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Sushmita Roy earns H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
The Romnes Fellowships recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position.
Brennan Receives AACN Award for Work at the National Library of Medicine
The award recognizes her contributions to information systems for patients and reinforces the value of data science for the future of healthcare.
Stephen Wright honored by a Hilldale Award
The award recognizes contributions to teaching, research, and service.
Happy Birthday, Director Jo Handelsman!
Dr. Jo Handelsman first peered into a microscope at the age of 12 and became fascinated with science. Dr. Handelsman is committed to fostering the future of women and underrepresented persons in STEM, promoting science to serve the public, and conducting groundbreaking research. As a plant pathologist and microbiologist, she …
New Science to Script podcast featuring the Footprint Coalition added to SoundCloud
Michael Graf, WID’s Science to Script writer in residence (2021-2022) interviews Rachel Kropa and David Lang from the Footprint Coalition. The Footprint Coalition invests in high-growth, sustainability-focused companies. They make charitable grants to non-profits that advance the adoption of environmental technology.
Krishanu Saha Elected AIMBE Fellow
Krishanu Saha, along with colleagues Susan Hagness and Christopher Brace are among the 2022 class of inductees. AIMBE (American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering) Fellows are considered to represent the top 2% of medical and biological engineers in the United States.
Faces of Data Science
In Faces of Data Science, we meet members of the data science community in fields from business, engineering and medicine to limnology, geography and biology, including WID faculty,Stephen Wright and Michael Ferris.
Science Explains Why We Have Favorite Colors
Through a series of lab studies between 2010 and 2017, Karen Schloss, PhD and her collaborator, Stephen Palmer PhD, a researcher at UC Berkeley, set out to find out why we like certain colors more than others.
They hypothesized the Ecological Valence Theory (EVT), which they describe in their 2017 paper as the theory that “…people like/dislike a given color to the degree that they like/dislike all of the objects and entities that they associate with that color.”
A Driving Force of Industry-Shifting Innovations
Srikanth Pilla (former postdoc in the Turng Lab) works closely with automotive suppliers, helping them get more mileage from, secure safer rides for and enhance the sustainability of the products they put on the road.
Two UW-Madison teams chosen 2021 WARF Innovation Award winners
Shaoqin “Sarah” Gong, professor of biomedical engineering; Zachary Morris, professor of human oncology; biomedical engineering postdoctoral researcher Ying Zhang and human oncology researcher Raghava Sriramaneni win one of the WARF Innovation awards for their work, Nanoparticle to Render Tumors More Susceptible to Treatment.
Illuminating Connections: WID and the Wisconsin Idea coming in January
[POSTPONED]The annual expo of WID ideas and collaborations. Save the date! January 26, 2022, 4-6pm Discovery Building
University of the Air: The Science of Life’s Origin
David Baum discusses different theories that have been proposed to explain the origin of life and summarizes ongoing work in his laboratory and elsewhere with WPR’s Norman Gilliland.
What Will We Reap Without Topsoil?
WID Director, Jo Handelsman speaks to Science Friday’s Ira Flatow about the value of soil and her upcoming book A World Without Soil.
Solís-Lemus Group Featured in PBS Meet the Lab
PBS Wisconsin Education profiles Claudia Solís-Lemus and members of her lab as they implement a computer science tool to help “see” sounds of the forest and count how many animals are there.
The 2021 winners: Cool Science Image Contest Includes Three WIDites
Nisha Iyer, postdoc in the Ashton Lab; Shin-Tsz (Lucy) Kuo, undergraduate in the Schloss Lab; and Rob Nowak, Discovery Fellow are featured winners this year.
WID postdoc awarded AAAS Science & Technology Fellowship in U.S. Department of State
Amanda Hurley will work in the Office of International Health and Biodefense (IHB), which builds global health security through policy advancement.
UW-Madison Grad Student Uses TikTok To Teach Thousands About Astrobiology
Astrobiologist Lena Vincent’s TikTok Reaches More Than 50K Followers
Nanocapsule gene editing system earns new NIH funding
The project, part of NIH’s Somatic Cell Genome Editing Program, is a collaboration among Gong and UW-Madison colleagues Krishanu Saha (associate professor of biomedical engineering and cell and gene therapy impact leader at the Grainger Institute) and other UW colleagues.
WID alumnus awarded first AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship in the U.S. Department of the Treasury
WID and Saha Lab alumnus, and current postdoc at the Morgridge Institute for Research, Amritava Das anticipates that he will put his engineering and bioscience training to use exploring the sometimes knotty connections between science, national security, and finance.
Researchers use virtual reality to demonstrate effectiveness of 3D visualization as a learning tool
Researchers from the Neuroimaging Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and Dr. Karen Schloss from Wisconsin Institute for the Discovery at University Wisconsin-Madison have developed the UW Virtual Brain Project, producing unique, interactive, 3D narrated diagrams to help students learn about the structure and function of perceptual systems in the human brain.
UW researchers join three national artificial intelligence institutes
Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (AI-EDGE) led by Robert Nowak, UW–Madison professor of electrical and computer engineering and researchers at Ohio State.
The Tree of Life Is Rooted in Math
Claudia Solís-Lemus reveals a clearer picture of the evolutionary interconnectedness of organisms by modeling data, both big and small
Research aims to give everyone a fair shot at accessing COVID-19 vaccines
WID researcher, Michael Ferris, John P. Morgridge Professor of Computer Sciences and Corey Jackson, assistant professor at the UW–Madison Information School in CDIS, are developing a vaccine fairness recommendation engine that will support equitable decision making about vaccination.