Education

Projects

• 7th Annual Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council Conference

  For the last six years, a team of students has created the conference for the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council, which over 400 people annually a...

• A model for genetics in the classroom

  Our program is testing and deploying a new version of Wisconsin Fast Plants that was specifically created to provide students and teachers with the op...

• Acquiring and synthesizing foundational knowledge for hemp-derived products

  Product teams representing academia, industry, and farmers were developed in three areas: hemp for paper production, hemp for building materials, and...

• Active Early

  Active Early is working with 15 child care agencies from around the state to increase the levels of physical activity in early care and education sett...

• Adult Career and Special Student Services (ACSSS)

  ACSSS is the UW-Madison gateway for adults thinking about returning to college and/or changing careers - and seeking assistance with their decision an...

• Advanced Small Animal Ultrasound

  This program will offer the small animal clinician an advanced level introduction to diagnostic ultrasound of important “small parts,” including scann...

• 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...

• African Studies Program Outreach

  The African Studies Department offers an outreach program for Wisconsin schools and community events. The Outreach Scholars Program comprises both gra...

• Aldo Leopold Elementary School Outreach for World Languages

  The World Language Education program in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction has an ongoing relationship with Aldo Leopold Elementary School t...

• Allied Drive Literacy Time

  Since 2004, a team of graduate students at the Information School along with faculty, campus librarians, and undergraduate students have provided lite...

• Allied Learning Center Science Outreach Program

  Medical students work twice every month with fourth and fifth graders in the Allied Learning Center afterschool program, providing supplemental educat...

• Allied United for Health

  Allied United for Health (AUH) organizes health outreach programming for the community-campus partnership between the UW-Madison School of Medicine an...

• American Council on Exercise Exam Preparation Courses

  The Division of Recreational Sports offers outreach courses that prepare individuals for national certification. The American Council on Exercise (ACE...

• Annual Feline Conference

  Each year the Office of Continuing Veterinary Medical Education holds a Feline Conference that is designed to provide the most up-to-date information...

• Annual University of Wisconsin Reading Research Symposium

  The University of Wisconsin System has had a long tradition of hosting an annual Reading Research Symposium, with various campuses from across the sta...

• Annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium

  Started in 2005, the Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium brings together leaders in stem cell research to discuss issues, challenges, and key obstacles. Th...

• Applied Animal Behavior Conference

  In a joint presentation, Doctors John Ciribassi, Terri Derr, Judi Stella and Temple Grandin offer their expertise on animal behavior. Dr. Ciribassi te...

• Applied Learning Projects (ALPs) for Bolz Center for Arts Administration students

  Graduate students in the Bolz Center for Arts Administration participate in hands-on projects with leading nonprofit arts and cultural institutions an...

• Arboretum Family Nature Program

  The Arboretum Family Nature Program through the UW-Madison Arboretum brings families together to learn about nature. The program offers a kid-friendly...

• Area Health Education Centers (AHEC)

  The Wisconsin AHEC System is part of a national initiative, begun in the 1970s, for improving the accessibility and quality of primary health care. Th...

• ARMS After School Science Clubs/WISCIENCE

  The Adult Role Models in Science (ARMS) program at WISCIENCE develops materials and training workshops for after-school providers and volunteers to le...

• ARMS Family Science Nights

  The Adult Role Models in Science (ARMS) program at WISCIENCE provides resources for schools and community centers to coordinate Family Science Events....

• Arndt Family Scholarships

  The Office of Student Financial Services is working with high schools in Madison to offer economically disadvantaged students the opportunity to recei...

• Art graduate connects campus, schools with outreach endowment

  Developed by Tom Loeser and funded by Helen Burish, these art workshops seek to provide high school art teachers with hands-on professional developmen...

• ARTe Design

  The ARTe Design Program is a special section within the mechanical engineering course sequence of the capstone design program at UW-Madison. The secti...

• Assessing the Adequacy and Equity of Wisconsin’s System of School Finance

  Two indicators of school funding adequacy and taxpayer equity are developed. Research shows that added resources are needed to provide students from...

• Bad River Global Health/Tribal Youth Program

  This program is a field course in the Undergraduate Certificate in Global Health (UCGH). It connects UW-Madison with people in programs on the Bad Riv...

• Badger Volunteers™

  Badger Volunteers™ is a semester-long program that gives students the training and logistical support they need to provide meaningful and consistent s...

• Being present: A toolkit for parents, caregivers, and educators of young children

  In these days of increasing technology use and a fast-­paced news media cycle, with reports highlighting catastrophic natural disasters and acts of vi...

• Best. Friday. Ever. event series

  At Allen Centennial Garden we believe gardeners, through their gardens, can save the world. Best. Friday. Ever. embraces the Wisconsin Idea and celebr...

• Bilingual Healthy Choices Project

  The Bilingual Healthy Choices Project, or Elecciones Saludables, is a 12 week program for Milwaukee families to help them fight obesity with a "learni...

• Biocore Outreach Ambassador Program

  The Biocore Outreach Ambassador (BOA) Program was founded in 2004 by UW–Madison Biocore undergraduate students to promote an authentic, science-based...

• Biocore Prairie Bird Observatory for bird banding

  The Bird Observatory meets Saturday mornings in good weather to net and band birds. Its function is to collect data on bird communities in restored t...

• Biomedical engineering student invention expo showcases solutions

  UW-Madison biomedical engineering sophomores worked with Dr. Christopher Green to design a better and more compact adaptor for children who have under...

• Boosting School Performance of Children from Low-income Families

  Despite decades of interventions and billions of dollars spent, a large gap in school achievement stubbornly persists between children living in pover...

• Bringing Clean Water to Tabuga: Engineers Without Borders‐UW, Ecuador Project

  Engineers Without Borders (EWB) partners undergraduate engineers and professional mentors with communities throughout the world to develop sustainable...

• Bringing the Universe to Wisconsin

  Bringing the Universe to Wisconsin is a two-year (2012-2014) public program funded by the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment. The p...

• Bucky's Pell Pathway Program, Office of Student Financial Aid

  The Bucky's Pell Pathway program is designed to assist Badgers from low-income Wisconsin households pay for college through a combination of grants, s...

• 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...

• Building Capacity for Mosquito-borne Disease Surveillance in Santo Domingo, Ecuador

  This project will convey UW expertise and skills for trapping and identifying mosquito vectors that spread many important public health pathogens, inc...

• Business, Environment & Social Responsibility Program (BESR)

  The Business, Environment & Social Responsibility Program (BESR) is housed within the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madi...

• Camp Badger for Teachers

  Camp Badger for Teachers™ is a new professional development opportunity for Wisconsin middle school teachers, offered by the UW–Madison School of Educ...

• Capital Science & Engineering Fair

  The Capital Science & Engineering Fair is a science fair hosted by UW-Madison and intended for high school students around Wisconsin. With its first...

• Career Development Facilitator Program

  The Wisconsin Center for Education Research teaches the course that is required for the Global Career Development Facilitator Certification and the Ce...

• Career Development Facilitator Training

  Career Development Facilitator (CDF) training is a hybrid training class designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of individuals who work in any t...

• Careers Conference

  The annual Careers Conference, hosted by UW-Madison's Center on Education and Work, focuses on assisting practitioners, working at levels K-12 through...

