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Teenagers spurning family time and conversation for Candy Crush during the holiday season is nearly as common a sight these days as turkey and baked ham.
Poverty may have direct implications for important, early steps in the development of the brain, saddling children of low-income families with slower rates of growth in two key brain structures, according to researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Scott Heppell / AP Scottish singer Susan Boyle recently revealed that she has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer, spent a lifetime believing she had “brain damage.” Christina Gleason, a copy editor in New York, always thought of herself as a little “weird. ” But both women were diagnosed with …
With evidence growing that meditation can have beneficial health effects, scientists have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body.
Students aren’t alone when it comes to exam nerves. Turns out some professors grapple with worry and angst at test time, too.
The 11th annual David Busta Basketball Tournament and Silent Auction once again proved successful as the benefit attracted many families, friends and community members to the Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School Saturday, Nov. 30. After raising $26,000 at last year’s tournament and silent auction, this year’s event topped $55,000 for spinal cord injury research at the University …
From his sixth-floor laboratory in the University of Wisconsin Waisman Center, Su-Chun Zhang, MD, PhD, has a unique vantage point on the second tower of the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR II), which is nearing completion.
Dan Bier, Associate Director of the Waisman Center’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities received the Association of University Centers on Disabilities 2013 Meritorious Service Award in recognition and honor of his contributions to the organization and to improving the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families.
The wave of remembrances tied to the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination have necessarily stressed his role in pushing the frontiers of space exploration, but his contributions to innovation in other realms of science and technology reach well beyond.
Stu Levitan, Isthmus Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1963 Cloudy, humid, high 48 President John F. Kennedy begins his last full day in the White House with a Western Union telegram to UW-Madison President Fred Harvey Harrington. Kennedy congratulates Dr. Harry Waisman and his colleagues at the UW Orthopedic Children’s Hospital on that afternoon’s dedication of the …
