University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: WARF

Arielle Link

Arielle’s research focuses on nitrogen cycling and soil microbial communities in post-fire lodgepole pine forests in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.

Silas Miller

As a member of the Raman Lab, Silas studies a type of protein that pumps antibiotics out of bacteria and makes them drug resistant, called an efflux pump.

Brian Foster

As a member of Kyoung-Shin Choi’s chemistry lab, Brian has helped develop a new method to recover valuable chemical elements from used lithium-ion batteries.

Brandon Tran

Brandon develops energy models for graphics processing units (GPUs) in high-performance computing systems.

Mahmudul Hassan

Mahmudul is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering specializing in surface polishing of laser additive manufacturing.

Gabriela C. Yepes-Rossel

Gabriela is a PhD student from Lima, Peru, a playwright, film and theater director, and scholar of Andean theater and performance.

Brandon E.J. Cortez

Brandon is a PhD student specializing in electromagnetics and vacuum electronics. His research seeks to push the boundaries of X-ray Communications (XCOM) to enable faster and more effective data transfer.

Emily Fornof

Emily is a WARF-supported project assistant examining climate change and conflict in the Sahel region of West Africa.

Claire Kilgore

PhD candidate, Art History

Claire’s dissertation explores depictions of pregnancy, reproductive anatomy, and childbirth in devotional art from the late Middle Ages. She analyzes what those depictions say about perceptions of the human body, reproductive health, and their connections to philosophy and religion.

Fernanda Szewc

Fernanda is a PhD candidate working in the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Public Health. She develops cancer treatments that utilize immune cells.