Second-Year Progress Report
Priority: Invest in scholarly domains in which we have existing or potential strength and impact
- The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery launched, and the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research expanded, providing state-of-the-art facilities that foster leading-edge, interdisciplinary research advancing human health.
- In November 2010, officials broke ground for the Wisconsin Energy Institute, which will house researchers from the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, and other campus energy-related programs.
- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded UW–Madison a $10 million grant, matched by the state, to enhance research, hire new faculty, and support postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in the humanities.
- Construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive ice-bound telescope, was completed at the South Pole. UW–Madison, which coordinated the project starting in 2005, will continue to oversee it under an agreement with the National Science Foundation.
- Through significant process and structural improvements, grants management backlogs have been eliminated and time spent by faculty to manage multiple grants has decreased.
- The Year of the Arts featured more than 300 performances, exhibits, public events, and publications to spotlight and celebrate the breadth, depth, power, and purpose of the arts on campus.
- UW–Madison’s signature Cluster Hiring program was strengthened through practices to ensure continuity and growth of vibrant, active clusters.
- A new campus initiative, Discovery to Products (D2P), is focused on increasing the number of products and companies resulting from UW–Madison research.
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