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Recycling Batteries Better
Recycling lithium from old electric vehicle batteries could be done cheaply thanks to research from Kyoung-Shin Choi, a professor of chemistry. The technology cost-effectively converts widely used batteries into new lithium chemicals once they’re spent, helping to create a circular lithium supply chain. Read More
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Will Robots Take Over the World?
Robots and AI can be incredibly interesting to some but daunting to others. Thanks to remarkable progress in the fields of technology and machine learning over the past few decades, AI is now accessible to the masses in ways that weren’t considered possible outside of a science fiction movie. Through the College of Letters & Science’s LASER program, sophomore Manas Joshi explores and contributes to research in AI and robotics. Read More
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Inside Bayesian Boot Camp
What did you do for your summer vacation? This June, two dozen philosophers from all over the world came to UW–Madison for a most unusual summer program: the Bayesian Boot Camp. The event workshops how to use Bayesian Epistemology to assign confidence levels that help participants make decisions. Read More
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Understanding the Criminal Mind
Every semester, more than a 100 students pack into a classroom to hear lectures on criminal minds. Not to watch the hit CBS show, but to unlearn stereotypes about crime and people who have been incarcerated.
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The World Is Her Classroom
This summer, Jess Randall interned in rural Kenya with Health by All Means, teaching women’s health and learning from local communities. As an L&S student, she’s turned the world into her classroom, studying abroad in 19 countries from Belize to Uganda.
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Lessons from a Sea Spider
When researchers look at this sea spider, they see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help sort out the evolution of almost everything with eight legs. Prashant Sharma, an associate professor of integrative biology, studies the evolution of chelicerates, digging deep into their genes to understand better how their varied, intricate bodies have developed. Read More
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Hope for a Brighter Future
For Joseph Nosek, education has always been a top priority. As director of the English as a Second Language (ESL) Program, he has dedicated his life to teaching students how to teach others. When he heard that young women in Afghanistan were being denied access to education because of their gender, he worked with a non-governmental organization (NGO) called Educate Girls Now to develop the Afghan Tutoring Project. Read More
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A Summer of Cool Science
Now in its fifth year, the LASER program exposes students to the rewarding rigors of research. Bethany Jarvis, a rising sophomore from Wisconsin Dells, spent her summer with the glaciology group in the Department of Geoscience investigating glaciers and ice sheet dynamics. Read More
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Virtual Reality Concerts
“Music in 2025 is no longer confined to the concert hall,” says Dan Cavanagh, director of the Mead Witter School of Music and Pamela O. Hamel/Music Board of Advisors Chair. He’s talking about how his team is using Apple Vision Pro to transform the performance experience for students, faculty and staff. Read More
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What Matters to Wisconsin
In a Fueling Discovery essay, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs and Collins-Bascom Professor of Public Affairs Susan Webb Yackee explains how 350 Wisconsinites from across the political spectrum had conversations in Pewaukee, Green Bay, Eau Claire and Madison. Over dinner, the participants broke bread, shared personal experiences and practiced holding hard conversations with respect and empathy. Read More
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New students have moved in! With the help of 200 Badger Buddy volunteers and 600 red carts, about 9,000 students have set up their new homes at UW–Madison residence halls. Check out the UW move-in highlight reel for even more stats and warm welcomes. Watch Now
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