Throwing your cans and bottles in the recycling? Avoiding aimless Internet browsing during work hours? Offering your seat on the bus to someone less able to stand in the aisle? Brauer’s research explores how to …
Research
Student honored for approach to insuring agriculture losses
Adolph Okine, a first-year Ph.D. student studying actuarial science at the Wisconsin School of Business, took an innovative statistical approach to predicting the negative effects of climate change on agriculture, and it paid off.
Grad student research recognized in Japan
December 15, 2015 | by Sarah Olson University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate student Eleanor Bloom presented her research on sustainable systems for residential heating and cooling at a conference last month in Kashiwa, Japan, where she earned second …
Professors utilize Northern Wisconsin as a lab
For the past decade, professor Ankur Desai has been working with collaborators from across the country to study the uptake and emission of carbon in northern Wisconsin’s forests, wetlands and lakes.
Combining biomass and solar energy conversion
In a study published March 9 in Nature Chemistry, UW–Madison chemistry professor Kyoung-Shin Choi presents a new approach to combine solar energy conversion and biomass conversion, two important research areas for renewable energy.
UW-Madison addresses urban food insecurity
Food insecurity has implications for health, community stability and local economies, and an interdisciplinary team of UW–Madison researchers has launched a project to study ways to boost the availability and consumption of healthy food in …
Bioenergy research leads to 100th patent
Munching bugs reduce the carbon sink
Climate Quest winner announced
by Jill Sakai MIGHTi (Mission to Improve Global Health Through Insects) is the winner of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Climate Quest competition, sponsored by American Family Insurance and Madison Gas and Electric.