Announcements
Four UW faculty recognized with Early Career Innovator Awards
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) has announced the recipients of the 2024 Early Career Innovator Award, which recognizes four UW–Madison early career faculty for engaging in technology transfer and commercialization activities and transforming their research discoveries into inventions for the public good. This year’s awardees are:…
Applications accepted through May 26 for Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Research Administration Officer
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has launched a search for the next Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Research Administration Officer, who will direct RSP. Deadline to apply is 11:55 p.m. on May 26.
Dr. Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezińska named next Vice Chancellor for Research
Grejner-Brzezińska, Vice President for Knowledge Enterprise, a longtime Ohio State University Engineering Professor, and GPS researcher, begins her UW role on Sept. 1.
Extension announces 2024 Wisconsin Idea Collaboration Grants
The grants encourage UW–Madison faculty and staff who have not historically partnered with Extension to engage in applied research and outreach. Ten projects were selected this year. WIC Grants is a collaboration of Extension and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
Public presentations scheduled for vice chancellor for research search on March 4, 8 and 18
The candidates’ names and CVs will be made available to the UW–Madison community 48 hours prior to each visit and posted on the search website.
175th Anniversary Series: UW–Madison research spans the globe
The Wisconsin Idea has outgrown state borders and, as science has become more mobile, now stretches across the globe and even out of this world.
UW–Madison remains 8th in research ranking, surpasses $1.5 billion in research expenditures
The NSF has released its Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) data showing a 10% increase in research expenditures at UW–Madison over the previous fiscal year, or more than $143 million for the period covering July 2021 through the end of June 2022. UW–Madison reported more than $1.52 billion in total research expenditures, about half of which comes from federal awards.
Federal interim rule implements TikTok ban on devices used in the performance of federal contracts
The OVCRGE has also launched a Research Security Program webpage and hired John Jay Miller as the interim director of the Research Security Program.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) Efficiency Project showing early success with increased investigator satisfaction in the IRB experience
The IRB Efficiency Project (IEP) was launched by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education to reduce administrative burden for PIs by improving efficiency of the IRB review process, while simultaneously supporting the IRBs primary role of ensuring compliance with federal regulations.
2 UW professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Jo Handelsman, professor of plant Pathology, HHMI Professor in Plant Pathology, and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, and Shannon Stahl, Steenbock professor of Chemical Sciences — are among 120 scientists elected this year in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.