Badger Engineers are cleared for takeoff. The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted to approve the creation of a new aerospace engineering major within the UW-Madison College of Engineering on Feb. 5, 2026….
Since they returned to Madison in mid-January for the spring 2026 semester, roommates Ruffin Bryant and Noah Kalthoff have settled into a familiar—if busy—rhythm. Mornings: Class, like most of their fellow biomedical engineering majors at…
Only the nerdiest among us take our first steps into Disneyland or Universal Studios and exclaim, “What a feat of engineering!” But maybe more of us should. Theme parks (or “themed entertainment,” for those in…
Genetic mutations can yield antibiotic-resistant bacteria that stifle medical treatments, drive recurrence of disease and cause patient deaths. But there’s another, lesser-known way bacterial cells can thwart antibiotics—by essentially playing possum. “Persister” cells lie low…
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…
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…
Sleep was on Nicolas Greaves and his groupmates’ to-do list. But, with motors to test, force calculations to crunch, prototype components to 3D print and more, the tasks kept stacking up. In the end, Greaves…
In an ideal world, after the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool enters a cell’s nucleus and cuts its targeted slice of DNA, it would disappear. “You don’t want the Cas9 protein to stick around too long,” says…
Yang Lu likes to say that searching the human genotype for a biomarker of a given disease is akin to trying to find a needle in a haystack. Or, more accurately, needles—the set of biomarker…
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is transforming cancer care for patients with cancers of the blood, but has proven especially challenging to develop against solid tumors. Researchers at the Morgridge Institute and UW–Madison…
When doctors diagnose ovarian cancer at an early stage, patients have a five-year survival rate of better than 90%, according to the American Cancer Society. That rate plummets as the disease progresses to further stages….