EIN News: Wisconsin Science & Technology News

Leo Lutwak, 78, FDA Whistleblower on Fen-Phen

9 Jul 2008 05:54 GMT

... Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin, and a medical degree from Yale. In ... and geriatrics. He worked for Brookhaven National Laboratories, the National Institutes of Health, and NASA, ...

Robert Engler, 84, Scholar and Critic of Big Oil

9 Jul 2008 05:53 GMT

... Robert Engler, 84, a political scientist and authoritative critic big oil companies, died ... doctorate in government at the University of Wisconsin in 1947. He spent World War II ... He spent 18 years as a political science professor at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, ...

Ed Schantz, 96, Botox Pioneer

9 Jul 2008 05:53 GMT

... botulism - in a crystalline form, giving researchers the raw material to study it in ... things. Schantz retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Food Research Institute in 1979. In 1992, ... his ability to grow and purify Botox. Discover magazine then compared him to a fine ...

Esther Lederberg, 83, a Founder of Bacterial Genetics

9 Jul 2008 05:53 GMT

... bacteria that continue to be important to researchers today. In collaboration with her husband, Joshua ... under him in the same Stanford University laboratory, was not mentioned in the award. Born ... doctorate in 1950 at the University of Wisconsin, where her husband, just 22, had been ...

Nelson Leonard, 90, Biochemist and Singer

9 Jul 2008 05:53 GMT

... who combined his synthetic prowess in the laboratory with a powerful bass baritone voice that ... physiologist Folke Skoog of the University of Wisconsin. Several of the chemicals proved to be ... transfer within the cell. Fluorescent chemicals showed scientists where chemicals were in the cell. Studies ...

Jack Kilby, 81; Engineer Invented Integrated Circuit

9 Jul 2008 05:53 GMT

... ceremony, he received the National Medal of Science. In 1982, he was inducted into the ... engineering from the Universities of Illinois and Wisconsin and began his career in 1947 with the Centralab Division of Globe Union Incorporated in Milwaukee, ...

Joshua Lederberg, 82, Genetics Pioneer

9 Jul 2008 05:53 GMT

... into outer space and served as a science advisor to several presidents and agencies, including ... family to New York City. Already a scientific prodigy while attending Stuyvesant High School, he ... the Viking missions to Mars. Lederberg left Wisconsin in 1959 and joined the Stanford University ...

Saul Bellow, Novelist of the American Soul, Dies at 89

9 Jul 2008 05:53 GMT

... as a young man, studying the Old Testament as a living text. His family life ... to study anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. He was uninterested, and dropped out over ... a story," he explained later. His social science training would later show itself implicitly in ...

Milwaukee Public Museum unveils woolly mammoth unearthed just 30 miles away

9 Jul 2008 05:48 GMT

... the woolly mammoth is among three with scientific significance for southern Wisconsin. Small gouges on ... activity, which means there were humans in Wisconsin more than 14,000 years ago." Two other ... Besides evidence of arthritis in its feet, scientists say, little else is known about the ...

Vote 2008 Wisconsin / Running for office is the thing to do

9 Jul 2008 05:48 GMT

... McCabe, executive director of government watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. "People don't believe Wisconsin is ... Fond du Lac. University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said the crush of ...

Easier commutes in Minneapolis, Milwaukee drive moms' high participation in workforce

9 Jul 2008 05:32 GMT

... married women in the labor force, which researchers attribute to short commute times in both ... a labor economist at the University

Norton's Fort Reno Park Community Meeting Helps Clarify Error In Judgement & Protocol (7/3/08)

9 Jul 2008 04:33 GMT

... close the park, although the Geological Survey scientist involved, himself, thought the tests results were ... and lead indications. The only way to discover arsenic levels accurately is through chemical analysis, ... residents who attended the meeting, held at Wisconsin Avenue Baptist Church, that the lack of ...

Ancient Marine Invertebrate Diversity Less Explosive Than Thought

9 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT

... statistical methods and the Paleobiology Database, the researchers report, in the July 4 issue of ... if the diversity increases exponentially." The National Science Foundation and NASA supported this research. Beside ... Peters, University of Chicago and University of Wisconsin-Madison; Franz T. Fursich, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen, Germany; ...

Ice Creamier: 'Edible Antifreeze' Puts The Smooth In Smoothie

9 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT

... Damodaran has good news. The University of Wisconsin-Madison food science professor has discovered an edible antifreeze that ... keep the frozen treat smooth even after researchers exposed the samples to repeated fluctuations in ...

Doctors recommending cholesterol drugs for some 8-year-olds

9 Jul 2008 04:29 GMT

... low-fat milk for 1-year-olds and wider cholesterol testing. Dr. Stephen Daniels, of the academy's nutrition ... has worked as a consultant to Abbott Laboratories and Merck & Co., but not on ... Dr. Frank Greer of the University of Wisconsin, co-author of the guidelines report, which appears ...