Quality of Life

Projects

• 7th Annual Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council Conference

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

• A Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention through Community Organizing and Youth Engagement

  This project focuses on Southwest Madison, in partnership with SouthWest Madison Community Organizers and Public Health of Madison and Dane County. To...

• ACTIVATE: Advocacy for Children

  With 40 percent of children in Wisconsin living below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Line, the use of advocacy training and techniques can help ch...

• Adapted Fitness and Personal Training Program

  The Adapted Fitness and Personal Training classes offered through the Physical Education Activity Program serve a diverse population that includes stu...

• Advancing Health at UW-Madison: Exploring Solutions for Parkinson's Disease

  Spearheaded by Dr. Marina Emborg, M.D., Ph.D., at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center and School of Medicine and Public Health, and realize...

• Allied Area Food Pantry Outreach

  Medical students provide monthly health education information sessions at the mobile food pantry sponsored by Second Harvest for the Allied Drive neig...

• Allied Miler In Training Program

  Annually, beginning in 2009, medical students work with youth at the Allied Learning Center's summer program, preparing children to participate in a o...

• 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 Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) Wisconsin Chapter

  UW Assistant Professor in Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences and Disorders (tenure home) and President of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American...

• Annual Colloquium on Aging

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

• 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...

• Audiology Takes on Rural Noise at the Tomah Tractor Pull (and Beyond)

  UWSHC audiologists and Au.D. students travel to rural Wisconsin each summer for a unique goal: to prevent hearing loss at the Tomah Truck and Tractor...

• Bad River Global Health/Tribal Youth Program

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

• Badger Volunteers™

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

• 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...

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

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

• 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...

• Binaural Hearing and Cochlear Implants in Children and Adults

  UW-Madison Professor Ruth Litovsky's research focuses on how people are able to hear in complex, noisy environments, such as classrooms. The research...

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

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

• Bringing Gender Affirming Voice Training to an Underserved Community

  This project was a direct service to transfeminine individuals seeking voice feminization. We partnered with the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center to de...

• Bringing Healthy Aging to Scale

  The population of older adults in Wisconsin is expected to nearly double in size over the next 25 years. This “graying” of society affects rural areas...

• 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...

• Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School

  In this joint summer course held alternatively at UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison, students, faculty, scholars and community members explore ways to see a...

• Career Development Facilitator Program

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

• Caring Connections: Supporting families by improving residential care visits

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

• 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...

• Changing Views of Hunger: One Community at a Time

  This Eau Claire initiative builds upon community assessments and existing community-academic partnerships. The coalition will develop a strategic plan...

• Chazen Museum of Art Online Collection Database

  In the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, the Chazen Museum of Art has virtually opened its doors to allow access to the entire collection of over 22,000 a...

• Child Development Lab

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

• Child Support Policy Research

  Since the 1970s, Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) researchers have worked with State of Wisconsin and U.S. officials to promote a child support...

• 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...

• Civil Engineering 649: Sustainable Building

  In Civil Engineering 649: Sustainable Building, student teams develop construction aids and proposals for sustainable building construction methods fo...

• College Goal Sunday

  Members of the UW-Madison Office of Student Financial Services, in association with financial aid professionals across the state, select one Sunday ea...

• Community and Regional Food Systems

  Dr. Steve Ventura's focus is on sustainable community and regional food systems (CRFS). His group works to increase the understanding of how to build...

• Community Building Facebook page

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

• Community Food Systems program

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

• Community Service Programs - School of Medicine and Public Health

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

• Community-University Exchange - South Madison

  In partnership with the Office of University Relations and Assistant Vice-Chancellor Everett Mitchell, the Community-University Exchange funds two gra...

• 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...

• 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...

• Concussion in Adolescents

  Concussion can affect adolescents across various aspects of life. Traci Snedden, an Assistant Professor with the UW-Madison School of Nursing, focuses...

• Consumer Law Clinic

  The Consumer Law Clinic offers law students the opportunity to apply their classroom knowledge to real cases involving real clients. Since its incept...

