Research

Projects

• Advancing Climate Science Education, Inquiry, and Literacy Across Rural Wisconsin Communities

  Our project aims to inspire scientific, place-based inquiry and advance climate science education and literacy across Wisconsin’s economically disadva...

• Building Better Pathways for Young Moms to Achieve Educational Goals

  Young parents, those who have children while in adolescence or early adulthood, experience significant inequities in college access and completion com...

• Center for Communication Research

  The Center for Communication Research is dedicated to promoting communication research at the University of Wisconsin and beyond. It is committed to...

• Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS)

  The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) is a participatory action research center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's College of Ag...

• Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions

  The mission of the Center for Research on College to Workforce Transitions (CCWT) is to conduct and support research, critical policy analysis, and pu...

• Certificate in Criminal Justice

  The centerpiece of the Criminal Justice Certificate Program is an intensive field internship. These internships allow students to connect to the commu...

• Chime In: Amplifying Accurate Information into the Wisconsin Information Ecology

  Chime In is a tool our research team is developing to help journalists and public health officials identify networks of low-quality information about...

• Community Economic Development program

  Small businesses are critical to the Wisconsin economy and local communities. Self-employed business owners and entrepreneurs help shape local and reg...

• Covering Caregiving: How-to sheets to connect Wisconsin caregivers with support

  There are an estimated 1,000,000 caregivers in Wisconsin providing help and support to family members or friends with illnesses or disabilities. Altho...

• Covid-19 Wisconsin Connect

  This project created an app in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to help connect Wisconsinites to verifiably accurate information about COVID-19...

• Cranberry Outreach

  Keeping a tight feedback loop between Wisconsin's cranberry growers and agronomic research developed at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Cultivating more than good food? Employees' social and economic outcomes on certified organic vegetable farms

  Hired labor plays an increasingly crucial role on certified organic vegetable farms, yet farm employees often experience low wages and lack access to...

• Dairy Innovation Hub

  The Dairy Innovation Hub represents a $7.8 million per year investment by the State of Wisconsin that harnesses research and development at UW–Madison...

• Decarbonized-Engine Research Consortium (DERC)

  The Engine Research Center (ERC) at UW-Madison launched an international Diesel Emissions Reduction Consortium (DERC) in 2004 (later renamed the Decar...

• Dementia Friendly Toolkit

  In response to family caregivers’ stories of challenging medical appointments, community groups’ requests for dementia friendly training materials, an...

• Developing Participatory Evaluation Tools with Centro Hispano of Dane County’s Youth Programs

  During the summer of 2020, Centro Hispano of Dane County, the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and UW's School of Human Ecology worked togethe...

• Development and Validation of the Transgender Nonbinary Coping Measure

  Results across the three phases of the study indicated that the Transgender Nonbinary Coping Measure is both theoretically and mathematically supporte...

• Elder Tree

  Under a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), David Gustafson and his team at the Center for Health Enhancement Systems St...

• Engaging Families as Care Partners in Community Nursing Homes

  The project’s overall goal is to improve healthcare through family engagement to community nursing homes (NHs), a setting in which family engagement c...

• Engaging growers with citizen science to improve management of crop pollinators

  This project develops a mobile-enabled application that allows users to easily collect information, in a standardized and rigorous way, on the abundan...

• Engaging students in Wisconsin dementia friendly community efforts

  Since 2014, the Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE) has supported students volunteering with and learning from Wisconsin community efforts...

• Evaluation of "democracy it is!"

  Democracy it is! was a program for K-12 in-school use with eight programs designed to meet the needs of educators in reaching and exceeding Wisconsin...

• Evaluation of Fusion Science Theater

  Fusion Science Theater is an innovative program in which science educators, theater educators, science outreach professionals, and theater artists cr...

• Examining the Efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Microinterventions for Distressed First-Generation College Students

  This study evaluated a mobile application-based intervention for distressed first-generation college students. The intervention was based upon Accepta...

• Exploring Materials Science: Research Experiences for Teachers Program

  The Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program is funded by the National Science Foundation and is hosted by the UW-Madison Materials Research Sc...

• Gold-standard experiments on non-lethal methods to protect property from large carnivores

  The Carnivore Coexistence Lab core team works on four major challenges to peaceful coexistence between people and large carnivores around the world. T...

• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

  The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) is a cross-disciplinary research center led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and headquartered...

• Hard Cider in Wisconsin

  Hard cider is a value-added product from a crop grown in the state—a crop poised to further increase perennial acreage as a strategy to protect soils...

