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Students examine their bacterial cultures as they check on how their variables affect the development of antibiotic stimuli. — More and more bacteria are becoming resistant to traditional antibiotics, and this resistance has become a focal point of research at many universities. Common infections like pneumonia, tuberculosis and salmonellosis are becoming harder to treat with today’s antibiotic medicines – creating an urgent need for new antibiotics. Tiny Earth was […]

Tiny Earth: Advancing antibiotic discoveries through undergraduate research

March 27, 2019 by Tyler Fox

Children sit at a picnic table outside the Waisman Center at UW-Madison — The following is a guest post from Adityraup “Rup” Chakravorty, Waisman Communications: >As children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) transition to adulthood, many see an appreciable improvement in their symptoms. But the degree of improvement varies greatly. Years ago, researchers at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison began to wonder, could […]

Mothers and schools matter for people with autism spectrum disorders

December 7, 2015 by Kelly April Tyrrell

Fostering sustainability is no game, but having a little fun helps high school students understand the complex concepts — like multivariable regression (i.e., lots of causes can impact lots of outcomes) — that go into biofuels production. Fields of Fuel, a game released in the fall by the Great Lakes […]

Biofuel is not a game. (But it’s also a game!)

May 11, 2015 by Chris Barncard

I didn’t know it at the time, of course, but UW-Madison science historian David Lindberg gave me the context for a career. As a science writer, I mostly cover discrete developments in science, the plodding, step-by-step construction (or deconstruction) of knowledge. That immersion in the minutiae of the natural or […]

Lessons of a Lifetime

January 8, 2015 by trdevitt