| Chris Barncard

Extraordinary members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been honored during the last year with awards supported by the estate of professor, U.S. senator and UW Regent William F. Vilas (1840-1908).

Conversion, Plant Genetics & Breeding, Nuclear, Supercritical Fluids

| David Tenenbaum

NovoMoto, a spinoff from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is finishing its first 100 solar lighting installations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Electricity Systems, Industry

| Käri Knutson

The Autonom Shuttle, an 11-seat autonomous vehicle made by the French company Navya, gave passengers a tour of parts of campus. 

Transportation & Fuels, Electricity Systems

| Sam Million-Weaver

Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are shining a light on promising new strategies for storing solar power. The efforts could help overcome one major limitation of energy generation from solar sources—namely, how to keep up with electricity demand when the sun goes down.

Solar

| Eric Hamilton

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced today (April 18) that three faculty from the University of Wisconsin–Madison were elected to the 2018 class of members.

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts, Conversion

| Sam Million-Weaver

EnerHack put a unique spin on traditional hackathons (which are sprint-like intensive collaborative coding events that usually have an open-ended end-goal of creating useable software) by providing all the teams with an energy research and education platform called EnerGyan that Manur and Sehloff

Electricity Systems, Education & Outreach