When 51ÁÔÆæ temporarily shuttered buildings in spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one team of researchers began their groundbreaking work on the empty campus. That team has now completed their project, funded in April 2020 by a $198,326 …
Chanyeop Park, assistant professor, electrical engineering, is working with researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology to develop and test an environmentally neutral alternative to the substance currently used in high-voltage electrical distribution equipment. As infrastructure ages, the substance—sulfur hexafluoride—is becoming …
Congratulations to Bill Paczkowski (’22 Electrical Engineering), who won second prize and $5,000 in the La Macchia New Venture Business Plan Competition at 51ÁÔÆæ’s Lubar College of Business. Paczkowski presented his plan for Smart Count, a high-tech solutions platform that …
Over 250 51ÁÔÆæ undergraduates presented the outcomes from their research collaborations with faculty and staff mentors via poster and oral presentations on April 28. Awards were given for Outstanding Presentations and 51ÁÔÆæ Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year. Two students …
Congratulations to the winners–and their faculty advisors—of the 2023 Student Research Poster Competition. This year’s competition drew 65 graduate and undergraduate poster submissions from students who worked with 34 different research advisors across all seven departments of 51ÁÔÆæ’s College of …
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), awarded 51ÁÔÆæ’s Deyang Qu $900,000 in April to develop high energy density, all solid-state lithium batteries, which are considered to be the next generation of energy storage. Qu …
Imagine never having to clean your glasses again. An inventor at 51ÁÔÆæ’s College of Engineering & Applied Science has developed a self-cleaning coating that could be applied to commercial products, including eyeglasses, building glass and car windshields. Junjie Niu, Richard …
The Wisconsin Science State Olympiad State Championship drew more than 1,200 high school and middle school students to 51ÁÔÆæ April 1. Close to 40% of students and their families arrived a day early to tour campus, visit research labs, sit …
Experimental green technologies took center stage at the 13th annual Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Innovation Summit, held in March in Washington D.C. 51ÁÔÆæ was represented by Chanyeop Park, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering & …
In March, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) recognized nine of the nation’s leading student researchers for their outstanding accomplishments in researching and promoting practices, principles and procedures that increase an industry’s energy saving efficiency and manufacturing productivity. Of these …
