University of Wisconsin-Madison
ADVANCED MATERIALS INDUSTRIAL CONSORTIUM
What is UWAMIC?
The Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium gives commercial partners the opportunity to collaborate with students and faculty in advanced materials research across the UW–Madison campus. The consortium facilitates interaction with university resources through a wide range of paths, including:
- Technology transfer
- Shared instrumentation
- Sponsored research
- Student internships in industry
- Visiting industrial researchers at UW–Madison
- Early industrial access to student and
postdoctoral researcher recruiting - Industrial advisory committee functions
- Consulting
UWAMIC Membership Levels and Benefits
Companies may join UWAMIC at any of three membership levels:
- Full membership
- Regional alliance membership for companies in WI, IL, IA, and MN
- Small business membership
Key member benefits include:
- Opportunities for input into research directions and planning
- Access to prospective student interns
- Invitation to an annual program review of research highlights presented by faculty, researchers, and students
- Access to shared instrumentation in university laboratories
- Collaboration by a visiting industrial fellow in residence in a UW-Madison laboratory. Details of the collaboration and residence period for hosted research may depend on the facility.
Research Programs and Facilities
Member organizations are provided access to shared UW-Madison research facilities at a discount for a time period dependent upon the membership level. Shared research facilities are available at these internationally recognized research and education centers:
- NSF Materials Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) in Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces
- NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) facilities at the NSF-sponsored Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC) in Templated Synthesis and Assembly at the Nanoscale
- Additional MRSEC/NSEC shared facilities as appropriate to research goals
- Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics (WCAM)
- Materials Science Center (MSC)
UWAMIC News
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Some microorganisms prefer the breaststroke while swimming. Others move along by essentially twisting their tail.
How populations of bacteria and other microorganisms swim is more than just a matter of style, according to Mike Graham, University of Wisconsin-Madison Harvey D. Spangler Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist Doug Weibel may not be able to bend or shape cells any way he wants to — yet.
However, Weibel's efforts to uncover the molecular choreography within the cell that governs their physical, chemical and physiological attributes — including shape, behavior and development — have earned the young scientist a prestigious Searle Scholar Award. The $300,000 award over three years was last conferred on a UW-Madison faculty member in 1997 when pharmacy professor Ben Shen was recognized.
The award will support Weibel's exploration of some of the fundamental mysteries of bacterial cells, work that promises to make them more amenable for study and manipulation in the interest of such things as the development of biofuels and new antibiotics.
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Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Izabela Szlufarska (also Engineering Physics) was among 4 Engineering faculty members to receive the prestigious research award.
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When Paul Evans, assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering, decided to include student presentations in his Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials course, he initially thought that the work of creating slides and presenting reviews of research would help his students to become more comfortable with presentation skills.
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"More knowledge is good — everybody is on the same page about that. But will that knowledge necessarily help build support for the science?" says Dietram Scheufele, a UW-Madison professor of life sciences communication...
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