| CALS NEWS

With the advent of spring comes warmer weather—and gardening season.

Education & Outreach

| Chris Hubbuch

When it comes to making internal combustion engines run better, the solution may come from trees. 

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts, Engine Research

| Jason Daley

MADISON – In an advance they consider a breakthrough in computational chemistry research, University of Wisconsin–Madison chemical engineers have developed model of how catalytic reactions work at the atomic scale.

Energy & Society, Industry

| Britta Wellenstein

Clare Dietz is a Ph.D. student in the Jackson Lab at UW–Madison, where she studies soil carbon and agricultural systems. She tells us about her research, background and the importance of storytelling in science.

Sustainable Agriculture

| Britta Wellenstein

Armed with a passion for the environment and dreams of revolutionizing electricity generation, students from Wisconsin and northern Illinois journeyed to the University of Wisconsin–Madison earlier this month to test their engineering skills in the 2023 KidWind Challenge.

Wind, Education & Outreach

| Chris Hubbuch

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a University of Wisconsin–Madison based research center another five years of funding to develop sustainable alternatives to gasoline, diesel and other hydrocarbon fuels as well as products currently made from petroleum.

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts

| Allyson Crowley

Fourth-year PhD student studying Electrical and Computer Engineering, Maitreyee Marathe was one of five UW-Madison College of Engineering students to win an award for the Flash Talk session at the Energy Research Showcase.

Women in STEM, Energy & Society