Christie Taylor

Category: Science

  • Scienceology: Transit of Venus edition

    This story ran 6/4/2012 on Dane101.com Tuesday evening, you’ll be able to watch something you’ll never see again in your lifetime: the planet Venus will cross the path between the earth and sun, and make the itty-bittiest, most adorable of shadows on the disk of the sun. And it won’t happen again for more than…

  • How industrial engineers improve healthcare

    This story ran 4/19/2012 in Perspective Magazine During an intensive three-month period in fall 2011, UW-Madison graduate students Renaldo Blocker (left) and  Sacha Duff (right) worked long hours in the emergency department of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Whenever a victim of a car accident, stabbing or other incident arrived, they would accompany trauma…

  • Optimizing internal combustion: CAREER award supports study of new diagnostic tool

    This story ran 1/9/2012 for the UW-Madison College of Engineering For the past several decades, engineers have been investigating low-temperature combustion as a means of creating engines with diesel-like efficiency and no pollutant emissions. Optimizing low-temperature combustion to produce the most efficient possible engine also means considering lots of variables. In fact, the very nature…

  • Retaining quality faculty: Collective giving effort keeps star professor on board

    This article appeared in December of 2011 in Perspective.  The offer was expansive: a chance to join the leadership of a new center for environmental technology in a brand-new building and a brand-new lab, collaboration with one of the leaders in the field of environmental engineering, and a chance to work in a state—Arizona—with huge…

  • What I did on my summer vacation (in oil-threatened Florida)

    This article ran 7/12/2010 on Dane101.com Brain coral really does look like a giant human brain. Also, if you keep your head underwater and hold your breath (it tends to echo, Darth Vader-like, in the mask), all you will hear is the motion of the waves and a softly crackling scratch that, you soon realize,…