• Cooperative Institute for Urban Agriculture and Nutrition (IUAN)

  IUAN is a coalition of universities, community organizations, businesses, and public agencies advancing the principles and practices of sustainable ur...

• County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

  The County Health Rankings annually rank communities on various measures of population health in the form of health outcomes (length and quality of li...

• 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...

• 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...

• Cross-cultural Classroom Connections

  Cross-cultural Classroom Connections is a cyber pen-pal program between IAP students abroad and K-12 Madison-area school classrooms. Students and teac...

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

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

• Dementia Friendly Toolkit

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Drug courts test smart phone app to help addicted offenders

  UW researchers have created a new use for the smart phone: fighting chronic illnesses such as addiction. With Addiction-CHESS, users can access online...

• ECHO - Early Childhood Hearing Outreach

  The primary goal of the ECHO program is to provide quality hearing screenings for children ages 0-3 years, enrolled in Early Head Start programs in Da...

• EdiPHy

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

• Educational opportunities for nursing assistants and personal care workers

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

• Effectiveness of the CHESS eHealth Cancer Support Intervention in Population-based Care

  During the eHealth Cancer Support Intervention study, 600 women recently diagnosed with breast cancer will be recruited to participate in a research s...

• EMPOWER – Program for Depression in Adults with Intellectual Disability

  Through partnerships built via the Waisman Center, Dr. Hartley connected with stakeholders who have identified a lack of psychosocial interventions fo...

• ENERGY at Work in Sawyer County

  Energy at Work is an initiative started by the Hayward Area Memorial Hospital, Sawyer County Public Health Department, the medical community and sever...

• Engaging Families as Care Partners in Community Nursing Homes

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

• Engaging 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...

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

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

• Expanding student investigative reporting to the borders of Wisconsin

  Funding from the Wisconsin Idea Endowment was used to help UW-Madison students, working in collaboration with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative J...

• Family Communication and Stress Workshops

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

• Family Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder - Family Newsletters

  The overarching goal of this study is to examine family outcomes in families of children with autism spectrum disorder. In this study, Dr. Hartley inv...

• Family Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorders

  Sigan Hartley is the principal investigator of a study on family outcomes in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) through the Waisman Center. The study exa...

• Financial Aid Nights

  Every year, the Office of Student Financial Services (OSFS) participates in Financial Aid Nights at various high schools in the Madison area. OSFS pr...

• Fitness Improvement Teamwork (FIT) in Sauk County

  The Sauk Prairie Police and Universal Die and Stampings both completed employee health programs. Employees signed up for a Health Reimbursement Accoun...

• Focus

  For more than 35 years, the Institute for Research on Poverty’s flagship publication, Focus, has disseminated poverty-related research findings and th...

• Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946

  James Leary, UW-Madison professor of Folklore and of Scandinavian Studies, is a native of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, and has been documenting the music and...

• For migrant workers, community cooperation builds on individual strengths

  UW Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Alfonso Morales has completed a study that focuses on community development and cooperation. The...

• 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...

• Formando Lazos Project: Bicultural Parenting and Building a Stronger Pan-Latino Community

  The Formando Lazos Project focuses on family strengthening through building a stronger Latino community that supports how Latino parents and childcare...

• Fortalezas Familiares

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

• Genetic Counseling Program

  The Genetic Counseling Program, comprising UW-Madison faculty and staff, trains professionals to work as members of a statewide healthcare team, provi...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Growing the EnAct Program, A Business Plan for Social Sustainability

  The goal of this project was to develop a business plan that outlines the sustainable growth of Madison Environmental Group, Inc.’s EnAct Steps to Gre...

• 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...

• 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...

• Healthy Aging in Rural Towns

  Healthy Aging in Rural Towns (HeART) is a collaborative project to help rural communities strengthen their support networks for their older adults and...

• Healthy Children, Strong Families (HCSF)

  Healthy Children, Strong Families (HCSF) is an ongoing project working with American Indian communities in Wisconsin and around the nation. Begun in 2...

