Research Events Roundup
Clinical Practice Enhanced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) Grand Rounds– Feb. 12
Free
12:15-1:15 p.m. on Feb. 12
HSLC Room 1244 and virtual: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95770379993?pwd=9ygada05UmGfMbjzbcWOGUN9rUjmWt.1
Three Minute Thesis ® (3MT) Finals – Feb. 14
10 a.m.-12 p.m. at the DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building
Three Minute Thesis® is an international competition in which graduate students explain their thesis research to a general audience in only 3 minutes. The top contestants from the semi-finals will compete for cash prizes and the chance to represent UW–Madison at the regional competition. Cheer on the 3MT competitors and learn about their innovative research at this fun and engaging event.
Learn more and see who the finalists are: https://grad.wisc.edu/professional-development/3-minute-thesis/
Designing or redesigning a course? – Feb. 14
WARF Therapeutics Lecture – Feb. 14
Featuring: Jeffrey Neul, MD, PhD
“Gene Discovery to Clinical Trials: How Clinical and Basic Research Have Intersected to Develop and Test New Therapies for Rett Syndrome”
Location: John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216
Time: noon to 1 p.m. Feb. 14
Arboretum Research Fellowships – Deadline Extended to Feb. 15
Graduate students still have time to apply for a 2025 Arboretum Research Fellowship – the deadline has been extended to Feb. 15. We encourage research proposals in all areas relevant to the Arboretum mission, including the social sciences, humanities, and education. Multiple fellowship awards are available.
Faculty Training Workshop: Industry Engagement – Feb. 24
Sponsored by the Office of Business Engagement and the Office of the Vice Chacellor for Research.
Strategic university-industry engagements that build lasting, mutual partnerships often begin with researcher-to-researcher connections. This workshop will lay out the benefits and challenges of industry engagement, provide an overview of how companies make decisions on their academic collaborations, and deliver practical advice on successful industry interactions. The workshop will be facilitated by Lubab Sheet-Davis of UI Collab.
When: 9-11 a.m.Monday, Feb. 24
Where: Pyle Center, Rooms 325&326
Questions? Contact Monica Welke (mwelke@wisc.edu)
Registration is required.
Madison Reads Leopold: Voices of a Land Ethic – March 1
The Arboretum on March 1 from 1 to 4 p.m. hosts a free community reading of selections from A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold and writings by other environmental thinkers, including Ada Limón, Camille Dungy, and Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Listeners can drop in to hear favorite pieces or stay for the entire event. A full schedule of readings and readers will be posted on the event web page in late February.
Eloquence & Eminence Lecture on March 5 (register by March 2)
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Pyle Center
35 Years of Struggling to Understand Family Change and the Effects of Family Policy
Talk by Daniel R. Meyer, PhD in Social Welfare, UW–Madison; MSW/MBA, Washington University.
The event is free and open to the public.
In this talk, Dr. Meyer will show changes in the structure of families in the US and around the world and describe some of the dilemmas faced by governments in trying to craft family policies that will facilitate the economic well-being of children in contemporary families. He will reflect on things he had to learn on his journey, the limits of our current knowledge base, and what he’s hoping for the future.
For more details or to register, visit:
https://aging.wisc.edu/eloquence-and-eminence-lectures/
Call for Nominations: Research Mentor Awards – nomination deadline is March 3
The annual Awards for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities recognize faculty members, groups of mentors, academic staff, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students for the outstanding work they do in mentoring our undergraduates in their areas of professional activity.
These awards provide $2,000 of university expendable funds (for supplies and expenses). The nomination deadline is March 3.
“Responsive Community Engagement for Federal and National Grant Proposals” – March 12 (register by Feb. 28)
DATE: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 12
LOCATION: In-person at the Discovery Building (The Forum)
LUNCH PROVIDED
REGISTRATION LINK: https://lu.ma/409kmtrq
Increasingly, federal and national grants are requiring university-based researchers, faculty, and PIs to invite community members into the overall grant project to help ensure that there is a strong connection between community-identified needs and the research process. Given that this is a major shift, and that many professors have not been trained on how to engage the community, there is a gap emerging in practice. Faculty are expected to find community partners, but it is not clear the quality of these connections. An emerging group of community engagement professionals on campus have been leveraged to help faculty and PIs find community partners, but it sometimes is an after-thought and reflects a haphazard attempt to tack on community partners who were not a part of shaping the proposal. This workshop seeks to answer the question: How can community partners more meaningfully be engaged in federal grant proposals?
Questions about the event? Contact Wes Marner, wmarner@morgridge.org.
Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium – April 2 (submission deadline is March 19)
The annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium is coordinated by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center and the BTC Institute. It is held at the Biopharmaceutical Technology Center (BTC) on the Promega Corporation Campus in Fitchburg/Madison, WI on April 2, 2025.
It brings together leading researchers investigating human biology and disease with engineered human cells, organoids and tissues. Each year, the planning committee selects a focus related to stem cells and regenerative medicine.
This year’s Symposium, entitled Translational and Commercial Applications of Stem Cell-Derived Technologies, will bring together speakers that showcase how these technologies and computational tools are being used to enable diverse translational and commercial biomedical applications. The agenda includes speakers from academia and industry, a panel discussion with local industry representatives, and a research poster competition/session.
Learn more here: https://www.btci.org/events-symposia/wisconsin-stem-cell-symposium/
Ethics in Scientific Authorship – March 20 (RSVP by March 17)
“Authorship Sins and Misdemeanors and How to Address Them”
Featuring Lisa Rasmussen, associatepProfessor in Philosophy and graduate director at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Sponsored by the School of Engineering.
Rasmussen is Editor-in-Chief of Accountability in Research and Co-Editor of the book series Philosophy and Medicine (Springer). She has been PI or Co-PI on over $1 million in NSF grants, including a 5-year grant currently underway on authorship ethics, “Fostering a Culture of Openness and Accountability with Institutional Authorship Policies.”
One of Rasmussen’s main research and teaching areas is research ethics. She is presently working on a book manuscript on unregulated human subject research, motivated by her recent work in citizen science and DIY Bio.
When: noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 20
Where: Engineering Hall 1610
RSVP BY MARCH 17: go.wisc.edu/59y7ob
QUESTIONS? ryan.radke@wisc.edu