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  1. With milk testing and new tools, UW-Madison scientists are helping prevent bird flu outbreaks in Wisconsin and beyond

    Photo: With the help of a robotic liquid handler, UW–Madison researchers at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL) are testing some 5,000 milk samples per month to monitor and prevent H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in the state’s dairy cattle. Photo: Taylor Wolfram / UW–Madison

    October 27, 2025

    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 […]

  2. Bucky’s Tuition Promise boosts retention rate for lower-income students, long-term study finds

    Photo of Bascom Hall: “Overall, it’s really promising to see that new populations of students who were brought to campus through Bucky’s Tuition Promise are succeeding at such high rates,” says research analyst Amberly Dziesinski. Photo: Bryce Richter / UW–Madison

    October 16, 2025

    A flagship financial aid program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that provides generous support to in-state students from low- to moderate-income families increases student retention by several percentage points, according to new research. The study, published this month in the Peabody Journal of Education, is the first to assess the long-term outcomes of Bucky’s Tuition Promise, which […]

  3. A global hub for Hollywood history

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    October 6, 2025

    UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research preserves priceless materials from the entertainment industry If you dream of reading the original screenplay that kicked off the “Jurassic Park” film franchise — leading to this summer’s blockbuster “Jurassic World Rebirth” 32 years later — look no further than Box 1, Folder 15, of the David […]

  4. Bridging the Gap: How UW–Madison’s Center for Aging Research and Education Transforms Care for Rural and Aging Wisconsin

    Photo: Members of the Langlade County Healthy Aging in Rural Towns (HeART) coalition sit at one of the many HeART benches strategically placed around pedestrian areas to provide places to rest. (Photo by Heidi E. Johnson)

    September 29, 2025

    In the rolling hills and tight-knit communities of rural Wisconsin, the nearest hospital may be an hour’s drive away, making it difficult for everyone from expectant parents to older people managing chronic conditions to get the care they need. As the state’s demographics shift and the average age of the population increases, this lack of […]

  5. Robotic space rovers keep getting stuck. UW-Madison engineers have figured out why.

    September 12, 2025

    When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel — as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009 — Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, issuing a series of commands that move its wheels or reverse its course in a delicate, time-consuming effort to free it and continue its exploratory mission. While Spirit remained […]

  6. Recycling lithium from old electric vehicle batteries could be done cheaply with new electrochemical process

    Photo: Chemistry Professor Kyoung-Shin Choi’s research lab has developed an electrochemical method to recycle lithium that’s catching the attention of electric vehicle makers. Photo: Jeff Miller / UW–Madison

    September 9, 2025

    With ever more electric vehicles on the road, regulators and automakers are considering what can be done with the millions of batteries that power EVs after they’re spent. Even when their useful life is over, EV batteries contain valuable lithium that could theoretically be recycled and used in new batteries, but coming up with a […]

  7. UW–Madison virologists are at the forefront of efforts to keep tabs on avian influenza in dairy milk

    Photo: Holstein Dairy cattle are brought into the milking parlor at the UW Dairy Cattle Center on Sept. 1, 2020. Today, researchers at UW–Madison are working to answer important questions about the risks that avian influenza poses public health and food-safety. Photo: Bryce Richter

    August 18, 2025

    When H5N1 avian influenza made an unprecedented jump into dairy cattle in early 2024, the development prompted concern on multiple fronts. How would herds with infections fare? Would dairy workers be at risk? Could the virus potentially infect consumers through milk and other dairy products? Led by a team of virologists at the Influenza Research […]

  8. UW-Madison professor emeritus who paved the way for at-home colon cancer testing and other screenings earns national recognition

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    July 30, 2025

    Millions of Americans have completed the at-home Cologuard screening test for early signs of colon cancer. Among the first people to thank for the widely accessible, potentially life-saving tool is James Dahlberg. The University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus of biomolecular chemistry combined basic science discoveries with an entrepreneurial vision that has brought several types of […]

  9. UW-Madison biochemists engineered a poplar tree that produces a high-demand industrial chemical

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    July 14, 2025

    Brian Fox, the Marvin J. Johnson Professor in Fermentation Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, tinkers with the way living things use chemistry to turn their own blueprints, DNA, into the processes that make a healthy organism go. Over more than three decades, federal agencies including the Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health and […]

  10. UW-Madison researchers develop personalized cancer vaccines that slow tumor recurrence in mice

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    July 7, 2025

    Using a newly discovered byproduct of dying cancer cells, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are developing personalized vaccines that could help keep aggressive tumors from recurring. Led by Quanyin Hu, a professor in the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy, the research team has already found success slowing the recurrence of tumors in mouse models of triple negative breast […]

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