Small But Mighty: Nanoparticles Can Deliver More Types of Drugs, More Safely
ppointer2024-11-14T22:13:06-06:00WID researcher Shaoqin Sarah Gong is working to more safely deliver a variety of drugs to treat cancer, heart disease and even blindness.
Wisconsin Instructors Engaging Students in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
ppointer2025-01-27T14:44:03-06:00Instructors from schools across the state are getting their hands dirty in the search for antibiotics by joining a new program.
Mastodons, Brains, and a View of Mars: How the Wisconsin Science Festival Helps Bring Kids and Science Together
ppointer2024-11-14T22:14:59-06:00The Wisconsin Science Festival was a roaring success, with every corner of the Discovery Building containing something for people to see, hear, touch or manipulate.
Scientists Struggle with Sexism and Racism: ‘We Think These Bias Studies Don’t Apply to Us’
ppointer2024-11-14T22:15:12-06:00The Washington Post writes about the harsh realities faced by women and minorities in science presented by WID Director Jo Handelsman at the Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington, D.C.
Communication and Policy the Focus of Two Science Festival Events
ppointer2024-11-14T22:15:35-06:00WID Director Jo Handelsman and the Catalysts for Science Policy were instrumental in assembling fantastic panels for mini-symposia about science policy and science communication geared toward graduate students, postdocs, and faculty but open to anyone interested in science.
Catalysts for Science Policy Group Finds New Home at WID, Focuses on Forensic Science Policy
ppointer2025-03-03T15:28:59-06:00CaSP is joining with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery to amplify its voice on science policy issues. On October 4 in the Discovery Building, they host a panel on improving forensic science policy.
Interdisciplinary Faculty Build Data Science Future in New Institute Based at WID
ppointer2024-11-14T22:16:31-06:00The new institute, housed at UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), will play a key role in the future of data science, developing fundamental techniques for handling increasingly massive data sets in shorter times.
The “Icing” on the DNA
ppointer2024-11-14T22:16:54-06:00Xuehua Zhong recently received an outstanding investigator award from NIH via the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) mechanism to support her research. She talked about how she uses plants to study epigenetics in an interview with Grow magazine.
Jo Handelsman Named Vilas Research Professor
ppointer2024-11-14T22:17:25-06:00Handelsman is one of 34 faculty honored with Vilas professorships supported by the estate of professor, Senator, and Regent William F. Vilas.
Machine Learning Can Detect a Genetic Disorder from Speech Recordings
ppointer2024-11-14T22:17:35-06:00Machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence by which algorithms are "trained" to analyze new information using existing data. Researchers are using it to identify individuals with a genetic condition known as fragile X premutation.
Highly Foamed Plastic Parts Are Stronger and Cheaper to Produce
ppointer2024-11-14T22:18:11-06:00Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng and Xiaofei Sun have developed a new method of fabricating highly foamed, injection-molded plastic parts.
Phenotypic variability and community interactions of germinating Streptomyces spores
ppointer2025-01-27T14:21:01-06:00Systems Biology researcher Kalin Vetsigian and graduate student Ye Xu recently published findings in Nature's Scientific Reports about the stochasticity of growth within Streptomycetes spore communities.
Experiments Test How Easy Life Itself Might Be
ppointer2024-11-14T22:19:00-06:00WID scientists are combining theory with experiment to try to understand how life could arise from lifelike chemical reactions under the right conditions.
As The Seasons Change, So Do Our Color Preferences
ppointer2024-11-14T22:19:23-06:00In a paper forthcoming in the journal Cognitive Science, Living Environments Lab professor Karen Schloss and her colleagues investigated whether and why color preferences change according to the season.
Virtual Reality Goes Hyper-speed with Badgerloop
ppointer2025-01-27T14:24:40-06:00Two students from WID's Living Environments Laboratory are a part of the Badgerloop team that recently won an innovation award at the SpaceX Hyperloop competition, thanks in part to their work on Badgerloop VR.
High-tech humor
ppointer2024-11-14T22:20:21-06:00UW program powers New Yorker contest featuring Rob Nowak and NEXT software
Handelsman Brings Expansive Vision to WID’s Future
ppointer2025-01-27T14:09:16-06:00Jo Handelsman began her tenure as Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery on February 1. Shortly before her start date, we sat down with her to talk about the future of WID and the course she intends to set.
Superior Plastic Parts
ppointer2024-11-14T22:20:48-06:00Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng and Xiaofei Sun have developed a new method to create foamed, injection-molded plastic blends with significantly increased toughness and ductility compared to conventional foamed parts.
How Does Virtual Reality Work?
ppointer2024-11-14T22:21:13-06:00Kevin Ponto, PI in the Living Environments Lab, explains virtual reality for Blue Sky Science.
Million-dollar initiative looks to help revolutionize microbiome research at UW
ppointer2024-11-14T22:21:27-06:00Microbiome researchers bring $8 million in awards annually, which initiative looks to increase through grants.
Watching gene editing at work to develop precision therapies
ppointer2024-11-14T22:21:43-06:00Kris Saha illuminates the inner workings of gene editing.
Gut bugs affect DNA expression
ppointer2024-11-14T22:22:02-06:00The podcast "Is DNA the Basis for all Life in the Universe?" produced by The Naked Scientists, an affiliate of the BBC at Cambridge University features John Denu speaking of his recent findings on how the gut microbiome affects DNA expression.
Can Artery ‘Banks’ Transform Vascular Medicine?
ppointer2024-11-14T22:23:12-06:00BIONATES Lih-Sheng "Tom" Turng works in tandem with Morgridge Institute for Research scientist James Thomson to create scaffolds for small diameter arteries.
Smart Cancer Therapies: Teaching the Body’s Own T-cells to Attack Tumors
ppointer2025-01-27T14:13:35-06:00Kris Saha with colleagues David Beebe and Christian Capitini aim to develop improved methods for making CAR T-Cells with a two-year grant from the NSF.
The Warp and Weft of Discovery
ppointer2025-02-20T11:02:38-06:00The Weaving Lab will be open Monday - Thursday from 9am - 4pm through August 25th.
