Seventeen projects have been chosen for Round 5 of the UW2020: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Discovery Initiative, the organization announced recently.

According to a release, the goal of UW2020 is to stimulate and support highly innovative research at UW-Madison and to support acquisition of shared instruments or equipment that will foster significant advances in research.

“As with the other rounds of UW2020, we have leveraged multidisciplinary collaborations to lead the way to new discoveries that will transform lives,” Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education Norman Drinkwater said in a statement.

The 17 projects were among the 74 proposals submitted and include nine infrastructure and eight research projects.