The UW formally broke ground on the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
The key word is institutes-plural, because it’s made up of the public Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the private Morgridge Institute for Research.
It’s hard to officially break ground on a project when most of the hole has already been excavated, but a who’s who of UW Madison was on hand Friday.
Built in the middle of campus, it will be the center of research in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, engineering and information technology.