1. Virtual technology allows Blugolds to use digital cadavers in anatomy courses

    Photo of Hannah Geisler, an ad hoc program specialist in kinesiology, using the Anatomage table to instruct Blugolds in an anatomy class.

    Anatomy education is coming to life for University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire students who are using new high-resolution digital cadaver tables to see the inner workings of the human body. The College of Education and Human Sciences purchased two life-size 3D tables that are being used by undergraduate and graduate students in the departments of kinesiology […]

  2. Crossing borders: UW-Stout students engineering new, clean water system for village in Ecuador

    Photo of UW-Stout students part of the university’s Engineers Without Borders chapter who traveled to a village in Ecuador to help build a clean water system. A return trip is planned in 2024 to continue the two-mile-long project. / Photo courtesy of Engineers Without Borders chapter

    After first visit in 2023, return trip planned in 2024 for second phase of two-mile-long mountainside project Residents of a village in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador are looking forward to having — for the first time — clean water, thanks to the skills and efforts of determined engineering students at UW-Stout. The students are […]

  3. UWM alum uses art to make a difference in her community

    Photo of Jeanette Arellano, who found a welcoming space in UWM’s ArtsECO program. “I felt like I was in the right place.” (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)

    When Jeanette Arellano was a child growing up in Houston, she struggled with English. Since Spanish was her first language, she had difficulty with most academic subjects. “There was no one to help me, but my art teachers helped me. Art was a way to express myself and connect everything that was going on in […]

  4. UWO Students Conduct R&D for Wisconsin-based Whirl-Pak

    Photo of UW Oshkosh graduate student Erick Carranza who says working on R&D for Whirl-Pak has broadened his skills.

    Water research can result in a lot of plastic waste. High-quality sample collection — such as that for researching emerging contaminants like perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — requires sterilized containers that, unfortunately, can’t be reused or even recycled in most cases. Is there an economical and efficient way to reduce the waste? Product engineers […]

  5. UWM scientist lands $542,000 NSF award for modeling virtual tumor tissues

    Photo of Mahsa Dabagh, a biomedical engineer at UW-Milwaukee’s College of Engineering & Applied Science, who specializes in computational modeling of how cells and organelles inside of cells sense and respond to changes in their surroundings. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)

    Cancerous tumors don’t happen in a vacuum. They develop in a cellular soup that can contribute to the disease’s progression. Mahsa Dabagh, a biomedical engineer at UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science, knows this first-hand. Her specialty is computational modeling of how cells and organelles inside of cells sense and respond to changes in […]

  6. UW-Madison researchers uncover new clues about the cause of common birth defects

    Photo of image of a section through the midface of a mouse embryo illustrating fusion of the tissues that form the secondary palate above the tongue. Green staining illustrates cells expressing a key enzyme that mediates DNA methylation, blue indicates nuclei of all cells, red indicates epithelial cells.

    Cleft lip and palate are the most common craniofacial birth defects in humans, affecting more than 175,000 newborns around the world each year. Yet despite decades of research, it’s still not known what causes most cases or what can be done to prevent them. But a recent study from the University of Wisconsin School of […]

  7. UW Oshkosh launches new School of Informatics

    Photo of UW Oshkosh College of Business Dean Frank Braun

    Regional business and community leaders helped kickstart the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s new interdisciplinary School of Informatics Tuesday morning during the Chancellor’s Executive Breakfast at the Culver Family Welcome Center. UW Oshkosh College of Business Dean Frank Braun explained how the innovative school will bring together a matrix of programs from across colleges and gathered […]

  8. UW-River Falls professor awarded federal grants to study animal welfare

    Photo of Barron County dairy farmer Cheyenne Christianson interacting with his dairy herd. Christianson’s farm has been a research site for federally funded work being conducted by UW-River Falls faculty member Kate Creutzinger to study cows and calves. UWRF photo.

    Research focuses on living conditions of calves and their health outcomes A Holstein calf just a few weeks old lay next to its mother on a late fall day in a pasture at Cheyenne Christianson’s Barron County farm, seemingly content and healthy. A moment later the young calf stood up and ambled a short distance. […]

  9. Surprising contributions from UW–Madison’s overlooked scientists

    Photo collage: While the scientists in this story aren’t household names, the research they did and the training they received from UW–Madison helped advance their fields of science and improve the world.

    From medicine to ecology, engineering to computer science, the University of Wisconsin has for 175 years made valuable innovations that help people and communities across the state and beyond. And today, with one of the highest-ranked research programs in the country, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is well-known for making important scientific discoveries. But what about […]

  10. ‘Castify’: UWL grad student develops new podcasting platform

    Photo of Logan Larson, a graduate student in UW-La Crosse's Software Engineering program, who has developed a new podcasting app, "Castify."

    Logan Larson, a fifth-year graduate student in UWL’s Software Engineering program, has loved computer science since he was a kid.   In fact, Larson’s mother has been a computer science teacher all of his life. He says he started creating his own video games when he was young, and as he continued to take courses throughout his […]