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Mikhail Kats wins prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Mikhail Kats, the Jack St. Clair Kilby and Antoine-Bascom Professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and…

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Xudong Wang with wound healing device
March 18, 2025

MS&E and surgery researchers team up to enhance wound healing

Chronic wounds—wounds that haven’t started to heal after several weeks of treatment—affect over 6.5 million people in the U.S., are a threat to patients’ health and quality of life, and…

Corn field
February 4, 2025

CBE researchers are part of a $2.8 million effort to create plant-based “living refineries”

Two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering are part of a team selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E),…

ME research administration team
January 31, 2025

Big research numbers made possible by the wizards behind the curtain

Mechanical Engineering is breaking departmental records with increases in research expenditures. The secret sauce may be the incredible team of research administrators toiling behind the scenes to make it all…

Colleen Witzenburg
January 30, 2025

Witzenburg lands MIRA grant

Colleen Witzenburg, the Jane R. and John G. Mandula Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a five-year, $1.86 million grant through a Maximizing Investigators’…

Aarushi Bhargava
January 27, 2025

Bhargava earns WARF Cardiology Challenge Grant

Aarushi Bhargava, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is one of three University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers receiving Cardiology Challenge Grant funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Route 66…

James Pikul, Eric Kazyak and Luca Mastropasqua
January 27, 2025

Mechanical engineering team earns $2.3 million in ARPA-E funding for electrochemical power transfer system

The United States electrical grid is fragmented, which means transferring excess power from one region to another is no easy feat. The U.S. Department of Energy is searching for promising…

Franklin Miller and Chloe Gunderson
January 13, 2025

Miller receives $1M NASA award for Vanadium Superconducting Heat Switch project

Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Franklin Miller recently received funding from NASA for his ‘Vanadium Superconducting Heat Switch for Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigeration’ project. The project period is September 2024 – August…

Gabriel Zayas-Caban
December 4, 2024

Zayas-Caban exploring ways to improve predictive models in healthcare

Gabriel Zayas-Caban, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, is co-leading a new project funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to develop methods to better integrate risk prediction…

Team Wendy helmet liner system prototype
November 26, 2024

UW-Madison moves to 6th in national research ranking

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has moved up two places to sixth out of 920 public and private universities in the United States in university research expenditures, according to the National…

Jinia Roy
November 8, 2024

Roy is part of a U.S. Space Force-funded effort to create new types of propulsion for spacecraft

Jinia Roy, the Thomas A. Lipo Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is part of a $35 million, multi-institution research team funded by the…