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Kate Hiller, Presley Hansen, Maddie Michels, Sadie Rowe and Lucy Hockerman
May 19, 2025

BME students step forward to help teen with muscular dystrophy

Maggie Eggleston enjoys horseback riding, watching movies and reading mysteries—a fairly typical set of interests for a 16-year-old girl. But Maggie’s lived experience is anything but typical. Three years ago,…

Groundbreaking ceremony for the Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center
April 17, 2025

Breaking ground on Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center, UW-Madison College of Engineering begins new era of growth and impact

On April 17, 2025, a crowd of several hundred students, staff, faculty, university leaders, alumni and dignitaries kicked off construction of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering’s new building…

Alastair Big Luna
April 9, 2025

From finance to fission: Nontraditional student makes bold move for PhD

Alastair Big Luna (PhDME ’25) speaks deliberately and calmly, even though he’s unsure what the next chapter of his life will bring. As a father of three who moved across…

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…

UW-Madison civil and environmental engineering PhD student Wei Han demonstrates a virtual reality system his group is using to research how drones affect construction worker safety on work sites
March 12, 2025

In virtual reality, new study explores safe drone use on construction sites

The buzz of drones on construction sites is becoming ever more common, enabling crews to scan or inspect their work from above. At the same time, those drones can distract…

Shea McCarthy working in the lab
February 26, 2025

Extracurricular opportunities help NEEP undergrad decide career path

Students in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics (NEEP) can take advantage of many opportunities beyond the classroom to enrich their learning, such as participating in undergraduate research,…

Professor Haoran Wei, left, and PhD student Hanwei Wang work in a lab
February 13, 2025

For at-home tap water test under development, seeing red means no lead

A group of civil and environmental engineering graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is designing an affordable, easy-to-use test that will allow residents to identify lead in their tap…

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…

EMA 200 students Avery Motylinski, Jada Matson, Bella Belgiorno, Arlo Gaskill and Matt Bauer work on their wind tunnel project
December 20, 2024

New hands-on course launches first-year students’ journey into aerospace engineering

A growing number of engineering mechanics undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are choosing to add the aerospace option to their major. The EMA program prepares students for in-demand…

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…