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A drone used to deliver an AED to remote areas
March 17, 2025

Autonomous defibrillator-toting drone can fly aid anywhere

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has designed a drone-based system to rapidly deliver an Automated External Defibrillator, or AED, to remote areas. In February 2025, the team had…

Kaibo Liu
March 12, 2025

Touched by cancer, Liu trains artificial intelligence to uncover the genes behind disease

As an industrial data science researcher, Kaibo Liu has devoted much of his adult life to improving quality in manufacturing systems and monitoring the health of machines. That changed in…

Assistant Professor Yonatan Mintz and undergraduate student Fengxu Li
February 7, 2025

New country, abundant resources, aptitude for research help undergrad build confidence

A year ago, Fengxu Li says, the idea of talking to a stranger on Zoom about himself would have simply felt too nerve-wracking and intimidating. He had only arrived in…

January 8, 2025

Could neurostimulation help fatigued first responders?

Ranjana Mehta had just finished presenting her work on occupational fatigue at a conference when a first responder approached her with a somewhat startling request: Could the neuroergonomics researcher look…

William Murphy
December 16, 2024

mRNA-activated blood clots could cushion the blow of osteoarthritis

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a promising technique for treating osteoarthritis using therapeutic blood clots activated by messenger RNA. Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting roughly…

PhD students Wihan Adi and Samir Rosas and Assistant Professor Filiz Yesilkoy use a scanning electron microscope.
November 20, 2024

Light-trapping metasurface tech boosts biosensors

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineers has developed a thin, patterned, silicon-based component that excels at trapping non-visible light and could open up low-cost manufacturing possibilities for biochemical…

brain neurons istock image
November 13, 2024

How might pulsed microwaves harm the brain? UW-Madison engineers lead the search for answers

An interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research initiative led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be the first program in the world to comprehensively investigate how pulsed microwaves might injure the brain. PANTHER,…

Students Grace Morgan and Quyen Tonnu piece together the seat of a toddler mobility trainer during the 2024 makeathon
November 13, 2024

Helping a ‘little’: Volunteers make wheels for kids who can’t walk

During a September 2024 makeathon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab @ Wendt, dozens of volunteers from across the UW-Madison community created assistive mobility devices for…

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…

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…