Projects located in or benefitting Dane County

• Towards a Sustainable Agriculture - A Curriculum for High School Classes

  The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems has developed a curriculum on sustainable agriculture for use in high school classes. The curriculum f...

• Osher Returning Adult Undergraduate Scholarship

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

• Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers

  The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers combines knowledge from experienced growers and UW-Madison faculty. This 3-day, winter workshop give...

• Arts Outreach Program

  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...

• UW–Madison Writers’ Institute

  About 200 fiction and nonfiction writers meet by Lake Mendota in Madison each summer to learn about publishing trends, improve their craft and discove...

• Adult Career and Special Student Services (ACSSS)

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

• Wisconsin Small Engine Consortium

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

• Center for Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM)

  Founded in 1993, the QRM Center is a partnership between companies, faculty and students at UW-Madison, dedicated to the research and implementation o...

• Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS)

  The Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS) is development of software to provide support to breast cancer patients, in both English a...

• Direct-injection Engine Research Consortium (DERC)

  The Engine Research Center (ERC) at UW-Madison launched an international Diesel Emissions Reduction Consortium (DERC) in 2004 (later renamed the Direc...

• Deadly Writers Patrol

  UW-Madison Professor Craig Werner works with this Vietnam veterans writing group, which does public readings and puts out a magazine featuring veteran...

• Wisconsin Englishes Project

  The WEP is working to understand regional differences in English across the state, such as distinct vocabulary, pronunciations, idioms and ethnic infl...

• Water Resources Management Program

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

• Research on Wetland Restoration

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society

  Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society is an independent, summer chamber music festival. Its performances are in June each year, and take place in Madison...

• 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...

• American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices Online

  At least a dozen Wisconsin counties have had outreach presentations from the American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices Online project of UW–Madison...

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

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

• 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...

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

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

• PLATO: Participatory Learning and Teaching Organization

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

• Menominee Dictionary Project

  UW-Madison Professor Monica Macaulay works with the Menominee Language and Culture Commission of the Menominee tribe on language revitalization projec...

• First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community

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

• Women in Government Leadership Program

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

• Wisconsin HIV Training System

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

• 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...

• Office of Student Financial Services FASTrack Program

  The Office of Student Financial Services has a long history of providing extra help to low-income undergraduates through the FASTrack program. FASTrac...

• Arndt Family Scholarships

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

• 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...

• Wisconsin Union Theater

  The Wisconsin Union Theater presents its own season and also serves as the university's main and largest public venue. The audience and artists includ...

• How German Is American? Poster and Interpretive Brochure Project

  Free outreach events in seven Wisconsin counties were held for the How German is American? project, for which UW-Madison faculty and staff produced a...

• Wisconsin Clinical Laboratory Network

  The Wisconsin Clinical Laboratory Network (WCLN) is a network of more than 130 hospital and clinic laboratories in Wisconsin, with the Wisconsin State...

• Days in the Field

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

• Odyssey Project

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

• 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...

• Cooperative Children's Book Center

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

• Curb Magazine

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

• Improving Public Understanding of Educational Policy and Practice

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

• Epistemic Games

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

• Political Science Department - Prof. David Canon

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

• Neuroscience Outreach

  As part of the Neuroscience Training Program, UW-Madison Professor Lyn Turkstra does outreach with middle and high schools statewide to increase aware...

• Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions

  The Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions (LISAR) is dedicated to creating better understanding of the Abrahamic traditions and the...

• Post-Closure Protocol Study

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

• Impacts of Unsewered Subdivisions on Groundwater Quality

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

• IceCube Neutrino Observatory Construction

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

• 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...

• North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research Program (NTL-LTER)

  The North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research Program (NTL-LTER) studies lakes and watersheds of the Yahara River Lake District near Madison...

• Molecular Biometry Cluster

  UW-Madison Professor Julie Mitchell was trained as a pure mathematician and presently does applied work in computational biology. Mitchell collaborate...

• Starting New High-Tech Businesses in Wisconsin

  UW-Madison Chemistry Professor Lloyd Smith has started and helped grow and direct three high-tech companies in the Madison area, in partnership with T...

• Wisconsin Firewagon Project

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

• 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...

• Capital Science & Engineering Fair

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

• 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,...

• Public Works Supervisory Academy

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Summer Workshop on Atmospheric, Earth and Space Sciences

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

• Food Research Institute

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

• UW Soil and Forage Lab

  Located in Marshfield, Wisconsin, the UW Soil and Forage Lab offers a wide range of diagnostic services to campus researchers and the general public....

