Category: News

Turn off a light, save a life, says new UW–Madison study

The study was led by EAP alumnus David Abel and EAP faculty member Tracey Holloway.

Hang attends Better Buildings conference

April Hang, an EAP Ph.D student in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, recently received an EAP professional development and travel grant to attend a conference in the Wisconsin Dells. She wished to share her experience with the EAP community: I was fortunate to receive the EAP …

Highlights from 2019 alumni panel and networking event

More than 25 EAP students, alumni, faculty, and staff gathered at Union South on February 6 for an alumni panel discussion and networking happy hour, featuring alumni from the Madison area. Panelists shared their experiences in the EAP program and their pathways to their current occupations, along with topics in the energy industry that excite …

EAP Program awards esteemed graduate students with international scholarship

by EMMA HUBLER | from Nelson Institute: The Energy Analysis and Policy Program (EAP) at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is awarding five international graduate students with scholarships recognizing academic and professional excellence. EAP is a graduate-level certificate that can be added to nearly any graduate program at UW. EAP trains students in energy …

Going Global – UW-Madison EAP Program Legacy Positively Impacts International Environment Initiatives

October 11, 2018 | by BEKAH MCBRIDE   This summer, Nelson Institute graduate student, David Abel, strengthened a UW–Madison legacy by joining some of the most celebrated scholars in the world at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria as a part of their Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). Since the inception of IIASA in 1972, UW–Madison students and …

EAP Student Katie Mummah Shares Enthusiasm for Nuclear Energy

With a lively social media presence, grad student shares enthusiasm for nuclear energy Will Cushman | College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison | September 25, 2018 In an age increasingly defined and connected by online discourse, UW–Madison graduate student Katie Mummah is taking full advantage of the digital tools at her disposal—all in the name …

Wilson elected to ANS Board of Directors

NASA Health and Air Quality Team brings research ‘down to Earth’

May 30, 2018 | by KAI BRITO When we think about the health impacts of air pollution, it’s important to know which pollutants are in the air we breathe. Fortunately, the U.S. has a large network of air monitoring instruments designed to measure this “nose-level” pollution, from ozone to particulates. In fact, the U.S. has …

Nemet, colleagues review negative emission technologies for reducing CO2

In three comprehensive studies, an international consortium of 20 researchers, including the La Follette School’s Greg Nemet and Sophia Rogers, found a major gap in climate change dialogue between science and policy. The journal Environmental Research Letters recently published results of the studies by researchers at La Follette, the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons …

Solar power’s greatest challenge was discovered 10 years ago. It looks like a duck.

Paul Denholm (EAP ’04), Principal Energy Analyst at the National Energy Renewable Laboratory, was recently interviewed by Vox about the origins of the “Duck Curve,” which demonstrates one of the major challenges of integrating large amounts of solar energy into the electric grid. Denholm told the EAP program,  “I actually started generating net load curves with …