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…
In nuclear reactors, radiation causes defects to form inside materials, and this process can change those materials’ overall properties—usually for the worse. One approach for mitigating this radiation damage is heating those damaged materials. This…
The cells in our bodies move in groups during biological processes such as wound healing and tissue development—but because of resistance, or viscosity, those cells can’t just neatly glide past each other. Or can they?…
As the demand for nuclear energy increases, there are growing challenges for managing the spent nuclear fuel. The United States doesn’t yet have a licensed site for permanent storage, so the spent fuel is stored…
As spectacular as modern imaging can be in illuminating the tiniest aspects of life, some avenues of biology are still cloaked in darkness. Biological processes that happen over long periods of time—for example, exchanges of…
In their senior years, University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineers apply four (or more) years’ worth of skills to a real design project. Historically, the ideas and support for those projects—designing a tool or devising a…
As a ninth grader in Chanhassen, Minnesota, outside of Minneapolis, Monica Ohnsorg took an aptitude exam that pointed her toward a career as a biomedical engineer. Now, nearly two decades later, she’s starting her career…
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Robert Jacobberger, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to receive a 2025 DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program award….
University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have dramatically improved a semiconductor-based imaging system that makes near-infrared light visible to the naked eye. Near-infrared is the band of electromagnetic radiation between roughly 750 and 1,400 nanometers; it…
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Sebastian Kube, an assistant professor in materials science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to receive a 2025 DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program award….
Jacknetson Naw has spent the last two years learning how to scan structures. Naw, a civil and environmental engineering senior, has conducted undergraduate research under CEE Associate Professor Hannah Blum, who leads the Steel Systems…