The View from Here

Planet Earth is changing. UW’s climate scientists study how much, how fast and whether we can adapt. Here’s an inside look at their world — which is also ours.

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Study: Witnessing arrest of father causes stress in children

Graduate student Luke Muentner was part of a team that showed children suffered increased stress, which often exacerbated developmental and health problems.

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Invasive species often start as undetected “sleeper populations”

The finding has important implications for the way we approach invasive species control and management, says Jake Vander Zanden, director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Limnology.

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Children develop racial biases as early as preschool—can parents Help reduce these biases?

Graduate student Katharine Scott wants to find out. Working in both Kristin Shutts’s Social Kids Lab and Patricia Devine’s Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab, Scott’s research led to a discovery of the multitude of forces leading to the creation and perpetuation of children’s biases.

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UW--Madison geographer recognized for her work to diversify geoscience

Erika Marin-Spiotta received the Ambassador Award from the American Geophysical Union, in recognition of her efforts to diversify the field of geoscience, one of the least diverse disciplines in the U.S. The AGU also recognized her for teamwork with a Presidential Citation.

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Freewheeling the Future

Autonomous vehicles are coming. In fact, they're already here. But are U.S. cities ready for driverless cars? All signs point to "no."

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Madison-based startup looking to revolutionize computing with a new type of computer chip

SimpleMachines, Inc. founded by Professor of Computer Science Karu Sankaralingam, is ready to launch a new type of computer chip that is said to be faster and more powerful than currently available chips while using less electricity.

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National Science Foundation establishes a partnership to advance throughput computing

Recognizing the UW-Madison’s leadership role in research computing, the National Science Foundation announced that the Madison campus will be home to a five-year, $22.5 million initiative to advance high-throughput computing.

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Here Comes the Sun

Cary Forest has pushed the boundaries of plasma physics research at UW-Madison, investigating solar wind and, now, plasma fusion — with results that could benefit medicine and the planet.

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