Outreach Activities

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...

• 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 Storytelling on Wheels

  The African Storytelling on Wheels program was designed to create a greater appreciation of the legitimacy and vibrancy of African cultures and the ca...

• 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...

• 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 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...

• 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...

• 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....

• 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...

• Arts Outreach

  The Arts Outreach Program, established in 1979, works hand-in-hand with the School of Music to share the expertise of its three faculty ensembles-in-r...

• Assessment and Treatment of Latino Families

  Professor Carmen Valdez gives a lecture every year to community mental health, health, and educational professionals from all over the state as part o...

• 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...

• 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...

• Beginner's Guide to Financial Projections

  The Beginner's Guide to Financial Projections is a no-cost, on-demand course designed to teach entrepreneurs the numerical inputs they need to create...

• 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...

• Black Fathers, Equal Partners in Advancing Maternal and Infant Health

  In partnership with the African American Breastfeeding Network, Drs. Tova Walsh and Alvin Thomas completed a needs assessment among Black expectant fa...

• Bringing Music to underserved students: Piano Pioneers Program

  The UW's Piano Pioneers program provides scholarship piano lessons (and practice instruments if needed) to children and adults in the community who ca...

• 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...

• 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...

• Building Capacity of Wisconsin Producers to Access Wholesale Markets

  I am providing technical assistance support to current producer members of the Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative (WFHC), particularly in the areas of pos...

• 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...

• 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 Professional and Executive Development

  The Center for Professional and Executive Development's mission is to help individuals and organizations through the professional and market transitio...

• 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...

• 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...

• Chorus for Alzheimer's Patients

  The Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute, part of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public health, is giving Milwaukee residents affected...

• 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...

• Community Economic Development program

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

• 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...

• Community Supervision Legal Assistance Project (CSLAP)

  CSLAP provides a wide range of legal assistance to clients who are on community supervision through the Wisconsin Department of Corrections' Division...

• Compass Tools: pointing the way to profitability for diversified farms

  Compass Tools are a suite of free, downloadable spreadsheets designed to help diversified farmers understand their cost of production and profitabilit...

• 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...

• 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...

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

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

• Covid-19 Wisconsin Connect

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

• 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...

• Cultural mediator for Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities

  Mark Louden, Professor of German and Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, is a cultural mediator for the Amish and Old Orde...

• 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...

• Dementia Friendly Toolkit

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

• Dementia Wellness Project for Underserved African American Elders

  This project, focused on underserved African-American elders, will improve the health and well-being of their families by expanding and extending the...

• 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 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• East Asia Now

  From security to trade to popular culture, contemporary events in East Asia create ripples felt around the world, including Wisconsin. East Asia Now i...

• 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...

• Educational opportunities for nursing assistants and personal care workers

  The Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE) developed one-day conferences for health care paraprofessionals – certified nurse assistants (CNAs)...

• 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...

• 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...

• Enhancing Participation in Employment Settings Through AAC

  UW Clinical Professor Jamie Murray-Branch and her team have developed a project that uses innovative methods like podcasting to provide critical infor...

• Evaluation Research Program

  The Evaluation Research Program in the UW-Madison Population Health Institute conducts program evaluations and evaluation research studies related to...

• Eviction Defense Clinic

  The Eviction Defense Clinic (EDC), with the help of clinical law students, provides services to low-income tenants with Rental Housing Law issues, spe...

• 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...

• Expanding Your Horizons

  Two community members, John Glaeser and Dave Watson, are aquatic life experts and have designed and built "Mini-Aquaria" at various outreach events. T...

• Expanding Your Horizons Conference

  Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) has a mission to provide young women with career information, role models, and positive hands-on experiences through a o...

• 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...

• Family Court Clinic

  The Family Court Clinic (FCC) was developed to address the needs of unrepresented family law litigants. In the FCC law students provide legal informat...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Fortalezas Familiares

  Fortalezas Familiares, Spanish for “family strengths,” is a program designed in response to increasing rates of depression among Latinos. Fortalezas F...

• Gener8tor

  Started in Wisconsin, gener8tor is a nationally ranked seed investment fund and business accelerator that invests in high-growth startups. The company...

• Geosynthetic Bridges

  When the material used to make a bridge differs from that used to make the roadway, the road leading up to the bridge is compacted while the bridge te...

• German Day

  Each spring, the Department of German hosts its annual German Day. Hundreds of students from Wisconsin middle schools and high schools come to Union S...

• 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...

• 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...

• Go Big Read

  Launched in 2009, Go Big Read is UW–Madison's common book program, designed to engage members of the campus community and beyond in a shared, academic...

• 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 Raising Grandchildren Fact Sheets

  Grandparents Raising Grandchildren is a series of nine fact sheets developed by specialists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of W...

• Grandparents University

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Housing assistance research

  Three UW-Madison research affiliates received a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to examine the effects of Section 8 housi...

• How to Reduce Workplace Stress Though Communication & Leadership Skills

  Combining communication tools with self-management and self-awareness skills builds a stronger platform to lead and support empathetic interactions wi...

