Year: 2026

Metascience Research Lab asks big questions about the future of science and discovery

Chaoqun Ni and Ian Hutchins are developing data-driven tools to understand and improve the way science moves forward in the age of AI.  By Thomas Jilk Associate Professor Chaoqun Ni and Assistant Professor Ian Hutchins came to UW–Madison in summer 2020, at a time when COVID-19 put scientific research firmly in the public spotlight. But science had been in Ni and Hutchins’s spotlight for years already, as the two …

An uncommon space at the heart of campus

Christian Willis MS’25 secures the systems behind everyday life