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2025 WARF Innovation Award finalists
Six visionary teams. Two $10,000 prizes. Celebrating research that’s shaping the future: https://www.warf.org/invent/warf-innovation-awards/ This December, WARF will honor promising innovations from the UW–Madison that advance fields like quantum engineering, cancer immunotherapy and more. Each fall the WARF Innovation Awards recognize some of the best inventions at UW-Madison.
New faculty profile: Yang Lu
Yang Lu, a computational biologist and assistant professor, has joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering, where he’ll continue his work using artificial intelligence, machine learning and other statistical methods to inform biological research.
UW fostering closer research ties with federal defense, cybersecurity agencies
“Dual-use” research, meaning research that benefits both the Department of Defense and civilians, is what UW–Madison leaders are hoping to attract more of in the coming years. The push is part of a broader strategic effort led by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to increase DoD research funding and expand the university’s national security-oriented research and education opportunities. “This is about research portfolio diversification and making sure that UW–Madison is not overly reliant on one or two primary funding streams when there are many national security priorities that fit with the research we excel at,” says Vice Chancellor for Research Dorota Brzezińska.
Director Named for the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has named Ricardo Carrion Jr., director of Maximum Containment Contract Research and chair of the Animal Use and Care Committee (IACUC) at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, as the next director of the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. Carrion started in his new role on Nov. 3.
Forward Ag Invests in Cross-Sector Solutions to Drive Agri-Food Innovation in Wisconsin
Seven projects across Wisconsin have been selected for funding under the Wisconsin Forward Agriculture (Forward Ag) Use-Inspired Research & Development (UIR) grant. Funding for the 2025-26 Forward Ag UIR grant program is supported by the WEDC, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and WiSys.
UW–Madison team awarded NSF grant to develop cameras for the world’s largest high-energy gamma-ray observatory
A team of researchers and engineers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Washington University in St. Louis has been awarded a $3.9 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to build and install gamma-ray cameras for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). The award will provide light detectors for the Small-Sized Telescopes located at the CTAO-South site as well as the readout and control electronics required to operate them.
A new interdisciplinary L&S research center will grapple with the human consequences of artificial intelligence
What are the ethics of artificial intelligence? How will historians look back at the development phase of this new technology? What will the long-term impact be on our society as governments embrace these tools? These are the types of questions that will be investigated by the College of Letters & Science’s new Center for Humanistic Inquiry into AI and Uncertainty.
Research News Roundup for October
Explore a round-up of some interesting research stories around campus.
Research events and announcements (Oct. and Nov.)
Explore a sampling of research-related events at UW–Madison.
Curiosity is on display with the 2025 Cool Science Image contest winners
The winning images will be featured through January, 2026 in an exhibit at the McPherson Eye Research Institute’s Mandelbaum and Albert Family Vision Gallery on the ninth floor of the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, 1111 Highland Ave.