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UW professors get grants to engage technology for course delivery

Cramer, professor Hussain Bahia, program assistant Carole Kraak and staff from Engineering M...

'Clickers' let professors quiz big classes instantly

Handheld devices that resemble TV remotes are catching on in large University of Wisconsin-Madison lecture halls, a professor says. But that doesn't mean students are kicking back and watching Comedy Central the 'clickers,' which usually have about a dozen buttons, let them respond instantly to multiple-choice questions posed by their professor. The anonymity is an encouragement to some...

Wisconsin professors elected to National Academy of Sciences

Election to the academy is considered one of the most prestigious honors bestowed upon American scientists. Carroll, a professor of molecular biology...

Professors want to tweak, not overhaul, patent law

, the landmark law that gave universities...

UW-Madison professor to coordinate U.S. fusion science effort

MADISON - A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor will be the liaison between United States plasma and fusion science researchers and a group that is building the U.S. share of On May 24, the seven international IT...

Professor's anti-aging study draws national attention

Richard Weindruch, who works with a colony of 78 monkeys at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been experimenting with low-calorie diets that are known to expand the lifespans of mice. But whi...

Anthropology professor's blog raises public interest

The University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist practices what he preaches, deciding in 2005 not just to write it down, but share it with the world via academic weblog. The result is John Hawks.net (http://johnhawks.net/weblog/), a project that solved Ha...

Business professor launches corporate reporting study

The NASD Investor Educati...

Two UW-Madison professors named to National LambdaRail Networking Research Council

, have been named to the National LambdaRails Networking Researching Council (NNRC), which will make key policy decisions regarding the high-...

Madison professor emeritus will consult on development of 'Internet 2'

Madison professor emeritus Larry Landweber, who was involved in one of the first networks to use Internet technology, may lend his expertise on the next stage of the Internet, which has been proposed by the National Science Foundation. The (CISE) branch of the <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/...

Biodiversity threatened as forests become 'islands' of green, UW professor says

America's national forests are beginning to resemble "islands" of green wilderness, increasingly trapped by an expanding sea of new houses, a UW-Madison forestry researcher reports at the 90th annual Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Montreal, Canada. The widening circle of development around forests such as the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California is serving to...

UW professor and WARF receive presidential medals

Madison got a double dose of national honors on Monday as President Bush gave medals to University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Carl R. de Boor and the The 2003...

Students will show off biomedical devices to professors and investors

will have a chance to bring a semesters worth of work into the spotlight on Friday at the Biomedical Engineering D...

UW-Stevens Point Professor Receives Patent Approval For New Technology

Stevens Point, Wis. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will receive the second patent in the universitys history. The , an organization that manages intellectual property apart from UW-Madison, has received notice from the U.S. Patent and Trade Office that a patent will soon be issued for a UW-Stevens P...