Graduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Cycles in the growth and decay of Antarctica’s ice sheets once shaped marine biological productivity thousands of miles away in the subtropical ocean, according to new research led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Clara Cole (BS’17 DVM’21), a second-year PhD student in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, is investigating the impacts of H5N1 on mammals, with a particular focus on how the virus affects the mammary glands.
Each year, an estimated 500,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease — a bacterial infection that can cause rash, fever, extreme tiredness, and joint stiffness, among other symptoms. Karen Fuenzalida, a veterinarian and PhD student in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, is among the scientists working to curb that number.
When PhD student Estevan Molina arrived at the airport, he carried a suitcase filled entirely with basketballs. About 40 of them — all different sizes, all donated by UW–Madison’s Athletic Department, and all deflated — were squeezed into a checked bag. The plan was clear: deliver them to youth programs and basketball academies across Senegal.
UW–Madison scientists have pioneered a direct recycling technique that uses electricity and low-cost chemicals to restore batteries.
Anne E. Stoner is an interdisciplinary artist and social ethnographer focusing in sonic practice. Her work brings about and coalesces studies in bodily complexities and disability studies, human geography, and psychogeographies, contemporary methodologies in ethnographic archiving and queer anthropology, new possibilities within technology, and studies within human movement and routine, to create a practice with an empathetic methodology that challenges visual standards within 21st century artmaking.
Field work normally ends before dark, but following a long day of dairy manure application in early May 2023, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Josh Mirabella worked late into the night to install his soil greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement equipment.
A fourth-year undergraduate student sits in a classroom on the first floor of the Mechanical Engineering building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, laptop open, chatting with an online master’s degree student and a working engineer. The three are discussing which components of a laser-cutting setup at a manufacturing plant could be responsible for the system overheating.
At its heart, education is a process: Students move step by step through their curriculum and, if all goes well, this results in an end product: Graduates equipped to thrive in the real world. That’s why University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical engineers decided to apply their process systems engineering techniques to the chemical engineering undergraduate curriculum.
Are one in 200 men really related to Genghis Khan? Maybe not, according to a new study from researchers at UW–Madison.