Fourteen highly innovative research projects have been chosen for the first round of funding by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Educationfor the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative.

Less than a week after Wisconsin Gov.

For countries to sharply reduce carbon emissions while also meeting the increasing demand for electrical energy, it’s widely recognized that nuclear power needs to be part of the solution.

On Tuesday, NovoMoto – an innovative start-up co-founded by two University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate students in engineering – won $90,000 in the Clean Energy Trust Challenge, a start-up contest billed as the “largest single-day clean energy pitch competition in the nation.”

MADISON, Wis. – Smarter biofuel production, an algorithm to make life easier for novice programmers and a technique for imaging aging brains have won Discovery Challenge Awards from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).

Given the shouts and cheers emanating from Lisa Andresen’s classroom, one might guess that Room 105 doubles as the school’s gym. In fact, these are the sounds of middle school students exploring energy and environmental science.

Compressors are all around us. They can be found in machines ranging from implantable medical devices to aircraft engines and in products from almost every industrial sector.