Registration has closed for the 2025 RISE Summit
Join us for the second-annual Wisconsin RISE Initiative summit to learn more about the initiative’s progress over the past year and what’s to come in the months ahead.
The event will include a plenary session featuring campus leaders followed by breakout sessions on each of the initiative’s three focus areas.
Submit your questions
The plenary session and lunch session will include an opportunity for a brief Q&A with campus leadership. If you would like to submit a question for consideration, please submit via this form. We will address as many questions as we are able in the time allotted.
When
Monday, Nov. 17
10 a.m.–2 p.m.
Registration begins at 9:40 a.m.
Where
Memorial Union
Great Hall (Floor 4)
800 Langdon St.
Madison, WI 53706
Registration
Registration has closed for the 2025 RISE Summit.
Event schedule
Plenary Session with Campus Leaders
10–11:00 a.m. | Memorial Union | Great Hall (Floor 4)
Hear from Interim Provost John Zumbrunnen about the progress of RISE and the aim of making transformative discoveries and translating them into real-world impact. The plenary session will also include a Q&A.
Breakout sessions
11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Memorial Union
Learn more about one of the initiative’s current focus areas: artificial intelligence (RISE-AI), sustainability (RISE-EARTH) and immunology and healthspan (RISE-THRIVE)
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RISE-AI Breakout Session – Tripp Commons (Floor 2)
Welcome and Introduction
- Kyle Cranmer, Data Science Institute
RISE-AI Collaboration HQ Research Incubator Mechanism
- AI and uncertainty: Studying AI from humanistic perspectives
Jeremy Morris, Communication Arts, and Devin Kennedy, History - Creating a new community for AI in structural biology
Anthony Gitter, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, and Hannah Wayment-Steele, Biochemistry - Creating a new community for Trustworthy AI
Grigoris Chrysos, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Finding Collaborators with RABBIT
- Sara Braas, Office of Business Engagement, and Jason Lo, Data Science Institute
RISE Research Computing
- Overview
Todd Schechter, Division of Information Technology - Center for High Throughput Computing
Brian Bockelman, CHTC - Secure research computing for AI
Mike Collins, School of Medicine and Public Health
Funding Opportunities
- Kyle Cranmer, Data Science Institute
Q&A
Poster Presentations on RISE Research Computing
- Center for High Throughput Computing
Christina Koch and Ian Ross - Data Science Hub
Sarah Stevens - Data Science Institute
Steve Wangen - School of Medicine and Public Health
Mike Collins and Brian Kyle - Social Science Computing Cooperative
Andrew Arnold
RISE-EARTH Breakout Session – Great Hall (Floor 4)
Lightning Talks Showcasing Research Projects and Centers
Moderator: Ankur Desai, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Chair of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- When Biotechnology goes ‘Wild’: Genetic Biocontrol of Aquatic Invasive Species in the Great Lakes Region
Jason Delborne, Associate Professor of Public Affairs - Recovering Critical Metals in the Circular Economy
Andrea Hicks, Associate Professor of Civil Environmental Engineering - Cooling the Cloud Sustainably with AI and Additive Manufacturing
Xiaoping Qian, Professor of Mechanical Engineering - Pricing Current Climate Risk: Hurricane Models and Florida Home Insurance
Ben Collier, Associate Professor of Risk and Insurance - Nuclear Process Heat for District Energy Decarbonization
Ben Lindley, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics - Energy Transition Mineral Supply Chains: From Holes in the Ground to Outer Space
Julie Klinger, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies - Center for Climatic Research
Michael Notaro, Director of Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research - Nelson Institute Enterprise
Tracey Hollyway, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - North Temperate Lakes Long Term Ecological Research (NTL-LTER) Program
Grace Wilkinson, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology and Center for Limnology - Forward Agriculture
Bradley Bolling, Professor of Food Science
RISE-THRIVE Breakout Session – Old Madison (Floor 3)
Lightning Talks Showcasing Research Projects
Moderator: Tonya Roberts, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, School of Nursing
- Accelerating the Formation of Transdisciplinary Teams to Support Development of Novel Assistive Technology for Older Adults
Barbara King, Professor of Nursing - Big Data Shows the Importance of Early Life on Old Age Longevity
Jason Fletcher, Professor of Public Affairs - Examinations of Risk & Resilience Factors for Health and Wellbeing from a Brain Aging and Affective Neuroscience Perspective
Stacey Schaefer, Scientist at Institute on Aging - Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Mind-Body Interactions in Chronic Inflammation
Melissa Rosenkranz, Associate Professor of Psychiatry - Robotics to Improve Clinician Healthspan: Considering Teams, Technology, and Training
Jackie Cha, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering - Caregiver Postcard Project: Bridging Art, Science, and Outreach to Improve Healthspan
Kristin Litzelman, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies - Allostatic Load, Neighborhood Social Cohesion, and Psychological Distress among Black Adults in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Weiqi Chen, Assistant Professor of Social Work
Lunch and Closing
12:30–2 p.m. | Memorial Union | Great Hall (Floor 4)
Vice Chancellor for Research Dorota Grejner-Brzezińska will provide closing remarks.
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