• 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...

• Helping Infants and Toddlers Cope with Parental Incarceration

  Many children of incarcerated parents are young (44-57% are 0-5 years) and few resources are available to help young children and their caregivers cop...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Implementation of Bedside Notes

  To improve parent understanding, a growing number of hospitals, including American Family Children’s Hospital, use inpatient portals – web-based appli...

• Improving Wisconsin Elections

  This projects seeks to understand and improve election practices in Wisconsin. Working with faculty colleagues, doctoral students, and staff in the s...

• Increasing Awareness of the Effects of Alcohol on the Human Body

  Dr. Kevin Strang gives outreach lectures on the mechanisms of alcohol action on the human body, at the invitation of educators and administrators of s...

• Innovation and Wellness Commons - Lindsay Heights

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

• 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...

• Integrating Child Welfare, Income Support, and Child Support to Improve Outcomes

  The William T. Grant Foundation named Maria Cancian as a Distinguished Fellow in a program created to make connections between research, policy, and p...

• Interactive Cancer Communication Systems' (ICCS) Directed Physical Activity Enhancement for Colon Cancer Survivors

  A new interactive cancer communication system (ICCS) called Survivorship Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS) will be developed and...

• 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...

• Jackson in Action Initiative

  A coalition of Jackson County agencies, Black River Memorial Hospital and the Black River Falls School District partnered to plan a program in respons...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Land Arch. 365: Planting Design

  Landscape Architecture 365: Planting Design class projects involve working with Madison area nonprofits, municipalities and families. Attempts are ma...

• 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: 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...

• Language-Enriched Exercise Plus Stimulation (LEEPS): UW-Madison, Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute, US Administration on Aging

  This 3-year statewide project, funded by the U.S. Administration on Aging, trained volunteers to provide language-enriched exercise plus socialization...

• Learning English and Living Biculturally

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

• LifeSpan program

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

• Lifestyle Initiative for Fitness Empowerment Foundation Cross Plains Community Project

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

• Literacy Link

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

• Live LiFe Iron County

  In response to an adult obesity rate of 28%, the Iron County Health Department collaborated with the County Human Services Agency, University of Wisco...

• 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...

• Lt. Governor's Task Force on Women and Depression

  Recognizing that depression and mental health are key factors in overall workforce productivity and quality of life, that there are substantial costs...

• Madison Neighborhood Indicators

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

• 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...

• Medical student service projects AHEC/PCC

  Many communities across the state of Wisconsin host third-year students from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, for an 8-week rotation in th...

• 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...

• Microfinance Program Development for SWCAP

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

• 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...

• Mobile CHESS (MCHESS) Research on Emergency Medical Services for Children

  Four hundred Milwaukee Medicaid recipients (ages 12-18), with an asthma-related emergency care visit or hospitalization in the last twelve months, wil...

• Move to Improve Families

  Memorial Health Center led a coalition that implemented a family-based, 12 week healthy lifestyle program to reduce the incidence of chronic disease i...

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

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

• 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...

• NIATx

  NIATx (pronounced NIGH-a-tex) is a learning collaborative within UW-Madison's Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies. NIATx promotes use of a s...

• 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...

• Northwoods LEAN (Linking Education, Activity, and Nutrition): Pathways to Health

  Oneida County will approach its obesity issue on many different levels. Community leaders with the Oneida County Health Department will implement orga...

• Oakhill Prison Humanities Project

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

• Open Educational Resources support program

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

• Operation Quit Tobacco

  Operation Quit Tobacco provides free medication and coaching to military personnel on how to quit. Operation Quit Tobacco is available to all militar...

• 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...

• P.L.A.Y. Dane (Policy Leaders for Active Youth)

  Through the partnership of 25 community agencies, the Childhood Obesity Prevention Collaborative mission is to develop and advance policies to improve...

• Parenthetical

  Parenthetical is an online learning community for parents of 10-16 year old tweens and teens designed to improve the quality of parenting through educ...