• Careers Institutes

  The Careers Institutes are a series of trainings for career counselors, educators, and career specialists of all kinds, offered through the Center on...

• Catapult: Computational Thinking, Programming, Logic, and Technology for K-12 Students

  The goal of the UW CATAPULT project is to introduce elementary and middle-school children to Computational Thinking and Programming, Logic, and Techno...

• 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...

• Center of Rapid Evolution (CORE)

  The Center of Rapid Evolution (CORE) is an institute at UW-Madison that is dedicated to the study of rapid evolution. The study of rapid evolution is...

• Center on Education and Work

  Professor Mitchell Nathan in the Department of Educational Psychology directs the Center on Education and Work. With a 40-year history of research and...

• 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 Maltreatment Prevention Literature Review

  This was a social work class project completed in response to a request from the Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, who w...

• CIMSS Student Workshop on Atmospheric, Satellite, and Earth Sciences

  The CIMSS Student Workshop on Atmospheric, Satellite, and Earth Sciences features an exciting five-day agenda in meteorology, astronomy, remote sensin...

• Citizen Science

  Citizen Science is an online flash-based computer adventure game in which the player is a young adult who becomes concerned about the health of a loca...

• Climate Change Outreach

  The Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) is working to use research happening at UW-Madison to inform the public about the impacts o...

• Clinician Scientist Training Workshop (CSTW)

  The goals of this workshop are to enhance interest and applicable skills in applied research among veterinary residents, and to promote collaborations...

• Club Scrub

  Grant Regional and Local EMS initiated a Club Scrub program. Local middle school students interested in health careers participated in weekly events a...

• Collaboration with the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers (WAFLT)

  The Language Institute and the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers (WAFLT) provides Wisconsin language educators from all over the state with...

• Community Building Facebook page

  This site was created by the students in Kinesiology 325 "Creating Community and Managing Behavior". It reflects the learning that our students do in...

• Community Food Systems program

  Business ownership serves as an important vehicle for wealth creation, especially for members of economically disadvantaged communities. Research show...

• Community Service Programs - School of Medicine and Public Health

  The mission of UW-SMPH Office of Community Service Programs is to create, provide and support service and civic engagement opportunities for and by me...

• Compassion Project, Center For Investigating Healthy Minds

  Based on the findings of Dr. Richard Davidson (who has found a link between the practice of compassion and healthier brains) the Appleton Compassion P...

• Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning - Equity-Centered Leadership (CALL-ECL)

  The Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning - Equity Centered Leadership (CALL-ECL) project is designed to support equity-centered school...

• Computed Tomography Course

  This is a practical course for veterinarians with access to computed tomography (CT) to improve study quality and reading skills of neurologic, vascul...

• Continuing Education Courses for Engineers and Technical Professionals

  Continuing Education courses have helped engineers and other technical professionals in nearly every Wisconsin county keep up-to-date on the latest te...

• Continuing Legal Education and Outreach program; UW Law School

  The University of Wisconsin Law School defines its mission to include providing continuing education and public service on matters relating to law. Th...

• Cooperative Children's Book Center

  The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) supports teaching, learning and research related to children’s and young adult literature by providing i...

• Cooperative Masters of Science Degree Program

  The Cooperative Masters of Science Degree Program provides the opportunity for educators outside of the Madison area to obtain a UW-Madison Master of...

• Cost-Benefit Analyses for Local, State, and International Clients

  La Follette School of Public Affairs Professor David Weimer, a major national figure in public policy research, supervises teams of graduate students...

• Criminal Appeals Project

  This fall-spring project combines class work with an actual criminal appeal assigned by the State Public Defender's Office. Students in the Criminal A...

• Crops program

  In Wisconsin, 7 million acres of field crops, hay and haylage are harvested, at a value of $3.6 billion. Those farm operations are the foundation of W...

• 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...

• Curb Magazine

  Students in Journalism 417 produce a magazine each fall semester and circulate it throughout the state in print, and without boundaries online. Studen...

• Days in the Field

  Days in the Field is an experiential program coordinated by Letters & Science Career Services program that gives all UW-Madison students (regardless o...

• Delta Internship Program

  The Delta Internship Program provides graduate students and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance their training as teachers and expand...

• Department of Surgery Regional Services

  The Department of Surgery provides specialized clinical and surgical services to communities throughout the state and region through an expansive netw...

• Design of Positive Pressure Tube Systems for Improved Ventilation of Calf Barns

  Dr. Ken Nordlund will present on the deficits of common ventilation systems in calf barns, management of air quality and cold stress to minimize respi...

• Design of Positive Pressure Tube Systems for Milking Center Holding Area Heat Abatemen

  Drs. Ken Nordlund and Nigel Cook will present problems in holding area cooling and how positive pressure tube systems provide a lower energy effective...

• Developing a Dyslexia Toolkit for Interprofessional Care

  Members of faculty in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Neurology were awarded a 2022 Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Seed Grant for...

• 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...

• Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)

  The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE, 1985-2013, Harvard University Press) documents the language of the American people, recording the w...

• Direct Assistance to Dads (DAD) Project

  Funded by a 3-year, $400,000 Wisconsin Partnership Program "Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families" community-academic partnership grant, the DAD...

• Discovery Box

  Discovery Boxes are curated collections of cultural items paired with lesson plans and multimedia materials assembled by University of Wisconsin area-...

• Do You Play Fair? Addressing Bias in K-12 Educational Settings

  The overall goal of this project is to improve educational equity in K-12 schools. The specific objectives of this project are to: 1) Collaborate with...

• Doctors Ought to Care

  Doctors Ought to Care (DOC) is dedicated to working with young people to promote healthy lifestyles. UW-Madison medical students are trained to presen...

• Early Childhood Health Consultation

  The Early Childhood Health Consultation (ECHC) is a free program to support the implementation of best health & safety practices within early childhoo...

• Early Education Professional Development

  Those in the field of early education and care often struggle with supporting the professional development needs of the workforce. The UW Office of Ch...

• Early Mathematics Placement Tool

  The Early Mathematics Placement Tool is a shortened version of the UWS mathematics placement test. It is available on-line and mainly intended for hig...

• Earth Focus Day Camp (EFDC)

  Since 1991, Earth Focus Day Camp has created outstanding summer nature programs for children and youth in grades preschool through middle school. EFDC...

• Earth Partnership for Schools

  Earth Partnership for Schools (EPS) builds the capacity of pK-16 students, teachers, non-formal educators, natural resource personnel, and citizens to...

• East Asia in the Upper Midwest Teacher Program

  East Asia in the Upper Midwest is an annual program designed to provide professional development opportunities for social studies teachers across Wisc...

• East Asia in Wisconsin Library Program

  The East Asia in Wisconsin Program supports collection development and programming at public libraries that will enrich understanding of East Asia in...

• Ecareers.sg - Education and Career Guidance Website for Singapore

  In 2009, the Center on Education and Work (CEW) launched ecareers.sg, an education and career guidance website for Singapore students in grades 5-12....

• Eco-Fruit Program

  The Eco-Fruit Program, a collaboration between the UW–Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems and fruit growers around Wisconsin, worked to...

• EdiPHy

  The EdiPHy website is based on the idea that Physical Education (PE) is a terrific way in which students can develop as whole individuals. The site ho...

