Badger Engineers are cleared for takeoff. The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted to approve the creation of a new aerospace engineering major within the UW-Madison College of Engineering on Feb. 5, 2026….
Since they returned to Madison in mid-January for the spring 2026 semester, roommates Ruffin Bryant and Noah Kalthoff have settled into a familiar—if busy—rhythm. Mornings: Class, like most of their fellow biomedical engineering majors at…
A fourth-year undergraduate student sits in a classroom on the first floor of the Mechanical Engineering building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, laptop open, chatting with an online master’s degree student and a working…
Inside the University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor Tuesday morning, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers peered over the shoulders of student operator Nick Tierney, a senior majoring in nuclear engineering, to eye the array of instrumentation on…
Bipartisan legislation signed into law by Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers established the study to help meet Wisconsin’s growing need for carbon-free electricity During his 2026 State of the State address Feb. 17, 2026, Wisconsin Gov….
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…
More than 81,806 Americans died from opioid-related overdoses in 2022, overwhelming hospitals and trapping thousands in cycles of addiction. But a new data-driven approach from engineering researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Florida A&M…
Sleep was on Nicolas Greaves and his groupmates’ to-do list. But, with motors to test, force calculations to crunch, prototype components to 3D print and more, the tasks kept stacking up. In the end, Greaves…
Pretty soon, the current iteration of digital cameras and phones will join film cameras in the junk shop of history. That’s because pixels are dead, or soon will be: A rapidly advancing technology called the…
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and computer scientists has identified vulnerabilities in popular automation apps that can make it easy for an abuser to stalk individuals, track their cellphone activity, or even control…