| |  June 13, 2022 | ![]() |  | Latest round of Research Forward supports cross-campus collaborations and diversitySixteen projects have been selected for funding in the second round of Research Forward, a program to stimulate innovative and groundbreaking research at UW–Madison that is collaborative, multidisciplinary and potentially transformative. | | ![]() | | Faculty receive WARF Named Professorships, Kellett Fellowships, and Romnes AwardsThirty-two members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been awarded fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education for 2022-23. The awardees span the four divisions on campus: arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences and biological sciences.
“These awards provide an opportunity for campus to recognize our outstanding faculty,” says Steve Ackerman, vice chancellor for research and graduate education. “They highlight faculty efforts to support the research, teaching, outreach and public service missions of the university.” | | ![]() | | Nine Projects Awarded Funding Through American Family Insurance Partnership with UW-Madison Data Science InstituteThe Funding Initiative is a partnership between DSI and American Family Insurance that provides UW–Madison faculty and staff with support for data science and artificial intelligence research that is relevant to the insurance industry. Launched in 2020, this initiative has provided 27 researchers and teams with nearly $4 million for their work, and it is expected to position UW–Madison faculty to launch and further their cutting-edge data science research. | | ![]() | | Postdoc Excellence Awards recognize outstanding UW–Madison postdocs and faculty membersSix UW–Madison postdocs have been recognized with the second annual Postdoc Excellence Awards, presented by the UW–Madison Postdoctoral Association, in the areas of teaching, service and mentoring. The association also recognized three UW–Madison faculty members with Distinguished Faculty Postdoc Mentoring Awards to honor their outstanding mentorship of postdoctoral trainees on campus. These are the only awards specific to postdocs at UW–Madison, a group that is often overlooked but provides a highly valuable contribution to research at the UW. | | ![]() | | 2022 RFA NOW OPEN Evidence to Implementation (E2I)The purpose of the E2I award is to expedite dissemination of evidence based practices, interventions and innovations to appropriate end-users using the D&I Launchpad program. These include self-management or other health promotion workshops and interventions, and health services innovations that improve delivery of care in the health care or community setting.
This award supports the creation of a Launchpad Package to support the dissemination and implementation of the evidence-based intervention or innovation. The elements of the Launchpad Package will be unique to each project, but may include a business plan – value proposition, marketing, sales, financials, intellectual property review, and the necessary tools and materials to support it. Pre-proposal due July, 15, 2022 | | ![]() | | New nanoparticles aid sepsis treatment in miceIn new research published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology this month, the lab of Shaoqin “Sarah” Gong, a professor with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, reported a new nanoparticle-based treatment that delivers anti-inflammatory molecules and antibiotics. | | ![]() | | Emerging Technologies at UW—Madison Get Boost From State FundsEmerging technologies developed at UW–Madison will receive funding assistance as the result of an on-campus grant program administered by Discovery to Product (D2P) and a matching grant of $300,000 from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC). | | ![]() | | Cancer drug may be treatment option for fragile X syndromeAt the moment, there is no cure for FXS. But, a new study by Waisman investigator Xinyu Zhao, PhD, professor of neuroscience at UW–Madison, and graduate student Sahar Javadi Novashnagh, presents more evidence to support the drug Nutlin-3 as a potential candidate as a treatment for FXS. | | ![]() | | Dragonfly Education and Research at the ArboretumDragonfly citizen science began at the Arboretum in 2018 with the Dragonfly Monitoring Project. Volunteers monitor nine sites across the grounds and have submitted over 2,300 observations since then. In May 2022 there was the first report of a painted skimmer in Dane County. | | ![]() | | Kyle Cranmer selected as Editor in Chief of Machine Learning: Science and TechnologyCranmer, who is the incoming director of the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute at UW-Madison and who will join the Department of Physics faculty in July, takes over leadership of this journal from Anatole von Lilienfeld, University of Toronto and TU Berlin. Cranmer has served on the MLST editorial board since its launch in 2019. | | ![]() | | WSB’s Emaad Manzoor Wins Prestigious Psychology of Technology Dissertation AwardEmaad Manzoor, an assistant professor of operations and information management at the Wisconsin School of Business, is one of only three scholars worldwide to receive the 2022 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award from the Psychology of Technology Institute. Manzoor received the award based on his research on persuasion in technology-mediated communication, “Persuasion in Text-Based Communication.” | |
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