• EnCourage

  This smartphone application is designed to help users create supportive, authentic learning communities in any situation. Over 200 activities are i...

• Endangered Language Fund

  Professor Monica Macaulay, Ada Deer Professor of Language Sciences, serves on the Board of the Endangered Language Fund, a non-profit which supports e...

• Engage Children in Science - Service Learning Course

  This course is part of the Adult Role Models in Science (ARMS) program at WISCIENCE. ARMS works in partnership with schools and community organization...

• 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...

• Enterprise MBA Programs

  Enterprise MBA programs are the Evening and Executive MBA programs designed for working professionals. The majority of the students and alums of the p...

• Entrepreneurial Management Venture Analysis Program - Wisconsin School of Business

  MBA students in teams of three to four students work with a local or regional small business or non-profit (less than 50 employees) in Dane County to...

• Epistemic Games

  Professor of Learning Science David Williamson Shaffer directs this project that studies, designs, and builds virtual internships and assessment tools...

• Equine Reproductive Management of Mares and Stallions

  For stallions, this project provides training in breeding, soundness exams, the collection of semen and its evaluation, and methods for preservation...

• Ethiopia Global Health Twinning Partnerships

  Since 2007, the UW has partnered with Addis Ababa University for the shared purpose of improving health systems, medical education, and community heal...

• Evaluation of Instructional Improvement - Literacy Focus: Substantive and Technical Component

  Prof. Camburn helped the Milwaukee public school district develop a survey that measures how well teachers' practice reflects district standards. The...

• Examining African American/Black Parents’ Experiences and Family-School Relationships in a Suburban District

  This study examines the family-school relationships and educational engagement of black parents residing in a Wisconsin suburb that has experienced a...

• Exploration by Design

  Exploration by Design is a series of summer camps held at UW-Madison through the School of Engineering and the Midwest Alliance group. The camps are...

• Exploring interfaces between science and the humanities

  Carrie Roy, post-doctorate coordinator of Humanities Research Bridge, was one of the dozen winners of the Emerging Interface Awards from the Wisconsin...

• 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...

• Faculty Ensemble Outreach

  The three faculty ensembles from the Mead Witter School of Music, the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, Wingra Wind Quintet, and Pro Arte Quartet offer student...

• Families and Schools Together (FAST)

  Families and Schools Together, Inc. (FAST) is a multifamily group intervention designed to build protective factors for children and empower parents t...

• Family Business Center (FBC)

  The Family Business Center (FBC) helps family business owners, their families and employees maintain profitable businesses and successfully transfer c...

• Family Communication and Stress Workshops

  As part of an annual Community Health Fair in Madison, Professor Carmen Valdez gives workshops in the area of family communication and stress. The aud...

• Farm Management program

  Agriculture is central to a prosperous Wisconsin, contributing more than $100 billion annually to our state’s economy and nearly 12% of our state’s em...

• FASD Education and Outreach Projects

  Providing training, technical assistance and clinical outreach for the prevention, identification, and treatment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (...

• Fibers of Our Future

  4-H Educator Rachel Hart-Brinson, Associate Professor of Design Marianne Fairbanks, and Outreach Specialist Tom Zinnen collaborated to develop educati...

• Financial Management for Entrepreneurs from the SBDC

  Introduction to Financial Management sets entrepreneurs on the right path by providing a “101” overview of bookkeeping, accounting terminology and con...

• First Enologist at UW-Madison

  There are currently 110 wineries and commercial cider makers in Wisconsin, and that number will only continue to grow. This is why Nick Smith was hire...

• First Steps to Starting a Business

  In this no-cost, self-paced online course, aspiring entrepreneurs have the opportunity to explore their Entrepreneurial Mindset, Business Idea, Financ...

• First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community

  The First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community is a cutting-edge multicultural artistic program for incoming students at the University...

• Flambeau River Community Growing Center

  The Flambeau River Community Growing Center is located in the Northern Wisconsin city of Park Falls. It is a collaborative community project headed by...

• Focus on Energy: Driving Energy Efficiency in Small Restaurants and Bars

  Focus on Energy is Wisconsin utilities’ statewide energy efficiency and renewable resource program. The team took on the challenge of how Focus could...

• Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series

  In collaboration with the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Center for the Humanities presents the work of outstanding members of the UW-M...

• Foreign Language Program at Leopold Elementary School

  UW Professor Francois Tochon through the UW French Education department is offering free French language classes Mondays and Wednesdays at Aldo Leopol...

• Forgiveness Education in Milwaukee's Central City

  Since 2003 Robert Enright and his colleagues have been providing forgiveness education programs for charter schools in Milwaukee's central city. Resea...

• Game-based Learning Approaches

  Curriculum and Instruction Associate Prof. Kurt Squire has worked with approximately 25 teachers based between Madison and Milwaukee in co-designing a...

• German School of Madison

  The German School of Madison is a nonprofit organization that offers weekly German language classes and social activities for children aged 3-18 with...

• Girls Math Night Out!

  Girls Math Night Out! is an outreach program through the UW Department of Mathematics. The program involves high school females interested in pursuing...

• Giving Life to LiFE: Lifestyle and Functional Exercise Program to Reduce Falls in Wisconsin Communities

  The Lifestyle and Functional Exercise program (LiFE) is an innovative, six month, in-home fall prevention program that integrates exercises into daily...

• Global Communicable Diseases in Humans: Detection, Monitoring and Control

  Global Communicable Diseases in Humans: Detection, Monitoring and Control is a field course that examines practices used by local Wisconsin laboratori...

• GlovesOn Surgeon Training

  The best way for practicing surgeons to better their skills is through hands-on education, which is why the UW-Madison Department of Surgery began the...

• GLS Center Playsquads

  Through games, the Games Learning Society Center makes scientific discovery visible to the public by creating digital games for learning science. Whil...

• 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...

• Grandparents University

  Grandparents University® (GPU) is an award-winning program hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Association every July on the University of Wisconsin-Madiso...

• Grants Information Collection

  The Grants Information Collection (GIC), located in Memorial Library at the UW-Madison, provides a wide array of information, in both print and electr...

• Great World Texts

  Great World Texts is a program of the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities. It creates a relationship between scholars at the university and high scho...

• Great World Texts in Wisconsin

  Great World Texts in Wisconsin connects scholars at UW-Madison with thousands of high school students and teachers in dozens of school districts throu...

• Highlights of Taking Care of You

  Extension’s “Taking Care of You” program leads to better sleep and overall health, reduced muscle tension, improved relationships and greater physical...

• Hip-hop workshop focuses on teaching tools

  The UW-Madison Office of Multicultural Initiatives has teamed up with Urban Word NYC to offer a weeklong program for teachers, educators, community le...

• Horticulture program

  Vegetable gardening is important to many Wisconsin households with more than 440,000 households (19%) purchasing vegetable plants over a one-year peri...

• Humanities NOW

  The goal of the Humanities Now series is to bring thoughtful, in-depth, and interdisciplinary examination of current topics through the expertise of U...

• Humanities Without Boundaries Lecture Series

  The Center for the Humanities' flagship public lecture series brings world-renowned scholars to Madison whose work represents the best of the humaniti...

• Hunter's Network of Wisconsin

  Hunting is an important part of Wisconsin’s history and culture and plays a crucial role in wildlife management. It has a $1.4 billion impact on the s...

