This annual event was attended by faculty, staff, students, and Friends of the Waisman Center. President of the Friends Dave Sugar welcomed everyone and highlighted the Friends’ activities during the past, followed by an update …
2003
Waisman Center Part Of New Nation-Wide Initiative On Autism
The Waisman Center was awarded $1.6 million by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to participate in a multi-institutional STAART Center (Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment Center). Awarded in May and one of …
Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Ph.D., Awarded Vilas Professorship
Morton Ann Gernsbacher, PhD, Waisman investigator and Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor of Psychology, has been awarded one of the University of Wisconsin’s most prestigious honors, a Vilas Professorship. Created and funded from a generous …
Paul Shattuck, Waisman Graduate Research Assistant, to Receive ISP Award
Paul Shattuck, Waisman graduate research assistant and doctoral student in social welfare, received the national award in the Influencing State Policy 2003 contest for doctoral students. Influencing State Policy (ISP) assists social work faculty and …
New Hewlett-Packard System Boosts Waisman Storage Capacity
A new storage area network (SAN) that was installed here last month vastly elevates our storage capacity-from 75 gigabytes (GB) to 4,200 GB. This much-needed increase was crucial because of the center’s explosive research storage …
Evening of Hope Benefits ALS Research at the Waisman Center . . .
Proceeds of $105,000 from the Evening of Hope, a fund raiser held in Milwaukee earlier this year, will support the ALS research of Clive Svendsen, Ph.D., a UW-Madison professor of neurology and anatomy and an …
Neural stem cells take a step closer to the clinic
Scientists working with cells that may someday be used to replace diseased or damaged cells in the brain have taken neural stem cell technology a key step closer to the clinic.
Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., Named American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, was elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the area of Social Sciences. The 2003 class of 187 Fellows …
Seth Pollak honored with Boyd McCandless Award
Seth Pollak, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and a Waisman investigator in the Child Emotion Research Laboratory, received the 2003 Boyd McCandless Award from the American Psychological Association. The award acknowledges distinguished and significant contributions …
Growth factor shows promise in Parkinson’s patients
By pumping a potent growth factor directly into the human brain, an international team of scientists and surgeons has demonstrated significant remediation of the debilitating symptoms of patients with Parkinson’s disease.