How colleges can help reverse regional inequality

There’s perhaps no greater illustration of what a university can do to boost a region’s economy than the story of Madison, Wisconsin. Until fairly recently, Madison’s reputation was that of a typical college town, better …

New coating hides temperature change from infrared cameras

An ultrathin coating developed by University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers upends a ubiquitous physics phenomenon of materials related to thermal radiation: The hotter an object gets, the brighter it glows. The new coating — engineered from …