The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $12.5 million to the University of Wisconsin–Madison to develop an integrated facility that will expand the frontier of astrophysical plasma research.

Plants that produce their own nitrogen would require less fertilizer, which would save farmers money and reduce the environmental pollution caused by fertilizer runoff into waterways.

Evidence continues to suggest that energy storage may be getting cheaper and scaling up faster than once thought.

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).