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College is designed to prepare students for the next step in their lives; however, one class in the University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s Health and Human Performance program takes that idea literally. In HHP 3390: Lifetime and Outdoor Activities, students are learning survival skills in a hands-on way. Combining creativity, teamwork and high-tech tools, they partnered with the Huff Family […]

Andrew Malacara raves about “Bug Camp,” the informal name for training workshops that are part of a new project funded by the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin. Malacara is one of six students from UW-Parkside, UW-Stevens Point and UW-Madison who are participating in BenthicNet. The training program includes experts from the three universities as well as […]

UW-Milwaukee wasn’t Georgina Monese’s first choice. She started her college journey at UW-Madison to study astrophysics, but in the back of her mind was biomedical engineering. She’d been introduced to the subject through a high school program, and Monese loved the idea of using technology to help people in a hands-on way. Biomedical engineers typically work […]

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire have rare and unique research opportunities. We discover examples of this every semester. From therapeutic gloves for Parkinson’s disease patients to building a robotic dog or tracking the changing landscape in a Minnesota flood plain, Blugolds do it all. But this is a first: Dr. Harry Jol, professor […]

Parkinson’s patients are receiving a new investigational treatment after a successful study at the University of Wisconsin–Madison helped demonstrate the cell therapy’s safety in non-human primates and refine the method for its delivery. Now, the biotechnology company running the trial is reporting encouraging results. Aspen Neuroscience recently announced they would enroll a third group of patients […]

Underground, all across Wisconsin, an entire world of undescribed organisms is waiting to be discovered. And a small team from UW-La Crosse is leading the way. Assistant Professor of Biology Arthur Grupe and graduate student Mariah Rogers have been traveling the state to identify, research and document Wisconsin’s population of truffles, a type of underground fungus sometimes found […]

Traumatic brain injuries can be debilitating and sometimes culminate in permanent disability. While many people who experience a TBI are simply the victims of an unlucky accident, certain careers carry an outsize risk for brain injuries. Many of these risky jobs are in the military, and that’s why the United States Department of Defense has […]

On a recent Thursday morning, Becky was hard at work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL). A few test tubes at a time, hundreds of milk samples were carefully poured, measured and prepared for testing. Becky doesn’t wear a typical lab coat or safety glasses. Why? Because Becky is a Biomek […]

As electric vehicle batteries age out – typically after about 10 years – the world is bracing for a wave of expired lithium-ion batteries with no affordable way to recycle them. The problem is especially pressing with lithium iron phosphate batteries, the kind most commonly used in EVs, E-delivery vans and E-buses. Traditional disposal of […]

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater at Rock County is partnering with Mercyhealth to expand access to healthcare education and serve a key need in Wisconsin and stateline communities for nurses, technicians, and other healthcare professionals. The newly named Mercyhealth Medical Sciences Hub includes the Rock County campus’s state-of-the-art nursing simulation center and skills labs supporting learning in maternity […]