assistants interferes with the faculty's ability to instruct and advise those students: It isn't true.
A group of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, writing in the Oct. 15 edition of the journal Science, suggests that simple biological diversity may be less important for an ecosystem than how individual animals, plants or microbes respond to environmental change.
Journalism and law students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have joined forces to generate in-depth coverage and analysis of the university's student fee lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists will study how the emotions affect health at a new center funded by the National Institutes of Health.
The sexiest, most insightful technology in modern genetics, the gene chip, a technology that permits scientists to analyze thousands of genes at once, may soon come within easy reach of most biologists.
A study of 12 elementary and middle schools in Chicago has revealed two important findings: In writing and mathematics, few teachers give challenging assignments. But those who do get higher-quality student work.
A new take on teaching evolution in public schools - an issue stoked white-hot by the recent decision of the Kansas state board of education -- can be found in a high school course developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Richard Amasino, a University of Wisconsin-Madison plant molecular biologist, will receive the 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Award at a ceremony Oct. 27 in Madison, Wis.
Ford Motor Company will grant nearly $2.1 million over five years for education and research programs in the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering and School of Business.
The big spenders on campaign issue ads in the 1998 Wisconsin elections got very little payoff, says a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.
Reading the narrow bands of iron found in some sedimentary rocks, scientists may have found a way to assess microbial populations across time and space, opening a window to the early history of life on Earth and possibly other planets.
A new technology that maps an organism's entire genome from single DNA molecules could ratchet up the race to decipher complex genomes, from food crops to human beings.
A fleet of powerful new visualization tools is giving forecasters an unprecedented look into the anatomy of typhoons and hurricanes, helping refine early-warning systems.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have, for the first time, profiled specific genetic changes during the aging of experimental animals, a discovery that could aid work to extend life span and preserve health.
Popular assumptions about a cavernous self-esteem gender gap may be greatly exaggerated, according to a new analysis of nearly 150,000 respondents by University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologists.
A decade-long study of how diet affects the process of growing old, will continue and be expanded at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the help of $6.75 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The dirt beneath your feet holds many secrets, not the least of which may be the next miracle drug.
A new study of violence between intimate partners by two University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologists reveals a problem of disturbing scope, with as many as one third of respondents reporting being either victims or perpetrators of physical abuse.
Three University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have a new scale in mind for nuclear energy: Rather than huge plants powering entire cities, they envision tiny batteries turning a single microscopic gear.
Looking deep within the genes of three very different kinds of animals, scientists have found enough molecular evidence to finally fell the animal kingdom's old family tree.
Researchers from around the world, members of the Association of Genocide Scholars, will gather at the University of Wisconsin-Madison June 13-15 to exchange insights into genocide and develop strategies to combat it at their third annual conference.
Growing complete organs in the laboratory, a longstanding dream of biomedical science, is one step closer to reality as a team of Wisconsin scientists report the discovery of a genetic mechanism that gives organs their shape.
The 1999 Joint Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, The American Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists will bring nearly a thousand scientists to the University of Wisconsin-Madison beginning Tuesday, June 22.
Researchers are discovering that nicotine withdrawal symptoms can behave like characters in a bad horror flick: Just when you think you've killed them, they're back with a vengeance.
Due to some anthropological sleuthing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Oneida Nation near Green Bay, Wis., now holds copies of 167 long-lost notebooks filled with descriptions of Oneida life during the first half of this century.
A symposium June 3-5 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will explore new research on the links between environmental toxins and disease, including birth defects and cancer.
A weekend of beginnings commences Friday, May 14, for the approximately 4,000 students eligible to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring. Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union and law professor at New York Law School, will speak.
With the 29th annual Earth Day coming up Thursday, April 22, here is University of Wisconsin-Madison research that focuses on environmentally friendly practices.
For those interested in learning more about why kids kill, the psychological intricacies of grief, and the technology available to make firearms safer, The Why Files, a science-behind-the-news web site produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has answers.
Transferring desirable genes into crops is a high-tech game of chance, with success rates running about one in 1,000. But the odds get a whole lot better when you remove gravity from the mix.
Learning to spot signs of anger early becomes a finely honed survival skill for children who have suffered severe abuse. A new study by psychologist Seth Pollak suggests that this survival skill may actually trigger biological changes, altering the way the brain processes anger.
A mock court exercise developed by a University of Wisconsin Law School professor will introduce Wisconsin deaf students to the world of law, and the very real possibility of becoming a lawyer.
National experts plan to gather April 7-9 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a national conference that will examine the public service mission of land grant institutions.
They look more like stray computer parts than precision medical tools, but Amit Lal's research creations could give surgeons an incomparable new edge in medicine.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison engineer has developed a new guardrail design made from composite materials that is potentially safer than traditional highway guardrails.
The culture of a school -- a web of values, traditions and symbols -- can be toxin or tonic for education reform. Ignoring this powerful variable, however, can be a fatal mistake in reform attempts, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
This winter the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array or AMANDA, a novel telescope set kilometers deep in the ice at the South Pole, began its search for the ghost-like cosmic neutrino.
La Nina may get the attention, but if forecasts of unusually wild weather this spring come true, lesser-known forces like "zonal jet streams" and "Bermuda highs" will be responsible.
By shining a laser from space onto the Antarctic and Greenland, scientists may soon peel away some of the mystery surrounding the fate of the massive ice sheets that, through natural fluctuation or human-induced climate change, could drastically alter the levels of the world's oceans.
At Holman Correctional Facility, just north of the Florida panhandle in Atmore, Ala., Jeffrey Day Rieber waits to die - but some University of Wisconsin-Madison law students and their law professor are laboring to prevent his death.
How the elephant got its trunk, the deer its antlers and the rattlesnake its rattles may seem like disparate questions of developmental biology, but the origins of these novelties, according to the genes of butterflies, may have much in common.
America's favorite nut can settle into our tummies in many different forms thanks to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers who have translated The Walnut Cookbook, a collection of recipes by Jean-Luc Toussaint, their summer neighbor in Perigord, a town in southern France.
A professor of decorative arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says our holiday rituals underscore the importance of material objects to the way we present ourselves and how we envision our culture.
Prejudice strikes most people as a learned behavior, but a study of grade school kids exposes prejudice as a much cagier beast, waiting to rear its head at the slightest provocation, according to a UW-Madison psychology professor.
The dream of one day being able to grow in the laboratory an unlimited amount of human tissues for transplantation is one step closer to reality. Writing in the journal Science, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison report the successful derivation and prolonged culture of human embryonic stem cells - cells that are the parent cells of all tissues in the body.
Combining simultaneous observations of Neptune made with the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, researchers have captured the most insightful images to date of a planet whose blustery weather - monster storms and equatorial winds of 900 miles per hour - bewilders scientists.
To some, a whiff of rare perfume might evoke images of a wild, exotic place. But a University of Wisconsin-Madison and industry research project will be in truly exotic territory when it tries to cultivate fragrances in space.
Scientists are finding that plants can serve as "vessels" for desirable new traits, such as disease resistance and life-enhancing drugs, but the process is fraught with inefficiency. A project aboard the Oct. 29 NASA Space Shuttle will look at whether microgravity can provide a more efficient environment for gene transfer.
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