Unprecedented industry-academic partnership to focus on energy storage as Johnson Controls and UWM and UW-Madison name endowed professorship

Renewable energy expert Deyang Qu has been named as the Johnson Controls Endowed Professor in Energy Storage Research, a collaborative appointment between the company, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's College of Engineering. He begins his new duties in Milwaukee January 15.