As the pot of federal funding for research at universities and colleges continues to shrink, UW-Madison’s campus leaders are positioning the university to grow its work with the Department of Defense.
That doesn’t mean UW-Madison researchers will be at the forefront of developing new bombs, said Vice Chancellor for Research Dorota Grejner-Brzezińska.
“Looking at the capabilities that this university has versus DOD needs is just to me a complete no-brainer how we really should be more competitive and start working with them,” she said.
Grejner-Brzezińska says UW-Madison would be part of “dual-use” defense research — some of which is already happening on campus.
A team from UW-Madison’s College of Engineering leads a project for the Department of Defense studying the prevention and detection of traumatic brain injuries. Other research, with a $11 million defense grant, studies a lung disease that’s a leading cause of death.
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