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Researchers in WID’s Virtual Environments Group partnered with the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center and Field Day Lab to create a journey from Antarctica through the cosmos that sparks interest in astrophysics research.
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Versatile Nanoparticle Offers Targeted Transportation to Cells
UW–Madison engineers led by WID’s Shaoqin “Sarah” Gong have developed a nanoparticle that could safely carry a variety of payloads into targeted cells, giving researchers a versatile, nonviral option for delivering drugs, gene-editing tools, DNA, and more.
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A Coalition of Scientists Takes on COVID-19 — with Data
Researchers across the UW campus — including WID’s Data Science Hub — are leading a new nationwide data science group focused on bringing new insights to pandemic management.
Read more from Grow magazine >
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New Tool for Assessing Heart Muscle Cells Helps Unlock Their Potential
A team of UW–Madison researchers led by Discovery Fellow Wendy Crone has created a powerful tool to help assess what experimental factors help to produce stem cell-generated cardiomyocytes that behave like adult heart cells.
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Karen Schloss Receives Psychonomic Society Early Career Award
According to one of her colleagues, “Karen Schloss is at the forefront of the best and the brightest early career scientists in our field.”
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Committed to Change:
a Call To Action
July 8, 2020 at 10:00 am
Join us for a virtual event organized by the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement to discuss the complexities of racism with campus colleagues, partners, and communities.
Register now >
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Meet our Featured "WIDites"
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Throughout the year, we will introduce you to some of the people behind WID's discoveries as part of our celebration of ten years of discovery — follow along on Twitter! Here, we introduce you to this month's featured WIDites.
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Ginger Ann
Executive Director, Illuminating Discovery Hub
"[I've been working on] Science to Street Art, teaming artists with scientists to create science public art and community activities."
Ginger Ann was also recently featured as InBusiness Madison's Professional of the Week.
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Junha Shin
Postdoctoral Associate, Roy Lab
"I'm a computational biologist. I'm studying...critical biological problems by virtue of recent computer science approaches including machine learning and network biology. I'm working on comparative analysis of massive amounts of data, which can't be easily done by human force."
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Stephen Wright
Professor, Computer Sciences
"The most exciting developments of recent years have been in the widespread adoption of optimization as a framework for thinking about problems in science, engineering, economics, etc, & actually solving these problems."
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For the latest updates on UW–Madison operations and support services, visit covid19.wisc.edu.
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