Rush’s approachable, low-pressure improv activities allow participants to practice speaking spontaneously, responding to mistakes, and adapting their message. He is leading workshops through the Illuminating Discovery Hub this summer.

Co-Directed by WID faculty Kevin Ponto, the lab is built around a simple expectation: Students come to build, test and refine projects with real problems in mind.

The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery operates with a dynamic, around-the-clock energy, fostering an environment of constant innovation. From late-night breakthroughs to collaborative experimentation, and global knowledge sharing over zoom, our interdisciplinary hub is always abuzz with activity. Take a glimpse into the exciting work that takes place within a 24-hour period.

In collaboration with the Feyza Lab, Khagani Eynullazada, a grad student from Sushmita Roy’s lab identified gene regulatory networks capturing shared and perturbation-specific stress pathways in Type 1 diabetes using GRN inference tools on scRNA-seq data from in vivo mouse models.

Students at Northeast Wisconsin Technical Collage (NWTC) are looking for ways to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria as part of an eight-year project with Tiny Earth, a worldwide initiative headquartered at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.

Backed by funding from the National Science Foundation, College of Letters & Science faculty, including Discovery Fellow, Bilge Mutlu, are tackling a red-hot research topic.