• Health and sustainability of Wisconsin's sport fish

  This is a project funded by Wisconsin SeaGrant to characterize viruses in five species of socially and economically important sport fish across our st...

• Health Innovation Program

  The Health Innovation Program (HIP) looks to improve health care delivery and population health across the State of Wisconsin and the nation through c...

• Improving Language and Cognitive Outcomes in Bilingual Children

  UW Professor Margarita Kaushanskaya’s research aims to examine how input in two languages affects language and cognitive outcomes in children, both th...

• Increasing awareness and advocacy for children with language impairments from underserved communities in Dane County

  There is an urgent need to provide accessible information to parents and community members working with children from traditionally underserved commun...

• Kids with Incarcerated Parents Blog

  In this blog, I bring up issues that I encounter in my professional role as a scientist and an advocate for children whose parents are incarcerated. I...

• Lessons from COVID19 – Positioning Regional Food Supply Chains

  UW-CIAS is partnering with researchers at University of Minnesota, University of Florida, UC-Irvine and Kansas State to document lessons from COVID-19...

• Metropolitan Unified Fiber Network Project (MUFN)

  The Metropolitian Unified Fiber Network (MUFN) is a public-private partnership to enhance broadband capacity, affordability and access in the greater...

• Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) Computational Chemistry Project

  The Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) computer program, developed at UW-Madison, is used internationally in chemistry teaching and research. The NBO Program...

• Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience

  With generous funding from the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Max Kade Institute has produced this traveling exhibit, “Neighbors Past and Present:...

• Nonprofit Board Leadership and Development

  This course is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate students to serve on nonprofit boards, learn about the roles and responsibilities of bo...

• North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research Program (NTL-LTER)

  The North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research Program (NTL-LTER) studies lakes and watersheds of the Yahara River Lake District near Madison...

• Odyssey Beyond Bars - Supporting Students Upon Re-entry and Assessing Program Impact

  Odyssey Beyond Bars offers college jumpstart programs to students incarcerated in Wisconsin state prisons. Our jumpstart programs combine noncredit an...

• Partnering with the Hmong Community to Build Better Medical Translation Tools and Preserve Hmong Narratives to Reduce Health Disparities

  The Hmong experience many health disparities. An important step toward addressing these health disparities is overcoming poor communication, language...

• Partnering with Youth, Parents, and Community Pharmacists to Curb Adolescent E-cigarette Use

  This project gathered the perspectives of adolescents (ages 12 to 18 years), parents of adolescents, and pharmacists working in community or outpatien...

• Phosphorus and water quality of the Yahara Lakes

  Phosphorus runoff causes algae blooms and other harmful changes in the Yahara lakes (Mendota, Monona, Waubesa, Kegonsa and Wingra near Madison, Wiscon...

• Predator-prey behavioral ecology

  The Carnivore Coexistence Lab works on four major challenges to peaceful coexistence between people & large carnivores around the world. We study (1)...

• Preparing Practitioners to Identify and Address Sex Trafficking in Northeast Wisconsin

  Sex trafficking (ST) occurs when 1) a minor exchanges sex for financial compensation (e.g. food, money, clothing, housing, drugs), known as a commerci...

• PTSD treatment for prisoners in Wisconsin

  In this project, UW-Madison clinical researchers are collaborating with the State of Wisconsin Department of Corrections to provide evidence-based tre...

• Responding to Suspected and Confirmed Cases of Sex Trafficked Children & Youth

  To address sex trafficking in Wisconsin, recent state legislation (Wisconsin Act 367) now mandates child welfare agencies to investigate allegations o...

• Retrofitting Latinxs into the Wisconsin Historical Narrative

  Latina/o/xs have a long-rooted presence in Wisconsin but their histories are largely absent in institutional archives. To provide more visibility to L...

• Risk Communication in action

  Current research includes ongoing surveys about public attitudes toward gene editing, nanotechnology, nuclear energy, synthetic biology, and other eme...

• Sonderegger Research Center (SRC)

  Established in 1985 through the UW School of Pharmacy, the Sonderegger Research Center (SRC) conducts research that promotes health, improves healthca...

• SoundWaves

  Professor Daniel Grabois created the SoundWaves series in 2012 as a way to bring scientific knowledge and music to the Madison community. SoundWaves e...

• Study: transportation issues affecting fresh food distribution in rural Wisconsin

  The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), a research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sci...

