Two recent PhD alumni have received fellowships from the Graduate School to further the research topics they focused on in their dissertations. The Albert Markham Memorial Fellowship supports recent UW–Madison PhD recipients in linguistics, foreign …
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Finding common ground across borders
Human rights issues do not discriminate based on continent, nor do they halt in the face of a pandemic – in fact, they are global matters that magnify in times of disaster. Through participation in …
Stephenson and Shutske: Six possible impacts of COVID-19 on farming
The World Health Organization now considers the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) to be a pandemic. The rapidly evolving situation is raising questions throughout the U.S. The stock market has taken a hit in recent weeks creating …
Anthropology professor Karen Strier recognized as prominent primate conservationist in Brazil
Karen Strier, a Vilas research professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been featured in the Women in Conservation series by National Geographic Brazil. For 38 years, Strier has maintained a long-term study site on a protected reserve …
Driven by Earth’s orbit, climate changes in Africa may have aided human migration
In 1961, John Kutzbach, then a recent college graduate, was stationed in France as an aviation weather forecaster for the U.S. Air Force. There, he found himself exploring the storied caves of Dordogne, including the …
Clinical trial for Ebola vaccine developed at UW–Madison underway in Japan
As of this week, a phase one clinical trial to test a potential new Ebola vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is underway in Japan. Fifteen healthy young men* will receive two …
New Faculty Focus: Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Title and department: Assistant Professor of African Cultural Studies, Department of African Cultural Studies Hometown: West Bloomfield, Michigan, and Bafang, Cameroon Educational/professional background: BA in History from Wayne State University; Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from …
Borneo and Papua New Guinea | The Sounds of Biodiversity
It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. To Zuzana Burivalova, an audio recording is worth a thousand pictures. That’s the beauty of bioacoustics, Burivalova’s area of focus as a new faculty member …
Opening Eyes Around the World
In Sitapur, India, a surgeon from Suresh Chandra’s team performed a 20-minute, $25 cataract surgery on a man who was blind in both eyes. By removing the cloudy lenses that covered his eyes, Chandra’s team …
In Memoriam: Michael Briggs
Michael J. Briggs, of Madison, Wis., died unexpectedly and peacefully on August 26, 2019, at the age of 84. Mike was born in the town of Holt, in the county of Norfolk, England, on Sept. …