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Dorota Brezinska meets OVCR staff

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With $75 million gift for new UW–Madison engineering building, brothers’ impact spans generations and transcends campus boundaries

Research Forward 2025 open for applications

Ecologist and former University of Central Florida Arboretum Director named UW Arboretum director

Steenbock professorships awarded in physical sciences and mathematics

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UW Research at a Glance

8th
in nation for volume of research
$1.5B
spent on research
17
VCR research and service centers

IceCube at South Pole

Research at UW snapshot

SSEC rooftop

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Biotech Bucky

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n the late 1950s, Kay Emerson became the first person in Wisconsin to be successfully treated for phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare metabolic condition that can cause severe intellectual and developmental disability if left untreated. She was treated by Harry Waisman, MD, PhD, who was a renowned PKU researcher and physician and who the Waisman Center is named after. He advocated to add PKU to the Newborn Screening Panel in Wisconsin.

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Amber Wichowsky

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Research Projects Funded In Partnership with American Family Insurance

Sift and Winnow plaque on Bascom Hall. Photo by Jeff Miller

New images of RSV may expose stubborn virus’s weak points

New vice chancellor for research feels at home on the shores of Lake Mendota

Bascom Hall plaque

Aquatic invasive species are more widespread in Wisconsin than previously thought

Wisconsin cranberry marsh

The Wisconsin Idea in Action