University of Wisconsin Madison News

The dramatic loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean due to rapid Arctic warming has altered the polar-region jet stream and helped to bring on extreme weather events of recent years, including the Midwest drought of 2012, record flooding rains of 2013, and the harsh, cold 2013-2014 winter, according to a climate-change expert at Rutgers University.

At the end of April, Dr. Thomas Zenner, 61, plans to retire from his work at the Bellin Health Clinic, local nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Kewaunee after 31 years.

Dr. Donald Socket, UW-Madison Veterinary Diagnostics Lab, and Rich O'Reskie, Oxxion, discussed how to properly clean sanitize calf feeding equipment and the use of chlorine dioxide as a sanitizer on dairy farms at the March 20 Dairyland Veterinary Service producer meeting.

For your information: MNT accounts were not affected by the recent Heartbleed bug, as we were not running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL.

MARX: A HERO FOR OUR TIME? - Suddenly, everyone from the Wall Street Journal to Rolling Stone seems to be talking about Karl Marx.

Research at UW-Madison is showing that the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease might be as much about lifestyle as aging.

It may be a few years before the first daughters head to college, but Michelle Obama is already brainstorming a dorm room checklist while encouraging high school students to dream big about their education beyond graduation.

After Gov. Scott Walker called for a two-year extension to the current University of Wisconsin System's tuition freeze, some critics have called the move short-sighted and an overly simplistic solution to keeping higher education affordable.

Daniel V. Speckhard of McLean, Va. - who has served in a number of high-level diplomatic roles - begins July 1 as the next president and chief executive officer of Lutheran World Relief , Baltimore.

MADISON, Wis. - It's a scientific axiom: big claims require extra-solid evidence.

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The editors of Scientific American regularly encounter perspectives on science and technology that we believe our readers would find thought-provoking, fascinating, debatable and challenging.

Backers of the new Open Source Seed Initiative will pass out 29 new varieties of fourteen different crops, including broccoli, carrots and kale on Thursday.

Police are warning renters about a scam targeting tenants in the UW-Madison campus area.

There are three slices taken by MRI through the right hippocampus of an 8-year-old.

Cami Collins accepts her doctorate in plasma physics from the University of Wisconsin in 2013.

Cases of mumps are increasing on the UW-Madison campus. University Health Services on campus is reporting five students have been identified to have the contagious illness.

Tracing the evolution of professional development programs in libraries has been an interest of mine since I was an Internet trainer in the mid-1990s.

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

Feeling stress about finances leads some Black adults to rate their health more poorly, finds a new study in the American Journal of Health Behavior .