What Will We Reap Without Topsoil?
ppointer2024-11-14T21:46:08-06:00WID 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:46:22-06:00PBS 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:46:37-06:00Nisha 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
ppointer2025-01-27T14:56:56-06:00Amanda 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:47:25-06:00Astrobiologist Lena Vincent's TikTok Reaches More Than 50K Followers
Nanocapsule gene editing system earns new NIH funding
ppointer2024-11-14T22:44:55-06:00The 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
ppointer2024-11-14T22:45:03-06:00WID 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
ppointer2025-02-17T15:49:34-06:00Researchers 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:47:41-06:00Institute 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:47:52-06:00Claudia 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:48:21-06:00WID 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.
Xuehua Zhong Receives Romnes Faculty Fellowship
ppointer2024-11-14T21:49:08-06:00WID's Xuehua Zhong is among fourteen UW–Madison faculty recently honored with H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships, which recognize faculty within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position.
Pride at WID
ppointer2024-11-14T21:49:26-06:00WID Director Jo Handelsman on WID's support for Pride month and LGBTQ+ members of our community.
Treating Antimicrobial Resistant Infections: A Nano-scale Approach with Big Impacts
ppointer2024-11-14T21:49:56-06:00A new application of nanomedicine from Shaoqin Gong's lab, published in Advanced Materials, may be a potent tool in the fight against antimicrobial-resistant infections.
Newest Meet the Lab Collection Visits Stem Cell Research Lab
ppointer2024-11-14T21:50:46-06:00PBS Wisconsin Education’s Meet the Lab series features Randolph Ashton's Neural Tissue Bioengineering Lab at WID.
Groundbreaking entrepreneurship science lab fosters student entrepreneurs
ppointer2024-11-14T21:52:12-06:00A new lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is mobilizing the entrepreneurial ecosystem by working to identify the conditions that foster student entrepreneurship.
Undergraduate Researcher Helps Fill in the Blanks on Virus Lifecycle
ppointer2024-11-14T21:52:28-06:00Tianyi “Herry” Jin, an undergraduate in John Yin's lab group at WID and the department of chemical and biological engineering, published discoveries about viruses in the journal Integrative Biology.
NSF Supports Interdisciplinary Pandemic Prevention Workshops
ppointer2024-11-14T21:53:10-06:00WID's John Yin is part of a team assembling February workshops on predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention.
Michael Graf pivots from making commercials to writing movie scripts
ppointer2024-11-14T21:54:36-06:00In early December the International Screenwriters’ Association named Graf, Writer in Residence in WID's Science to Script program, to its Top 25 Screenwriters To Watch In 2021.
Professor Stephen Wright Announced Winner of the Test of Time Award at 2020 NeurIPS Conference
ppointer2024-11-14T21:55:17-06:00Professor of Computer Sciences at WID Stephen Wright and three colleagues were announced winners of the prestigious Test of Time Award at the 2020 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Researchers Design New Strategy for Gene Therapy Development
ppointer2024-11-14T21:55:28-06:00A promising platform developed by the Saha Lab at WID advances the CRISPR genome editing field and could lead to effective treatments for many diseases.
New Effective and Safe Antifungal Isolated from Sea Squirt Microbiome
ppointer2024-11-14T21:56:23-06:00By combing the ocean for antimicrobials, scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have discovered a new antifungal compound that efficiently targets multi-drug-resistant strains of deadly fungi without toxic side effects in mice. WID postdoc Marc Chevrette is part of the team that published the finding in Science.
Madison Magazine: New Mural Celebrates Fusion of Science and Art
ppointer2024-11-14T21:57:04-06:00UW’s Science to Street Art initiative produces newest artwork.
WPR: Research on the Origins of Life
ppointer2024-11-14T21:57:27-06:00The theory of the origin of life has advanced greatly in recent years. Larry Meiller (WPR) talks with David Baum and Lena Vincent about their work and their understanding of how life began.
Solís-Lemus Awarded Grant to Develop Statistical Theory for Soil Data
ppointer2024-11-14T21:58:03-06:00Assistant professor of plant pathology Claudia Solís-Lemus is a recipient of funding from the Department of Energy to develop statistical theory and tools for computational biology.
