Stories indexed under: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery

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  • WID Town Center previewed May 6 April 22, 2010 Get a sneak peek at the design, attractions and menus of Town Center at “Journey to the Center of the Institutes,” a preview May 6 in the Memorial Union’s Tripp Commons and Deck.
  • Gift of $16 million pharmaceutical facility benefits Morgridge Institute March 3, 2010 Mentor Worldwide LLC's donation of a $16 million manufacturing facility to the new Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will help fuel the nonprofit's mission of accelerating biomedical discoveries to delivery as treatments and cures.
  • Morgridge Institute for Research announces scientific leadership team, research areas Feb. 10, 2010 The Morgridge Institute for Research has finalized its inaugural team of top scientists selected to bring to life the institute's mission of accelerating discovery to delivery to improve human health.
  • Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on track for December 2010 opening Dec. 14, 2009 The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery has reached several key milestones as construction progresses on the innovative facility designed to spark collaboration among researchers and engage the public in science and learning.
  • MathBio looks at ‘best picture’ Oct. 21, 2009 If 2008’s inaugural MathBio Symposium was a big-picture look at collaboration, the focus of this year’s symposium is on the best picture.
  • Artists may apply to install art at Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Oct. 7, 2009 Artists on campus and across the Midwest are invited to submit an application for the commission of art to be installed in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
  • Five big ideas to fill out Wisconsin Institute for Discovery portfolio June 30, 2009 Capping an intensely competitive process, five proposals from University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty have been selected to form the intellectual heart of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID).
  • Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery celebrate ‘topping out’ May 28, 2009 On May 26, the construction team of the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery held a “topping out” ceremony, traditional in the building industry for recognizing the construction milestone of placing and welding the last beam at the top of a building.
  • Webcams Recent sightings: Eyes on UW March 30, 2009 Photo: Two remote-controlled webcams, maintained by the Division of Information Technology and mounted on the roof of the Computer Sciences and Statistics building, document progress of different construction sites on campus.
  • Stem cell research Wisconsin, Morgridge scientists excise vector, exotic genes from induced stem cells March 26, 2009 A team of scientists from the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reports that it has created induced human pluripotent stem (iPS) cells completely free of viral vectors and exotic genes.
  • For Kim, calculated risk is all in the game March 24, 2009 Like many overachievers, Sangtae Kim, who was named last fall to lead the Morgridge Institute for Research, is a calculated taker of risks. He knows chance when he sees it and, importantly, he knows how to size it up.
  • UW-Madison narrows field of potential WID research themes Feb. 23, 2009 The research direction of the rising Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) is coming into sharper focus as UW-Madison this week (Feb. 20) announced the list of successful pre-proposals for the public half of the new public-private institute.
  • WID plans town-hall meetings Feb. 2, 2009 The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) is sponsoring two additional open or town-hall meetings for interested faculty. The first is at 3 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 9. The topic of that meeting will be “Education and Outreach in WID.”
  • Deep drilling begins for Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery geothermal system Jan. 6, 2009 Deep drilling begins this week to place 75 bore holes approximately 300 feet below the site of the future Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, marking another first for the interdisciplinary research building project.
  • James Thomson receives 2008 Massry Prize honoring stem cell researchers Dec. 18, 2008 James Thomson, director of regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research and John D. MacArthur Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, has received the prestigious Massry Prize for 2008. The award recognizes Thomson for his groundbreaking discovery made a decade ago of human embryonic stem (ES) cells and his subsequent work in developing induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.
  • Great ideas sought for WID competition Sept. 11, 2008 To chart the direction of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), the committee and campus leaders charged with formulating the vision for the new interdisciplinary institute have issued a call for research theme proposals from UW–Madison faculty.
  • Executive director named for Morgridge Institute for Research Sept. 11, 2008 A distinguished researcher from Purdue University with significant private and public sector experience will return to Wisconsin as the executive director of the new Morgridge Institute for Research, part of the twin Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
  • Online 'Discovery Portal' meant to foster greater research collaboration Sept. 9, 2008 The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery is launching a new and powerful online resource for finding researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Wisconsin Discovery Portal, located at http://discoveryportal.org, is a Web-based search tool and directory offering professional profiles of 2,600 UW-Madison researchers.
  • Morgridge Institute to hold symposium on integration of math, biology July 16, 2008 To address the challenge and position UW-Madison scientists for the future, the Morgridge Institute for Research, part of the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, has slated the first symposium on the Integration of the Mathematical and Biological Sciences, to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 2-3.
  • Wiley to tackle interim role leading new institute June 22, 2008 Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley has been named the new interim director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), the public half of the new research center that promises to be a model of interdisciplinary science and public-private collaboration.