| Mark E. Griffin

It’s easy to root for Greg Desjarlais, a recent participant in the Research Experience for Undergraduates program offered by the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He’s unassuming and easy to talk to.

Education & Outreach

| Sam Million-Weaver

Using a unique combination of advanced computational methods, University of Wisconsin–Madison chemical engineers have demystified some of the complex catalytic chemistry in fuel cells — an advance that brings cost-effective fuel cells closer to reality.

Electricity Systems, Storage

| Terry Devitt

NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team this past week tapped Tracey Holloway, a professor in the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, to lead the multi-institutional effort to help make environmental satellite data more accessible and useful.<

Energy & Society, Environmental Studies

| Sam Million-Weaver

University of Wisconsin—Madison engineers have created high-performance, micro-scale solar cells that outshine comparable devices in key performance measures.

Electricity Systems, Solar

| Adam Malecek

The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded more than $35 million through its Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) to support university-led nuclear energy research and development projects, including a total of about $3 million in grants for UW-Madison researchers.

Electricity Systems, Nuclear, Supercritical Fluids

| Terry Devitt

Without question, the domesticated hybrid yeast that gives us lager beer is an organism worth many billions of dollars.

Transportation & Fuels, Conversion

| Adam Malecek

NovoMoto—an innovative startup co-founded by two University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering graduate students—won third place and $20,000 in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2016 Cleantech University Prize National Competition on June 23, 2016.

Electricity Systems, Electricity Distribution, Solar