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:
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Bacteriology professor Katrina Forest once considered studying architecture — and in a way she does, albeit on a very small scale. As a protein crystallographer, she studies the three-dimensional structures of bacterial proteins on an atomic level to understand how the proteins function.
Most of her research focuses on the tiny surface protrusions called pili that bacteria use to move across surfaces and interact with other cells — including both beneficial and harmful interactions — and the molecular motor proteins that drive their movements.
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Although almost two-thirds of Wisconsinites support the use and production of biofuels, less than half think the government should subsidize their development, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
The researchers also found that while about 60 percent of respondents believe the free market should provide the incentive to invest in technology to make fuels from plants or other organic materials, almost as many doubt the oil industry will go that route unless the government requires it, according to researchers Dietram Scheufele and Bret Shaw, both professors of life sciences communication at UW-Madison.
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Using computer simulations, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has identified some of the pathways through which single complementary strands of DNA interact and combine to form the double helix.
Present in the cells of all living organisms, DNA is composed of two intertwined strands and contains the genetic "blueprint" through which all living organisms develop and function. Individual strands consist of nucleotides, which include a base, a sugar and a phosphate moiety.
Understanding hybridization, the process through which single DNA strands combine to form a double helix is fundamental to biology and central to technologies such as DNA microchips or DNA-based nanoscale assembly. The research by the Wisconsin group begins to unravel how DNA strands come together and bind to each other, says Juan J. de Pablo, UW-Madison Howard Curler Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
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Using computer simulations, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has identified some of the pathways through which single complementary strands of DNA interact and combine to form the double helix.
Present in the cells of all living organisms, DNA is composed of two intertwined strands and contains the genetic "blueprint" through which all living organisms develop and function. Individual strands consist of nucleotides, which include a base, a sugar and a phosphate moiety.
Understanding hybridization, the process through which single DNA strands combine to form a double helix is fundamental to biology and central to technologies such as DNA microchips or DNA-based nanoscale assembly. The research by the Wisconsin group begins to unravel how DNA strands come together and bind to each other, says Juan J. de Pablo, UW-Madison Howard Curler Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
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The prevailing wisdom among many scientists and scientific organizations is that, as a rule, scientists are press shy, and those who aren't are mavericks.
However, a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, published in the current issue (summer 2009) of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, suggests otherwise. The study, conducted by journalism professor Sharon Dunwoody, life sciences communication professor Dominique Brossard and graduate student Anthony Dudo, provides evidence that many mainstream scientists occasionally work with journalists and some do so routinely. And the interplay between scientists and journalists, say Brossard and Dunwoody, has been remarkably stable since the 1980s.
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