| Caroline Schneider

Garret Suen, an assistant professor in the Department of Bacteriology and an Alfred Toepfer Faculty Fellow, focuses on microbiomes and how microbes convert biomass into nutrients. “Microbiome” has become a more common word in the public consciousness in recent years.

Energy & Society, Sustainable Agriculture

| Krista Eastman

With up to $1.8 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), scientists affiliated with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) will conduct research with the potential to turn woody biomass into an economical source of renewable chemicals.

Biofuels & Bioproducts, Plant Deconstruction

| Kaine Korzekwa

Biochemistry assistant professor Ophelia Venturelli recently received funding for her proposal to the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program.

Transportation & Fuels, Conversion

| David Tenenbaum

SHINE Medical Technologies, a firm spawned from research in the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering, broke ground today on “Building One” at its new location just south of Janesville.

Electricity Systems, Spinoffs

| Ben Golden

Researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) recently published a study showing that quality of crop yield is less important than quantity when harvesting for cellulos

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts, Plant Genetics & Breeding

| Silke Schmidt

Between growing up in Belgium, a trilingual country with multiple ethnic communities, receiving dual training in chemistry and chemical engineering, and holding faculty positions in both Europe and the United States, Ive Hermans is used to straddling two (or more) worlds.

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts, Conversion

| Gary Radloff | Power Points

In the coming years, the growth of distributed energy resources (DERs) – or smaller power sources that can be aggregated to meet regular demand – will reshape energy markets around the country.

Electricity Systems, Electricity Distribution, Energy & Society, Policy & Regulation