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[RUBEN MORENO PHOTO] A UW-Madison scientist whose studies of Wisconsin’s freshwater lakes are known around the world has been awarded a prestigious prize recognizing his lifetime of research. Stephen Carpenter received the Ramon Margalef Prize …

Dr. Angela Byars-Winston earned a very high honor this past weekend having been selected for the 2017-18 John Holland Award for Outstanding Achievement in Career or Personality Research by the Society of Counseling Psychology (SCP). …

Providing innovative educational opportunities is at the core of the Wisconsin School of Business’s mission. WSB faculty design curricular and cocurricular activities that inspire students to learn and engage in new ways, with one such …

IN 1963, MARIA Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since. One of the many women who, in a different world, might …

Robert Fettiplace has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of sound transduction and demonstrated that each hair cell in the cochlea of the inner ear is sensitive to a specific range of sound frequencies. His experiments …

Karen Strier knew something was wrong as soon as she entered the patch of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais where she has been studying primates for 35 years. Instead of …

There is a photo taken nearly 25 years ago that gives us Pete Miller’s past, as well as a glimpse into his future. The February 1994 picture shows a college basketball game in progress, UCLA …

James Schauer, PhD, PE, MBA, director of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and Peterson-Radar-Hawnn Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW-Madison, has been named a 2018 U.S. Science Envoy by the U.S. Department …