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Jesse Hampton’s students pose at the top of the Au Sable Lighthouse.
January 8, 2025

Learning from the light: In class and in the field, civil engineers study long-standing Lake Superior sentinel

A group of 10 University of Wisconsin-Madison civil and environmental engineering graduate students is monitoring the structural health of a 150-year-old Superior lighthouse. With Jesse Hampton, an assistant professor of…

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…

ECE graduate student Parth Solanki
December 16, 2024

New thermophotovoltaic device amplifies energy output

Using innovative semiconductor fabrication techniques, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers has developed a new type of device that can convert heat directly into electricity. The innovation—a near-field…

Equipment in the UW-Madison Altitude and Climatic Testing Laboratory
December 10, 2024

At aircraft altitude, in sweltering heat and bitter cold, unique new engine lab is a testbed for futuristic sustainable fuels

While there’s an industry trend toward electric vehicles, there are many mobility sectors—aviation, heavy-duty trucking, rail, off-road machinery, and marine, for example—that will continue to rely on internal combustion engines…

fabricated film capacitors
December 5, 2024

A film capacitor that can take the heat

Researchers use an innovative set of machine-learning models to discover a record-breaking material for film capacitors, key components in many energy technologies. Key Takeaways The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley…

agrivoltaics system among solar panel arrays
December 2, 2024

Solar farms’ utility, yield potential extends well beyond harvesting sunlight

Look at a solar farm, and it might be easy to see only row upon row of glossy panels. But there’s much more than meets the eye. Steven Loheide, a…

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…

Associate Professor Lianyi Chen and PhD students Jiandong Yuan and Ali Nabaa work on developing beam shaping approaches for 3D printing
November 18, 2024

3D-printing breakthrough mitigates three defects simultaneously for failure-free metal parts

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have found a way to simultaneously mitigate three types of defects in parts produced using a prominent additive manufacturing technique called laser powder bed fusion. Led…

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,…