| Sam Million-Weaver

Engineers, investors and innovators from around the globe gathered in the Southern California desert on Sunday, July 22, 2018, to test their prototypes for an ultrafast subterranean transportation concept at the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition.

Transportation & Fuels, Engine Research

| Kelly April Tyrrell

By this time next year, an army of towers will be keeping watch over a plot of land in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest of northern Wisconsin.

Energy & Society, Environmental Studies

| Terry Devitt

Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Oregon.

Electricity Systems, Electricity Distribution, Energy & Society, Environmental Studies, Water

| Krista Eastman

Imagine a new and improved biorefinery, one that produces advanced biofuels as environmentally sustainable as they are economically viable.

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts, Modeling

| Max Witynski

WiscWind is a student organization at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with ambitious goals: to design and build a wind turbine, create a business plan for a wind-based start-up company, and develop a plan to site a potential windfarm within a 100-mile radius of campus.

Wind, Education & Outreach