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Ankit Agarwal, PhD, Founder/CEO of Imbed and the Principal Investigator on the grant, said, "This award supports our ongoing investment to develop unique polymeric nanofilm dressings containing silver nanoparticles.

We often hear that there's no owner's manual for raising teenagers -- but UW-Madison hopes a new study will still provide some ideas for haggard parents.

Contributed photo Kaine Korzekwa graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with both a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and a Bachelor of Journalism on Saturday, May 17. During his time at UT, Korzekwa served as a communications intern at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, was a science writing/communications intern for the College of ... (more)

Christy, a proud UW-Madison grad, joined the NBC 15 news team in June 2014 and is excited to return to her college town.

Many believe that men are intimidated by smarter women and do not prefer dating them, but a new research published in the A seagull flies over a couple walking along Gillson Beach in Wilmette, Illinois, June 28, 2014.

A new study has found that wives with more education than their husbands no longer face a higher risk of divorce than marriages in which husbands are more educated.

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Christy, a proud UW-Madison grad, joined the NBC 15 news team in June 2014 and is excited to return to her college town.

A new study demonstrates that childhood abuse affects the way genes are activated, thereby influencing a child's long-term development.

Have you ever thought about how ice cream melts? If you put two scoops of ice cream from different manufacturers on a plate, chances are they will melt at different rates.

"I feel like I'm joining a team with a halo on it," says Katherine Newman, who becomes provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst this week.

Couples aren't more likely to get divorced if the wife has more education than the husband, new research finds.

Women who are more educated than their husbands used to have a higher chance of divorce, but a new study found that this trend stopped in the 1990s.

American doctor contracts Ebola after moving to Africa with his family: Medic infected while treating patients with incurable virus as outbreak spreads to Nigeria amid fears of wider contagion A final good deed, one last selfie: Man who lost his phone took this photo of the rookie cop who helped find it - days later she was dead 'at the hands of ... (more)

Children who have been abused or neglected early in life are at risk for developing both emotional and physical health problems.

From a distance it looks like an enormous satellite dish or something NASA created for a mission to Mars, but step closer and you will quickly see it's a "shade machine" used to keep livestock or people cool on hot days.

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT- In this June 24, 2014 photo, Barrett Allmann talks with client Sharon Hanson, right, as Allmann and his son, Nathan, left, with Chefs for Seniors, prep food for meals they are cooking for Hanson at her apartment in Verona, Wis.

Critics call it more liberalism run amok on university campuses: A professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claims that a new school policy on "diversity" recommends assigning race-based grades to students, though school officials say his claim could not be "further from the truth."

Today's Paper, also known as the e-Edition, is an online replica of the printed newspaper.

Peninsula Players Theatre , in conjunction with its production of Charles Ludlam 's frighteningly funny farce "The Mystery of Irma Vep - A Penny Dreadful," will host speaker Dr. Gary Jones Friday, August 8 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets to the performance are available; admission to the pre-show seminar is free.