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…
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….
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….
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…
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…
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…
While Carla Michini and her family took their usual summer trip to her native Italy in 2025, this was no relaxing getaway. Michini, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of…
Ranjana Mehta is the Grainger Institute for Engineering Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, who studies human behavior and the brain in working environments. Her research focuses on how people interact with emerging technologies such…