Recent Sightings Recent Sightings: Light bulb moment

From left to right, undergraduates AnaElise Beckman (wearing pink shirt), Michael Zaiken and Alexandra Cohn prepare a bacteria culture for their Biobulb project while working in a research lab at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID). WID Frontier Fellows, the three are developing an idea for a light bulb that is driven by microbes in a self-contained ecosystem. The project received one of 24 crowdsource-funding slots in Popular Science magazine’s #CrowdGrant Challenge.

Photo: Jeff Miller