Virtual Reality and Wearable Tech on WTMJ with Kevin Ponto
Dr. Kevin Ponto speaks to WTMJ Wisconsin Weekend Morning News.
WID News
Top headlines, campus news, and announcements featuring the work and opinions of the WID community.
How New Yorker Cartoons Could Teach Computers to be Funny
The magazine is using crowdsourcing algorithms developed by WID researchers to find the funniest cartoon captions
Generating Hindbrain and Spinal Cord Cells from Human Stem Cells
Randolph Ashton and Ethan Lippmann have developed a culture medium for producing neural cell populations (caudal lateral epiblasts, posterior neuroectoderm, posterior neuroepithelial cells or motor neurons) with desired positional identity within the hindbrain or spinal cord.
Discovery Building Launches New Website
The new discovery.wisc.edu web design highlights the unique form and function of the Discovery Building.
Q&A: What’s so punk rock about operations research? Plenty, says UW’s Laura Albert McLay
Discovery Fellow Laura Albert McLay talks to the Cap Times about military maneuvers, the lottery, March Madness and the satisfaction she derives from teaching.
Creative Spark
Image Lab Alumna Angela Richardson shares her formidable talent as artist-in-residence at Madison’s Central Library.
Ponto Connects with New Visualization Techniques in ‘Protean Guise’
Living Environments Laboratory Assistant Professor Kevin Ponto explores interconnectedness and propagation in two displays at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery at Nancy Nicholas Hall, open January 22 to February 21, 2016.
3-D laser scanner brings crime scenes to life
Living Environments Lab researchers aid local crime scene investigation with LiDAR scanning.
John Yin: “Arrow In, Arrow Out: Rumination on the Origins of Life and Nurturing Research Collaborations”
John Yin spoke at the Discovery Seminar Series in January, 2016, offering his perspective on the origins of life, dynamic stability, and developing collaborations.
Alleles in Allegro: Accelerating the Pace with HCA
Kris Saha, Assistant Professor in the BIONATES theme, is featured in a Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News article for his work with High Content Analysis.
New journal to publish research by UW–Madison undergraduates
Eddie Ruiz and Stephanie Seymour — both UW-Madison juniors affiliated with WID researchers — are launching The Journal of Undergraduate Science and Technology for the UW Madison campus
RPRG Expands Campus-wide
The Research Project Resource Guide has been enhanced with valuable tools to help researchers campus-wide accomplish their goals.
WID Affiliates Recognized in Madison Magazine’s 2015 M List
Celebrating social innovators for this year’s M List, Madison Magazine hails six outstanding individuals with ties to WID.
High-throughput computing, HIV and the mystery of ‘elite controllers’
Every year, high-throughput computing (HTC) technologies pioneered by computer scientist Miron Livny power the scientific discovery of researchers at UW-Madison and around the globe.
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.
CRISPR Democracy: Gene Editing and the Need for Inclusive Deliberation
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.
UW-Madison study: ‘Tissue chips’ could screen drugs, chemicals
WID scientists David Page and Bill Murphy were part of a study using stem cells to create model neural tissues to screen for toxicity.
A great place to work at play
Madison game developers aim for critical mass to compete with the coasts
More playing, less memorizing: Milwaukee teachers learn to teach game creation
The goal is to untether them from memorization-style learning.
3D Scanning Technology at UW is Helping with Crime Scene Investigations
Technology designed to study homes and health with UW’s school of nursing is now being used at crime scenes.
Astrobiology Conference Finds Life at Discovery Building
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.
RPRG Rollout Connecting the Dots in the Research Project Roadmap
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.
Meet the New Common Core
Jordan Ellenberg, Discovery Fellow, assesses the “new” Common Core math standards in this op-ed piece for the New York Times.