At Bert Paris’s dairy farm in Belleville, Wisconsin, the morning chores are done. The cows have been milked and led —with some effort through the cold December mud —to the day’s pasture. Some 80 cows munch incessantly on the grass and clover.
When most people think of ceramics, they might envision their favorite mug or a flowerpot. But modern technology is full of advanced ceramics, from silicon solar panels to ceramic superconductors and biomedical implants.
Research projects featuring several WEI energy experts and affiliates have been chosen for Round 6 of the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative. These projects were among 92 proposals submitted from across campus. The initiative is funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
The awardees span the four divisions — arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences, and biological sciences — on campus.
Professor Greg Nemet received a Kohl Public Service Research Competition award to support his work on climate change analysis and policy.
In late November 2019, Ernest Micek Distinguished Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering
A large, collaborative Great Lakes Bioenergy research study published April 6 in ChemSusChem, is featured on the journal's cover. The paper, "Assessing the Viability of Recovery of Hydroxycinnamic Acids from Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Alkaline Pretreatment Waste Streams," brings together a diverse team with expertise in many different fields to address a complex problem: how to make a biorefinery biologically and economically sustainable.