More playing, less memorizing: Milwaukee teachers learn to teach game creation
The goal is to untether them from memorization-style learning.
The goal is to untether them from memorization-style learning.
Xuehua Zhong, Assistant Professor in WID’s Epigenetics Theme studies the epigenetic connections mammals share with plants.
Technology designed to study homes and health with UW’s school of nursing is now being used at crime scenes.
With the aid of entrepreneur Joe Sheahan ’04, Discovery Fellow Rob Nowak, ’90, MS’91, PhD’95 and Kevin Jamieson, PhD ’15 poured their thought experiment into the iPhone marketplace.
The Research Project Resource Guide is an elegant new roadmap for researchers on the UW-Madison campus, connecting them to the materials, information, contacts, and assets available for every stage of the research process.
Jordan Ellenberg, Discovery Fellow, assesses the “new” Common Core math standards in this op-ed piece for the New York Times.
New York Times Art and Design Section features our very own Lynda Barry in a recent article.
Discovery Fellow, Jim Luedtke, discusses the growing field of Optimization and addresses some criticism of the discipline in this June 8, 2015 edition of UW College of Engineering podcast.
David Page tackles relational databases and algorithms to predict and improve patient health.
Former WID director, John Wiley, weighs in on UW budget challenges and beyond in a Wisconsin State Journal guest column
Discovery Fellow Rebecca Willett co-organizes first ever UW-Madison Neuroimaging, Computational Neuroscience, and Neuroengineering Workshop
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries.
Youth in grades 6-12 become the designers in a virtual reality contest.
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries.
Krishanu Saha, principal investigator in BIONATES, along with Sheila Jasanoff of the Harvard Kennedy School and J. Benjamin Hurlbut from Arizona State University weigh in on moratoriums for germline gene engineering for this Guardian op-ed piece.
Published today in Stem Cell Reports, researchers led by Randolph Ashton and Ethan Lippmann present a unifying protocol to create neural stem cells from diverse regions of the hindbrain and spinal cord.
Discovery Fellow, Jordan Ellenberg discusses the abelian sandpile model in the April 2nd edition of Nautilus Magazine.
Michael Ferris and Stephen Wright, principal investigators in the WID Optimization Theme comment on New York Times Magazine article “A Sucker is Optimized Every Minute”.
Through an Environmental Protection Agency initiative, WID researchers are playing a key role in learning how toxins impact human health and the environment.
The Advanced Computing Initiative (ACI) links researchers and computing resources to maximize productivity.
WID Optimization teams with local wildlife agencies to improve Great Lakes basin habitat.
This is not a #ThrowbackThursday. Why are we still talking about gender bias in STEM education?
For renowned primatologist Frans de Waal, observation tops the list of skills vital to his work.