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CONTACT: Craig Berridge, (608) 265-5938, berridge@wisc.edu MADISON-Although millions depend on medications such as Ritalin to quell symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), scientists have struggled to pinpoint how the drugs work in the brain. But new work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is now starting to clear up some of the mystery. Writing in the journal Biological Psychiatry, UW-Madison...

CONTACT: John D. Wiley, via University Communications, (608) 712-5455 MADISON - Current and former faculty, staff and administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reflected today on the life and career of Denice D. Denton, a former faculty member here. Denton, who was chancellor of the University of California-Santa Cruz, died Saturday, victim of an apparent suicide. "We are deeply saddened...

Contact: Jane H. Larson (608) 224-5005 Cell (608) 212-3094 MADISON--State and university plant specialists are telling Wisconsin homeowners who are concerned about the recent find of an ash boring tree pest in Illinois, that applying pesticides to ash trees is not necessary at this time. "First of all, we have not identified emerald ash borer in Wisconsin," emphasized Bob Dahl,...

By Gregg Hoffmann WibBusiness.com A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and several experts in the study of rivers will headline the International Conference on Rivers and Civilization at the La Crosse Center starting Sunday. The keynote speaker is Jared Diamond, a professor of geography at the University of California at Los Angeles and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his book, “Guns,...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – Spinning out new businesses is the goal of many a university in the 21st Century. UW-Madison has been doing that for more than 100 years, helping start roughly 250 companies that have gross revenues today of more than $1 billion. “It’s our responsibility as a major research institution to push ideas into the marketplace to create...