• Horticulture Open House at West Madison Agricultural Research Station

  At this family-friendly field day, held annually, visitors are welcome to tour the station’s extensive flowerbeds, where more than 300 cultivars of an...

• 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...

• Discovery Farms Program

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

• CIMSS Regional Assimilation System (CRAS)

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

• Breakfast on the Farm

  Each spring, the Association of Women in Agriculture (AWA) student organization hosts a breakfast on the farm event in the Madison area that includes...

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

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

• Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Study Group

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

• 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...

• Biocore Outreach Ambassador Program

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

• Annual Hearing, Speech, Language Screening for At-Risk Children

  The UW Speech and Hearing Clinic provides the hearing and middle ear screenings for over 1,000 children who attend Dane County Head Start (Reach Dane)...

• 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....

• ThinkFirst Injury Prevention Program

  The ThinkFirst Injury Prevention Program instructs K-12 students regarding injury prevention in Dane County. In 2006, ThinkFirst Injury Prevention co...

• UW-Madison Stroke Team

  Professor Robert Dempsey acts as head of the UW-Madison Stroke Team, which provides a multi-departmental approach to the distribution causes, scientif...

• 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...

• French 595: Theory and Practice of French & Francophone Drama

  Every other year, students enrolled in the French theatre course 595 produce a full-length play in French that is performed in one of the UW-Madison c...

• Prison Writing Project

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

• 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...

• UW Specialty Ophthalmology Clinic in Mauston

  Along with Drs. Potter, Blodi, Liu, and Patterson , Dr. Gary Sterken examines a variety of eye patients in Mauston, treating their various conditions...

• Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network

  The Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network is a nationwide clinical research network which aims to develop better means of treating complicati...

• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center

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

• Evidence-Based Health Policy Project

  The Evidence-Based Health Policy project, in collaboration with the Wisconsin Legislative Council and the La Follette School of Public Affairs, promot...

• Dairy Cattle Nutrition & Forage Utilization

  Dairy Cattle Nutrition & Forage Utilization provides research and outreach programs on applied dairy cattle nutrition, with emphasis on forage utiliza...

• Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region

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

• WISCareers Web Site

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

• Radiation Oncology Outreach Clinics

  One of the the primary missions of the Department of Human Oncology is to extend its faculty's expertise in the areas of patient care, research, educa...

• Volunteer Madison Community Free Ophthalmology Clinic

  Providing eye care to underprivileged members of the community. The Madison Free Opthalmology Clinic is a monthly event, in partnership with LensCraf...

• 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....

• Oculoplastic Surgery Service

  UW-Madison professor Mark Lucarelli helps teach ophthalmology residents who will go on to be ophthalmologists in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Additionall...

• 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...

• Custom Applicator Program (CAP)

  Representatives of UW-Madison's Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program, Wisconsin Crop Production Association (WCPA), and Fox Valley Technical Colle...

• 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...

• Enhancing Eye Health Through Healthful Diets

  The Nutrition and Eye Health Program has conducted population studies in four large samples, some which include Wisconsin residents, that inform us of...

• Land Arch. 365: Planting Design

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

• Research on Native Grassland Systems in Wisconsin

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

• Improving the Microbiological Safety of Foods

  The primary objective of the Food Research Institute's (FRI) laboratory is to identify factors to control disease-causing bacteria in foods and to ser...

• Madison-Area Consensus Conference on Nanotechnology

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

• Science Saturdays at UW Space Place

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

• Tuesday Evening Programs at UW Space Place

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

• Washburn Observatory Public Nights

  The UW Astronomy Department offers free public viewings at the Washburn Observatory located on the Madison Campus area. The Open House sessions contin...

• Wisconsin 511 Traveler Information System

  The nationwide 511 Traveler Information Program began in July 2000 when the FCC designated the three-digit telephone dialing code 5-1-1 for traveler i...

• 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...

• MEDiC Free Clinics

  Established in 1990, MEDiC is a student-run program of the University of Wisconsin School of Madison and Public Health and is comprised of seven healt...

• Free Melanoma/Skin Cancer Screening

  Free skin cancer screening is done each spring, before people start enjoying the sunny weather. Screenings are held on the Capitol Square for the pub...

• Turfgrass Diagnostic Lab

  The Turfgrass Diagnostic Lab provides assistance to professional and non-professional (i.e. homeowner) turfgrass managers to produce high-quality turf...

• Family Horticulture Day at West Madison Agriculture Research Station

  UW-Madison's Annual Family Horticulture Day welcomes gardeners of all ages to the UW West Madison Agriculture Research Station to hone their horticult...

• SnapPlus Crop Nutrient Management Planning Software

  SnapPlus is a software package allowing agronomists and farmers anywhere in the state to prepare a multi-year, field-by-field plan for applying fertil...

