The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has announced that five projects have been selected to receive development funding through the WARF Accelerator Big Data Challenge Grant. The grant invited submissions for new technologies focused on processing …
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Four projects selected for WARF Accelerator Mental Health Challenge
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has announced that four projects have been selected to receive development funding through the WARF Accelerator Mental Health Challenge Grant. From helping screen for eating disorders to tackling depression, these …
UW–Madison’s commitment to the state at the heart of new campaign
When it comes to helping Wisconsin residents and the state’s economy, you can’t stop a Badger. That’s just one of the messages the University of Wisconsin–Madison will share as it launches a new campaign to …
Setting the Stage for Spring Seminar with the StartUp Learning Community
Every spring, residents of the StartUp Learning Community—a residence hall-based group of 64 self-selected first year students with a professed interest in entrepreneurship—can register to take our spring seminar, available only to members of the …
Madison researchers join ranks of AAAS fellows
Six University of Wisconsin–Madison scholars have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. This year, 506 scientists, engineers and innovators were chosen from the …
UW–Madison researchers lead carbon removal efforts
Most efforts in the fight to slow climate change have focused on replacing fossil fuels with clean energy sources, but scientists say that just reducing greenhouse gas emissions isn’t enough: we also need to remove …
Finding some wiggle room in semiconductor quantum computers
Classical computers rarely make mistakes, thanks largely to the digital behavior of semiconductor transistors. They are either on or they’re off, corresponding to the ones and zeros of classical bits. On the other hand, quantum …
Combining nuclear and solar tech could make a powerful pair
In energy policy debates, nuclear energy and renewable energy technologies are sometimes viewed as competitors. In reality, they could be better, together. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ben Lindley, an assistant professor of engineering physics …
New nanoparticles deliver therapy brain-wide, edit Alzheimer’s gene in mice
Gene therapies have the potential to treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, but they face a common barrier — the blood-brain barrier. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a way …
With pocket-sized Hello! Loom, weave got it made
First, Marianne Fairbanks went big. Then, she went little. Very little. In 2016, then an assistant professor of design studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she launched a “social weaving project” called the Weaving Lab, …