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WID Announces WID100 Research Advancement and Student Conference Travel Grant Recipients

2024-11-14T21:35:46-06:00

WID Announces WID100 Research Advancement and Student Conference Travel Grant Recipients. The Research Advancement Grant for $5,000 was awarded to the John Yin Lab for their innovative research. The WID100 Student Conference Travel Grant is funding $1000 each to four outstanding graduate students to travel to scientific meetings for the academic year 2022-23.

WID Announces WID100 Research Advancement and Student Conference Travel Grant Recipients2024-11-14T21:35:46-06:00

Achieving STEM diversity: Fix the classrooms

2024-11-14T21:37:56-06:00

A perspective piece published on June 2 in Science from the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) suggests that outdated classroom teaching methods discourage members of historically excluded communities (HECs) from graduating with a degree in science. Lead author, Jo Handelsman states "Outdated classroom teaching models are discriminatory, ultimately, we need to stop trying to fix the students and instead focus on our classrooms."

Achieving STEM diversity: Fix the classrooms2024-11-14T21:37:56-06:00

But How Are You Really Feeling? Two Kohler Fellows challenge the way we communicate in exhibition

2024-11-14T21:38:31-06:00

The How Are You Feeling? is an exhibit created by Kohler Fellows Hong Huo and Kushin Mukherjee that examines the limits of verbal communication through animated imagery. It will be on display at Communication Madison from May 28-June 3, with the opening reception on May 28th from 3-8PM (masks required).

But How Are You Really Feeling? Two Kohler Fellows challenge the way we communicate in exhibition2024-11-14T21:38:31-06:00

Meet the new Writer-in-Residence: Kayla Cohen

2025-01-27T14:59:51-06:00

What do mystery, mayhem, and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery have in common? The Writer-in-Residence Program, recently welcomed Kayla Cohen as a part of the Illuminating Discovery Hub at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery. The residency is an opportunity for an up-and-coming writer to work among scientists while crafting a manuscript with scientific themes.

Meet the new Writer-in-Residence: Kayla Cohen2025-01-27T14:59:51-06:00

Learn about bacteria through UW-Madison Ph.D. students’ adult coloring book

2024-11-14T21:40:20-06:00

Tiffany Harris and Aedan Gardill want people to know that science doesn’t have to be boring.  The two students started working on the project in January as part of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery’s Kohler fellowship. The program joins together graduate students in arts and science fields to create multidisciplinary projects. The two University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral students completed their coloring book titled “Bacteria & Me” this month, hoping to pique audiences’ interest in learning about microbiology. 

Learn about bacteria through UW-Madison Ph.D. students’ adult coloring book2024-11-14T21:40:20-06:00

Label-free Imaging, Plus Data Science, Means Better Quality Control for Biomanufacturing Stem Cells

2024-11-14T21:41:41-06:00

Krishanu Saha and Melissa Skala have devised an innovative method for reprogramming cells that leverages micropatterning, label-free imaging and machine learning to enable real-time, noninvasive monitoring of reprogramming. This method can be used to develop cutting-edge personalized therapies and disease models.

Label-free Imaging, Plus Data Science, Means Better Quality Control for Biomanufacturing Stem Cells2024-11-14T21:41:41-06:00

Finding Associations Between Colors and Concepts

2025-01-27T14:58:05-06:00

While looking at a graph about fruit, it may seem intuitive to associate a bar of blue to blueberries and yellow to bananas, but are there connections between color and abstract concepts such as driving, comfort, efficiency, or reliability?   Understanding how people absorb meaning from visual features, and predicting the meaning they attribute to color in any context is filled with possibility.

Finding Associations Between Colors and Concepts2025-01-27T14:58:05-06:00

Claudia Solís-Lemus receives NSF CAREER Award

2024-11-14T21:43:54-06:00

Claudia Solís-Lemus' has been awarded a coveted five-year research grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. Solís-Lemus’ NSF grant will support her research, which combines statistical theory and biology to help understand  how the biodiversity that we see on Earth evolved from single-cell organisms. 

Claudia Solís-Lemus receives NSF CAREER Award2024-11-14T21:43:54-06:00

New way to alter DNA, affect health circumvents gut bacteria

2024-11-14T21:44:41-06:00

In a new study, the John Denu lab has learned that the fatty acids butyrate and propionate also activate p300, a crucial human enzyme that promotes the unspooling of DNA. This unwound DNA allows more genes to become active and expressed, which ultimately affects human health.

New way to alter DNA, affect health circumvents gut bacteria2024-11-14T21:44:41-06:00

Bacterial “zorbing” reveals a new type of social movement

2024-11-15T12:04:59-06:00

While studying the three-member model microbial community, nicknamed The Hitchhikers of the Rhizosphere (THOR), researchers from professor of plant pathology and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Jo Handelsman and professor of biomedical engineering and Discovery Fellow David Beebe’s labs noticed cells moving in unexpected, unique ways under the microscope.

Bacterial “zorbing” reveals a new type of social movement2024-11-15T12:04:59-06:00
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