WID Featured Publications Debut: Firsthand Science
The new Featured Publications series serves up some of the most exciting discoveries from WID straight from the source.
The new Featured Publications series serves up some of the most exciting discoveries from WID straight from the source.
Meet some of WID’s researchers at the Wisconsin Science Festival. The event from October 22nd-25th highlights the diverse science happening on the UW-Madison campus and across the state.
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries.
The winners of the Living Environment Laboratory’s “Model This!” contest explore virtual reality in the lush D. C. Smith greenhouse environment.
Assistant Professor and BIONATES theme PI Krishanu Saha along with J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Assistant Professor, Human Dimensions at Arizona State University and Sheila Jasanoff, Professor of Science and Technology at Harvard University co-authored a recent article for Issues in Science and Technology making the case for how far scientists should go in researching and applying CRISPR to editing the human germline.
WID scientists David Page and Bill Murphy were part of a study using stem cells to create model neural tissues to screen for toxicity.
UW-Madison and WID are on the front lines of the applied algebra movement, changing the way scientists in a wide range of disciplines solve problems.
Guests of the Living Environments Lab spent an Evening in the CAVE exploring Virtual Taliesin.
G+L+S video games spur STEM education for Madison-area Boys and Girls Club students
Patent secured by the Systems Biology Theme members enhances single cell research.
Madison game developers aim for critical mass to compete with the coasts
Short circuiting tumors via Epigenetics drives Lewis Lab’s research.
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries.
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.
Transdisciplinary science was on display in the Discovery building July 19-23 at the Astrobiology Graduate Conference, where graduate students and post-docs from disparate disciplines and various universities came together to discuss life in our Universe.
An emerging collaboration between the Living Environments Lab at WID and the Dane County Sheriff’s office is bringing crime scene investigation into the 21st century with 3D scanning technology.
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.
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries.
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.