Jo Handelsman Named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
ppointer2024-11-14T21:33:17-06:00UW–Madison’s three new fellows–Susan Hagness, Jo Handelsman, and Justin Wilson–bring the university’s total representation to 15.
WID Graduate Student is December Graduation Student Speaker
ppointer2024-11-14T21:33:52-06:00From high school dropout to PhD: The unlikely journey of student commencement speaker and Saha Lab member Kirstan Gimse
Karen Schloss earns promotion to Associate Professor
ppointer2024-11-14T21:36:11-06:00Dr. Schloss has earned tenure in the Department of Psychology. She studies color cognition, color preferences, visual reasoning, and information visualization.
Ashton lab spinoff safeguards developing brain, spinal cord from toxic threats
ppointer2024-11-14T21:36:27-06:00Randolph Ashton, an associate professor of biomedical engineering, is co-founder of Neurosetta, a startup company built around technology for modeling human brain and spinal cord development that emerged from his research lab.
How Zombies Can Help Prevent the Next Pandemic
ppointer2024-11-14T21:36:39-06:00Incomplete viral genomes can quell disease and, with further research, could be turned into treatments. An opinion by John Yin for Scientific American.
Madison startup developing chemical health testing platform
ppointer2024-11-14T21:37:08-06:00WID's Randolph Ashton is developing a method for “scalable and cost-effective screening” of various chemical compounds on the brain and spinal cord. The new company is Neurosetta.
How Does Life Begin?
ppointer2024-11-14T21:37:32-06:00PhD student Lena Vincent pursues the biggest question in her research on the chemical origins of life.
Sushmita Roy earns H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
ppointer2024-11-14T21:39:04-06:00The 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:41:26-06:00The award recognizes her contributions to information systems for patients and reinforces the value of data science for the future of healthcare.
Stephen Wright honored with a Hilldale Award
ppointer2024-11-14T12:20:51-06:00The award recognizes contributions to teaching, research, and service.
Happy Birthday, Director Jo Handelsman!
ppointer2024-11-14T21:42:55-06:00Dr. 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 has made vast contributions to scientific advancements in metagenomics, soil science, antibiotic discovery, and much more. She received the Presidential Award for Science Mentoring in 2011 and has served as an expert leader in many roles, including a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor at UW and Yale, the Associate Director for [...]
New Science to Script podcast featuring the Footprint Coalition added to SoundCloud
ppointer2024-11-14T21:43:26-06:00Michael 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:43:38-06:00Krishanu 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:44:15-06:00In 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:44:28-06:00Through 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:45:24-06:00Srikanth 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
ppointer2024-11-14T21:45:38-06:00Shaoqin “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.
University of the Air: The Science of Life’s Origin
ppointer2024-11-14T21:45:56-06:00David 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?
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.
