Pride at WID
WID Director Jo Handelsman on WID’s support for Pride month and LGBTQ+ members of our community.
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How Dirt Could Help Save the Planet
WID Director Jo Handelsman writes in Scientific American about the threat of soil erosion.
Groundbreaking entrepreneurship science lab fosters student entrepreneurs
A new lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is mobilizing the entrepreneurial ecosystem by working to identify the conditions that foster student entrepreneurship.
NSF Supports Interdisciplinary Pandemic Prevention Workshops
WID’s John Yin is part of a team assembling February workshops on predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention.
Michael Graf pivots from making commercials to writing movie scripts
In early December the International Screenwriters’ Association named Graf, Writer in Residence in WID’s Science to Script program, to its Top 25 Screenwriters To Watch In 2021.
UW Researchers Partner with US Department of Defense to Develop Stem Cell Therapy for Combat-Related Eye Injuries
Using an ingenious microscopic retinal patch, eye researchers at UW‒Madison will develop and test a new way to treat United States military personnel blinded in combat. WID’s Sarah Gong is a collaborator on the project.
Professor Stephen Wright Announced Winner of the Test of Time Award at 2020 NeurIPS Conference
Professor of Computer Sciences at WID Stephen Wright and three colleagues were announced winners of the prestigious Test of Time Award at the 2020 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
AP: Michael Graf Named an ISA Top 25 Writer to Watch in 2021
WID’s Science to Script Writer in Residence, Michael Graf, had been named to the International Screenwriters’ Association’s top 25 writers to watch.
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
WID and its home, the Discovery Building, opened in December, 2010. A decade later, the institute is celebrating success and looking to the future.
Researchers Look to Control Organ Function Through New Computational Model
A cross-institutional team including WID’s John Yin is creating a computational model to guide the development of bladder therapeutics.
Data Science Research Bazaar Seeks Proposals
The Bazaar, happening throughout February, 2021, has the theme Data Science for the Social Good.
Madison Magazine: New Mural Celebrates Fusion of Science and Art
UW’s Science to Street Art initiative produces newest artwork.
UW–Madison to Continue Fundamental Data Science Research with Phase II Award from NSF
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is home to the Institute for the Foundations of Data Science, which has received Phase II funding from the National Science Foundation.
WPR: Research on the Origins of Life
The theory of the origin of life has advanced greatly in recent years. Larry Meiller (WPR) talks with David Baum and Lena Vincent about their work and their understanding of how life began.
WPR: A Decade Of Cooperative Science At The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
WID Director Jo Handelsman talks to Wisconsin Public Radio about interdisciplinary science, research in the age of COVID-19, science-art fusion, and ten years of discovery at WID.
Solís-Lemus Awarded Grant to Develop Statistical Theory for Soil Data
Assistant professor of plant pathology Claudia Solís-Lemus is a recipient of funding from the Department of Energy to develop statistical theory and tools for computational biology.
Sridharan Earns Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award
Rupa Sridharan was among 24 UW professors to earn Vilas professorships and awards. The Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award recognizes research and teaching excellence and provides flexible research funding for three years.
WID Researchers Among Data Science Institute Mini Grant Recipients
Jon Eckhardt, Robert Nowak, and Kevin Ponto were among the recipients of nine mini grants from the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute to advance data science.
Karen Schloss Receives Psychonomic Society Early Career Award
“Karen Schloss is at the forefront of the best and the brightest early career scientists in our field.” Schloss received the award for her significant contributions to scientific psychology early in her career.
Critical Communications Component Made on a Flexible Wooden Film
WID’s Shaoqin “Sarah” Gong is a collaborator on a paper published in Nature Communications in which UW engineers constructed a functional microwave amplifier circuit on a substrate of cellulose nanofibril paper, a wood product.
InBusiness Madison Professional of the Week: Ginger Ann Contreras
InBusiness Madison features Executive Director of WID’s Illuminating Discovery Hub, Ginger Ann Contreras.
Yin Receives Two National Science Foundation Grants to Study Coronaviruses
John Yin has received a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant and an Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) to work on projects related to human coronaviruses.
Researchers at UW–Madison Lead Data Science Coalition to Aid with COVID-19
WID’s Data Science Hub is part of the COVID-19 Data Science Research Group that is interpreting data, using that data to create models, and sharing information and findings.
WPR: An Exciting Development, CRISPR Lets UW-Madison Researchers Edit Genes
WID’s Kris Saha spoke to Wisconsin Public Radio to answer questions about gene editing technology CRISPR in response to a question received by WHYsconsin.
BADGRS Fosters Supportive Community Through Student-Led Discussions
Brilliant and Diverse Graduate Research Scholars (BADGRS), founded by graduate students at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), is a discussion space for grad students, postdocs, and other trainees. They want to destigmatize conversations about mental health.