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Biobulb: Electricity-Free Light Bulb Powered by E. Coli Bacteria

The Weather Channel interviews WID's Frontier Fellows about their idea for a light bulb powered by microbes.

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Biobulb is a Bacteria-Powered Light Bulb

TreeHugger highlights the green aspects of Biobulb, an idea from the Institute's Frontier Fellows group.

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Frontier Fellows Program Offers New Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Projects

An ongoing program at WID is giving undergraduate students the opportunity to design projects based on their own ideas for scientific research or artistic endeavors.

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Conversation at Heart of Graduate Student Collaborations

Graduate student and WID Frontier Fellow Julian Motzkin presents his work on the science of pain at the transdisciplinary installation performance ‘flickering, quivering, pulsing, sharp.”   When a...

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What’s Possible as a WID Frontier Fellow? [VIDEO]

  WID’s Frontier Fellows program taps into student creativity and selects UW–Madison undergraduate students to join the Institute’s intellectual community. Fellows work collaboratively on novel...

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10 Technologies on Anvil to Ensure Limitless Electricity

Silicon India features WID Frontier Fellows' Biobulb in its list of energy ideas.

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What’s Possible at WID? [VIDEO]

Video transcript WID focuses on information in all of its varieties. Creating common ground among disciplines, the Institute’s Director David Krakauer shares the projects and culture that make it all...

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WID Frontier Fellows Take On Exonerations, Archaeological Sites and Science...

UW-Madison freshman Sreedevi Nair thinks data might be the key to freedom — or at least our understanding of it when people are acquitted of crimes. As a Frontier Fellow at WID, she’s examining U.S....

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Flickering, Quivering, Pulsing, Sharp: A Frontier Fellows Performance...

A group of WID’s Frontier Fellows offered a performance installation exploring the neuroscience and interpretation of physical pain. Supported by WID and the Department of Theatre and Drama,...

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Tools for Discovery: Sreedevi Nair

Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries. As a Frontier Fellow at WID, Sreedevi Nair examines U.S....

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