• Testing Maps and Graphics to Promote Safe Drinking Water from Private Wells

  The broad goal of my research is to improve how environmental risk is communicated to the public in order to foster accurate risk beliefs and appropri...

• The Center for Dairy Research

  The Center for Dairy Research (CDR) is a leader in innovative dairy research, processing, education and product development and application that focus...

• The Community Advisors on Research Design and Strategies (CARDS)®

  The Community Advisors on Research Design and Strategies (CARDS)® is a program of the Wisconsin Network for Research Support (WINRS), an innovative c...

• The NonViolence Project

  The Nonviolence Project is a comprehensive repository that educates and informs viewers on the impact of nonviolent protests all over the world. From...

• The Observatory

  The Observatory is a fact-checking news site operated out of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. It fact-checks Wisconsin publ...

• The Wisconsin Communication Ecology and Civic Health

  Where do Wisconsinites get information about politics? Are we stuck in partisan echo chambers, or are we broadly exposed to views of political opponen...

• Transgender and Nonbinary People’s Experience of Relational Trauma with Parental Figures

  This research project aims to establish theories on TNB people’s experiences of relational trauma with parental figures. The four specific goals of th...

• Transportation Innovations in Local and Regional Food Systems

  The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) applies transdisciplinary, participatory, systems-oriented approaches to address emerging challe...

• Understanding Domestic Fair Trade for Agriculture of the Middle

  This participatory research project explores fair trade strategies through a comparative analysis of global and domestic fair trade in different polic...

• University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI)

  The University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) is recognized internationally as a leading authority on tobacco res...

• Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative

  The Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative (UMHDI) partnership launched in 2007 to support the growth and commercialization of the hazelnut ind...

• UW E-Business Consortium (UWEBC)

  The UW E-Business Consortium (UWEBC) is a collaborative learning community comprising Wisconsin's leading companies and flagship university. The UWEBC...

• UW E-Business Institute (UWEBI) and Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP)

  The UW E-Business Institute (UWEBI) and the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP) have an established partnership to enable Wisconsin m...

• UW Survey Center

  The UW-Madison Survey Center is hired by faculty and staff across the UW System and UW-Extension, as well as policy planners and researchers at state,...

• UW–Madison Oral History Program

  The UW–Madison Oral History Program seeks to gather, provide, and provide access to in-depth, historical interviews with current and former UW–Madison...

• Veterinary Services for International Crane Foundation

  This project sustains the Conservation Medicine Department of the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo (Sauk County). Our work in Conservation Me...

• Wednesday Nite @ The Lab on the Air

  Wednesday Nite @ The Lab is a public science series offered every Wednesday night, 50 times a year. WN@TL invites Wisconsinites to experience science...

• Weekly Weather and Climate Column "Ask the Weather Guys"

  Each week Steve Ackerman and I contribute a ~250 word column on page 2 of the Monday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal on a climate or weather sc...

• WIDA: Helping multilingual learners and educators succeed

  WIDA provides language development resources to those who support the academic success of PreK-12 multilingual learners. WIDA offers a comprehensive,...

• Wisconsin 101: Our History in Objects

  Wisconsin 101 is a statewide collaborative public history project based on an interactive website (wi101.wisc.edu) and featuring radio programs and po...

• Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit (WCWRU)

  The US Geological Survey Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit (WCWRU) is one of two federal cooperative units in the state. The Cooperative Un...

• Wisconsin Energy Institute

  At the Wisconsin Energy Institute, we envision a world powered by sustainable and reliable energy that is affordable and accessible to everyone. As a...

• Wisconsin Food Security Project

  The Wisconsin Food Security Project is a cutting-edge interactive food security data and mapping portal developed in collaboration with UW-Extension a...

• Wisconsin Idea Science Constellation

  The Wisconsin Idea Science Constellation is designed to be a way of mapping and connecting UW-Madison's science facilities. While the University hous...

• Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS)

  The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, or WLS, is a long-term study of a random sample of over 10,000 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schoo...

• Wisconsin Partnership Program

  The Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) is a grantmaking program within the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) commit...

• Wisconsin Public Health Research Network (WPHRN)

  The Wisconsin Public Health Research Network (WPHRN) links public health practitioners and researchers to answer questions and disseminate discoveries...

• Wolf preservation in Wisconsin and beyond

  Professor Adrian Treves conducts research, teaching, and outreach about the conservation and preservation of wolves in Wisconsin and other regions of...

• Writers' Institute Conference

  In this award-winning national program, named one of the best writing conferences in the country by THE WRITER magazine, the latest information in wri...