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McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce the 2024 Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant recipients
ppointer2024-11-22T15:14:24-06:00Piper Rawding, Postdoc in the Gong Lab won for her project “Optimizing non-viral vectors for retinal genome editing”
For the love of the riddle: Industrial engineer’s foundational math makes way for optimal solutions
ppointer2024-11-22T14:27:42-06:00Del Pia specializes in mixed-integer linear and quadratic programming, as well as binary polynomial optimization.
Aghdam Earns Science Literacy Award
ppointer2024-11-27T17:52:45-06:00Her article, Decoding Our Inner Universe: The Power of the Microbiome Network Alignment Algorithm was among the articles chosen for the honor.
WID Alumna, Nisha Iyer merits NIH HEAL New Innovator Award
ppointer2024-11-14T11:17:43-06:00She recently received the award to fund her work on stem cell tool development for pain circuitry.
Knoll and Zhu Receive Kellett Awards
ppointer2024-11-14T20:37:54-06:00Discovery Fellow, Laura Knoll and WID Affiliate Jerry Zhu have been honored with Kellett Mid-Career Awards to support those promoted to tenured positions seven to 20 years ago and who have made key research contributions in their fields.
Stephen Wright awarded prestigious George B. Dantzig Prize
ppointer2024-11-14T20:38:09-06:00Wright was chosen for his fundamental contributions to nonlinear optimization and for applying optimization techniques to such areas as control, compressed sensing, machine learning, and data science.
Inclusive Engagement
ppointer2025-01-23T10:36:37-06:00Wisconsin Science Festival Science to Street Art
Interdisciplinary Research
ppointer2025-01-23T10:14:16-06:0026 Principal Investigators in 17 Departments
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The WID logo, a compass rose, embodies our outward facing direction and four values of Interdisciplinary Research, Inclusive Engagement, Global Impact, and Grand Challenges. WID's values reflect the Wisconsin Idea to enhance the lives of every person in the State of Wisconsin, as well as around the nation and the world.
Welcome New Discovery Fellow Emile Gluck-Thaler
ppointer2024-11-14T20:42:20-06:00Emile Gluck-Thaler joined the UW–Madison faculty in September 2023 as an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Pathology.
Wright named to 2024 class of National Academy of Engineering
ppointer2024-11-14T20:43:25-06:00Discovery Fellow, Stephen Wright was cited for theory and design of optimization algorithms and their application in signal processing and machine learning. Inauguration in to the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional distinctions in the field.
Through undergraduate research, engineer predicts the path, impact of viral mutations
ppointer2024-11-14T20:44:58-06:00Schwab joined the lab of John Yin, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. That decision led Schwab to a three-year research career that has culminated in the publication of a new paper in the journal Virus Evolution.
We Are About to Enter the Golden Age of Gene Therapy
ppointer2024-11-14T20:45:13-06:00From the Inverse: Krishanu Saha, a bioengineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose lab is working on gene therapies for treating blindness, says the precision allowed by CRISPR-Cas9’s programmability is its singular selling point.
Capital Data Sponsors WID 2023 Symposium
ppointer2024-11-14T20:46:06-06:00Meet our Gold Sponsor at the Symposium Expo
Looking ahead at this year’s Wisconsin Science Festival
ppointer2024-11-14T20:46:54-06:00Annual Wisconsin Science Festival returns Oct. 16-22 with new theme
Symposium at WID highlights Latinx Scientists
ppointer2024-11-14T20:47:18-06:00The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery hosted the “Celebrating Latinx voices in STEM” symposium in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Inclusion in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Oct. 5.
Del Pia adds another INFORMS honor
ppointer2024-11-14T20:47:33-06:00He has earned the 2023 INFORMS Computing Society Prize for a series of papers at the intersection of operations research and computer science.
Saha Lab Alumnae Announced JITC Best Immune Cell Therapies and Immune Cell Engineering Paper
ppointer2024-11-14T20:47:46-06:00Katherine P. Meuller, PhD and Nicole J. Piscopo win with “Production and characterization of virus-free, CRISPR-CAR T cells capable of inducing solid tumor regression”
Celebrate Curiosity at Wisconsin Science Festival! October 16-22
ppointer2023-09-19T11:33:20-05:00Activities include hands-on science experiments, live Q&A sessions and interviews with scientists, demonstrations, performances, behind-the-scenes tours and more.
