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UW Crest with engineering background
September 23, 2026

NSF grant will help Evans study how disordered materials become crystals

Some of the most important materials in modern technology, from the memory chips in a laptop to the superconductors envisioned for future quantum computers, depend on thin layers of crystals…

Oguzhan Alagoz
September 23, 2026

Alagoz, UW-Madison-led cancer modeling consortium lands $8.7 million NIH grant

Oguzhan Alagoz, the Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is among a group of researchers to receive a five-year, $8.7 million…

Michael Biehler
April 15, 2026

Biehler receives ONR grant for electromagnetic shielding project

Michael Biehler, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will lead a project funded by the Office of Naval Research to combine quantum sensing…

Jeffrey Linderoth
April 8, 2026

Linderoth earns ONR grant to optimize decision-making aids

Jeffrey Linderoth, the Harvey D. Spangler Professor of industrial and systems engineering, will lead a new project funded by the Office of Naval Research to build automated decision tools to…

Joshua Brockman
May 6, 2025

Brockman receives NIH MIRA grant

Joshua Brockman, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to support…

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’…

Yuki Gao
January 28, 2025

ECE’s Gao receives IEEE AP-S doctoral research grant

Yuki Gao, a first-year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was selected to receive a 2024 IEEE Antennas and Propagation…

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…

Matt Gebbie and Ryan Cashen in the lab
October 10, 2024

DURIP grant will allow Gebbie lab to acquire cutting-edge microscope

Matt Gebbie, Conway Assistant Professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a grant from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) to acquire a…

UW Crest with engineering background
October 8, 2024

CHESS continues work on mental health, substance-use disorder treatment with $17M in federal grants

The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS), based in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a series of federal grants totaling…