Category State & Global
Cramer named director of Morgridge Center for Public Service
April 17, 2015Kathy Cramer, a professor in the Department of Political Science and longtime active proponent of civic engagement and outreach at UW–Madison, has been named permanent director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service.
Nursing students partner with Watertown to reduce dementia stigma
April 17, 2015On the streets of Watertown, University of Wisconsin–Madison nursing student Kathryn Gerber is learning about dementia and how a community can help remove the stigma that follows people with memory loss.
New tool helps school nurses treat chronic ailments in 30 Wisconsin counties
April 10, 2015Lori Anderson, the daughter of an Oconomowoc school nurse, saw the daily challenges of school nurses even as a kid: not enough time, too few resources and isolation from peers.
Global Health Symposium spans disciplines, generations and the world
April 6, 2015From avian influenza to empowering women in agriculture to improving access to pain medicines in Africa, Global Health Symposium 2015: Advancing Health in an Interconnected World gives the UW community a place to explore the complex determinants of health in Wisconsin and across the world.
Advancing engineering for a better society: Los Alamos leader named UW–Madison Grainger Institute director
April 6, 2015In June, Dan Thoma will become the first director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Funded in 2014 with $25 million from The Grainger Foundation of Lake Forest, Illinois, the institute is an incubator for transdisciplinary research in the UW–Madison College of Engineering.
Model helps Wisconsin city planners prepare to weather large storms
March 31, 2015How society should respond to climate change may be a global-scale debate, but University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers know that preparing for climate change's impact on weather is a profoundly local problem.
UW engineer models groundwater to help farmers at home and abroad
March 30, 2015Argentina might seem a long way to go for an environmental engineer seeking to better understand land use in Wisconsin. But there are some surprising parallels between the two countries' histories of land use and ecohydrology.
Annual rankings rate health of Wisconsin counties
March 25, 2015Ozaukee County ranks healthiest in Wisconsin and Menominee County ranks least healthy, according to the sixth annual County Health Rankings, released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
UW and M-WERC expand Wisconsin’s energy industry
March 23, 2015Researchers at the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are developing an industry partnership that promises to create jobs here in Wisconsin.
Here comes HAWC: New observatory to seek out gamma rays
March 20, 2015High on a sleeping Mexican volcano, a new particle astrophysics observatory is about to blink to life, commencing an all-sky search for very high-energy gamma rays - a search that could greatly expand the catalog of known gamma ray sources and chip away at the mystery of the cosmic rays that constantly bombard our planet.
For UW–Madison scientists, Northern Wisconsin serves as a lab and a classroom
March 19, 2015For the past decade, Ankur Desai has been working with collaborators from across the country to study the uptake and emission of carbon in northern Wisconsin’s forests, wetlands and lakes.
Science Expeditions opens doors to UW–Madison research March 20-22
March 17, 2015Science Expeditions, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s 13th annual science open house, will open the doors of dozens of campus attractions — and the expertise of scores of researchers — to thousands of curious visitors March 20-22.
UW-Madison partners with communities, nonprofits to address urban food insecurity
March 9, 2015Food insecurity has implications for health, community stability and local economies, and an interdisciplinary team of UW–Madison researchers has launched a project to study ways to boost the availability and consumption of healthy food in urban communities. The project is focusing initially on Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit, three cities where food insecurity is considered extensive.
UW finds strategies to increase number of organic grain farms in Wisconsin
March 5, 2015While the $35 billion U.S. organic industry continues to expand at a brisk pace, organic grain production is not keeping up with the growing demand for organic livestock feed and value-added food products, according to a new report on Wisconsin organic agriculture.
UW-Madison helps train aspiring farmers enrolled in ‘the MBA of dairy’
March 4, 2015Considering the average age of a Wisconsin farmer is over 56 years old and the state has been losing around 500 dairy farms per year in recent years, experts say it's important to prepare young people to step into farm roles to help keep the state's $88 billion agricultural economy strong into the future.
Research communications experts partner with Morgridge Institute
March 2, 2015Dietram Scheufele and colleagues in the Department of Life Sciences Communication (LSC) are partnering with the Morgridge Institute for Research to take a deeper look at what works — and why — in engaging the public on science. Morgridge provides a unique proving ground for the topic: In partnership with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, science outreach programs bring more than 30,000 participants to the Discovery Building each year.
UW center helps grow businesses, jobs and communities in South Central Wisconsin
February 27, 2015The Small Business Development Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business released its 2014 annual report today, highlighting its efforts to promote business development and job growth in Dane, Columbia and Sauk counties.
Could squirmy livestock dent Africa’s protein deficit?
February 26, 2015As a cheap and easy source of protein for humans, it might be hard to beat the mighty mealworm.
Bioenergy center’s research leads to 100th patent application
February 25, 2015The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), one of three bioenergy research centers established in 2007 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), recently celebrated the filing of its 100th patent application.