Author: mnchua

Graduate Student Spotlight: Brayan Riascos Arteaga

Brayan Riascos Arteaga is a third year PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He works in the Noguera lab, where he’s developing ways to utilize manure fibers as a lignocellulosic resource.

Graduate student receives NASA space technology research award

Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics graduate student Nicholas Crnkovich received a 2025 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity (NSTGRO) Award.

A Recital 75 years in the Making

Two years after beloved pianist Sarah Jamieson’s passing at age 103, seven doctoral students will take the bench of her prized Steinway and reprise her 1951 senior concert.

Breathing New Life into Rural COPD Care

Graduate student Sara Hernandez pilots a pharmacist-led program to improve COPD care and outcomes in rural Wisconsin

Oluwatobi (Tobi) Idowu

Tobi’s research interests include African popular culture, digital media, and global Black literatures.

PhD Student Editorial, Design, & Marketing Internship at Orange Hat Publishing

Join Orange Hat Publishing, Wisconsin's largest indie book publisher, for experience with all stages of the publishing process. This internship is offered through the Graduate School Industry Internship Program.

PhD student pushes CRISPR-edited CAR-T cells closer to the clinic

As an undergraduate chemical engineering student at Villanova University, Anna Tommasi took a course in cell engineering that spurred her interest in developing biomedical therapies. It was the start of a path that’s led the native of western New York to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the lab of Krishanu Saha, a professor of biomedical engineering and faculty member with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery on campus.

Sarah Tolbert

Sarah’s PhD research focuses on how to increase local communities’ capacity for forest conservation in the DRC.

Charles Smith

Charles is a PhD student in the joint PhD program in Finance and Economics at the Wisconsin School of Business whose research lies at the intersection of finance and industrial organization.

Rooted in Agriculture, Driven by Innovation: A Badger’s Journey in Smart Farming

From the agricultural heartland of Tamil Nadu in southern India to the cranberry bogs of Wisconsin, Dharani Suresh Babu is forging a path that blends a deep-rooted connection to farming with cutting-edge technology. A Ph.D. candidate in horticulture science and computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she is pioneering digital agriculture solutions that are transforming how growers manage and sustain one of Wisconsin’s most iconic crops: cranberries.