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- Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Awards given for the second year
- Dr. Julie Mares retires after 32 years of research and service
- Dr. Billie Beckwith-Cohen & comparative ophthalmology
- Emerging Technologies at UW-Madison Get Boost from State Funds
- Research Beyond Waisman Center: Discoveries That Have Spun Into Products
- Faculty receive 2023-24 WARF Named Professorships, Kellett Fellowships, and Romnes Awards
- Bikash Pattnaik and Sangamam celebrate heritage and heart health
- Stem cell pioneer James Thomson to retire
- Eliceiri will co-lead new campus tumor imaging center
- Masters, Mutlu, Sinha named 2022-2023 Vilas Associates
- Bilge Mutlu & Yuhang Zhao profiled in On Wisconsin
- Saalman Lab’s study of ketamine and the brain published in Journal of Neuroscience
- Sarah Gong team chosen for 2021 WARF Innovation Award
- UW News profiles the Velten Lab’s video-around-corners project
- Shawn Green’s lab shows that action game play leads to quicker learners
- Ahna Skop among judges for 2021 Cool Science Images Contest
- Eliceiri named SPIE fellow
- Bassam Shakhashiri, PhD, retires from UW-Madison, as reported by UW News and the Wisconsin State Journal
- Skala Lab publishes study on new imaging method for stem cell-derived cardiac muscle cells
- William Murphy project funded through new Promoting Industry Collaboration Initiative
- Yao Liu, MD, awarded Baldwin Wisconsin Idea grant for Advancing I-Site in African-American Communities project
- Bilge Mutlu and Zongfu Yu receive Romnes Faculty Fellowships; William Murphy receives Kellett Mid-Career Award
- Natascha Merten receives Postdoc Excellence Award from UW-Madison Postdoctoral Association
- New imaging system from Mikhail Kats allows views of UV and visible light simultaneously
- Olachi Mezu-Ndubuisi, MD, OD, on systemic racism and unconscious bias in the medical workplace, from JAHA
- Gamm, Eliceiri elected to College of Fellows of American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
- New edition of Pupa Gilbert’s Physics in the Arts is published
- Eliceiri receives $1.2 million Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant to support BINA imaging expertise network
- Pattnaik & collaborators receive 5-year, $7.7 million R24 award from NIH/NEI for vision restoration
- Pattnaik receives two awards from UW Graduate School, and the 2021 Odell Award from Pediatrics
- New Optics Express paper from Sajdak, Eliceiri, Rogers, et. al.
- Saha Lab combines methods to advance CRISPR gene editing tools
- Kevin Eliceiri elected as fellow of The Optical Society
- OnLume Surgical, co-founded by Eliceiri, Velten & others, receives Wisconsin Innovation Award
- Skala Lab tracks role of microphages in cancer spread
- Fall 2020 American Family Funding Initiative Awards given to Jerry Zhu and Vikas Singh
- Team of MERI members publishes proof-of-concept method for treating Best disease
- Skala Lab develops new method for T-cell differentiation
- Measuring temperature within 3D objects: A new method from Mikhail Kats
- Gupta Lab collaboration promises better low-light photography
- Gary Lupyan and Jerry Zhu aim to advance machine learning
- Vikas Singh named Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
- Murphy Lab’s messenger RNA delivery method holds promise for Covid-19 vaccines
- Gamm Lab’s Kim Edwards receives 1st Annual CRF Randy Wheelock Research Award
- Ponto, Singh & Zhu teams receive American Family Insurance Data Science Institute “mini grants”
- Beth Meyerand begins a new role: Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff Affairs
- Dr. Daniel M. Albert given WMAA’s 2020 Clinical Sciences Emeritus Faculty Award
- 2020-21 Faculty Fellowships: Huttenlocher named WARF Professor; Campagnola receives Kellett Mid-Career Award
- Rosenberg, Velten, Zhu and Eliceiri named 2020-21 Vilas Associates
- Velten receives Discovery to Product (D2P) grant, will work with OnLume to develop new surgical method
- Skala lab collaborates on early warning system for preterm births
- Thomson lab gets closer to creating transplant arteries
- Kevin Eliceiri receives Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant for improved microscope software
- Dr. C. Thomas Dow: Reflections on Residency and Beyond
