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$20,000 Will Go Toward Stem-cell Research Karen Rivedal, Wisconsin State Journal UW-Madison’s Waisman Center will get about $20,000 to help pay for stem-cell research from a fund-raiser organized by a UW-Madison graduate who was paralyzed in a fall. David Busta, a 1997 graduate, raised the money with his friends and family in the second annual …
Dean Gary Sandefur has announced that Jon Miller, professor of communicative disorders and director of the Waisman Center’s Language Analysis Laboratory, has been named interim associate dean for research policy and outreach in the College of Letters and Science.
In the first scientific article to come from its pioneering studies of long-term Buddhist meditation practitioners, a UW-Madison team has found that long-term meditators (or “adepts”) show markedly different patterns of brain electrical oscillations compared to a group with no previous meditative experience, when both of them generated a standard meditative practice.
She stayed by her child’s side, prayed for her 5-year-old child’s health, and decided to always be honest with all three children about what was happening in the family.
Lawrence Shriberg has won the Alfred K. Kawana Council of Editors Award for 2004 from the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association. “The award recognizes a sustained history of exemplary publications. It is awarded to a scholar whose journal articles are meritorious in terms of educational, scientific, or clinical value … and whose contributions extend over a period of …
A Spinal Cord Injury Paralyzed Him And Now Motivates Him To Give To UW’s Waisman Center. By Karen Rivedal for the Wisconsin State Journal As anyone who’s ever earned a college degree knows, it’s not unusual for universities to ask their students for money long after the last tuition payment has been made. They call …
Protox Therapeutics Incorporated (“Protox”) today announced that it has entered into a manufacturing agreement with the Waisman Clinical BioManufacturing Facility (WCBF) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to manufacture clinical batches of PSA-PA1, its lead product in development for the treatment of localized prostate cancer.
By Lee Sensenbrenner Reprinted by permission Reporting success with a four-year-old kindergarten pilot program, the Madison Metropolitan School District is beginning talks to determine what a citywide initiative might look like next fall. A committee of the Madison School Board will begin the discussion at 6 p.m. Monday at the Doyle Administration Building, 545 W. …
The search for happiness can take many paths.
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, visited the center on Monday, September 13. Her visit focused on the Waisman Center’s “translational research,” including the Stem Cell Research Program, the Waisman Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility, and the Keck Lab for Brain Imaging and Behavior. During her two hours here, she toured these areas and …
