The flamboyant Joseph Jastrow founded the UW’s psychology department and helped shape the fledgling science.
Health and medicine
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This is one top ranking that Wisconsin doesn’t want. Working together, public-health experts hope to reduce the shocking mortality rate among African-American babies.
This anti-smoking advocate believes the battle against tobacco can be won.
Can differences in the brain predict better treatment of post-war trauma?
Palliative care specialists guide terminally ill patients through the tough questions.
Project banks on nobody knowing your health better than you do.
New research center digs deep for sustainable energy source.
Gaining hands-on experience, helping those who have nowhere else to turn, and contributing to the UW medical school’s culture of giving back‚ it’s all woven into student-organized clinics like this one at Grace church.
After the initial shock of hearing a grave health prognosis comes the confusion. But thanks to a unique UW program, patients can count on help to weigh the options and chart their own paths.
A new common reading program puts campus on the same page.
Eat less — a whole lot less — and you could live a whole lot longer.
Our ability to understand another’s feelings may be genetic.
The latest UW stem-cell breakthrough creates beating heart muscle.
An unprecedented study of childhood seeks answers to health problems.
We all need sleep, and when we don’t get enough, it isn’t pretty. But scientists have yet to discover what exactly happens in our bodies and brains when we sleep. It’s a puzzle well worth solving for those who have sleep disorders or certain mental illnesses. So what theory are UW researchers pursuing? One unlike any other, of course.
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