Projects from a group of University of Wisconsin students ranging from youth outreach to developing websites were presented at a conference honoring the 40th anniversary of Earth Day Wednesday afternoon. The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Monona Terrace Convention center welcomed the six students to speak at their fourth… Read more »

Co-writers and producers of the ABC show “Lost” regaled a crowd of more than 100 students with stories about starting out in the television industry along with a few hints about the end of the series at a lecture Wednesday night. Hillel invited University of Wisconsin alumni Eddy Kitsis and… Read more »

University of Wisconsin officials say UW is a key factor in Madison’s pursuit to become a test city for Google Fiber, Google’s future high-speed Internet experiment. Google has announced its plan to build Google Fiber for Communities, an ultra high-speed Internet network that will boost Internet infrastructure within a city… Read more »

Campus officials are urging students to be alert after two new phishing scams targeting the University of Wisconsin’s NetID login service were detected. Spokesperson for the Department of Internet Technology Brian Rust said both of the scams are received in the form of an e-mail to WiscMail accounts asking for… Read more »

The private half of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery will have expanded research capabilities after a California drug company donated a $16 million facility Wednesday. Mentor Worldwide LLC, a global company that specializes in aesthetics medicine, was pleased to grant the state-of-the-art biomedical facility to the Morgridge Institute for Research,… Read more »

A group of University of Wisconsin law students have achieved excellent results at the regional competition in Minneapolis last week. The UW Black Law Students Association sent two two-person teams to compete in the Fredrick Douglas Moot Court Competition and an additional four-person team to compete in the Thurgood Marshall… Read more »

A software program developed by a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researcher has been shown to successfully predict what type of cell individual stem cells will eventually turn into. According to Nature Methods, the journal in which a paper detailing the program was published, the software uses complex mathematical procedures to take… Read more »

The United States Food and Drug Administration recently approved a newly developed heart pump tested in a clinical trial at the University of Wisconsin. The approval of the new Ventricular Assist Device by the FDA will make therapy aimed at patients waiting for a heart transplant available to a much… Read more »