Since the days of John Muir and Aldo Leopold, sustainability has been woven into the fabric of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Solutions to energy challenges are being developed everyday on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.
As the old saying goes, all roads lead to Rome. And when it comes to converting biomass into liquid fuels, all roads start with deciding whether the raw plant material should be broken down by exposing it to water or to high temperatures.
Tim Donohue, UW Foundation Fetzer-Bascom Professor of Bacteriology, has been awarded the 2018 Promega Biotechnology Research Award from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the world’s oldest and largest life science organization.
As tens of thousands of visitors each day walk across a new flooring installation in UW-Madison’s Union South in fall 2017, they might not realize they’re participating in what could very well represent a leap into the future of renewable energy production.
Tim Donohue, director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and UW Foundation Chairman Fetzer-Bascom Professor in bacteriology, will serve as the new interim director of the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI).
In 2015, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-e) program to develop 3D-printed heat exchangers for power plants.