Catalyzing UW-Madison’s neuroengineering community
Discovery Fellow Rebecca Willett co-organizes first ever UW-Madison Neuroimaging, Computational Neuroscience, and Neuroengineering Workshop
Discovery Fellow Rebecca Willett co-organizes first ever UW-Madison Neuroimaging, Computational Neuroscience, and Neuroengineering Workshop
Kalin Vetsigian’s paper published today in Nature sheds light on how antibiotic production and degradation contribute to diversity in microbial communities.
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries.
Shaoqin (Sarah) Gong, Zhiyong Cai, Qifeng Zheng have developed organic aerogels with excellent absorbent properties.
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.
On February 12th, Lynda Barry and Matt Groening appeared together at the Brooklyn Academy of Music to present a talk: “Love, Hate & Comics—The Friendship That Would Not Die.”
Rupa Sridharan, Assistant Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology at Wisconsin Institute for Discovery explains how she increased reprogramming efficiency to get pluripotent stem cells.
Jay Warrick, John Yin, and Stephen Lindsay have developed a new microwell design for use with conventional micropipetting equipment (e.g., a hand-held micropipette or automated pipetting robot).
One WID researcher is examining the challenges young women face in becoming video game developers and experts.
WID Principle Investigators Krishanu Saha and Randy Ashton and graduate student Ty Harkness speak to the issue of funding their research.
Learn what’s in the creative toolbox of architectural historian and Discovery Fellow Molly Wright Steenson.
New Field Day Lab, based in Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teams with Department of Public Instruction to bring apps, games and context to K-12 education.
A bold new idea of how the eukaryotic cell and, by extension, all complex life came to be is giving scientists an opportunity to reexamine some of biology’s key dogma.