The discussion, led by Professor Jon Eckhardt (leader of WID's Entrepreneurial Science Hub), special advisor to the chancellor for entrepreneurship, outlined a new vision for how UW–Madison can better support students, faculty, and alumni in launching businesses — and why that shift is critical for Wisconsin’s economy.
Ashton also noted that while the primary goal is to develop a cell culture model to detect whether someone has a genetic predisposition for Spina Bifida, it may also be possible to use this research to screen for potential ways to reduce the risk of SB in the patient’s progeny.
Cognitive Science Society is pleased to award the 2025 Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building to Timothy Rogers. This award, presented each year at the Annual Meeting, is given to mid-career cognitive scientists (individuals or teams) whose accomplishments exemplify the twin strands of scientific excellence and commitment to community-building and service that were so evident in Jeff Elman’s career.
With the goal of equipping a new generation of professionals to contribute to informed decision-making in government, the envisioned program would offer STEM fellows the unique chance to work directly with policy makers, state agencies, and legislators.
Piper Rawding, Postdoc in the Gong Lab won for her project “Optimizing non-viral vectors for retinal genome editing”
Del Pia specializes in mixed-integer linear and quadratic programming, as well as binary polynomial optimization.
Her article, Decoding Our Inner Universe: The Power of the Microbiome Network Alignment Algorithm was among the articles chosen for the honor.
She recently received the award to fund her work on stem cell tool development for pain circuitry.
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery fellow Bilge Mutlu (People and Robots Lab and INTEGRATE) will support Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity (HAND), an NSF-funded collaboration dedicated to improving robot dexterity.
Discovery 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.
Wright 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.
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32 Principal Investigators in 17 Departments
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.
Emile Gluck-Thaler joined the UW–Madison faculty in September 2023 as an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Pathology.
Discovery 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.
Schwab 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.
From 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.
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