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![]() |  | UW launches new initiative to reduce negative effects of COVID-19 pandemic on researchApplications are due no later than 4:30 p.m on Monday, September 28. |
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![]() | | COVID-19 Dissertation Completion FundingRecognizing the difficulties that COVID-19 placed on our graduate students’ dissertation completion, the Graduate School is providing additional funding support to PhD and MFA students who are close to completion but whose progress was delayed by COVID-19. This funding support will be provided as a single-semester fellowship. Faculty advisors can nominate eligible PhD or MFA candidates by September 30 at 5:00 pm.
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![]() | | Vilas Life Cycle ProfessorshipThis year, the program has obtained supplemental funds from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and WARF, and for FY21 will be called the Life Cycle Grant program. Deadlines:
September 25, 2020 (for awards beginning before February 1, 2021)
December 31, 2020 (for awards beginning before June 1, 2021)
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![]() | | Making Research Work: Getting ahead of grant deadlines leads to greater successAs federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health, have been doling out billions of dollars recently to address impacts of COVID-19, we have seen researchers scrambling to apply for this emergency research funding. I applaud UW–Madison’s effort to respond to this rapidly evolving crisis and have been impressed by our research community’s success […] |
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![]() | | Fostering Responsible Conduct of Research in Time of Crisis -- Virtual ConferenceThe Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Peer Group on Responsible Conduct of Research is hosting a free, two-day virtual conference October 14-15, 2020. |
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![]() | | UW experts design masks for campus from scratchAs many as 24,000 of the new face coverings have been made available to help people comply with the campus requirement to wear masks in buildings and other situations in which distancing isn’t possible. |
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![]() | | Free trainings and mentoring available to campus innovators at a virtual open house with Discovery to ProductD2P is hosting four live virtual open houses for campus innovators, plus an on-demand option, or can schedule 1:1 mentor chats. D2P’s team of expert mentors are a free resource to campus innovators. D2P's experiential training programs, Innovation to Market and Igniter, are accepting applications until September 20. |
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![]() | | UW-Madison researcher collaborates on new NSF-funded national artificial intelligence initiativeSadhana Puntambekar, a principal investigator at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and professor in the University of Wisconsin─Madison School of Education, will collaborate with national researchers on establishing one of five artificial intelligence (AI) institutes and education hubs. A $100 million initiative of the National Science Foundation, the centers are the single most significant federal investment to date in exploring how AI can benefit the United States’ quality of life, economy and international competitiveness. |
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![]() | | How Birds Respond to Extreme WeatherCombining high-resolution weather data from Daymet and ground-based observations from eBird, a global citizen science initiative, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cornell University recently investigated how 109 bird species responded to such events in eastern North America. |
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![]() | | Personal responsibility mirrors Aldo Leopold’s land ethicDirector of the UW Arboretum reminds us that Leopold championed the need to develop a sense of responsibility and caring for the natural world. At its core, the land ethic emphasizes the importance of caring for communities of people and the land, and strengthening the relationships between them. |
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![]() | | Wisconsin National Primate Research Center has launched the new Primate Info NetSome of PIN’s most prominent features include primates in the news, educational resources, such as the always popular primate species fact sheets, information services and research resources. |
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![]() | | UW–Madison to continue fundamental data science research with NSF awardUW–Madison data scientists are harnessing big data and laying the foundations for major advances in data-rich applications thanks to a five-year, $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The team at UW–Madison is co-leading a cohort of institutions to study the theoretical underpinnings of the rapidly growing field of data science. |
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![]() | | Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities conference informationThe Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) is accepting registration for the 2020 a2ru national conference, Land & Equity: The Art and Politics of Place, to be hosted by UW–Madison, October 15. |
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![]() | | Study finds balancing traditional patient visits with e-visit technology often leaves physicians making up the differenceHessam Bavafa, an assistant professor of operations and information management at the Wisconsin School of Business, and co-author Christian Terwiesch of the University of Pennsylvania, found that a physician’s number of hours containing work (defined as conducting an office visit or e-visits) nearly doubled with the adoption of an e-visit channel. |
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