The Center for Healthy Minds and the Lucida Project housed in the Handelsman Lab are collaborating to use real‑time signals from your daily devices and body to predict who may benefit from mental health interventions – within days and even hours.
Karen Schloss is one of eighteen faculty that have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships to recognize exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes and comes with $60,000 that may be spent over five years.
Created for the advancement of learning and supported by the estate of professor, U.S. senator and UW Regent William F. Vilas (1840-1908), Vilas Research Professorships are granted to UW–Madison faculty with proven research ability and unusual qualifications and promise.
Ferris has shared his expertise to benefit the public in significant ways–including working with policymakers to help distribute the first Covid vaccines fairly and efficiently in the state of Wisconsin. He consults with industries and companies such as Exact Sciences, energy modeling, agriculture, trucking, and manufacturing, and will continue to do so after retirement, when he will remain a WID emeritus.
Rush’s approachable, low-pressure improv activities allow participants to practice speaking spontaneously, responding to mistakes, and adapting their message. He is leading workshops through the Illuminating Discovery Hub this summer.
Hryckowian was among eighteen professors receiving Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Awards, recognizing research and teaching excellence in faculty who are relatively early in their careers. The award provides flexible research funding for three years.
Supported by the Provost’s Office and the Hilldale Fund, this fellowship provides undergraduate students with $4,000 to pursue an independent research project under the mentorship of UW–Madison faculty or staff. Her project, One Size Does Not Fit All: Challenging the Use of Overarching Guidelines for Data Visualizations will be mentored by Karen Schloss.
The triple major in data science, entrepreneurship and philosophy and Rath Merit Scholar in the Wisconsin School of Business, has spent much of his time at UW–Madison empowering fellow students to launch entrepreneurial careers through our Entrepreneurial Science Lab.
Co-Directed by WID faculty Kevin Ponto, the lab is built around a simple expectation: Students come to build, test and refine projects with real problems in mind.
Associate Professor Claudia Solís-Lemus of the Department of Plant Pathology leads a lab in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery focused on producing novel methods and models to reconstruct the Tree of Life.
At UW’s Language Tables, students practice dozens of languages in a welcoming community outside of class. This video features WID's Laura Red Eagle from the Illuminating Discovery Hub's Indigenous Language table.
Discovery Fellow, Miron Livny is among four faculty members who will receive recognition for their contributions to teaching, research and service.
Discovery Fellow, Rob Radwin was nominated to the prestigious association for his innovative research on physical stress and injuries in the workplace.
Anna Tommasi's paper, "Efficient Nonviral Integration of Large Transgenes into Human T Cells Using Cas9-CLIPT," was chosen based on its novelty, innovation, and scientific significance. A member of the Saha lab, she will be formally presented with the award at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy's annual meeting in May.
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery operates with a dynamic, around-the-clock energy, fostering an environment of constant innovation. From late-night breakthroughs to collaborative experimentation, and global knowledge sharing over zoom, our interdisciplinary hub is always abuzz with activity. Take a glimpse into the exciting work that takes place within a 24-hour period.
The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the divisional Research Committees on the basis of a detailed proposal.
Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? Usually I am at home calling my parents or chatting with friends. Occasionally, I'll come back to lab to collect samples for experiments if I planned to measure effects every 8 hour to capture time-sensitive changes. I also come to the lab around this time if I want to perform an overnight incubation for 10-12 hours and proceed the experiment in the next day to maximize the sample reaction time. What would you be shocked to find yourself doing [...]
Your Content Goes Here What are you often doing at that hour? I'm usually trying not to think about tasks for the next day - materials to buy, what steps of the process need to happen next, and coordinating with colleagues - but as they come, I lay in bed and jot them down so that I can rest knowing that they are captured. I'm happy to have a clear game plan in the morning. Often, right before bed, my creative juices start to flow and I can envision color schemes I'd like to try or unique strategies [...]
Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? I’m usually at my desk or in the lab in the Discovery Building, focused on identifying and characterizing defective interfering particles (DIPs) in the human body. These DIPs have fascinating potential: they could be harnessed to develop novel antiviral therapeutics that suppress viral replication by outcompeting normal viruses, coevolve with normal virus to resist virus escape, and even transmit between hosts via aerosol. As a PhD candidate in biophysics working at the intersection of computational biology and virology, my [...]
Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? During this time, I am typically in my office or lab, engaged in research, analyzing data, or meeting with students and collaborators. What would you be shocked to find yourself doing at this time? I'd be shocked to find myself taking a painting class or doing anything unrelated to research, teaching, or my usual structured routine! Morning is a time when I feel the most mentally sharp, so engaging in something completely outside my usual academic or professional activities [...]
Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? Sam Mulrooney introducing the speakers at Crossroads of Ideas Either WID's Illuminating Discovery Hub is wrapping up a Crossroads of Ideas program in the Discovery Building Forum or WID's Illuminating Discovery Hub is just finishing up another SoundWaves program at the Hamel Music Center. Crossroads of Ideas is a public lecture series held monthly during the academic year that addresses topics that matter to our community and are the subject of research at UW-Madison. SoundWaves combines scientific [...]
Your Content Goes Here What are you doing at this hour? I’m often editing the podcast for CaSP (Catalysts for Science Policy). In a Perfect Policy, most recently the episode we released about state microbe, or working on a policy brief like one I wrote recently on water fluoridation in Wisconsin. I might also be working on the newsletter for CaSP. What are you rarely doing at this hour? Sleeping. I’m a night owl and if I’m not doing work like this, I’m gaming or doing some other fun activity. What do you like most about this time? [...]
Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? I'm at WID in the Saha Lab, performing experiments. What would you be shocked to find yourself doing at this time? Writing What’s your favorite thing about this time of day? I can get things done. Least favorite? Meetings How can you tell if your work is going well? We have different indicators during our experiments that allow us to know if we are ready to move to next step. What tells you it’s not going as expected? What [...]
Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? I'll be up and about, likely at the desk in my office, in a meeting with my grad or undergrad researchers, or teaching my course (process dynamics and control -- for chemical engineering senior students). What would you be shocked to find yourself doing at this time? I'd be surprised if I were not reading, not writing, not listening, not speaking, or not awake. I'd be soaking in the world of my co-workers, colleagues or students. Or I'd be [...]
Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? I'm answering email, going in to lab to check that our bacteria grew or how experiments are doing. What would you be shocked to find yourself doing at this time? Anything too thought intensive What’s your favorite thing about this time of day? "Waking up the lab" going in with the light off (low lighting). Least favorite? The building feels empty. How can you tell if your work is going well? If the controls are looking like we expect [...]
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