Madison.com | Advancing engineering for a better society: Los Alamos leader named UW-Madison ... University of Wisconsin-Madison In June, Thoma will become the first director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Funded in 2014 with $25 million from The Grainger Foundation of Lake Forest, Illinois, the institute is an incubator for ... UW alumnus Dan Thoma named Grainger Institute director |