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UW Crest with engineering background
October 7, 2024

UW-Madison researchers use AI to identify sex-specific risks associated with brain tumors

For years, cancer researchers have noticed that more men than women get a lethal form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. They’ve also found that these tumors are often more aggressive…

Dean Eric Wilcots, Dean Frances Vavrus, NIFS Director General Zensho Yoshida, College of Engineering executive associate dean David A. Noyce
October 4, 2024

UW-Madison, Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science strengthen research partnership

University of Wisconsin-Madison and Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) leaders have signed task agreements that will strengthen collaboration and cooperation between the two institutions to advance science and…

Whitney Loo
October 1, 2024

With DOE early career award, Whitney Loo is engineering the heart of next-gen batteries

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Whitney Loo, the Conway Assistant Professor in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for a prestigious 2024 Early Career Research…

Marcel Schreier working in the lab
September 25, 2024

For future sustainable chemical processing, electricity breaks bonds

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical engineers has taken an important stride toward a greener, more selective way to steer hydrocarbon transformation into other chemicals. Using a finely controlled…

UW Crest with engineering background
September 19, 2024

Focus on new faculty: Prateek Jaiswal is harnessing fluid mechanics for sustainable transportation and energy systems

While pursuing his master’s degree in aerospace mechanics and avionics at ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, France, Prateek Jaiswal encountered aeroacoustics, a field in which researchers study noise generation via either turbulent…

Paul Campagnola, Sophie Mancha and Melissa Skala
September 19, 2024

Collagen highway signs could show how to stop pancreatic cancer spread

Collagen is the most prevalent protein in the human body, keeping our joints healthy, our bones strong and our skin stretchy. However, studies increasingly show that collagen in the extracellular…

Charlie Hirst
September 18, 2024

Focus on new faculty: Charles Hirst enables better materials for fission and fusion reactors

While studying materials science at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, Charles Hirst had an a-ha moment that led him on a path to investigating nuclear materials for…

Xiao Kuang
September 17, 2024

Focus on new faculty: Xiao Kuang aims to 3D print into deep regions to enhance sustainability and improve health

A doctor repairs a patient’s knee cartilage and bone using a 3D-printing process, driven by ultrasound, that occurs inside the patient’s body. And the procedure is minimally invasive. Xiao Kuang…

Fernando Alvarado and the first cohort of sustainability scholars
September 13, 2024

Sustainability scholars program is a win-win for graduate and undergraduate engineers

Professor Emeritus Fernando Alvarado spent 30 years in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying renewable energy, power systems pricing and computer applications in…

PhD student Katherine Heidi Fehr and Associate Professor Peter Adamczyk conduct a 3D scan of a shoe outside
September 11, 2024

Out of the lab and onto the pavement: With wearable sensor, researchers study daily walking to mitigate tripping

Wearable devices like smartwatches and fitness bands that count a person’s steps are ubiquitous today. Using a similar type of wearable sensor, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a new…