| 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

| Silke Schmidt

Last week’s commencement ceremony at Camp Randall was not the first time this spring that University of Wisconsin–Madison senior Drew Dillmann had reason to celebrate.

Electricity Systems, Building Efficiency, Education & Outreach

| Leslie Shown

In their lab on a 20-acre prairie in Madison, Wisconsin, Xylome scientists are busy tinkering with the yeasts that live in the bellies of wood-boring beetles.

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts, Conversion, Spinoffs