Before Bjorn Borgen (BSME ’62) built a multibillion-dollar investment firm, before he settled out west in the Rocky Mountains, before he even set foot on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, he was a teenager working…
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has included a University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineer in its 2025 class of fellows—the highest distinction designed to recognize academic inventors’ accomplishments in patents, licensing and commercialization. Daniel Ludois,…
Many internet users understand how to avoid digital pitfalls like catfishing, password hacking and malware. But not all the dangers in the digital world are so straightforward: For example, just browsing the web may set…
Redundancy is one of the core concepts in aviation engineering. Commercial aircraft are designed with multiple backup systems for hydraulics, electronics, flight controls, navigation, and fuel supply. The result is ultra-high reliability for engines and…
Concentrating solar power plants use a large array of mirrors to focus the sun’s rays and capture their heat, which boils water for steam turbines to produce electricity. The technology and systems in these massive…
Electrical engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed and tested an integrated photonic memory chip, a key component in realizing ultrafast photonic computing. The chip—which leverages parts and fabrication techniques already in use by…
Over the last few decades, it feels like the whole world has gone digital, with music and movies, radio and television broadcasts, and communications networks converting their signals to ones and zeros. But digital signals…
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, groundbreaking ideas are born every day. The Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub, a chancellor’s initiative started earlier in 2025, is working to help translate ideas into opportunities for entrepreneurial students, staff and…
One of the major draws for students selecting the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the chance to not only learn from some of the world’s most innovative scholars but also the chance to work side by…
More than 3,000 years ago, members of a Native community built a network of six monumental earthen mounds and six concentric C-shaped ridges in a northeastern Louisiana floodplain. The site, now called Poverty Point, is…