• IceCube Neutrino Observatory Construction

  The tools and materials for the construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, Antarctica, were primarily designed and assembled...

• Impact Consulting for Arts-Based Organizations and Communities

  Graduate students in the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, housed in the Wisconsin School of Business, serve statewide communities and their creati...

• 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...

• Improving Public Understanding of Educational Policy and Practice

  UW-Madison Professor Michael Apple is a regular commentator statewide on issues involving education. Professor Apple also works with numerous schools...

• Inclusive Tai Chi: Promoting Leaders of Color to Adapt Tai Chi for Latinx & African American Elders

  Wisconsin is a leader in falls (one in 4 adults) and number one in deaths from falls (157 per 100,000) in older adults. Milwaukee’s largest ethnic gro...

• 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...

• Innovating through materials with the UW-MRSEC

  The Interdisciplinary Education Group of the UW Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (UW-MRSEC) teaches the greater Wisconsin community a...

• Innovation and Wellness Commons - Lindsay Heights

  The Commons is the next step in Walnut Way’s efforts to revitalize the Lindsay Heights neighborhood in Milwaukee's Central City. This collaborative co...

• Institute on Aging Annual Colloquium

  The Institute on Aging Annual Colloquium is held each fall in Madison, Wisconsin. It includes talks given by UW–Madison faculty and nationally known k...

• Inter-Cultural Dialogues course at the Sociology Department

  Inter-Cultural Dialogues (ICD) is a unique, student-run and peer-facilitated diversity education program promoting civic engagement among the undergra...

• International Politics and Practice Capstone Certificate (IPPCC)

  The Department of Political Science designed the IPPCC to educate online learners who lead and serve professionally in the international arena. The pr...

• ITA Tribal Technology Institute (TTI)

  In alignment with the UW-Madison's "Inclusive Excellence" diversity initiative, the Tribal Technology Institute, a program under the direction of the...

• J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution (formerly Evolution Initiative)

  The Crow Institute was launched in 2010 in honor of the world-renowned UW-Madison geneticist, James Crow. The Institute provides training opportunitie...

• Jail Library Project and Kids' Connection

  Since 1992, UW-Madison faculty, staff and students at the School of Library and Information Studies have provided educational and recreational reading...

• James Graaskamp Landmark Research Collection

  The James Graaskamp Landmark Research Collection provides a sampling of the extraordinary work of this truly remarkable man and is used to train real...

• Just in Time Parenting In Brief: Shortening newsletters to infographics for parents

  This project transforms multi-page, age-paced parenting newsletters into a single-page infographic series for parents in the “4th trimester” (the firs...

• K-12 Leadership Certification Programs

  The Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) in the School of Education offers courses leading to professional certification in...

• Kemp Natural Resources Station

  UW-Madison's Kemp Natural Resources Station is an off-campus research, teaching and outreach facility dedicated to environmental stewardship and the s...

• Kids Klub

  Professor Crim is the coordinator of the Kids Klub at Madison's Leopold Elementary School, which mentors third, fourth and fifth grade African-Americ...

• 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...

• L.R. Ingersoll Physics Museum

  The L.R. Ingersoll Museum is a free, public, hands-on physics museum located on the UW-Madison campus. Museum exhibits primarily focus on demonstrati...

• Lands' End: Textile End of Life Recycling Program

  Lands' End, the global, Wisconsin based retailer, is looking to minimize their impact on the environment by continuing their journey towards sustainab...

• Leaders in Engineering Excellence and Diversity Program (LEED)

  The Leaders in Engineering Excellence and Diversity Program (LEED) is a scholarship program for academically talented women and students from groups h...

• Leadership Wisconsin

  Leadership Wisconsin is Wisconsin’s premier leadership development program with a national reputation for producing highly effective leaders. The goal...

• Learning English and Living Biculturally

  This project provides English lessons while collecting information about living biculturally and adapting to living in the United States. An innovativ...

• LifeSpan program

  Social isolation and loneliness are critical concerns for both physical and mental health. The experience of isolation and loneliness results in a cas...

• Lifestyle Initiative for Fitness Empowerment Foundation Cross Plains Community Project

  The Lifestyle Initiative for Fitness Empowerment (LIFE) Foundation Cross Plains Community Project members unite in purpose with the Village of Cross P...

• Literacy by the Lakes

  "Literacy by the Lakes" is an initiative that supports PK-12 school-based teams of educators from Wisconsin in developing and sustaining the literate...

• Literacy in Assessment and Data Designed for Effective Results for English Language Learners (LADDER)

  The Wisconsin Center for Education Research's (WCER) WIDA project has developed the Literacy in Assessment and Data Designed for Effective Results (LA...

• Literacy Link

  Extension programs promote positive, literacy-based interactions between young children and their justice-involved parents and caregivers. Parental in...

• Livestock program

  Through Extension's Livestock program, beef producers better understand issues related to market strategies and maintaining building structures, allow...

• Local Government Education program

  There are 1,923 Wisconsin local governments, and close to 10,000 elected governing body members in Wisconsin. To govern effectively, Wisconsin's loca...

• Machine Shop Practice Training Videos

  The College of Engineering TEAM Lab has created short instructional videos on proper machine shop practice for use by other schools and individuals. T...

• MACROSIMs (Massively Adaptive Complex Realistic Online Simulation with Interactive Mentoring)

  This fall, the College of Engineering will launch a first of its kind MACROSIM. After three years of pilot testing at leading engineering schools, the...

• Madison Neighborhood Indicators

  The Madison Neighborhood Indicators project seeks to quantify the diverse and changing social conditions in Madison neighborhoods. The project staff h...

• Madison-Area Consensus Conference on Nanotechnology

  With Maria Powell and students in an undergraduate Integrated Liberal Studies course, UW-Madison Professor Daniel Kleinman organized a three-day citiz...

• Madison: A Model City

  This Web site offers a primary source document about Madison's history. John Nolen's 1911 report to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association i...

• Managing Nutrients on Wisconsin Soils

  Managing Nutrients on Wisconsin Soils is an intensive 2-day workshop covering the basic principles of soil fertility and nutrient use and management....

• Manduca: Using Insects in the Classroom

  Manduca: Using Insects in the Classroom is an online resource for teachers wishing to lead an inquiry-based unit on the life cycle of the Manduca sext...

• Manufacturing Technologist and Technician Education (METTE) Project

  The METTE (Manufacturing Engineering Technologist and Technician Education) project is an initiative by the National Science Foundation. METTE was a f...

• Master of Engineering Management (MEM)

  This program enables engineers living anywhere in Wisconsin - or beyond - to earn a highly prestigious engineering master's degree from UW-Madison. Th...

• Menominee Dictionary Project

  UW-Madison Professor Monica Macaulay works with the Menominee Language and Culture Commission of the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin on language revitali...

• Menominee language translation and revitalization

  Monica Macaulay, Ada Deer Professor of Language Sciences, has worked with the Menominee Tribe of WI since 1998. She has analyzed and retranslated a bo...

• Mentoring young women in Mathematics

  Every year we mentor high school female students in the Madison area who have an interest in Mathematics and the Sciences. Students come to campus for...

• Mentorship Achievement Program

  Mentorship Achievement Program (MAP) is a mentoring program connecting UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and UW School of Pharmacy stude...

• 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...

