For high school students across Wisconsin pondering a career in science, a unique camp at the Morgridge Institute for Research offers an in-depth glimpse at the possibilities.
Author: Brian Mattmiller
SCI Lab: Finding common ground on divisive science
As a scholar on societal perceptions of scientific research, Dominique Brossard focuses a lot of energy on divisive, challenging and controversial topics. But her ultimate goal is to find the “rock” we all stand together on.
Megan Spurgeon: How a mild-mannered virus becomes a cancer culprit
Merkel cell carcinoma is the most recently discovered example of a cancer triggered by exposure to a virus. Morgridge Investigator Megan Spurgeon discusses how this rare and deadly form of skin cancer has become a major focal point of her research.
Morgridge Institute CEO Brad Schwartz announces retirement
After more than 13 years as CEO of the Morgridge Institute, Brad Schwartz has announced plans to retire. Creating new possibilities for what contemporary science can be, under his tenure Morgridge championed curiosity-driven research, ushered in major new campus partnerships, and deepened our connection to society through mission-driven public engagement.
Searching for relevance in a sea of 39 million scientific papers
A bioinformatics team at Morgridge created a new hybrid machine learning tool that reduces two stubborn problems when mining insights from big data: false positives and hallucinations.