Agronomy professor Shawn Kaeppler was recently honored with the National Association of Plant Breeders’ Lifetime Achievement Award, an award designed to recognize distinguished long-term service to the plant breeding discipline through research, teaching, outreach and leadership.
Through its Grainger Institute for Engineering, the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering and Argonne National Laboratory are partnering on ways to accelerate technology development that fuels growth in the $1.2 trillion manufacturing sector, while also aiming to facilitate a bro
The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded about $4.7 million in funding to University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers for advanced nuclear energy research.
In recognition of his pioneering research on high-efficiency and high-power density new and classical electric motors with wide bandgap device power electronic drives, Bulent Sarlioglu, an associate professor of engineering professional development and electrical and computer engineering, receive
An internal combustion engine similar to the one in your car could play a key role in making electrical generation far more efficient.
Some chemicals used to speed up the breakdown of plants for production of biofuels like ethanol are poison to the yeasts that turn the plant sugars into fuel.
A public-private collaboration of researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of California, Davis, and Mars Inc., have identified varieties of tropical corn from Oaxaca, Mexico, that can acquire a significant amount of the nitrogen they need from the air by cooperating wit