• MicroExplorers

  MicroExplorers, developed through the department of Biochemistry at UW-Madison, is an after-school program intended to open up the microscopic univers...

• Microfinance Program Development for SWCAP

  The Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program (SWCAP) is a local, nongovernmental, nonprofit (501(c)(3)), antipoverty organization serving five...

• Midwest Rural Energy Council (MREC)

  The Midwest Rural Energy Council (MREC) is a 50+ year cooperative educational effort between electric utilities and land grant universities in the upp...

• Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN)

  MSAN, the Minority Student Achievement Network, is a national coalition of 28 multiracial, urban-suburban school districts that have come together to...

• MMSD Math Task Force

  Dr. Mitchell Nathan served as an author and contributor to the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) Math Task Force, reviewing curriculum, teac...

• Mobile Fish Identification

  A mobile fish identification app, developed by UW-Madison's Sea Grant Institute, not only allows fishers to find out what kind of fish they caught, bu...

• Movement Fundamentals: A Physical Education Program for Home Schooled Students

  Students taking part in PE FUNdamentals will benefit from development in all three domains of learning. While many typical PE programs focus heavily...

• Music Engagement and Outreach Program

  A component of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Music, the Music Engagement and Outreach Program works to share the expertise of its thre...

• Native American Center for Health Professions (NACHP)

  The Native American Center for Health Profession's vision is to improve the health and wellness of American Indian people. The mission is to enhance t...

• 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...

• Nature Talks for Children

  UW Honorary Fellow and recent graduate student Brian Walsh leads scientific presentations and demonstrations to children in summer camps and public sc...

• 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...

• Nutrient and Pest Management Program (NPM)

  The University of Wisconsin Nutrient and Pest Management (NPM) Program connects farmers and researchers on key issues of profitability, practicality,...

• Nutrition, Environment, and Food Systems for Empowerment (NEFSE)-Ethiopia

  The Nutrition, Environment, and Food Systems for Empowerment (NEFSE)-Ethiopia program is a capacity-building program that aims to nurture sustainable...

• Oakhill Prison Humanities Project

  OPHP is a collective of volunteers who provide educational programming to individuals incarcerated at Oakhill Correctional Institution, a minimum-secu...

• 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...

• Odyssey Project

  The UW Odyssey Project provides a free six-credit English literature course to adults near the poverty level, giving them a chance to find their voice...

• Odyssey Project Evening Child Care

  The Odyssey Project provides adult education to low income adult students who experience significant family challenges. The UW Office of Child Care an...

• Oneida Language Preservation Project

  The Oneida Nation has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to help preserve its endangered language. The UW-Madison Digital Collectio...

• Open Educational Resources support program

  The libraries have hired an Open Educational Resources Coordinator who will lead a campus effort to encourage and support adoption and creation of ope...

• ORCHARDS - ORegon CHild Absenteeism due to Respiratory Disease Study

  The primary goal of this project is to create and evaluate an influenza surveillance system using cause-specific school absenteeism rates. The system...

• Organizational & Leadership Development program

  Through Extension’s work, nonprofits are more effective at responding to local needs, providing services and programs, and addressing issues ranging f...

• Orthopedics Workshop for Veterinary Technicians

  Participants will explore veterinary orthopedic conditions ranging from ligament and tendon damage to severely comminuted fractures. Participants will...

• Osher Returning Adult Undergraduate Scholarship

  The Osher Reentry Scholarship Program is supported by the Bernard Osher Foundation, which seeks to recognize the challenges for working adults to retu...

• Paper on the Law of Intellectual Property Exhaustion

  Extending the Wisconsin idea of engaged scholarship globally, this project entailed preparing a comprehensive study of the rights to resell and reuse...

• Part-time MSW program with UW-Eau Claire

  The UW-Madison School of Social Work has a national reputation for excellence among schools of social work, and of course, the university itself is kn...

• 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...

• Pathways for Underrepresented Youth to Pursue Occupational Therapy: Diverse-OT Outreach Across WI

  As a student organization, Diverse-OT strives to create pathways for underrepresented students to pursue a career in occupational therapy (OT). In wor...

• Personalized Learning in Action

  Schools in Wisconsin are national leaders in using learning technologies to personalize the student experience in and out of the classroom. The Person...

• Physics Department Colloquia

  The UW-Madison Physics Department sponsors a weekly colloquium featuring invited speakers addressing topical issues connected to physics such as Quant...

• Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic (PDDC) provides assistance in identifying plant diseases and provides e...

• Plastics Research Enhanced by University Resources

  With the help of Tim Osswald, UW-Madison plastics engineering Professor, Teel Plastics has been able to have a competitive edge over other companies b...

• PLATO: Participatory Learning and Teaching Organization

  PLATO is a learning-in-retirement group that keeps Wisconsin seniors active, involved and constantly learning. Members both teach and learn from each...

• Political Science Department - Prof. Emeritus David Canon

  UW-Madison Political Science Professor David Canon regularly meets with community groups, student groups, alumni groups, churches, and schools to talk...

• Posse Program

  In 2002, UW-Madison was the first public research institution to launch the Posse program. Each year 40 high school students are carefully selected fr...

• Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE)™

  PEOPLE unites urban public schools, Native American tribal governments/schools and the state's flagship university toward a common goal: college matri...

• 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)...

• Prison Writing Project

  I teach three classes (fiction and poetry writing workshops) per year (fall, spring, summer) at Oakhill Correctional Institution in Oregon, Wisconsin....

• ProActive Jackson County

  Beginning in 2006, Jackson County community leaders came together to form the proACTIVE Wellness initiative, which spawned seven different wellness pr...

• Project CRYSTAL

  Project CRYSTAL provides a hands-on laboratory experience for middle school students in an active, state of the art research laboratory. Through teach...

• Project Teach Sustainability: IMMS

  As a business class focused on sustainability, students from our class worked in teams to develop a lesson plan and teach various topics of sustainabi...

• Project Teach Sustainability: Spring Harbor

  As a business class focused on sustainability, students from our class worked in teams to develop a lesson plan and teach various topics of sustainabi...

• Public Archaeology: Unearthing Wisconsin's First Town in Trempealeau, WI/ The Trempealeau Interpretive Path (TRIP)

  The Trempealeau Interpretive Path (TRIP) is a series of three inter-­connected exhibit venues that explores the unique archaeology of the Trempealeau...

• Public Child Welfare Training Project

  MSW students participate in a public child welfare training program which includes a specialized curriculum and a field placement in public child welf...

• Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin

  Wisconsin Public Documents (WPD) consists of the annual and biennial reports of all key Wisconsin state agencies from 1852 through 1914, and WPD is on...

• Public Humanities Exchange

  In 2005, the Center for the Humanities began supporting a select number of graduate student projects, convened outside the boundaries of academia. Eac...

• Public Humanities Fellowship

  The Center for the Humanities’ Public Humanities Fellowship Program provides humanities graduate students with enriching experiences outside of academ...

• Public Library Director Certification Courses

  Continuing Education Services at the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies provides online certification courses for Wisconsin's librar...

• Public Relations for Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens

  Students enrolled in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s Public Relations Strategies course partnered with the Madison Area Food Pantry...

• Putting You to Work: Employment Writing Workshops Across Madison

  To help address the problems of unemployment and underemployment in our community, the Madison Writing Assistance (MWA) program offered a two-year ser...

