At its heart, education is a process: Students move step by step through their curriculum and, if all goes well, this results in an end product: Graduates equipped to thrive in the real world. That’s…
Marcel Schreier, the Richard H. Soit Assistant Professor in chemical and biological engineering, is one of six University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members awarded a prestigious 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship. The award, presented by the Alfred…
Twenty-five years after graduating with a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jeffrey Greeley is returning to his alma mater as the Paul A. Elfers Professor in the Department of Chemical and…
In developing a versatile new electrolyte, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has taken the next step toward a more efficient, energy-dense battery that could supplant today’s ubiquitous lithium-ion batteries. This new battery type—an…
A new initiative to introduce sustainability into the College of Engineering’s curriculum aims to ensure that every undergraduate engineering student learns about sustainability in a manner relevant to their major while they’re at the University…
Anyone who’s spent an unintended hour scrolling on their phone knows how powerful algorithms can be; those mathematical instructions guide computers and other tech in their autonomous decision making—from what Instagram photo to show next…
Membranes are used for all sorts of important tasks, including desalination, industrial filtration and even kidney dialysis. But most membranes used today are not able to tackle emerging challenges. More advanced membranes, however, could open…
In the more than 100 years since researchers developed synthetic plastic, it has become the world’s most common engineered material—used in nearly everything humans produce, from automobiles and food packaging to medical implants and electronics….
In 2022, a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, recorded real-time movies of extremely tiny nanocatalysts undergoing dramatic changes during carbon dioxide reduction reactions, which are an important step in making sustainable…
A team of chemical and biological engineering researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed a new strain of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, which takes up 8.5 times the phosphorus compared to its…