Oil Spill Cleanup by Sponge: Madison Scientists Tout Tidy Technology
WID scientist Sarah Gong led a team to develop greener aerogel technology to absorb oil and repel water.
WID scientist Sarah Gong led a team to develop greener aerogel technology to absorb oil and repel water.
WID and Morgridge Institute for Research’s high throughput computing allows scientists to look at brain data in new ways.
What are your tools for discovery? BIONATES researcher Kris Saha’s tools focus on personal communication, examining problems from multiple vantage points and — dare we say — a penchant for procrastination.
WID scientists are developing more efficient ways to culture pluripotent stem cells and study disease.
Robert Meyer, Michael Ferris, and Athula Gunawardena have developed an optimized system and method for producing an intensity modulated arc therapy treatment plan.
Isthmus newspaper explores a collaboration between WID’s Games+Learning+Society researchers and neuroscientists.
Who said statistics and literature couldn’t get along? Boston.com examines Victorian Eyes, a project led by WID researcher Carrie Roy that showcases trends in literature in new, visual ways.
What if clothing could respond to its environment? That’s the idea behind a transdisciplinary class offered by WID and School of Human Ecology researchers.
Food systems are complex, and it will take the work of multiple disciplines to make them more efficient. Learn more about the Agricultural Innovation Prize, a partnership among WID, UW-Madison and 40 Chances.
Four different disciplines, four different uses of 3D printers. WID collaborators provide a glimpse into the revolutionary, unusual and downright cool ways 3D printing is influencing all types of research.
How do fatty acids such as omega-3 play a role in human health? WID researchers are looking to the genome for answers.
A group of researchers at WID has looked beyond approaches traditionally associated with literary studies, instead gaining a deeper understanding through statistics, art and computation in a traveling exhibit called Victorian Eyes.
For Open Access Week, the WID community is thinking more about what it means to be “open” in the world of scientific research. Discovery Fellow Dorothea Salo makes the case that a new era of sharing might be more beneficial than we think.
Thomas “Rock” Mackie, WID partner at the Morgridge Institute for Research, shares his essentials for success in engineering. Topping his list? Excellent collaborators and team members.
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics is a point of pride for scientists at UW–Madison and WID.
WID researchers develop algorithms for many applications and industries, but one side project boasts a more playful goal: Mapping brew preferences.
WID scientists are refining “smart” plastics that change shape based on temperature.
Through WID, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is launching the Agricultural Innovation Prize to support student proposals from all disciplines that improve the food system.
Along with UW-Madison, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the USDA, WID is launching the Agricultural Innovation Prize, a national student competition for ideas that address challenges in 21st-century agriculture.
How do everyday objects in the home influence a person’s ability to follow a medical regimen? To find the answer, a diverse group of researchers at WID has developed a new approach that combines real household data and virtual reality technology.
Joining the diverse WID community as an assistant professor, award-winning cartoonist Lynda Barry launches the “Image Lab” to examine the science of creativity.
WID’s Games+Learning+Society research group and the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds have developed a new approach to gauge children’s ability to learn pro-social skills while engaged in entertaining video game play.
TreeHugger highlights the green aspects of Biobulb, an idea from the Institute’s Frontier Fellows group.
The Weather Channel interviews WID’s Frontier Fellows about their idea for a light bulb powered by microbes.
Algorithms live well beyond cyberspace, with human and animal social groups using them in hierarchies and power structures. In a new analysis, C4 researchers have started to explain why certain algorithms are successful at measuring consensus in groups.