• Reach Out and Read in MEDiC Free Clinics

  Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national program that supports children’s language and literacy development, which is essential for young children to be...

• Reach Out and Read Wisconsin

  Started after a local demonstration program which was funded by the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, Reach Out and Read Wisconsin is the state-wide e...

• Recollection Wisconsin

  The mission of Recollection Wisconsin is to create opportunities for people to discover personal connections to the past. Our program offers free acce...

• Reducing Alcohol Abuse among LGBTQ Youth in Wisconsin

  This project will replicate a culturally-competent alcohol harm reduction and prevention model tailored for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and qu...

• Reducing Dementia Stigma in Watertown

  By the year 2035, it is projected that 200,000 people in Wisconsin will be living with dementia. With two-thirds of these people living within communi...

• RentSmart

  The RentSmart Program helps residents attain and sustain affordable quality housing, which in turn reduces burdens on county and municipal public bene...

• Research Accelerators program

  Through Research Accelerators, Extension delivers engaging and enriching environmental education programming that promotes science communication skill...

• Research into Practice: Helping Wisconsin Clinicians to Help Their Patients Quit Smoking

  The University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention Outreach Program provides on-site training and technical assistance to clinic...

• Research on Education, Deliberation, and Decision-making

  Americans have long recognized that education plays an important role in society as a means of achieving personal growth, economic success, and even d...

• Restraining Order and Survivor Advocacy Clinic

  The Restraining Order and Survivor Advocacy (ROSA) Clinic provides direct legal services to victims/survivors of intimate-partner violence and/or crim...

• 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...

• Rivers2Lake Education Program

  Extension’s Rivers2Lake program helps teachers offer inquiry-based learning to more students. Lake Superior contains 10% of Earth's freshwater and is...

• Rock and Fossil Identifications

  It often begins with an email or phone call with, "I found this strange rock...". The UW Geology Museum and its staff serve as resources for Wisconsin...

• Rural and Urban Scholars in Community Health (RUSCH)

  RUSCH is a pipeline program designed to promote careers in rural and urban underserved health care in Wisconsin communities. Premedical students at UW...

• Rural Nursing Shortage

  A three-week Rural Community Health Immersion Clinical program is helping nursing students gain a new perspective on health care that can only be foun...

• Satellite Meteorology for Grades 7-12

  Meteorology is an excellent topic to introduce middle and high school students to geoscience, physics, chemistry and applied mathematics. Developed b...

• Science of Fireworks presentation

  Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea and professor of chemistry, leads this annual presentation befo...

• Science on a Sphere

  In 2007, the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) received a Baldwin grant to purchase a 3D globe that would create a intriguing view into its...

• Science Saturdays at UW Space Place

  The UW Space Place offers science workshops every Saturday during the public school year (roughly September through June) for children ages 6-10 and t...

• Sesame Street Incarceration Materials

  About 1 in 14 children has experienced the incarceration of a co-resident parent. The incarceration of a loved one can be overwhelming for both childr...

• SHAPE

  Started in 1997, Students Helping in the Advancement of Public Education (SHAPE) is a tutoring program that connects UW-Madison students with elementa...

• Sharing in the Discovery (featuring the UW-Madison Stem Cell Learning Lab)

  Sharing in the Discovery invites citizens of Wisconsin to take a stake in health sciences research by providing experiences in communities and on camp...

• Slow Food UW Educational Outreach and Social Justice Initiative

  The purpose of the Slow Food Educational Outreach and Social Justice Initiative is to create a lasting connection between UW students, the South Madis...

• Special Symposium on Applied Evolution

  The Center of Rapid Evolution (CORE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison sponsored a special event in Fall 2010, The Special Symposium on Applied E...

• State of Wisconsin Collection

  The State of Wisconsin Collection brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary materials: writings about the state of Wis...

• STEM Camps for Autistic Youth

  The Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research hosts two STEM camps for autistic and high school students. One is The Sky's The Limit STEM Camp in...

• Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center — Regenerative Medicine Speakers

  The Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center sends speakers by request to a variety of venues.

• StrongBodies

  Extension’s StrongBodies program helps communities implement safe and effective strength training programs for midlife and older adults. Approximately...

• Student Hometown Projects - Green Bay

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Student Hometown Projects - Hudson

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Student Hometown Projects - Kenosha

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Student Orientation Advising and Registration Parent/Guest Program (SOAR)

  Every summer 8,000+ family members of entering UW-Madison new students come to Madison to spend one to two days on campus learning about the education...

• Summer Science Camp

  Summer Science Camp, held through the Morgridge Institute for Research, was created in 2007 to offer opportunities for students from rural Wisconsin s...

• Summer Science Institute

  Sponsored by WISCIENCE, the Summer Science Institute (SSI) offers a seven week residential program to high-potential minority and underserved high sch...

• Summer Workshop on Atmospheric, Earth and Space Sciences

  The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) high school summer workshop features a five-day agenda in meteorology, astronom...

• Supporting Fathers and Families - Sharing Lessons Learned from Wisconsin Dads

  A statewide needs assessment of Wisconsin-based fathers that provided information about: 1) the specific needs of fathers across the state of Wisconsi...

• Supporting Smart Spaces

  Supporting Smart Spaces, a collaboration between the Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research...

• Surgery Clinical Research Experiences for High School Students

  The UW Department of Surgery is one of nine recipients of grant support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to support clinical research experie...

• Surveys of the Enacted Curriculum

  The Surveys of the Enacted Curriculum (SEC) Online site encourages teacher reflection and peer conversation around classroom practice and instructiona...

• Sustainability and All that Jazz

  A group of Madison entrepreneurs is considering a concept for a new bar/restaurant which would brew local beer, serve tapas, and offer live jazz. The...

• Syntax Untangler

  "Teach your students how to figure out tricky texts in any language." UW-Madison released Syntax Untangler for public use in August 2011. This is an o...

• Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium

  Professor Paul Zedler's project is one of a nation-wide set of fire science consortia that are funded by the Federal Joint Fire Science Program. The p...

• Teacher Training Workshop: The Hmong in Contemporary and Historical Perspective (Appleton/Madison)

  In June 2013, UW-Madison's Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Center for East Asian Studies collaborated with the Appleton, Oshkosh, and Madison H...

• TED-Ed: What are Stem Cells?

  This collaborative effort in stem cell education for teachers throughout the state — in fact, for the nation and world — was published on Sept. 10, 20...

• The BASES (Building Academic, Social, and Emotional Supports) Project: Enhancing School-Based Supports for Young Homeless Children

  Through collaboration with the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), Dane County Parent Council (DCPC) and UW-Madison, the overall goals of the...

• The CARE U Train-the-Trainer Program: Expanding Educational Opportunities for Direct Care Staff

  In recognition of the vital role of direct care workers in older adults' quality of life, the School of Nursing’s Center for Aging Research and Educat...

• 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 Interplay of Working Families’ Employment Conditions and School Engagement

  This research study (with Prof. Anna Haley-Lock, Social Work) examines the interplay between parent and caregiver employment, school climate, and fami...

• The Literature Collection

  The Literature Collection is a multilayered grouping of works in literature and the humanities. From medieval to modern, scholarly to satirical, ther...

• The Midwest Alliance

  The Midwest Alliance offers high quality, supportive programs designed to guide students with disabilities in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin more effici...

