1. Getting to the root of stress: UW-River Falls students win national award

    Photo of UW-River Falls students, from left, Rafael Larosiliere, Anna Euerle, Kate Petersen, Yihong Deng, and Ashley Gruman, who won first place in a national contest by developing a dairy-based product aimed at helping ease people’s anxiety. The group won the Dairy Management Inc. New Product Competition and received the award in Chicago. Contributed photo.

    A team of University of Wisconsin-River Falls students has turned a challenging project into a first-place national award by developing a dairy-based product aimed at helping ease people’s anxiety. Students Yihong Deng, Ashley Gruman, Rafael Larosiliere, Kate Petersen and Anna Euerle won the honor as part of the Dairy Management Inc. New Product Competition that challenged students […]

  2. Putting her spin on it: UW-Stout graphic design major’s Vertigo project brings national attention

    Photo of Amanda Piotrowski, a senior in UW-Stout’s graphic design and interactive media program, who has had her Vertigo typeface recognized by several national websites. / Contributed photo

    Amanda Piotrowski hoped to make a splash when she created her “uniquely expressive, situationally very trippy and overall exciting and energizing” typeface called Vertigo. The alphabet of swirling, colorful capital letters by the UW-Stout senior, who is majoring in graphic design and interactive media, did just that. Piotrowski, from Pittsville in central Wisconsin, created a bigger splash […]

  3. UWM researcher works on replacing the most potent greenhouse gas of all

    Photo of Chanyeop Park showing the inductor in his lab. It’s part of a research project he and Georgia Tech are working on to create a high-voltage circuit breaker that uses a much greener alternative to the gas currently used in high voltage electrical equipment. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)

    The world’s most potent greenhouse gas – and one that most people have never heard of – is becoming a worrisome contributor to global warming because of an increasing demand for electricity and aging energy infrastructure. The gas, called sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), for decades has been used in high-voltage electrical distribution equipment as an insulator. […]

  4. The Flow Project: Water inspires UWSP student art

    Photo of Megan Strom, graphic design major at UW-Stevens Point, posing with a travel poster she created for The Flow Project, which paired student artists and water professionals to create water-inspired art.

    Art and science come together in a project that blends and flows as it illustrates water. The Flow Project was illuminating for both the artists and water professionals. Seven UW-Stevens Point students are among 31 undergraduates from every UW who participated in The Flow Project. Student artists were paired with water professionals across the state […]

  5. Students present research on reducing ammonia emissions and odors

    Three University of Wisconsin-Platteville students are looking at biochar as a way to reduce ammonia emissions and odors off of manure storages, which many farms in Wisconsin use. According to the students’ research, manure storages are good for many environmental reasons, but are also a source of odor and greenhouse gas emissions. Jeffrey Smolinski, Zach […]

  6. Engineering students present concrete durability project at Research in the Rotunda

    Photo of Dylan Notsch and Will Straka (left to right) studying the effects of anti-icing on concrete.

    Two University of Wisconsin-Platteville engineering students are studying the effects of anti-icing on concrete and presented their findings at the 19th annual Research in the Rotunda on March 8 in the state Capitol. Senior Dylan Notsch and sophomore Will Straka are assisting Dr. Danny Xiao, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, on the project titled, “Impact of […]

  7. Game development skills solve an art gallery’s problem

    Photo of Brian Michael, a UW-Whitewater media arts and game development student from Sycamore, Illinois, placing 12 works by painter Jerry Jordan. Brian created art installation software for the gallery, which takes the dimensions of the paintings and the wall, so he can determine the correct placement and spacing for the art. This software saves workers from hand-measuring and manually working out the placements. (UW-Whitewater Photos/Craig Schreiner)

    Brian Michael, a media arts and game development major from Sycamore, Illinois, still beams when he talks about being paid to do programming for his campus employer, Roberta’s Art Gallery, located in the University Center at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. “It sometimes gets to be a bit of a bother finding all of the measurements and making sure […]

  8. From concussions to PFAS: Five ways UW-Madison research is tackling real-world problems

    Photo of undergraduate researcher Grace Kreissler holding a clear 3D-printed skull that the researchers created to aid in their investigation of traumatic brain injuries. PHOTO BY JOEL HALLBERG

    Scientific research can feel distant from our everyday lives, and indeed it often requires years — or decades — of intense study to bring a life-saving medical treatment or useful new technology to fruition. Even in the face of daunting challenges and long timelines, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison bring their love for learning […]

  9. Nine UW-Stout students present applied research at annual state Capitol event

    Photo of food science major Caitlyn Lisota working in a Heritage Hall lab on E. coli test kits, part of her research presented at the state Capitol.

    Research in the Rotunda includes food science major explaining work on consumer and commercial test kits for E.coli and coliforms A research spotlight shone on nine UW-Stout students on Wednesday, March 8, at the state Capitol, including one whose efforts could help make water safer to drink and food safer to eat. Dozens of UW […]

  10. UW-Platteville’s Muller combines innovation, new technology to bring drawings off the page

    Photo of UW-Platteville student Jacob Muller with one of his illustrations turned into a 3D sculpture

    An illustrator by trade, Jacob Muller didn’t expect to be working with cutting-edge technology while earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts. But, an Undergraduate Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity Scholarship is allowing him to delve into a project that leverages his design skills and new technology – including equipment in the University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s new Huff Family Innovation Center. […]