Category: Impact

To help prepare them, students receive hands-on training in real-world skills, experience in professional settings and face-to-face meetings with employers.

Three million people in the United States have had opioid use disorder, and another 1.5 million people have dealt with methamphetamine misuse within the last year alone. But two new groundbreaking clinical trials out of the UW Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances (TCRPS), housed within the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy, aim …

Developed by University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers, a lightweight, ultra-shock-absorbing foam could vastly improve helmets designed to protect people from strong blows. The new material exhibits 18 times higher specific energy absorption than the foam currently used in U.S. military combat helmet liners, as well as having much greater strength and stiffness, which could allow it …

Justin Boutilier, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at UW–Madison, is reimagining how drones and AEDs (automated external defibrillators) can help save lives.

Retinal cells grown from stem cells can reach out and connect with neighbors, according to a new study, completing a “handshake” that may show the cells are ready for trials in humans with degenerative eye disorders. Over a decade ago, researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison developed a way to grow organized clusters of cells, …

Starting at age 7, Matthew Rilling could predict at least one gift he’d receive every Christmas: a UW–Madison sweatshirt from his grandparents. The Rilling family really wanted a Badger, and they pinned their hopes on Matthew to be the first. He didn’t disappoint. He applied to 27 colleges and got accepted to all of them, …

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Space Science and Engineering Center is providing fast turn-around satellite data to NASA as part of a push for timelier tracking and monitoring of wildfires. The “low-latency data” is sent within a minute of observation. A specialized satellite ground station on the UW–Madison campus receives data, and SSEC Distinguished Scientist Liam …

In 2002, collaborators from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and leading regional biotech companies, with support from then-Governor Tommy Thompson, launched the Master of Science in Biotechnology. The wide-ranging curriculum in science, business, regulatory policy and law aimed to prepare students to succeed in the state’s nascent biotechnology industry. Twenty …