Six ECE faculty appointed to named professorships
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Wisconsin CHIPS are pleased to recognize six affiliate faculty members who have been appointed to named professorships. These appointments recognize outstanding achievements in research, teaching, and service …
July 10, 2026
Moving Workforce Development Forward with Madison College
Three Madison instructors are collaborating to steward a new type of engineering workforce development for Wisconsin. Grant Emmel (Madison College) joins Wisconsin CHIPS faculty Hantang Qin and Mikhail Kats (UW–Madison) in fostering cross-institutional programming that …
June 12, 2026
WQI is represented at the annual UW-Madison Day at the Capitol
Representatives from the Wisconsin Quantum Institute (WQI) participated in the 2026 UW–Madison Day at the Capitol event on April 29.
June 11, 2026
Wisconsin CHIPS joins Silicon Crossroads Microelectronics Commons (SCMC) Hub
Wisconsin CHIPS is now a member of the Silicon Crossroads Microelectronics Commons Hub (SCMC), a midwestern coalition advancing semiconductor innovation, workforce development, and infrastructure.
April 20, 2026
Wisconsin CHIPS joins SWAP Hub & ME Commons
Wisconsin CHIPS is pleased to announce its new membership to the Southwest Advanced Prototyping (SWAP) Hub led by Arizona State University. The SWAP Hub is one of eight that makes up the Microelectronics (ME) Commons, which was established to position the United States as a global leader in microelectronics research and enable domestic fabrication.
February 6, 2026
Kawasaki named a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator
Jason Kawasaki, an associate professor in materials science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named a 2025 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator. Selection to the program is a prestigious honor …
October 28, 2025
2025 Nobel Prize Laureate John Martinis’s Connections to UW–Madison
Wisconsin CHIPS congratulates the 2025 laureates of The Nobel Prize in Physics—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis—for observation of quantum-mechanical tunneling in an electrical circuit based on superconductors! Excitingly, Martinis has connections to UW–Madison through shared research and his co-founded company Qolab.
October 21, 2025
UW fostering closer research ties with federal defense, cybersecurity agencies
UW–Madison is building stronger research partnerships with federal defense and cybersecurity agencies to advance technologies that serve the public good. A recent campus visit from Department of Defense and NSA leaders highlighted shared priorities in AI, quantum computing, and secure systems.
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