Handelsman Among Brava Magazine’s “STEM Superstars”
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:03:51-06:00WID director Jo Handelsman was among four women profiled by Brava Magazine as STEM Superstars at UW–Madison.
Data Scientists Unite Research and Policy in New Project
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:04:28-06:00A new data science project, "WEREWOLF", puts powerful modeling tools into the hands of Wisconsin policymakers to create the energy systems of tomorrow.
Next Gen Scientists Assemble in Madison to Bring Science to the Policy Table
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:04:41-06:00The National Science Policy Symposium will take place at the Discovery Building and in Union South at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2.
New Faculty Bring New Possibilities to WID, UW
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:05:40-06:00Claudia Solís-Lemus and Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón are experts in statistics and machine learning, augmenting WID's data science expertise.
WID Researchers Collaborate on UW2020 Projects
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:05:59-06:00Researchers at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery are co-Principal Investigators and co-Investigators on four UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative projects.
Uncovering a Connection Between Regulators and Genes During Early Neurodevelopment
archive_admin2025-01-27T14:18:51-06:00WID researchers used a collaborative combination of computational and wet lab experimental techniques to find a connection between a transcription factor and a neurodevelopment gene.
New Technique Enables Versatile 3D Control Over Stem Cell-Derived Organoids
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:06:58-06:00WID researchers Randolph Ashton and Tom Turng partnered on a project to create hydrogel molds that will allow them to more precisely control the three-dimensional structures of organoids.
UW–Madison Researchers Earn Army Research Office Grant to Study Microbial Communication
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:07:24-06:00WID Director Jo Handelsman and biochemistry professor Ophelia Venturelli are part of a multi-university interdisciplinary team awarded a grant to study information transmission in microbial communities and how biological networks communicate.
THOR Wrangles Complex Microbiomes into a Model for Improving Them
archive_admin2025-01-27T14:36:51-06:00A growing understanding of microbial communities and their influence on human health or crop productivity has led to the dream of changing these communities to produce benefits. New research at WID addresses this head-on.
Wisconsin Public Television and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Announce the Timothy William Trout Education Innovation Lab
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:08:22-06:00Gift of $2.1 million from Dr. Monroe and Sandra Trout creates partnership among Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Morgridge Institute for Research, UW-Madison School of Education, and Wisconsin Public Television
Randolph Ashton Named SCRMC Associate Director
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:08:48-06:00WID's Randolph Ashton, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is the new associate director for UW–Madison’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center.
Cap Times Q&A: Kevin Ponto Wants to Use Virtual Reality to Solve Real-world Problems
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:09:09-06:00For WID's Kevin Ponto, virtual reality is more than a way of playing video games or simulating roller coaster rides. He thinks VR can be a tool for solving real-world problems.
Scientists Seek to Improve Quality Control for Genome Editing Therapies in the Eye
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:09:33-06:00UW researchers led by WID's Kris Saha join the National Institutes of Health’s Somatic Cell Genome Editing Consortium with a major collaborative award.
The Big Dig: Tiny Earth Studentsources Antibiotic Discovery
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:10:00-06:00From On Wisconsin Magazine: UW-Madison students are joining the hunt for new antibiotics in their introductory biology coursework and becoming part of the Tiny Earth network, based at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
Combining On and Off Switches, One Protein Can Control Flowering in Plants
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:10:30-06:00With Wisconsin's short growing seasons, reducing a plant’s life cycle and completing the season earlier "could be very important for many crops.”
A Stent-Free Future for Common Cardiovascular Ailments
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:10:51-06:00A team of researchers is developing a new approach for maintaining open blood vessels in the wake of surgeries such as angioplasties or bypasses.
Kinetic Modeling of Virus Growth in Cells
archive_admin2025-01-27T14:19:26-06:00A new paper in Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews describes how the steps of virus reproduction contribute to timing and productivity of cell infection.
Undergraduate Nathan Wang Receives Goldwater Scholarship
archive_admin2025-01-27T14:19:13-06:00The scholarship recognizes promising undergraduates who plan to pursue a PhD or MD/PhD followed by a research career in engineering, mathematics, or the natural sciences.
WID Researchers Receive Awards to Fund Cancer Research
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:12:49-06:00Mark Klein and Peter Lewis were recognized for their cancer research awards from The Ride, sponsored by the UW Carbone Cancer Center, at a recent Wisconsin Men's Hockey game.
From WPR: Wisconsin Educators Look To Cultivate A New Generation Of Scientists And Antibiotics
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:13:39-06:00The project Includes Hands-On Lab Work Testing Soil
Wisconsin Teachers Converge on Madison in Search of Antibiotics
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:14:35-06:00Instructors from eight UW System schools and more than a dozen other colleges and universities are taking a week out of their January break to meet in Madison in search of a crucial discovery — antibiotics.
All-in-One Repair Kit Makes CRISPR Gene Editing More Precise
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:14:46-06:00Error rates as high as 50 percent are a problem when the goal is to correct typos in the DNA that cause genetic disease. Now, a team of researchers led by WID's Kris Saha has made the fix less mistake-prone.
Randolph Ashton Continues Research into Causes of Lou Gehrig’s Disease
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:15:22-06:00In August 2017, Randolph Ashton received almost $800,000 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of NIH, to continue a five-year research study of Lou Gehrig’s disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS), after successfully completing its first phase.
Weaning Crops from Nitrogen Fertilizers: Examining Evolution’s Innovations
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:15:51-06:00WID researcher Sushmita Roy and collaborators at UW–Madison and the University of Florida will use a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study how some plants partner with bacteria to create usable nitrogen and to transfer this ability to the bioenergy crop poplar.
Why Blue is the World’s Favorite Color
archive_admin2024-11-14T22:16:15-06:00Karen Schloss talks about the psychology behind color preferences in an interview for Artsy.
