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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,…

May 15, 2025

In Wisconsin, Great Lakes partners are powering the next manufacturing revolution

An aggressive push to advance fusion from university experiments into energy for the real world. A new group aims to tap experts in the Midwest and beyond to capture the…

Postdoctoral scholar Ted Chavkin
April 7, 2025

“Super algae” could suck phosphorus out of manure and keep waterways healthy

A team of chemical and biological engineering researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed a new strain of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, which takes up 8.5 times…

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…

Katy Jinkins
February 24, 2025

Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree is bringing UW-Madison breakthrough to semiconductor industry

When Katy Jinkins graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a degree in engineering physics and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, she was only 19, a feat that…

Xiaopeng Li with UW-Madison autonomous passenger vehicles
February 7, 2025

With UW-Madison leadership, autonomous vehicles could bridge transportation gaps for people living in rural areas

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers are leading a first-of-its-kind research center devoted to advancing autonomous vehicle (AV) availability in rural and tribal communities. The Tribal and Rural Autonomous Vehicles for Efficiency,…

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…

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…

Stock photo of rural farm
November 4, 2024

With up to $50 million, team will improve energy access for rural Wisconsin residents

The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering is partnering on a grant of up to $50 million to bring smart grid technology to rural and underserved communities throughout Wisconsin. In…