• Parenting Education Project

  Every year, about 35,000 families in 60 Wisconsin counties - including about one-third of all new parents - receive monthly parenting newsletters prod...

• Partnership with UW Eau Claire to prepare for increased Social Work course needs

  UW-Madison is partnering with UW-Eau Claire to offer extended courses for the part-time Masters of Social Work program in order to meet the pending in...

• Places to Play

  The Places to Play Initiative will ignite a transformation towards a healthier future for people of all ages in Burnett County. Our safe parks, premie...

• Planning for Outdoor Recreation

  UW-Madison Professor Dave Marcouiller works with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in assessments that help planners identify key elements...

• Planting the Seed: Columbia County’s Food to School Journey

  Columbia County aims to reconnect schools with locally grown fresh food produced by neighboring farmers. Several organizations will champion this init...

• Polk County WEALTH: Wellness, Environment and Action Linked To Health

  Polk County is excited to work with a variety of community partners to create a stronger, healthier and more active Polk County. With effective commun...

• ProActive Jackson County

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

• 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....

• Providing teletherapy, outreach for patients with disorders

  UW Clinical Professor Michelle Quinn and select communication disorder graduate students are providing teletherapy to a farm family in northern Wiscon...

• 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 Folk Arts and Folklife Projects in the Upper Midwest

  The Public Folk Arts and Folklife Projects of the Upper Midwest series of project collection guides highlights public folklore field documentation und...

• 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...

• Re:Th!nking What Healthy Looks Like

  Re:TH!NK is eager and ready to transform the Winnebago County community! Through effective collaboration, re:TH!NK is creating an environment that ena...

• 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...

• Red Cliff Tribal Library Project: Ginanda Gikendaasomin (We Seek to Learn)

  UW-Madison students using a Kaufmann Grant have completed a priorities assessment with the Red Cliff community, leading to a planned reopening of the...

• Reducing Commercial Energy Costs

  By using models to predict the heating, ventilation and cooling needs of a building, Jim Rawlings, professor of chemical and biological engineering at...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

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

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

• Restorative Justice Project

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

• 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...

• Revision of uCount software documentation for non-profits (DaneNet; UW Madison course: EPD265)

  UW-Madison course EPD265:Teams and the Engineering Profession (with an affiliation to national EPICS) involved having the class update the user docume...

• 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...

• Roadmap to a Healthier Community

  The Clark County Public Health Department is committed to work with Clark County communities and school districts to give residents access to healthy...

• 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...

• Schools on the Go

  The coalition school districts of Monroe County Schools on the Go and its community partners are working together to make farm to school happen in Mon...

• 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...

• 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...

• Smoke Free Apartments = Clear Gains

  Quality and affordable housing is a concern of Monroe County residents and 72 percent of Wisconsin renters would prefer non-smoking buildings. Communi...

• Solving the Mysterious Case of "Mahal"

  "Mahal" was a Bornean orangutan born in Colorado and rejected by his mother. He was sent to the Milwaukee County Zoo for adoption by a surrogate mothe...

• 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...

• Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center — Regenerative Medicine Speakers

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

• Step It Up Rock County

  Where you live, work and play matters: 65.3 percent of Rock County residents are classified as overweight or obese. Innovative partnerships within Roc...

• Strategic Impact Consulting Projects

  2nd year Bolz Center for Arts Administration MBA students, in the Wisconsin School of Business, serve statewide communities and their creative organiz...

• StrongBodies

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Text-to-Pictures iPad App Project

  Clinical Professor Jaime Murray-Branch is the lead collaborator on the “Text-to-Pictures” project where researchers are working to create an iPad appl...

• 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 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 Interplay of Working Families’ Employment Conditions and School Engagement

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

• The 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 Menominee Community Journey to Wellness

  Menominee County, which is made up of the Menominee Reservation, is the poorest Wisconsin county and currently ranks last in Wisconsin’s County Health...

• 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...

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

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

• 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...

• Tobacco Free, Living Lean, Eating Green

  Manitowoc County is committed to increasing activity in after school youth activities. We will be working with farmers and schools to get healthy prod...

