4+ day, 35+ min ago   (369+ words) Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a new type of quantum nanostructure that could enable optical neural networks. This emerging technology has the potential to make artificial intelligence systems, like large language models and image generation, faster and…...

4+ day, 48+ min ago   (157+ words) William Murphy, a professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedics and rehabilitation, is among the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members to receive a named professorship through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The honor, which comes with $100,000, is designated for faculty who…...

5+ day, 49+ min ago   (269+ words) Four years ago, the challenge NASA set before Ramathasan Thevamaran was—to put it lightly—considerable. As part of its 2022 Early Career Faculty awards, the agency solicited proposals to create composite materials capable of maintaining exceptional dimensional stability amid the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (328+ words) As a young child in Lewiston, Maine, Jonathan Soucy squinted and stumbled until, at age 4, doctors belatedly diagnosed him with a congenital cataract in his left eye. While he underwent surgery shortly thereafter to correct the problem, more than two…...