• 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 Riding in the Moment Project: Preparing Community Partners to Enhance Dementia Quality of Life

  Riding in the Moment (RM) is a community-based program delivered at therapeutic horseback riding centers to enhance the quality of life of adults livi...

• The SRC Education and Outreach Group

  The Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC) Education and Outreach Group was established through the combined efforts of the National Science Foundation, t...

• The Use of Sensorized Breast Models for Clinical Skills Assessment

  Almost every time a doctor sees a patient, they touch them. But how is this sense of touch taught and ultimately assessed? What are doctors feeling fo...

• The Weather Guys monthly call-in radio show on climate and weather (Larry Meiller's show)

  Steve Ackerman and Jon Martin are regular monthly guests on Larry's show since 1998; taking listener's questions about climate and weather. In 2008, w...

• The Weston Roundtable Series

  The Weston Roundtable Series is a weekly lecture and discussion series geared toward public engagement with sustainability issues. Building on the su...

• The Wonders of Physics Annual Shows

  Since 1984, Professor Clint Sprott has presented The Wonders of Physics to audiences of all ages. The show has been presented on the UW-Madison campus...

• Theatre for Young Audiences at Taliesin

  This project offers a quality multicultural theatre program to underprivileged rural schools. The program is an extension of the annual Theatre for Yo...

• Tours at the UW-Madison Geology Museum

  The Geology Museum is a popular tour destination on the UW-Madison campus. From kindergarten classes through adult civic groups, tours are tailored t...

• Traditional High School Program

  Each semester, including summer sessions, students with junior or senior standing and strong high school academic records may enroll in UW-Madison cou...

• Trails Forward

  The Games Learning Center is currently developing a game titled "Trails Forward" which is an ecological, multiplayer strategy game currently in develo...

• Training for Nutrient Management Planners

  The Training for Nutrient Management Planners consists of two workshops designed for current and potential nutrient management plan writers in Wiscons...

• Transfer Advisors Update Meeting

  Held annually since 2000, this popular and informative one-day conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison welcomes new and veteran advisors fro...

• Transition Cow Facility Design

  This workshop will help you learn how to ask your lender for money to build a barn and not add any additional milking cows. Using the Dairyland Initia...

• Tribal Youth Science Media Camp

  The Tribal Youth Science Media Camp provides instruction to Native American middle and high school children in new media, including digital video, pod...

• Tuesday Evening Programs at UW Space Place

  Public presentations on astronomy and other science topics are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, at 7 p.m., at the UW Space Place, generally by U...

• Uncovering Ancient Life at Aztalan: New Explorations at One of Wisconsin’s Most Important Prehistoric Native American Communities

  Aztalan State Park, outside of Lake Mills, WI, was inhabited by two distinct groups of Native Americans nearly a millennium ago. Over three years, we...

• Uncovering the Mystery Behind the Trempealeau Mounds

  With the help of 11 UW-Madison students and six local volunteers, Danielle Benden, senior curator in the UW-Madison Department of Anthropology, is wor...

• UniverCity Year

  UniverCity Year is a three-year partnership between UW–Madison and Wisconsin communities. In year one, the community partner identifies projects that...

• UniverCity Year - Adams County

  Project Description: Adams County and UniverCity Year partnered from 2019-22. This partnership focused on economic development of the county, includin...

• UniverCity Year - Pepin County

  UniverCity Year partnered with Pepin County during 2018-21. This partnership focused on improving resident health and quality of life, protecting natu...

• UniverCity Year - Racine County

  Racine County is partnering with UCA from 2020-23 to work on youth justice. With the impending closure of Lincoln Hills, the State of Wisconsin has al...

• UniverCity Year - Stoughton

  Stoughton and UniverCity Year are partnering from 2021 through 2024 to establish Innovation Center Stoughton (ICS). ICS builds on the success of Fab L...

• UniverCity Year - Waunakee

  The Village of Waunakee partnered with UniverCity Alliance’s hallmark UniverCity Year program in pursuit of a more just, equitable and inclusive commu...

• 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...

• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center

  The UW Digital Collections Center (UWDCC) collaborates with UW System faculty, staff and librarians to create and provide access to digital resources...

• Upward Bound at UW–River Falls

  Faculty and staff at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) help organize and implement math and science content in the Upward Bou...

• UW Geology Museum Tour Program

  The Geology Museum is a popular tour destination on the UW-Madison campus. From kindergarten classes through adult civic groups, the tours are tailore...

• UW Press

  The UW Press publishes books (including ebooks) for Wisconsin and internationally. Visit https://uwpress.wisc.edu/WIRegional.html for a small sampling...

• UW Sea Grant - Resources for Educators

  The goal of Wisconsin Sea Grant’s education efforts is to increase Great Lakes literacy across a broad spectrum of people—from preschoolers to the pub...

• 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 System eCampus

  The UW System eCampus is a website that provides greater access to online education. The website was designed as a gateway to more than 70 online degr...

• UW System Women's Studies Consortium

  The Women's Studies Consortium was established as a part of the UW System in 1989 and expanded its programs and collaborations in 2013. WSC is a colla...

• UW-CREATe

  UW-CREATe is an Engineering Research and Design Center located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that works to engage in engineering research, en...

• UW-Madison Biotechnology Center (UWBC)

  The University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center (UWBC) is Wisconsin's catalyst to advance biotechnology research, education and industry for the bene...

• UW-Madison Division of Diversity Equity and Educational Achievement and the L&S Center for Academic Excellence

  Researcher Steve Kosciuk works with both DDEEA and CAE programs as an analyst to discover, design and develop strategies that promote the academic ach...

• UW-Madison scientists played role in potato genome project

  Twenty UW-Madison researchers, including plant geneticist Jiming Jiang, collaborated with an international consortium to successfully sequence and ana...

• UW–Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve

  The UW–Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve is a 300-acre living laboratory and outdoor classroom for the teaching and research needs of the university a...

• 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...

• Vegetable Research Analyzes Best Growing Practices

  The Hancock Agricultural Research Station has allowed UW-Madison researchers to explore the vegetable industry in order to sustainably increase produc...

• Vernon County Farm to School

  The Vernon County Farm to School Initiative works to improve southwest Wisconsin's health and environment by educating local students on healthy eatin...

• 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...

• Video game research and autism, motor and brain development lab

  Brittany Travers, an assistant professor for the occupational therapy program in the department of kinesiology, studies the motor skills of individual...

• Virtual Microbiology Manual

  This online microbiology laboratory manual was developed by a team of UW-Madison professors, headed by Timothy Paustian. The Virtual Microbiology Text...

• Virtual Museum of Minerals & Molecules

  Virtual Museum of Minerals & Molecules v. 3 is an online "virtual museum" of minerals and molecules in the environment brought together by UW-Madison....

• Waisman Early Childhood Program

  The Waisman Early Childhood Program (WECP) is a UW-Madison laboratory school that serves as a model for meeting the needs of a developmentally diverse...

• Washburn Observatory Public Nights

  The UW–Madison Astronomy Department offers free public viewings at the Washburn Observatory located on the Madison campus. The Open House sessions con...

• Water Resources Management Program

  The UW-Madison's Water Resources Management (WRM) Program provides an opportunity for students to approach water resources issues from an interdiscipl...

• Water Sustainability and Climate Project

  The Water Sustainability and Climate project is examining how changes in climate, land use, and human demand could impact water quality, food producti...

• Water WELLness

  Extension’s Water WELLness program provides private well owners with access to water testing kits, that are subsequently analyzed in a certified lab....

• 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...

• Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship (WAVE)

  The Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship (WAVE) course provides graduate students with a applied practicum in starting and growing entrepreneu...

• Wheelhouse Studios - Wisconsin Union

  Wheelhouse Studios provides hands-on, multi-layered engagement opportunities in the arts. Formerly Wisconsin Union Mini Courses and the the Wisconsin...

• 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,...

• Wiigwaasi-Jiimaan: These Canoes Carry Culture

  Wayne Valliere was the Windgate artist in residence from September to November 2013. He built a birchbark canoe in the woodshop in the Art Department,...

• WisBlawg

  In the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, the UW-Madison Law Library blog, called WisBlawg, serves as a vehicle to share the expertise of the law library s...

• WISCareers Web Site

  The Center on Education and Work (CEW) develops and maintains the WISCareers Website, a comprehensive online portal for career exploration, career pla...

• 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 4H Astronomy Project

  Two telescope making classes, four to five public lectures on general Astronomy, five to six viewing sessions ("Star Parties") per year, and a twice w...

• Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Roadmap Marketing

  The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, is an independent, nonprofit organization since 1870 with the tagline, “We connect Wisconsin peop...

• Wisconsin Act 31 educational site

  Aaron Bird Bear and Simone Schweber received a grant from UW’s Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment to support the teaching about Wis...

• Wisconsin ADRC Community Lecture

  This free annual conference brings the latest findings in Alzheimer’s research to medical professionals and our community. The presentation features t...

• Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Consortium

  The Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Consortium aims to increase public understanding of Astrobiology and the role of biosignature research in this dis...

• Wisconsin Blue Books: Online Access

  More than 150 years of Wisconsin Blue Books are now available online in the UW Digital Collections. The digitization project provides worldwide open...

• Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth (WCATY)

  The Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth (WCATY) provides access to affordable programs and opportunities to the rural, urban and suburban...

• Wisconsin China Initiative

  The Wisconsin China Initiative, started through the Division of International Studies at UW-Madison, is a group of faculty, alumni, and leaders in bus...

• 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 Corporate Executive MBA Program at Kohl’s Corporation

  The Wisconsin School of Business offers a Corporate Executive MBA program for Kohl’s employees at Kohl’s corporate headquarters in Menomonee Falls. Ko...

• Wisconsin Coverts Project

  The Wisconsin Coverts Project is a woodland wildlife management program for private landowners in Wisconsin and neighboring states. Over the course o...

• Wisconsin Firewagon Project

  Through a generous grant from the Institute of Chemical Education (ICE) Drier was able to build a portable glassblowing podium for community outreach,...

• Wisconsin HIV Training System

  The Wisconsin HIV Training System provides statewide coordination of training opportunities to increase the capacity of organizations and individuals...

• Wisconsin Idea Scholar Program (2012-13)

  From Feburary 3, 2012 to February 15, 2013, a group of 31 community leaders from all over the state convened at the University of Wisconsin-Madison an...

• Wisconsin in Black & White

  Nehemiah Community Development Corporation (Nehemiah) and PBS Wisconsin partnered to create content for television broadcast and digital distribution...

• Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Town Center

  The Town Center, located on the main floor of the Discovery building, welcomes visitors to Explore.Engage.Discover and fits with both the campus strat...

• Wisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP)

  WiscAMP is funded by the National Science Foundation to increase the number of underrepresented minority students across the state of Wisconsin who gr...

• Wisconsin Master Naturalist Program

  Supported through the University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Extension, the Master Naturalist program promotes awareness, understanding, and stew...

• Wisconsin Mathematics, Engineering and Science Talent Search

  This site provides information about the Mathematics Talent Search at UW-Madison, sponsored by the Mathematics Department. Every year, five sets of fi...

• Wisconsin MBA Evening Program

  The Wisconsin MBA Evening Program is a program that provides the opportunity to obtain an MBA degree while continuing to work. Students come to Madiso...

• Wisconsin MBA Executive Program

  The Wisconsin MBA Executive program offers professionals in the state the opportunity to obtain an MBA degree while continuing to work. Executives fro...

• Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC)

  The Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) is one of eight federally supported (NIH-NCRR) National Primate Research Centers and the only o...

• Wisconsin Native Plant Garden

  At the UW-Madison Arboretum Wisconsin Native Plant Garden, students and community members of all ages participate in land care and learn about native...

• 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 Planetarium Connections

  The Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) has forged multiple partnerships in an attempt to create high-quality productions and build...

• Wisconsin Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE)

  The UW is assisting with a statewide project called Wisconsin Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE). The Wisconsin P...

• Wisconsin Public Psychiatry Statewide Training Project

  Since 1995 Dr. Ronald Diamond has been providing mental health related training to public mental health clinicians, police, emergency room staff, judg...

• Wisconsin Public Utility Institute

  Founded in 1982, the Wisconsin Public Utility Institute’s mission is to advance understanding of public policy issues in the electricity, gas, and tel...

• Wisconsin Regional Artist Program

  The Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) provides statewide art workshops and exhibits for nonprofessional artists. It was begun in 1940 (by the nati...

• Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers (WSBDF)

  The Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy & Livestock Farmers (WSBDF) provides classroom and field experience, mentoring and farm internships to young...

• Wisconsin Science Festival

  The weeklong Wisconsin Science Festival features events throughout Wisconsin for people of all ages. Activities include hands-on science experiments,...

• Wisconsin Singers Performances, Workshops and Outreach

  Since 1967, Wisconsin Singers has been traveling to more than 35 communities annually, helping service organizations and music booster groups raise do...

• Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office

  The State Cartographer’s Office (SCO) is Wisconsin’s resource for information about maps, cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), land info...

• Wisconsin State Reading Teacher and Reading Specialist Licenses

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison provides working teachers with a professional development program leading to the Wisconsin State Reading Teacher L...

• Wisconsin Water Library

  Established in 1964 by the UW Water Resources Institute, the Wisconsin Water Library (formerly known as the Water Resources Library) is unique among U...

• WisItalia

  WisItalia is a non-profit, voluntary organization that was created in 2000 to promote the teaching of Italian language classes in the elementary and s...

• 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...

• Women in Government Leadership Program

  Wisconsin Women in Government (WWIG) is a bipartisan volunteer organization that recognizes and supports women who choose to pursue a career in govern...

• Women's Studies Consortium

  The UW Board of Regents established the Women’s Studies Consortium in 1989 to support efforts to establish and maintain strong Women’s Studies Program...

• World Cinema Day

  World Cinema Day is a free, annual event held in conjunction with the Wisconsin Film Festival that brings high-school and middle-school students and t...

• WPT Broadcast of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Visit

  The Center For Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center and Dr. Richard Davidson recently hosted His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other though...

• 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...

• Youth In Governance program

  Extension empowers young people in decision making directly in their community, preparing the next generation of civic leaders, and building systems i...

• YumButter: Day Without Food Campaign

  Yumbutter is a young startup in the nut butters industry. They are a registered B Corp and have a Buy One Feed One aspect to their sales. The team wor...