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A gene therapy approach to boosting the placenta is safe in monkeys, according to a new short-term study, bringing the potential treatment closer to improving birthweights of human babies and sparing them the complications of an early birth and developmental difficulties later in life. In humans, placental insufficiency restricts the growth of developing fetuses and […]

Two University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students are waiting to learn where they will live and work in Spain next fall. Spanish undergraduate senior Kylie Newton and junior Morgan Hansen have been accepted into the RVF International program to teach English to native Spanish speakers. It won’t be their first time living in Spain. The pair […]

Association for state’s deepest natural inland lake seeking answers through scientific analysis of phosphorus in its estuaries Covering more than 7,600 acres, Green Lake is one of Wisconsin’s largest and best-known natural, inland lakes. It’s also the deepest such lake in the state, at 236 feet. The 1,000 members of the Green Lake Association rightly […]

Hannah Vang can’t conceal her excitement when she talks about investigating blood spatter patterns or searching for human remains in a dense forested area.   “I love every aspect of it,” Vang says. “The scientific methods, the investigation, and the profile you build—it’s like solving a complex puzzle. And knowing that your work can bring closure […]

Rarely does opening an email spark genuine excitement.  But Alissa St. Louis remembers how it felt receiving that message four years ago, telling her she had been selected as a recipient of the Eric & Kristin Jungbluth Scholarship in the College of Business Administration.  “It felt surreal that someone who hardly knew me believed I was […]

Data is everywhere and powers everything that we do. People with the skills to properly analyze and display data to inform managerial decisions are highly sought in nearly every industry. For Tamami Igeta, an international student from Japan triple-majoring in marketing, supply chain management, and business analytics, the numbers played an important role in her decision to attend […]

Three-year, $550,786 grant will be used to bolster computer science education, boost region’s economy High school students in western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota will learn the latest advancements in computer science, thanks to a $550,786 National Science Foundation grant received by the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and two partner universities. UWRF partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Eau […]

Meghan, a UW-Green Bay graduate student is passionate about helping people through the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program. While working there as a Dietetic Technician, she realized that she wanted to rise higher in her career and decided to enroll in UW-Green Bay’s Master of Science in Nutrition and Integrated Health program. Learning more about food […]

At the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Rock County campus, construction is complete on two state-of-the-art spaces where the next generation of students will earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Edgewood College, the result of a collaborative nursing degree program. These graduates will be primed for high-paying jobs — and ready to fulfill a critical regional […]

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has moved up two places to sixth out of 920 public and private universities in the United States in university research expenditures, according to the National Science Foundation’s annual rankings. For the first time, the university has topped $1.7 billion in research expenditures, according to the NSF Higher Education Research and Development (HERD), […]