| Natasha Kassulke

A major collaborative data science effort now underway at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to aid understanding and response to COVID-19 began with an email from a yoga instructor.

Modeling

| Alex Holloway

As COVID-19 cases surge across the United States, medical workers have scrambled to find ways to fill critical gaps in the nation’s personal protective equipment supply—in part because single-use PPE such as gowns and N95 masks are being discarded by the millions.

Materials, Energy & Society

| Jason Daley

Mikhail Kats, Dugald C. Jackson Faculty Scholar and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the recipient of the 2020 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Early Career Award in Nanotechnology.

Materials, Solar

| Adam Malecek

As our world faces massive shortages of N95 masks, there is growing concern for the safety of healthcare workers who rely on these specialized masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) to treat COVID-19 patients.

Engine Research

| Laura Schultz

As a wind energy technology instructor at Lakeshore Technical College, Justin Barrett is used to handling questions about jobs in the fast-growing wind turbine industry.

Wind, Energy & Society, Education & Outreach

| Jason Daley

Replacing fossil fuels with electricity or biofuels does not mean reliance on gas and oil will go away overnight.

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts, Energy & Society

| John Allen

Every day, we read that the climate is warming, the seas are rising, Australia is burning, pollution is spreading and increasingly toxic.

Energy & Society, Environmental Studies, Science Communication, Education & Outreach