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University of Wisconsin–Madison

Research Forward (Round 2)

A bumblebee pollinates flowers of a blossoming buckeye tree at the Longenecker Horticulture Gardens at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. (Photo by Jeff Miller / UW-Madison)

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (OVCRGE) hosts the Research Forward initiative to stimulate and support highly innovative and groundbreaking research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The initiative is supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and will provide funding for 1–2 years, depending on the needs and scope of the project.

Research Forward seeks to support collaborative, multidisciplinary, multi-investigator research projects that are high-risk, high-impact, and transformative. It seeks to fund research projects that have the potential to fundamentally transform a field of study as well as projects that require significant development prior to the submission of applications for external funding. Collaborative research proposals are welcome from within any of the four divisions (Arts & Humanities, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences), as are cross-divisional collaborations.

Here are the 16 projects chosen for funding in Round 2 of Research Forward (2022).