• Humanities Exposed (HEX)

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

• 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...

• HVDC Power Transmission: Line Commutated Converter (LCC) and Voltage Source Converter (VSC) Technologies and Applications

  Electric power generation, transmission, distribution and utilization in Wisconsin has utilized the traditional alternating current (AC) technology si...

• 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...

• 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...

• Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Wisconsin WIC Program

  This field course introduces UW-Madison students to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), a program that h...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 Family Science Nights

  The Family Science Nights program helps to connect science volunteers with schools & community centers in and around Madison, Wi for a night of fun an...

• 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...

• Kickapoo Valley Tourism Project

  The Kickapoo Valley, a prime tourist destination during the summer months, experiences a drop in visitors once the weather cools. UW-Madison researche...

• 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...

• Learning to Make Running Water Walk

  The Learning to Make Running Water Walk Oral Narrative Project is a partnership between the Coon Creek Community Watershed Council, Inc. (CCCWC), UW-M...

• Legal Assistance To Institutionalized Persons Project (LAIP)

  In the Frank J. Remington Center's Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons Project (LAIP), students work under the supervision of clinical facul...

• 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...

• LGBTQ Narratives

  UW PhD Candidate Kristina Kosnick has developed LGBTQ Narratives, a queer activist-writer's group created in collaboration with OutReach and initial f...

• 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 Link

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

• Little Aldos

  Sarah Krier, an undergrad, received an award from the Wisconsin Open Education Community Fellowship offered by the Division of Continuing Studies and...

• 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...

• Madison Neighborhood Indicators

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

• 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...

• Medical Imaging Research Partnership

  Our Medical Physics and Radiology departments are among the highest producers of invention disclosures and successful patent applications at UW-Madiso...

• 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...

• 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...

• Microgrids Help Power Milwaukee Industry

  UW-Madison researchers are developing a microgrid-based electric power and distribution system that has the potential to help bring economic stability...

• 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...

• Milking Research and Instruction Lab

  The UW Milking lab has been in operation since 1990. The lab has been engaged in a number of technical issues related to milking machines, including r...

• More for Kid$! Collaborative Strategies Project

  The More for Kid$! Project, a joint initiative between UW researchers at IRP and Wisconsin Department of Children and Families officials, was designed...

• 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...

• National child support research meeting of the minds

  IRP researchers Daniel R. Meyer and Maria Cancian with Urban Institute fellow Elaine Sorensen organized an informal meeting Nov. 3, 2011, of national...

• 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...

• 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...

• Neighborhood Law Clinic

  The Neighborhood Law Clinic (NLC) is a community-based poverty law clinic located on Madison's South Side. NLC's service mission is to provide a broad...

• Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience

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

• No Limits Kids Fitness

  This is an adapted fitness program for disabled children ages 7-17. Children with physical disabilities have very few opportunities to participate in...

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• 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...

• NOW (Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin) Coalition for Bipolar Disorder Initiative

  Dr. Ronald Diamond participated in developing a multi-state curriculum on bipolar disorder, and then provided on-site training to physicians and nurse...

• 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...

• 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...

• Out of Hospital (OOH) Hearing Clinics

  Many Amish and Mennonite families in remote areas of Wisconsin do not have access to newborn hearing screenings and other hearing health care due to m...

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

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

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

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

• 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...

• Pennsylvania Dutch Documentation Project

  Pennsylvania Dutch is one of America's oldest thriving heritage languages, spoken by over 300,000 people, mainly Old Order Amish. Wisconsin, with the...

• Phosphorus and water quality of the Yahara Lakes

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

• Planning A.H.E.A.D.: Advance directives, Home finances, Estate planning, and Arriving at Decisions for the end of this life

  The Planning AHEAD series provides people of all ages the information they need to plan for the end of this life. The series and workbook materials gu...

• 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...

• 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)...

• Pro Arte Quartet and UW Arts Outreach

  Each year the Pro Arte Quartet makes a minimum of ten excursions throughout Wisconsin. These excursions range from recitals at arts venues to performa...

• 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...

• Promoting Double Reed Instrument Culture in Wisconsin Schools

  The oboe and the bassoon play a key role in most musical repertoires since the birth of the modern orchestra in the mid 18th century. They are both ab...

• 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 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 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Restorative Justice Project

  The Frank J. Remington Center's Restorative Justice Project (RJP) serves victims and survivors of sensitive and violent crimes. Through its restorativ...

• 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 Cooperative Development Project

  The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives (UWCC) and its grant partner Cooperative Network provide technical assistance to rural cooperative...

• 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...

• Science Expeditions

  Science Expeditions is an annual event held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery which invites lifelong learners...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Small Business Development Center at UW-Madison

  The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at UW-Madison has helped create and grow successful businesses since 1979. The SBDC staff of experienced...

• Small Business Venture Development Plans

  For over 40 years, the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship has prepared Venture Development Plans for small businesses and non-profit organizations th...

• Solomon Carter Fuller Memory Screening Day

  More than 110,000 people in Wisconsin have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. African Americans are approximately two times more likely than Cau...

