Research

Projects

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

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

• 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...

• Caring Connections: Supporting families by improving residential care visits

  Over 53,000 older adults are residents of nursing home or long-term care facilities in Wisconsin. Caring Connections is a 2-hour workshop designed to...

• 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...

• Child Development Lab

  The Child Development Lab is a high quality early care and education program for community children 6 weeks to 5 years and is also an integral part of...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Direct-injection 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 Direc...

• 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...

• Food Research Institute

  Since 1966 the Food Research Institute (FRI) has provided campus leadership in identifying and addressing food safety issues. The institute provides a...

• 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...

• 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...

• Industrializing Hemp to Advance the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals

  Using the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the analytical framework, this project evaluated industrial hemp’s innumerous ben...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Provision of health amenities to pet owners experiencing homelessness

  WisCARES provides free preventive veterinary medical care to animals owned by non-domiciled people. WisCARES provides subsidized veterinary medical ca...

• Research & Environmental Education Partnerships: A Speed Networking Forum

  This project seeded new partnerships at the individual scale between 1) UW-Madison researchers in the ecological, environmental, geographical, and ear...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 focu...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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,...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 Energy Institute

  The Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) is working on one of the most critical challenges of our time – the transition toward new, clean energy systems 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 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 is an endowment within the UW School of Medicine and Public Health dedicated to creating lasting improvements in hea...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Small Engine Consortium

  The Wisconsin Small Engine Consortium at the UW-Madison College of Engineering, begun in 1993, provides research on small engine efficiency, emissions...

• Wisconsin Twin Research Program

  The Wisconsin Twin Research program comprises multiple longitudinal studies utilizing a registry of twins born in Wisconsin. Primary research topics c...

• 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...