3-D laser scanner brings crime scenes to life
Living Environments Lab researchers aid local crime scene investigation with LiDAR scanning.
WID is committed to fulfilling the Wisconsin Idea, ensuring that the knowledge, resources, and benefits produced by the university’s research permeate the boundaries of the campus, benefiting Wisconsin families and businesses and improving lives all over the world.
WID is engaged in a number of outreach efforts, often in collaboration with partners such as the Morgridge Institute for Research and the Discovery Building’s Town Center.
WID partners with the Town Center and Morgridge Institute for Research on the Crossroads of Ideas lecture series, the Illuminating Discovery course, and other programs.
Outreach is an important part of the Discovery Dialogue Hub .
Living Environments Lab researchers aid local crime scene investigation with LiDAR scanning.
With the holiday bowl games and College Football Playoff upon us, we profile Laura Albert, who successfully did the math on predicting the finalists.
Meet some of WID’s researchers at the Wisconsin Science Festival. The event from October 22nd-25th highlights the diverse science happening on the UW-Madison campus and across the state.
The winners of the Living Environment Laboratory’s “Model This!” contest explore virtual reality in the lush D. C. Smith greenhouse environment.
Guests of the Living Environments Lab spent an Evening in the CAVE exploring Virtual Taliesin.
G+L+S video games spur STEM education for Madison-area Boys and Girls Club students
The goal is to untether them from memorization-style learning.
Xuehua Zhong, Assistant Professor in WID’s Epigenetics Theme studies the epigenetic connections mammals share with plants.
Technology designed to study homes and health with UW’s school of nursing is now being used at crime scenes.
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.
An emerging collaboration between the Living Environments Lab at WID and the Dane County Sheriff’s office is bringing crime scene investigation into the 21st century with 3D scanning technology.
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.
Youth in grades 6-12 become the designers in a virtual reality contest.
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.
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.”
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.
How can video games be used to inform how we act in the future? Read more about Keari Bell-Gawne and ideas she’s exploring as a video game researcher.
Madison.com features outreach experiences offered through WID’s Living Environments Laboratory and others at UW–Madison.
To better understand the cosmos, WID and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center researchers are examining activity at the world’s largest neutrino detector in the Institute’s immersive virtual reality environment.
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.
A partnership between WID and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center uses data and gaming to crack tough research questions.