• Sound Health at UW Hospitals and Clinics

  UW-Madison graduate Mary Perkinson (DMA '11, Teachers Certificate '07, MM '05) founded Sound Health in 2009. The mission of Sound Health is to enrich...

• St. Croix Tribal Health Center Head Start Physicals

  Started by Dr. Murray Katcher and continued by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, this annual two day trip to the St. Croix Band of Chippewa's Tribal Health Center...

• 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 - Cross Plains

  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 - 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...

• Supernatural Presences in East Asian Culture

  Part of the Year of Humanities, Supernatural Presences in East Asian Culture is a year-long series of interdisciplinary events exploring manifestation...

• 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...

• Survey of rural Wisconsinites' knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of water resources

  We have developed a survey, working with the UW-Survey Center, which directly reaches out to rural stakeholders to collect information about their per...

• 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 was a forum for researchers to share their science and work with interested members of the public in an informal s...

• 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...

• TESci

  Now in its second year, the Technology and Science workshop, TESci, was created by UW-Madison chemistry professor Josh Coon with a grant from the Nat...

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

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

• The Dairyland Initiative

  The main aim of the ‘Dairyland Initiative’ is to create a structured iterative process that brings dairy producers, their advisors, agricultural build...

• The Mapuche Indigenous Community of Nicolas Ailio and the Chilean State

  Professor Florencia Mallon carried out a collaborative ethnography with the people of the Mapuche community of Nicolas Ailior and the Chilean State. S...

• 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 Quill literary journal

  The Quill, a literary journal for middle school and high school students in Green Bay, was one of four projects selected by the Wisconsin Open Educati...

• The Wisconsin Communication Ecology and Civic Health

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

• 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...

• Trails Forward

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

• 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...

• Transportation Information Center (TIC)

  The Wisconsin Transportation Information Center (TIC) was created in 1983 to help local highway officials manage their road systems. There are more t...

• 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...

• 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...

• Undergraduate Symposium

  The annual Undergraduate Symposium showcases the achievements, creativity and original research of UW-Madison undergraduates. Campus and community mem...

• Understanding Dairy Markets

  The "Understanding Dairy Markets" Web site was developed by the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research and the Department of Agricultural and Applied Eco...

• 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...

• 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 Speech and Hearing Clinic (UWSHC)

  Individuals from at least 15 Wisconsin counties ranging in age from infants through octogenarians have received speech, language and audiology service...

• 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...

• 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 Center for Community & Nonprofit Studies

  The Center for Community & Nonprofit Studies was established at UW-Madison in 2008 through the School of Human Ecology. The center coordinates facult...

• UW Educational and Performance Outreach Program

  The UW Educational and Performance Outreach program is devoted to bringing the University and community together through collaborative musical events....

• 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 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-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 Math Circle

  The Math Circle is a weekly meeting for middle and high-school students in which a professor or mathematics graduate student introduces the group to a...

• UW-Madison Science Alliance, a community of practice of science outreachers

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Alliance organizes public science outreach events and programs through collaborations with Wisconsin scien...

• UWSHC Symposium on Hearing and Hearing Loss

  The annual UWSHC Symposium is a fun, educational event for the public about issues related to audiology and hearing. Symposium topics change each year...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 Center

  The Waisman Center, located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, is one of only 14 centers in the United States dedicated to the advancement...

• 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 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...

• 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,...

• 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 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 511 Construction Projects Website

  The 511 Projects Website came online in summer 2012 as a major extension of Wisconsin DOT’s 511 Traveler Information Program to provide expanded infor...

• 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 ADRC Participant Appreciation Breakfast

  This event recognizes the many people who are participating in Alzheimer's research through the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. In addi...

• 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 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 Energy Institute

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

• Wisconsin 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 Film Festival

  The Wisconsin Film Festival is presented by the UW–Madison Division of the Arts in association with the Department of Communication Arts. Founded in 1...

• Wisconsin Food Security Project

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

• Wisconsin Idea Exchange Database

  The Wisconsin Idea Exchange Database is an interactive database designed to help community groups and UW-Madison faculty and staff find collaborative...

• 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 Idea Science Constellation

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

• Wisconsin Idea Seminar

  Begun in 1985, the Wisconsin Idea Seminar is a five-day bus tour of the state held each May that immerses forty UW-Madison faculty and academic staff...

• Wisconsin Innocence Project

  In recent years, numerous wrongly convicted individuals have been released from prison after new evidence, often in the form of scientific evidence su...

• 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 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 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 Network for Health Research (WiNHR)

  The mission of WiNHR is to foster collaborative, multidisciplinary research throughout Wisconsin by aligning WiNHR objectives with state and national...

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 Telepsychiatry Project

  Since 1995 Dr. Ronald Diamond has hosted a bi-weekly teleconference that covers a wide variety of mental health topics, including updates in psychopha...

• 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...

• 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'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...

• Wonders of Physics Traveling Show

  The Wonders of Physics program was created in 1984 to generate interest in physics among people of all ages and backgrounds. In 2005, the show travele...

• 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...

• 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...