Tim Donohue, UW Foundation Fetzer-Bascom Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and interim director of the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI), will present testimony at 9:15 a.m. EST on Tuesday, March 3, before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Science, Oceans, Fisheries, and Weather in Washington, D.C., about the opportunities and challenges of the bioeconomy.

It’s a common late summer sight in south-central Wisconsin: a prairie in bloom, with tall, waving grasses peppered with bursts of yellow, purple, and white.

For the fifth consecutive year, a team of students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison has been invited to compete in the U.S.

Media coverage of WEI in the past two months focused on the growth of solar energy, uranium enrichment, advancements in bioenergy, and new recycling technologies. 

On Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, a rocket and spacecraft were launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia carrying tubes of bacteria and bacteriophage, the viruses that prey on bacteria. They are now on their way to the International Space Station (ISS).

Seen under a powerful microscope, they resemble luminous blue sugar crystals, the kind of thing you might sprinkle on a cookie or a bowl of cereal. But if a farmer were to apply them to a field of corn, the plants could better ward off fungal diseases.

ACS Catalysis and the ACS Division of Catalysis Science and Technology are pleased to recognize Professor Shannon S. Stahl of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for developing the copper-catalyzed oxidation of key functional groups including alcohols, amines, and hydrocarbons.