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article Summer 2025

Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation

By: Connor Welch The UW-Madison Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) is a computational imaging instrumentation development group based in the Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging (CQCI) in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Their mission is to “observe and study cells in a more natural environment to get a more accurate […]

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article Summer 2025

Levy Engineering Center Preview

By: Leo Mazzocco The Levy Engineering Center will soon impose its presence on the engineering campus. What can future Badgers expect? As classes start up this fall, the dusty construction zone outside Engineering Hall has beeped and clattered to make its presence known to all engineering students. This gaping chasm invites all who see it […]

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article Summer 2025

Beyond the Beat: How Wearable Sensors are Reshaping Research and Health

By: Alec Schabowsky How Wearable Sensors are Reshaping Research and Health It all started with a step, a hop, then a skip and a jump, and finally a beat. This, however, is not dance class; it’s the world of wearable technology!  Since their inception as step-trackers in the 1960s, wearable devices have expanded to track […]

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article Summer 2025

Dean Ranjan, Tear Down This Wall!

If you’ve walked into Engineering Hall lately, you’ve likely seen “the Wall”. Along the eastern side of the building, already strained by the construction nearby, a dirt shortcut once carried entire classes of engineers to their lectures, discussions, and labs. Then, one late-September morning, it happened. The shortcut was suddenly sealed off by an unsightly […]

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article Summer 2025

Catching a Ride: Articulated Buses and City Planning

By: Matthew Schmieding Metro Transit’s most recent project brings Madison a brand-new way to ride Madison’s Metro Transit coordinates an extensive network of buses, covering two dozen routes. Preceded by electric streetcars, modern buses have since run the streets for over a century. Metro Transit first studied the implementation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in […]