• Training for School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists

  UW-Madison Faculty Associate Trici Schraeder provides professional in-service training for school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs). She has b...

• Transforming Fond du Lac County

  Mobilizing a strong base of existing coalitions and true community partnerships, the Transforming Fond du Lac initiative will enable the county to ach...

• Transforming Marathon County

  Marathon County is participating in the Transform Wisconsin program to increase access and education for healthy lifestyles. Within Marathon County, c...

• Transforming Through Collaboration

  Thirty community organizations are collaborating to make La Crosse a healthier county by improving access to local fruits and vegetables though county...

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

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

• Tumor Ablation Program

  The tumor ablation program is a group of engineers working with world-leading clinicians to develop minimally invasive therapies for cancer. By provid...

• 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 - 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Urban and Regional Planning 912: Planning Workshop

  The City of Madison, Dane County, City of Lodi, Town of Verona, Calumet County, Jefferson County and Columbia County have partnered with UW-Madison ur...

• 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 Researchers Discover a Faster and More Efficient Way to Diagnose Asthma

  Neutrophils, the most abundant kind of white blood cell in the body, can be used to quickly and accurately diagnose even the mildest cases of asthma....

• UW Speech and Hearing Clinic

  UW-Madison opened the nation’s first speech clinic in 1914. Over 100 years later, the UW Speech and Hearing Clinic (UWSHC) is still up and running. Th...

• UW Speech and Hearing Clinic Hearing Aid Recycling Program (HARP)

  The UWSHC Hearing Aid Recycling Program (HARP) provides hearing healthcare to individuals in Dane County who cannot otherwise afford it. HARP recipien...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Wheelhouse Studios - Wisconsin Union

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

• Where Is Care: Mobile application for low-socioeconomic position patients in Wisconsin

  Where Is Care is an online community of free and subsidized health and social services. Our goal is to help low-income uninsured and underinsured pat...

• 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,...

• 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 CARES: Creating A Responsive and Effective System for Protecting and Promoting our Children’s Well-Being

  The Wisconsin CARES initiative represents a collaborative effort between the UW-Madison, UW Cooperative Extension, county child and family serving age...

• Wisconsin Chapter of the American Parkinson Disease Association

  The Wisconsin Chapter of the American Parkinson Disease Association serves the Wisconsin community of people affected by Parkinson's disease (PD). Thi...

• 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 HIV Training System

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

• Wisconsin Idea Scholar Program (2012-13)

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

• Wisconsin 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 Longitudinal Study (WLS)

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

• Wisconsin Mental Health Learning Collaborative

  NIATx, a division of the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies, is working with Wisconsin counties to reduce hospital readmissions for psychia...

• Wisconsin Partnership Program

  The Wisconsin Partnership Program is an endowment within the UW School of Medicine and Public Health dedicated to creating lasting improvements in hea...

• Wisconsin Poverty Report

  All 72 of Wisconsin's counties are covered by the annual Wisconsin Poverty Report, an up-to-date analysis of poverty, food insecurity, and areas of ra...

• Wisconsin Regional Artist Program

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

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

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

• Wisconsin Science Festival

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

• Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office

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

• Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Forensic Toxicology (OWI and death investigations)

  The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Forensic Toxicology Section provides alcohol and drug testing to local and state law enforcement agencies in...

• 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 Surgical Coaching Program

  Of the approximately 1.2 million inpatient operations performed each year in Wisconsin, an estimated 36,000 to 43,000 patients will experience a serio...

• Wisconsin Twin Research Program

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

• 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 Wellness Campaign

  The Wisconsin Wellness Campaign is an annual event that invites the community to campus to promote healthy lifestyle choices. This free event gives co...

• 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 of Worth (WOW): Family Centered Treatment Project

  This project will address the issues related to alcohol and drug abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders for women and their children in the Ra...

• Women's Studies Consortium

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

• World Cinema Day

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

• WPT Broadcast of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Visit

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

• Writers' Institute Conference

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

• 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...