Media coverage of WEI this month focused on the changing energy and water infrastructure, a diversity of climate conversations, and the feasibility of climate action plans.
Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) associate professor of Geography, Holly Gibbs is one of thirty-two members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty to receive a fellowship for the 2020-21 academic year.
We checked in with Shannon Goes, a graduate student assistant in Shannon Stahl’s lab at the UW–Madison, to learn more about what inspires her, the questions that drive her work at the GLBRC, and more.
Taylor Tai and Patricia Tran are among twelve graduate students acknowledged for their work in creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Julia Martien, a fifth-year PhD student in microbiology at UW–Madison, has been named the 2021 winner of the Jennifer L. Reed Bioenergy Science Award. She researches how environmental stressors may shift the metabolism of Zymomonas mobilis to produce higher levels of bioproducts that can be used to make useful chemicals and fuels.
The resilience of the power grid has been in the news a lot in recent years: Transmission equipment, for example, sparked some of the largest fires in California history in 2018, leading to rolling blackouts, and the February 2021 cold snap in Texas shut off power to millions for days on end.
Developing sustainable, low-carbon fuels and industrial products is one of society’s greatest challenges.