Announcements
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.
Science journals editor-in-chief shares ideas for reinvigorating public confidence in higher education during his campus visit April 17-18
Thorp’s talks at UW–Madison will include topics ranging from improving science literacy and communication with the public, to expanding opportunities for growing entrepreneurship, to fostering a healthy research environment that supports development of the next generation of scientists.
Astronomers map Milky Way by light of exploding star
A huge flash of radiation from an explosion outside our galaxy that reached Earth on Oct. 9 went into the record books as the BOAT — the brightest of all time. Read on to learn more about the UW–Madison connection.
DOE renews funding for Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center UW–Madison hub to receive $27.5 million for 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a University of Wisconsin–Madison based research center another five years of funding to develop sustainable alternatives to gasoline, diesel and other hydrocarbon fuels as well as products currently made from petroleum. The extension will allow scientists at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center…