In the quest to combat climate change, the idea of using agricultural landscapes in the Midwest to support renewable energy production has focused primarily on building wind farms and growing plant feedstocks for biofuels. Another option, called agrivoltaics, represents a new opportunity to support farmers, increase diversity in agricultural landscapes, and facilitate energy production.
Led by Program Director Bilge Mutlu, the INTEGRATE Project is an interdisciplinary group that combines expertise from computer sciences, economics, engineering, psychology, and robotics
The role that ethics will play in this brave new world, and what it portends for human welfare, was the topic of a recent Wisconsin Technology Council luncheon in Madison. So was the role that a new Responsible Innovation Hub established by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery will play in ethical technology development.
Over the next five years, the collaborative project will use the $29 million NIH grant to merge new drug delivery systems with advanced genome CRISPR technology, innovating new treatments for Best Disease (BD) and Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), both of which are currently untreatable hereditary diseases.
Collecting diverse perspectives, convening meetings, and generating analysis of genome editing and other biotechnologies.
Learn more about Wisconsin’s new Responsible Innovation Hub by attending the Tuesday, May 23, Tech Council Innovation Network luncheon in Madison.
In 2019, Yatin Sangwan (BS ’22) launched his custom art [...]
