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UW retains top 10 national research ranking For news media More information Bascom Hall is pictured in an aerial view of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. Photo: Jeff Miller The National Science Foundation has released its 2019 fiscal year Higher Education Research and Development Survey, or HERD, data, showing that the University of Wisconsin–Madison ranked 8th place in the national research rankings for public and private universities. UW–Madison also ranked 8 th in th...

At this laboratory, primates are put through conditions so disturbing, “nightmarish” doesn’t even begin to describe it. Male monkeys are dragged out of metal cages by their necks and locked into restraint chairs. Once strapped in and unable to move, staff bring out electric shocking devices. They lower the devices to the animals’ genitals. And then, helpless to escape, the monkeys’ penises are shocked over and over and over again until they finally ejaculate. This sounds like the kin...

Support OneGreenPlanet Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! Support Us Experimenting on animals is extremely unnecessary and causes immense suffering to the animals involved. These poor animals are kept in tiny, barren cages and subject to painful tests for their entire lives. There is strong opposition to animal testing both from an ethical standpoint as well as because the results often can’t even be ap...

Pandemic-related research initiative receives strong campus response The high volume of applications submitted to a recent Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education initiative underscores the serious impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison last spring. The OVCRGE received 110 applications for the Pandemic-Affected Research Continuation Initiative and will support 70. Funded projects come from across campus and represent ...