| Sam Million-Weaver

UW-Madison engineers helped reveal the answer to a quantum-mechanical mystery based on measurements of the behavior of electrons on unprecedentedly small time-scales.

Electricity Systems, Materials

| Terry Devitt

Since the 17th century, when Antonie van  Leeuwenhoek first observed microorganisms through the lens of a rudimentary microscope, humans have slowly come to appreciate that ours is a germy world.

Energy & Society, Science Communication

| Chris Barncard

If you’re made of carbon, precious few things are as important to life as death.

A dead tree may represent a literal windfall of the building blocks necessary for making new plants and animals and the energy to sustain them.

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts, Plant Deconstruction

| Gary Radloff | Power Points

As the election year marches on, policy experts have turned toward discussions about strategies that could potentially lead to vision, systems thinking, and leadership in energy systems.

| Renee Meiller

The consumer marketplace is flooded with a lively assortment of smart wearable electronics that do everything from monitor vital signs, fitness or sun exposure to play music, charge other electronics or even purify the air around you — all wirelessly.

Electricity Systems, Storage

| Jessica Muzik

Johnson Controls has announced two multi-year research projects at the University of Wisconsin–Madison  (UW–Madison) aimed at enhancing the fuel efficiency of start-stop and next-generation battery-electric vehicles.

Electricity Systems, Storage, Industry

| Mark E. Griffin

Rebecca (Becca) Fahney graduated from UW–Madison in the Fall of 2015.

Education & Outreach