University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: Yeast

A more sustainable fuel: Chris Todd Hittinger experiments to produce fuel from yeast

This article, by Monica Ridlon, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Madeline Fisher’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories.  In a society dependent on fossil fuels, how do we keep …