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February 14, 2022

2022-23 Vilas Associates Competition awardees announced

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education has announced 26 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their tenure date are eligible.

Research projects show future of Wisconsin Idea

Eleven projects that advance the Wisconsin Idea have been awarded through a new grant series from Extension and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education.

A unique opportunity to hear about a range of thesis topics

The Three Minute Thesis® (3MT®) Finals Competition is open to anyone to attend, 10 a.m. to noon on Friday, Feb. 18 at the H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building.

American Family Funding Initiative in the field of data science

The application deadline is March 11.

Wisconsin National Primate Research Center 2022 Pilot Research Award application is now open

Letter of intent is due Feb. 21.Pilot research is intended to help investigators generate preliminary data or results necessary to apply for support from other primary sources of funding. Projects may include preliminary activities on biomedical research topics in keeping with the main research areas of the WNPRC (Regenerative and Reproductive Medicine, Global Infectious Disease, Neuroscience, and Energy Metabolism and Chronic Disease) and are typically developmental or exploratory in nature.

Training grant office and its partners set up UW–Madison for success in supporting graduate students and postdoctoral trainees

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is recognized for world class research and an important part of that success is cutting-edge research training grant opportunities provided to its graduate students and postdoctoral trainees.

Research Team Develops Extensive Protein Data Set, and App to Share It

A UW–Madison research team has created a huge data set on animal tissue proteins that provides building blocks for understanding how medicines work, how wounds heal, how tissue grafts change over time, and more. And they’ve made this resource available for free, along with a digital app that simplifies its use.

Opportunities for campus innovators

Learn about upcoming funding opportunities free training and expert coaching.

Web of Science database offers raw data behind the site's user interface

This data set is licensed so that UW–Madison faculty, staff and students can analyze citation patterns in their data science projects, thereby enabling an unprecedented look at how scholarly citation patterns and networks have evolved over more than a century

Arboretum 2022 Research Symposium Topics Announced

The 2022 Arboretum Research Symposium will take place virtually 10 to 11:45 a.m. on Feb. 17. The event is free and open to the public, and advance registration is required.

WIPAC group embarks on second year of equity initiatives

Learn more about the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) Racial Justice and Equity Working Group's efforts to provide opportunities for education and training around anti-racism and equity in the workplace and science for WIPAC staff, faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and visitors.

New collaborative research center to provide clearer image of tumor microenvironment

Kevin Eliceiri, associate professor of biomedical engineering and medical physics at UW–Madison, and Paolo Provenzano, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Minnesota, will lead the Center for Multiparametric Imaging of Tumor Immune Microenvironments, funded by a five-year, $6.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. The collaboration aims to inform new immunotherapy designs and strategies

Bilen-Rosas wins 2021 Equalize Med Tech pitch competition, encourages others to get involved

Guelay Bilen-Rosas, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology, earned a top prize in the 2021 Equalize pitch competition hosted by Washington University in St. Louis and wants to encourage other female faculty to pursue entrepreneurship. She won the medical technology category for her pitch on a monitor that health care workers can use to identify respiratory issues in patients early.

WSB Doctoral Student Srinivas Tunuguntla Wins UW–Madison’s Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award

Srinivas Tunuguntla, a doctoral student in the Department of Marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business, is the recipient of the UW–Madison’s Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award. The award recognizes a doctoral student in the social sciences who has demonstrated outstanding research and scholarly writing accomplishments while a graduate student at UW–Madison.

Chakraborty Named Finalist in Top Marketing Doctoral Competitions

Ishita Chakraborty, the Thomas and Charlene Landsberg Smith Faculty Fellow and an assistant professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business, is a finalist in two major competitions for her dissertation, “Three Essays on the Role of Unstructured Data in Marketing Research.”

WCER researchers partner with SAGE, Mass Audubon to make informal STEM learning fun

New immersive simulator lets game players reimagine land use based on real science.
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