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Cheyenne Lei wins GLBRC early career award

The 2023 recipient of the Jennifer L. Reed Bioenergy Science Award is Cheyenne Lei, a GLBRC researcher who recently earned a Ph.D. in geography from Michigan State University. Lei is now a research fellow with the Institute for Global Change Biology at the University of Michigan. Read about her long love of geography, her research into agricultural climate impacts, and what this award means to her.

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| Catherine Steffel

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $178 million for bioenergy research to advance sustainable technology breakthroughs that can improve public health, help address climate change, improve food and agricultural production, and create more resilient supply chains.

| Michelle Chung, Mary Riker, and Mark E. Griffin

This week, Natalia De Leon, professor of Agronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center researcher, talks about her decision-making process to find balance everyday as a scienti

| Arushi Gupta
We spoke with Megan Mader, an undergraduate student in Trey Sato's lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, to talk about what led to her interest in climate change, her research on modifying yeast to sustainably produce biofuels, and the value of collaboration in research.
| Michelle Chung
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| Michelle Chung, Mary Riker, and Mark E. Griffin
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| Mark E. Griffin

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| Staff

The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center's outreach team joined groups from across UW–Madison for a Saturday of science exploration at the Kujichagulia Center for Self-Determination's Juneteenth celebration on June 18 at Penn Park in Madison. Attendees were invited to explore science at nearly a dozen UW Science Alliance hands-on educational stations, chat with scientists, and more.

| Michelle Chung, Mary Riker, and Mark E. Griffin

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| Michelle Chung
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| Emilie Lorditch

An integrated approach to land management practices in the U.S. can reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere far more than earlier estimates based on separate approaches, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) researchers say. Their research was published May 31 in the journal Global Change Biology.

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