Medical College of Wisconsin News

Perhaps the biggest impediment regarding the acceptance of alternative medicine in the United States is the fact that Americans have been conditioned to believe that only "traditional" methods of healthcare are effective and acceptable.

Triplets Stephanie, Kyle and Ashley Verhasselt, of Freedom, will receive their undergraduate degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in three separate commencement ceremonies.

Center has been continuously funded by the NIH for 41 years The National Biomedical Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin has received a five-year, $7.5 million renewal grant from the National Institute of Health's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas.

Creativity and even some confetti were in the air on Friday at The Pfister Hotel as The Business Journal honored its first Eureka Award winners.

A first of its kind medical college broke ground today at St. Norbert College. University leaders kicked off the construction of the $40 million project called the Gehl-Mulva Science Center.

Michael Kron, MD, MS, professor of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin has been selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences.

The bride-to-be, a 2004 graduate of Greenfield High School, earned her bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering in 2008 and will receive her doctorate in osteopathic medicine in June.

William B. Campbell, PhD, professor and chairman of pharmacology and toxicology at the Medical College of Wisconsin , is the 2013 recipient of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation Award in Excellence in Pharmacology/Toxicology. The award honors scientists whose Foundation grant helped launch exemplary careers in ... (more)

Dr. Frank A. Pintar, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, has won the SAE International Arnold W. Siegel International Transportation Safety Award.

"It's an estrogen-mocking molecule because it has a similar structure. And I found that estrogen is known to bind to the estrogen-related receptor gamma, or ERR3, less formally known in invertebrates, and that's key in neurological development." It's actually Adam El-Meanawy, a sophomore at Brookfield Central, who doesn't yet have his driver's ... (more)

The Medical College of Wisconsin's 100th annual commencement exercises will be held May 17 at 4:00 p.m. at the Milwaukee Theatre.

As a head and neck cancer surgeon, Michael Stadler never thought he'd have to ask his patients about their sexual practices.

Dr. Frank Pintar , who co-founded the nationally renowned crash-test lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin, has received the Arnold W. Siegel International Transportation Safety Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers .

A team of students from Whitefish Bay High School has spent a lot of their free time doing scientific research.

De Pere resident Walter Coyle knew he was at high risk for contracting Alzheimer's disease since his father, grandfather and great-grandfather all suffered from the debilitating condition.

Bedtime can be a nightmare for 8-year-old Samantha Harke. But it wasn't always that way.

David Steed has joined the Salt Lake City office of MWH Global, a strategic consulting, environmental and engineering firm.

The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a $1.1 million, three year grant from the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute to study socioeconomic disparities in breast cancer outcomes.

The Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute received a three-year, $857,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to continue to develop an assay shown to detect inflammation linked to the development of Type 1 diabetes before ... (more)