- Colleen McDowell and Ismail Zaitoun receive 2019 Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin Gift of Sight Discovery Awards
- Zongfu Yu develops “smart” glass
- McPherson ERI Researchers Develop Nanocapsules for gene therapy delivery
- Andreas Velten’s group advances “non-line-of-sight imaging”
- Ahna Skop selected as IF/THEN Ambassador by AAAS to inspire the next generation of women in science
- Pupa Gilbert-led team analyzes ancient and similar origins for shells, spines & coral skeletons
- Melissa Skala & Joe Carroll, collaborating between two institutions
- Pupa Gilbert named Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor; Mikhail Kats receives Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award
- Mrinalini Hoon and collaborators awarded UW2020 Award by WARF
- William Murphy named to National Academy of Inventors 2018 class of fellows
- UW News highlights a hopeful new MS study from Ian Duncan’s lab
- David Gamm on fighting blindness with a lesson from the Wright Brothers
- New Assistant Professor in Psychology Emily Ward is interviewed in “Inside UW”
- Gamm Lab is profiled in Wisconsin State Journal
- Kris Saha-led gene editing team receives U01 to develop quality control methods
- Shiela Reaves on “Understanding the Art of Vision”
- Kevin Ponto talks to the Cap Times
- Forward BIO Initiative launches, including institute led by William Murphy
- Team led by Melissa Skala wins 2018 WARF Innovation Award
- NEI Audacious Goals Initiative grants awarded to teams headed by Drs. David Gamm, Joseph Carroll
- Featuring Institute Director Dr. David Gamm: Stem Cells@20 series “Clinical prospects for stem cells begin to emerge”
- Professor Adam Kern’s new Penguin Book of Haiku hits the bookstores
- Dr. Alice McPherson’s Gonin Medal Donated to UW Archives
- Ari Rosenberg receives Shaw Scientist Award
- “UW–Madison serial innovator Jack Ma cites collaboration as key to his success”
- Ahna Skop in the news: “Cakes make for delicious, approachable science outreach“
- Dr. Barbara Blodi and Fundus Photograph Reading Center profiled in UW School of Medicine and Public Health Quarterly
- Dietram Scheufele joins committee on reproducibility
- Ma elected as AAAS Fellow: “National Science Group Adds UW-Madison Fellows”
- McPherson ERI members Gamm, Murphy, Thomson discussed in review of potential medical breakthroughs using induced pluripotent stem cells
- Karen Cruickshanks featured in Wisconsin Public Radio: “Risk Of Age-Related Illnesses Decrease For Baby Boomers“
- Karen Schloss featured in article: “Why Blue Is the World’s Favorite Color“
- Bassam Shakhashiri receives national award
- Dr. Richard R. Dubielzig was featured in this NPR story and in the Wisconsin State Journal
- Wicab’s BrainPort device profiled in The New Yorker
- Inside UW-Madison article features Melissa Skala and cancer research award
- William Murphy in the Wisconsin State Journal: “Borrowing from nature: UW-Madison scientists use plants to grow stem cells”
- Karen Schloss in an NPR story regarding an upcoming paper to appear in the journal Cognitive Science
- David Gamm discusses photoreceptor replacement research at “Wednesday Nite @ the Lab”
- “Forward Motion – The Art of Science” video features 2016 Cool Science Images
- Karen Cruickshanks on Eyes, Ears, and Aging
- Article features Kevin Eliceiri: “Study links changes in collagen to worse pancreatic cancer prognosis”
- Video features Bas Rokers’ work: “UW Madison research says some brains blind to moving objects”
- Forward Motion – “The Mind’s Eye” video highlights Rokers Vision Laboratory research
- Designing a camera to see around corners: Andreas Velten at LOCI
- Lakkaraju lab identifies promising drugs to prevent vision loss in macular degeneration
- Advancing Therapy for LCA16 in Bikash Pattnaik’s lab
- Rock Mackie is co-founder of two of the finalists for 2016 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest
- Nansi Colley notes parallels in eye evolution in recent papers: “Comparative Vision: Can Bacteria Really See” and “Photoreception in Phytoplankton“
- Dietram Scheufele on effective communication about UW issues
- Ahna Skop advocates for science in Washington
- Kristyn Masters and William Murphy honored with Romnes Faculty Fellowships
- Jack Ma wins Kellett Mid-Career Award