— Universities of Wisconsin officials today announced plans to seek state funding in the 2027-29 budget to train 35,000 healthcare professionals and boost research into treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other diseases.
The university will request $90 million for the initiative to train additional healthcare professionals and $25 million to boost research. Both will be part of the broader budget request the Board of Regents is expected to consider next week.
“The Universities of Wisconsin have long served Wisconsin, and our budget proposal is focused on helping meet some of our state’s toughest challenges,” said Interim President Renée Wachter. “Today we offer a commitment to improve access to health care across the state.”
See the release below.
— UW-Madison researchers have created a technology for sensing vibrations at “much lower cost” than traditional systems, with possible applications in health monitoring, predicting natural disasters and structural testing.
WARF included the technology in its latest roundup of top licensing prospects among its portfolio of engineering and computer science university research.
Its inventors note the importance of real-time vibration sensing, as it can help predict earthquakes, typhoons and avalanches, along with other uses in geological surveys. And while vibrations from human breathing and heartbeats are key signals for health monitoring, the ability to monitor vibrations in structures can also be used to test industrial equipment, vehicles and buildings.
Existing approaches usually involve an electronic sensor attached directly to the vibrating surface to gather accurate measurements of frequency and motion. But the inventors say these current options can involve “prohibitively high” costs, especially if it’s necessary to monitor multiple locations at the same time.
“In many sensor applications providing electrical power to the sensor location or by batteries can be impractical,” they wrote in the patent. “For this reason, there is substantial interest in non-contact vibration sensing, that can monitor multiple locations or that avoids the need for a local source of power.”
To address this demand, the scientists created a “passive vibration sender” to boost the amplitude of target vibrations, giving remote sensing systems the ability to detect it in a nuanced way.
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