McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce the 2024 Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant recipients
Piper Rawding, Postdoc in the Gong Lab won for her project “Optimizing non-viral vectors for retinal genome editing”
Announcement
New center to improve robot dexterity selected to receive up to $52 million
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery fellow Bilge Mutlu (People and Robots Lab and INTEGRATE) will support Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity (HAND), an NSF-funded collaboration dedicated to improving robot dexterity with an NSF grant.
Knoll and Zhu Receive Kellett Awards
Discovery Fellow, Laura Knoll and WID Affiliate Jerry Zhu have been honored with Kellett Mid-Career Awards to support those promoted to tenured positions seven to 20 years ago and who have made key research contributions in their fields.
Stephen Wright awarded prestigious George B. Dantzig Prize
Wright was chosen for his fundamental contributions to nonlinear optimization and for applying optimization techniques to such areas as control, compressed sensing, machine learning, and data science.
Call for Artists: Spirits of Renewal – The Artistic Alchemy of Women in Distilling and Regenerative Agriculture
Science to Street Art is pleased to announce that the Call for Mural Artists is now open until July 7th. The themes for the murals are Regenerative Agriculture, Chemistry of Distilling, and Women in Distilling. They are offering a compensation of $20,000.
Stephen Wright Awarded a Hilldale Professorship
Stephen Wright, a Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Fellow and Computer Science professor, has been awarded a Hilldale Professorship for his pioneering work in continuous optimization and machine learning.
Welcome New Discovery Fellow Emile Gluck-Thaler
Emile Gluck-Thaler joined the UW–Madison faculty in September 2023 as an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Pathology.
Wright named to 2024 class of National Academy of Engineering
Discovery Fellow, Stephen Wright was cited for theory and design of optimization algorithms and their application in signal processing and machine learning. Inauguration in to the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional distinctions in the field.
Saha Lab Alumnae Announced JITC Best Immune Cell Therapies and Immune Cell Engineering Paper
Katherine P. Meuller, PhD and Nicole J. Piscopo win with “Production and characterization of virus-free, CRISPR-CAR T cells capable of inducing solid tumor regression”
Celebrate Curiosity at Wisconsin Science Festival! October 16-22
Activities include hands-on science experiments, live Q&A sessions and interviews with scientists, demonstrations, performances, behind-the-scenes tours and more.