David Ryder recently shared with us his thoughts about serving as scientific advisor to the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), the past eight years of GLBRC research, and the next decade of bioenergy advancements.

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts, Industry

Inspired by mammals' eyes, University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever made.

Electricity Systems, Materials

While scientists learn more with each passing study about the way the invisible lives of fungi, bacteria, viruses and other microscopic organisms intersect with much larger plants and animals as well as the planet, Tim Donohue and a group of prominent scientists want to make sure researchers don’

Environmental Studies

As a boy, wet and muddy to the knees, John Greenler did his share of up-ending rocks in streambeds to search for the crayfish and salamanders dwelling below.

Education & Outreach

What will it take to make a cross-country drive in a light duty vehicle, the kind of car or truck many of us drive every day, a low-carbon pursuit?

Transportation & Fuels, Energy & Society, Policy & Regulation, Modeling

On October 1, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the lowering of its national ambient air quality ozone standard (NAAQS) from 75 to 70 parts per billion (ppb).

Energy & Society, Environmental Studies, Policy & Regulation, Industry

Srivatsan “Vatsan” Raman joined the faculty in the Department of Biochemistry as an assistant professor in August. Read this Q&A with Professor Raman with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts