Environment

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...

• 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...

• Addressing the Emerald Ash Borer

  The emerald ash borer has caused 37 Wisconsin counties to be restricted from exporting any hardwood firewood to unaffected counties, however CALS rese...

• 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...

• Aldo Leopold Archives

  Aldo Leopold is considered to have been the most influential conservationist thinker of the 20th Century. Leopold's legacy spans the disciplines of fo...

• Analysis of Socially Responsible Investing as an Investment Strategy

  Since 1974, Madison Investment Advisors, Inc. has served investment management clients with a sound blend of investment philosophy and process, discip...

• Antarctic Meteorological Research Center

  The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) mission involves research in Antarctic observational meteorology and the stewardship of Antarctic...

• Aquatic Invasive Species Watercraft Inspection

  As part of the UW Extension Clean Boats Clean Waters program, Sea Grant hires seven students annually to perform watercraft inspections at boat ramps...

• Arboretum Ecological Restoration Work Parties

  The UW-Madison Arboretum is a pioneer and leader in ecological restoration. It provides ongoing, year-round opportunities for community members and st...

• 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...

• Assessing User Needs for Improved Access and Visualization to Statewide Historic Natural Resource Data

  The Wisconsin Historic Landscape Database was derived from the 1832-1866 General Land Office survey of Wisconsin, which collected detailed information...

• 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 Reach: Impactful Summer Internships in Milwaukee, Chicago and the Twin Cities

  This 3-year project designs and implements ‘impactful’ UW-Madison summer internships in Milwaukee, Chicago and the Twin Cities. Impactful internships...

• BCERP: Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program

  This program, centered at UW-Madison, investigates the environmental and genetic causes of breast cancer and translates them to cancer prevention. Kno...

• 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...

• Biosolids safety research

  Research is being conducted in coordination with the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District to investigate the pathogen destruction and thus microbial...

• Briggs & Stratton Corporation

  Briggs and Stratton Corporation is the world’s largest producer of gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment. A key organizational goal is to be an...

• 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...

• Building Food Justice Capacity in South Madison

  The project builds food justice capacity in South Madison by forging a network of entrepreneurship opportunities in the field of urban agriculture for...

• CEE 649, Spring 2010: Sustainability of Two City of Madison Fire Stations

  Two teams of students from this civil engineering class at UW-Madison are currently inspecting two fire stations in the City of Madison. They are work...

• 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 Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)

  The Center for Sustaniability and the Global Environment (SAGE) is a research center founded in 2001 in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies...

• Central Sands Water Initiative

  Numerous lakes and streams are drying up in the farm-rich Central Sands region of Wisconsin, but there’s little agreement on what’s causing it. Expert...

• Chamber of Sustainability, Inc. Rating System for Sustainable Companies

  The Chamber of Sustainability’s mission is to foster dialogue between organizations working towards sustainability practices. The development of a nat...

• Charter Street Heating Plant Conversion

  In 2009, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle proposed that the Charter Street Heating Plant in Madison switch from burning coal to burning a mixture of biom...

• Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study

  The Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study aims to understand and quantify emissions and sequestration of carbon and water in forested and wetland eco...

• CIMSS iPad Library

  The CIMSS iPad Library loans iPads to science teachers for an entire school year. This unique technology lending library from the UW-Madison Cooperati...

• CIMSS Regional Assimilation System (CRAS)

  The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Regional Assimilation System (CRAS) is a collection of computer programs design...

• 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 in the Great Lakes Region

  UW-Madison Professor Richard Lindroth conducts research, public education and outreach (to government agencies, schools and faith-based communities) r...

• 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...

• CO2gether Project

  CO2gether is a website designed for people who live or are interested in the environment of south-central Wisconsin. The site provides tools for user...

• Community Health Internship Program (CHIP) - Wisconsin AHEC

  Student interns are placed across the state for an eight week summer position in public health departments and local community organizations. In a typ...

• Computer Modeling Helps to Prepare for Large Storms

  In order to help decision-makers understand the potential effects of extreme precipitation events, Kenneth Potter, professor of Civil and Environmenta...

• Controls on Permeability of Deep Sandstone Aquifers

  We are studying sedimentary rocks of the St. Peter, Eau Claire and Mt. Simon formations to understand the processes responsible for generating and des...

• Crane USA Sustainability Assessment

  Since 2005, Crane has taken the lead in putting the “fun” into humidifiers, air purifiers, fans, space heating and night lights by following their man...

• CyCLeS: Cycling of Carbon in Lake Superior

  We are assessing how the physical circulation of Lakes Superior and Michigan modifies its basic ecology, nutrient cycling, and air-water carbon fluxes...

• Deer population and forest change

  Don Waller, professor of botany, has studied deer impacts on plant communities for over two decades. In a recent study, his team estimated that more t...

• Discovery Farms Program

  For over 12 years, UW-Discovery Farms has worked with Wisconsin farmers to identify the water quality impacts of different farming systems and setting...

• 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...

• Eco-Fruit Program

  The Eco-Fruit Program, a collaboration between the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems and several apple growers around Wisconsin, w...

• 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...

• Examining the impact of jumping worms, an invasive species new to Wisconsin

  Jumping worms are a group of non-native, invasive earthworms that can negatively impact native and ornamental plants. However, very little is known ab...

• F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture: Market Viability Proposal

  F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture has been a student organization on the UW-Madison campus since 1979. Since being granted funds from the...

• 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...

• Fishwerks

  Michael Ferris, a Computer Sciences Professor and optimization leader at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), is part of an initiative in coll...

• Fitchburg Fields Marketing Plan

  The mission of Fitchburg Fields is to promote sustainable living, especially regionally-based food systems, across the United States - primarily by cr...

• 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...

• Forensic Sciences Using Strontium Isotopes

  Since 2000, UW-Madison Distinguished Scientist Brian Beard has analyzed bone and plant material to determine where an organism resided in order to ev...

• Fusion Technology Institute (FTI)

  Founded in 1971, the Fusion Technology Institute (FTI) at UW-Madison is home to the largest program in the United States for advanced degrees in fusio...

• Future Roots Crop Production Plan

  Future Roots Farm, a new agriculture startup, is in the process of expanding production space and volume to bring high quality, local food to the mark...

• Future Roots: Business Plan Development

  Future Roots is a brand new agriculture startup located in New Berlin, with a focus on aquaponics farming. The team investigated ways for the new star...

• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

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

• Great Lakes Early Detection Network

  The Great Lakes Early Detection Network (www.gledn.org) is a website for reporting invasive plant locations. The website is free for anyone to use. Us...

• Green Lake

  Green Lake, home to lake trout and other species, was deemed “impaired” by the DNR in 2014 because of its low levels of dissolved oxygen. Faculty memb...

• Greening of Willy St.

  Students were tasked with creating ideas for "greening" Williamson St. here in Madison. This street, also known as Willy St., is slated for reconstruc...

• Guide to Door County Outdoors

  Door County is one of the premier tourist attractions in the Midwest. "Door County Outdoors" is a guidebook for tourists published by the University o...

• Guidebook for Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region

  A full-color field guide to more than 1,100 species of Wisconsin wildflowers, the most comprehensive guide ever published for the state, is available...

• H&H Holdings Fleet Maintenance & Employee Outreach

  H&H Group Holdings has six different divisions including: Electric, Solar Energy Services, Plumbing Services, Energy Management, Wind Energy, and Fire...

• Hard Cider in Wisconsin

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

• Health Impact Assessment of Climate Change in Wisconsin

  The overall goal of this research project is to develop predictive models of climate change-related precipitation variability that pose environmental...

• Health Sustainability Working Group

  The Health Sustainability Working Group was created through the UW-Madison Sustainability Initiative to enhance the physical and mental health and wel...

• Healthy farm-to-school meals: Empowering lunch ladies as change-agents

  The primary goal of this project is to cultivate lunch ladies as community-based leaders who are inspired and committed to making healthy, farm-to-sch...

• Helping Farmers Cope with Changing Climate

  Drought, flooding, new pests brought on by temporal changes in the onset and duration of the growing season—these are only a few climate related chall...

• 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...

• Impacts of Unsewered Subdivisions on Groundwater Quality

  In collaboration with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, a team of UW-Madison faculty and graduate student researchers conducted fie...

• 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...

• InPro Corporation B Corp Status

  InPro Corporation was looking to move into the group of businesses who now hold the potential to actually restore areas of the environment, rejuvenate...

• Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Study Group

  The "Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle" study group was a project headed by Governor Doyle with an objective to advise the Department of Natural...

• Integrated Mosquito Management Website

  The Integrated Mosquito Management website, developed through the Department of Entomology, is designed to help people make informed decisions on ways...

• 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...

• Johnson Health Tech North America: Water and Lighting

  Since beginning in 1975, Johnson Health Tech (JHT) has specialized in the design, production, and marketing of award-winning fitness equipment. Johnso...

• 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...

• Lady Pietro Lavender Farm: Wholesale and Commercial Market Analysis

  A lavender farm is under development near Baraboo. The team provided background research and recommendations on how and where do local/regional herbal...

• Lakeshore Nature Preserve

  The UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve permanently protects the undeveloped lands along the shore of Lake Mendota, where members of the campus commu...

• Lands We Share (initiative of the Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project)

  The Lands We Share (LWS) was a complex, multi-campus project built upon the Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project (OHP). The OHP, founded at Whitewater...

• Lands' End- Sustainable Clothing Dyes Project

  Students were asked to consider whether Lands' End should use alternative more environmentally friendly dyes in their products. Lands' End provided th...

• 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...

• Lands’ End-Solar Hot Water Energy

  The overall goal of this project was to provide new and realistic ideas for energy efficient facilities at the Lands’ End headquarters in Dodgeville,...

• Land’s End- Calculating a Carbon Footprint

  Students were tasked with finding a way to measure the carbon footprint of products from Lands' End. A follow up question was asked on whether Lands’...

• Leaflets on the Web

  Joy Zedler works closely with land stewards from agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to identify information needs concerning invasive...

• 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...

• Long collaboration with sewer district helps city, university

  UW researchers and experts have assisted the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District in improving and perfecting wastewater treatment. Researchers have...

• Marketing Proficiency Testing - Domestic and International

  Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Laboratory Improvement Division (LID) markets proficiency testing products to laboratories in Wisconsin,...

• Measuring the Impact of Farmers Markets

  In order to improve farmers markets not only in Wisconsin but throughout the U.S., Alfonso Morales, associate professor in urban and regional planning...

• 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 Grape Growing School

  The Midwest School for Beginning Grape Growers, headed by John Hendrickson, outreach program manager for the center for integrated agricultural system...

• Midwest Prescribed Fire Monitoring Network

  Across the midwestern United States, prescribed fire (planned fires used in land management) is one important tool that people use to care for the lan...

• 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...

• New Madison Brewpub Sustainability Program

  Brewing requires a lot of water, for the product itself, for cleaning, and for sanitation. The brewing process also requires high energy use, includin...

• 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...

• 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...

• Pasture Partnership With Organic Valley

  A partnership between Organic Valley Farms, located in La Farge, Wisconsin, and UW-Madison researchers is working to help organic farmers meet the new...

• PDA Animated Weather (PAW)

  The PDA Animated Weather (PAW) is a free, online service providing a global selection of real-time weather images and text. The content is specifical...

• Phosphorus and water quality of the Yahara Lakes

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

• Policy Capstone Project Leads to Renewable Energy in Wisconsin

  Governor Doyle has purchased renewable electrical energy from state utilities and did so based on recommendations from La Follette School students mad...

• Post-Closure Protocol Study

  In collaboration with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Wisconsin Department of Commerce and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

• Precipitation, predators may be key in ecological regulation of infectious disease

  UW Assistant Professor John Orrock led a study examining the infection rate of hantavirus among wild deer mice. The study found that three factors cou...

• Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Monona

  The Natural Step Monona (TNSM) is a nonprofit grassroots community organization in city of Monona. We collaborated in a total of three service learnin...

• Protecting Our Pollinators

  More than two-thirds of the world’s crop plants—including many nuts, fruits and vegetables—depend on animal pollination, most of it provided by bees....

• Public Works Supervisory Academy

  The Public Works Supervisory Academy is a 9-course series tailored for those who oversee the engineering, water, sewerage, parks, and street divisions...

• Reducing the Impact of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus on Wisconsin's Fisheries

  Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) is an invasive pathogen that threatens Wisconsin’s fisheries. Despite the economic and ecological damage tha...

• Reducing the Impact of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus Project

  This project represents new collaboration between the UW and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Division of Fisheries, to develop new tool...

• Research & Development on a New Switch for the Electric Power Grid

  Wisconsin, like most states, is gradually increasing electric power generation from renewable sources. The arguments for decreasing coal burning, e.g....

• 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...

• Research Accelerators program

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

• Research on Native Grassland Systems in Wisconsin

  The Research on Native Grassland Systems in Wisconsin project provides research conducted on the restoration, management and protection of natural sys...

• Research on Wetland Restoration

  UW-Madison Professor Joy Zedler and botany students develop methods of restoring wetlands, especially marshes and sedge meadows. Based on the resulti...

• Resilience of walleye fisheries in Wisconsin

  Walleye, an important sport fish, is undergoing population declines in some Wisconsin lakes. This project investigates the possible roles of fish harv...

• 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...

• River2Lakes program

  Extension’s River2Lakes program helps teachers offer inquiry-based learning to more students. Lake Superior contains 10% of Earth's freshwater and is...

• 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...

• Scenarios for the Future of Lake Wingra

  Lake Wingra in Madison, Wis. is an urban lake that is used by the public in many ways. However, the lake is polluted by sediments, nutrients and road...

• Science on a Sphere

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

• Show me the bees! Engaging growers with citizen science to improve management of crop pollinators through WiBee: the Wisconsin Wild Bee App

  Many Wisconsin fruit and vegetable crops are dependent on bee pollination to achieve marketable yields. Over the last 15 years, however, honey bees, t...

• Silvopasture in southwest Wisconsin

  Wisconsin property tax law provides incentives for grazing of livestock in farm woodlands. Conservationists and foresters consider such practice destr...

• 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...

• Slow Food UW History

  Since 2007, Dr. Zepeda has provided leadership and supervision to the Slow Food UW student organization. The organization promotes good clean fair foo...

• Small Scale Climate Models

  Climate models are powerful tools for predicting global climate change, but they produce global scale information that is not always appropriate for r...

• Solar Panel Test Facility

  When it comes to producing electricity efficiently, hotter is better. Within the past 10 years, the operating temperature of coal-fired power plants h...

• Southwest Wisconsin Groundwater and Geology study

  Our research shows that groundwater contamination by nitrate and bacteria is common in southwest Wisconsin and that sources include humans, cows, and...

• Spooky Sprint 2012: Race to benefit Four Lakes Wildlife Center and southern Wisconsin wildlife

  My team and I are working to create a fundraising event which is capable of generating revenue to sustain and grow the resources of Four Lakes Wildlif...

• Springs Window Fashions - Sustainability

  Springs is the largest provider of residential window coverings in this country. Over the last few years, the Gen Bus 601 class has done a number of...

• SquirrelMapper

  Around 150 years ago, vast old growth forests covered the United States, giving melanistic (black) eastern gray squirrels the shadowy habitat they nee...

• 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...

• 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...

• Sustainability Indicators - Capital Region Sustainable Communities Initiative

  Led the sustainability indicators work for this regional sustainability planning and implementation initiative in Dane County. Collaborated with the C...

• Sustainability Metric Workbook

  For small and medium sized businesses, sustainability is about both finding a place to start and finding tools that work. The team identified on-line,...

• Sustainability Report for Bladesmith Gastro Brewery

  A group of entrepreneurs was looking for help in integrating sustainability thinking into the design and development of a new brewpub in Madison. The...

• Symposium on Non-Carbon-Emitting Energy Options for Wisconsin

  This May 8-9, 2006 symposium, held at Monona Terrace, was designed to reach legislators, agency personnel, consulting firms and private citizens. It...

• 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...

• Tap Talks at Central Waters Brewery

  Tap Talks at Central Waters Brewery is a forum for researchers to share their science and work with interested members of the public in an informal se...

• The Morgridge Center for Public Service

  The mission of the Morgridge Center for Public Service is to "Connect campus with community through service, service learning and community-based rese...

• 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...

• 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 - Dane County

  UniverCity Year partnered with Dane County in UCY’s initial year in 2017 and continued the partnership through 2019. In this partnership, UniverCity Y...

• UniverCity Year - Egg Harbor

  UniverCity partnered with the village of Egg Harbor from 2019-22. This partnership focused on improving the village’s infrastructure for the 200 year-...

• UniverCity Year - Green County

  UniverCity Year and Green County formed their partnership for the 2017-2020 academic years. The program was led by the Green County Development Corpor...

• UniverCity Year - Monona

  The City of Monona was chosen to be UniverCity Year’s inaugural year program, with the partnership spanning the 2016-2017 academic year. This partners...

• 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...

• University of Wisconsin Press

  Since 1937, UW Press has published thousands of books, including hundreds that document the culture, heritage, natural history and people of Wisconsin...

• 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...

• Urban Canid Project

  The Urban Canid Project is led by Professor David Drake and a University of Wisconsin-Madison research team. Their mission is threefold. First, they w...

• Urban Horticulture Field Day

  For 11 years, the Urban Horticulture Field Day has been teaching people the ins and outs of urban gardening. Each summer upwards of 1500 people gather...

• UW Press

  The UW Press publishes books (including ebooks) for Wisconsin and internationally. This page (http://uwpress.wisc.edu/WIRegional.html) contains a smal...

• 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-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...

• 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...

• Veterinary Care for Endangered Whooping Crane Reintroduction in Wisconsin

  Since 2001, the Zoo Medicine service of UW Veterinary Care has provided the necessary health services to assist in the reintroduction of the endangere...

• 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...

• 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....

• Visual Impressions Waste Diversion

  Visual Impressions is a contract apparel decorator in Milwaukee. They are having a difficult time recycling “pellon”. This material is a composite fib...

• 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....

• Wednesday Nite @ The Lab on the Air

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

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

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

• What can a laundry business do to improve their "green quotient"?

  Lazybones, Inc. is a student-orientated pick-up laundry and dry cleaning service with locations in Madison, Boulder, Boston and others. Many of their...

• WI Sustainable Business Green Masters Program

  The WI Sustainable Business Green Masters Program (Green Masters Program), launched in December 2009, is an objective, points based certification pro...

• 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,...

• Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER)

  The Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER) is a website that enables anyone with an Internet connection to report sightings of sick or dead wildlife. I...

• 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 Bioenergy Initiative

  The Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative (WBI) was created in 2007 by the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The i...

• Wisconsin Bioenergy Summit

  Started in 2008, the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative (WBI) holds an annual Bioenergy Summit in the fall that is free and open to the public. Biofuel l...

• Wisconsin Coastal Guide

  The Wisconsin Coastal Guide is an interactive map that encourages exploration of coastal heritage tourism attractions along the Great Lakes Circle Tou...

• Wisconsin Congressional "Energy Update" on Capitol Hill

  On July 10, 2013 the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) hosted an energy briefing in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with Wisconsin legislative staff...

• Wisconsin Consortium for Applied Water Quality Research

  The cities of Kenosha and Madison are sponsors of the UW-Madison College of Engineering's Wisconsin Consortium for Applied Water Quality Research. The...

• 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 Crandon Mine Reports

  This online collection, The Crandon Mine Reports, provides researchers with access to information about the Crandon Mine permit process that occurred...

• 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 Energy Institute/Bioenergy Research Centers host Science Café briefing before the House Senate and National Labs Caucus

  On July 22nd, 2013, more than 80 congressional staff members gathered in Washington, DC for a Q&A-style briefing intended to update the House Science...

• Wisconsin Healthy Grown Project

  The Wisconsin “Healthy Grown” program works to advance growers’ use of biointensive Integrated Pest Management (IPM) systems, efficiently manage input...

• 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 Infant Study ("WISC")

  There is evidence that children who grow up on dairy farms are healthier and have fewer allergies and respiratory illnesses. The hypothesis for the WI...

• Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI)

  The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, in collaboration with the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and other campus units, launc...

• Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory Maps ("Bordner Survey")

  Often called the "Bordner Survey" after its director, John Bordner, the Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory was a Depression-era project to inventory th...

• Wisconsin Land Use Codes

  This project compares Wisconsin land use codes between jurisdictions. That is, regional planning commissions and counties each develop their own land...

• Wisconsin Manure Management Advisory System

  This website is an interagency partnership that houses the Runoff Risk Advisory (RRA) Forecast as well as spreading restriction maps for the state. Th...

• Wisconsin Master Naturalist Program

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

• Wisconsin Native Plant Garden

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

• Wisconsin Phosphorus Index

  The Wisconsin Phosphorus (P) Index (WPI) is a planning tool for managing cropland and pastureland. It uses information that is readily available to fa...

• Wisconsin Pollinator Plan

  Without pollinators, we would no longer be able to take a sip of coffee or ask for guacamole on our burritos. Flower-loving bats, birds and bees are n...

• 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 award-winning, annual Wisconsin Science Festival, based on the UW-Madison campus and featuring events in more than 30 locations around the state,...

• Wisconsin Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan

  The quality of Wisconsin's parks and trails largely results from excellent planning, much of which originates within Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor R...

• Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Avian Flu Testing

  In the spring and summer of 2015, there was an outbreak of H5N2, a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, in several counties in Wisconsin. This...

• Wisconsin Water Library Web site

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

• Wisconsin’s “Brown Gold” Rush: Transforming Manure to Energy in America’s Dairyland

  The Accelerated Renewable Energy (ARE) project involves a partnership among UW-Madison researchers and several state companies that is being funded by...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...