• Wisconsin Phosphorus Index

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

• SpectroCon LLC - Startup Company

  UW Associate Professor Nadine Connor, Associate Professor Gregory Hartig, and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Michael Conforti have founded a start-up c...

• Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI)

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

• Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute-Affiliated Dementia Diagnostic Clinic Network

  The Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute (WAI) has been critical to the development of a network of 44 affiliated dementia diagnostic clinics. WAI provides...

• The Center for Patient Partnerships

  The Center for Patient Partnerships is an interdisciplinary patient advocacy education center of the Schools of Law, Medicine and Public Health, Pharm...

• Wisconsin Blue Books: Online Access

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

• Wisconsin 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...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Office of Rural Health (WI-ORH)

  The Wisconsin Office of Rural Health (WI-ORH), located within the UW's School of Medicine and Public Health, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to...

• Wisconsin Water Library Web site

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

• Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship (WAVE)

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

• New Physicians for Wisconsin Program (Wisconsin Office of Rural Health)

  New Physicians for Wisconsin is a 35-year old, non-profit physician recruitment program for the state of Wisconsin. This program serves to address the...

• 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...

• CIMSS/SSEC Exploration Station at the Annual AMS WeatherFest Science Fair

  WeatherFest is a science and weather fair held in conjunction with the American Meteorological Society's (AMS) annual meeting. The Cooperative Institu...

• 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...

• 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...

• Lancaster Agricultural Research Station

  The Lancaster Agricultural Research Station is located in Grant County on hills and valleys that are typical of southwest Wisconsin, an area of the st...

• West Madison Agricultural Research Station

  The West Madison Agricultural Research Station is located on the western edge of the city of Madison, approximately eight miles from the UW-Madison Ca...

• Centralized Greenhouse System

  The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences operates several research and instructional greenhouses under a centralized management system, administe...

• Small Business Development Center Assistance to Platypus Technologies, LLC

  Dr. Barbara Israel of the UW School of Veterinary Medicine formed Platypus Technologies, a company focused on the development of liquid crystal detect...

• Industrial Refrigeration Consortium

  The Industrial Refrigeration Consortium (IRC) is a collaborative effort between UW-Madison and industry. The goal is to improve the safety, efficiency...

• Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium

  The Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium gives commercial partners the opportunity to collaborate with students and faculty in advanced materials...

• Wisconsin Consortium for Applied Water Quality Research

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

• UW E-Business Consortium (UWEBC)

  The UW E-Business Consortium (UWEBC) is a collaborative learning community comprising Wisconsin's leading companies and flagship university. The UWEBC...

• Families and Schools Together (FAST)

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Agriculture Financial Advisor (AgFA)

  Agriculture Financial Advisor (AgFA) is computerized financial management system developed at the UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability that serve...

• Agriculture Accounting and Information System (AAIMS)

  AAIMS is a stand-alone transparent double entry accounting program developed at the UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability that allows for the conc...

• 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...

• Master of Engineering Management (MEM)

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

• Continuing Legal Education and Outreach program; UW Law School

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

• Boosting School Performance of Children from Low-income Families

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

• The Center for Dairy Research

  The Center for Dairy Research (CDR) is a leader in innovative dairy research, processing, education and product development and application that focu...

• Reducing Tobacco Use Among LGBT Populations in Wisconsin

  Diverse and Resilient, Inc. of Milwaukee, Dane, La Crosse and Chippewa Counties was awarded $475,000 for "Reducing Tobacco Use Among LGBT Populations...

• 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...

• ConjuGon Inc. Partnership

  Marcin Filutowicz, a professor of bacteriology at UW-Madison, has made tremendous strides in combating antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. Filut...

• Cellular Dynamics International

  Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), a Madison-based biotechnology company, is the worlds largest producer of fully functional human cells derived f...

• Engineering Cooperative Education & Summer Internship Program

  The Engineering Cooperative Education & Summer Internship Program supplements the Wisconsin engineering workforce by providing students 3-12 months of...

• 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...

• Jail Library Project and Kids' Connection

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

• Understanding Factors Influencing Calcium Absorption

  In partnership with the UW-Madison Institute for Clinical & Translational Research, this project hopes to understand the factors influencing calcium a...

• PDA Animated Weather (PAW)

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

• Online Courses for Professional Development and Enrichment

  On any given day more than 100 Wisconsin residents are working one-on-one over the Internet with UW-Madison instructors in a wide variety of online co...

• Wisconsin Child Welfare Training System

  The Wisconsin Child Welfare Training System includes the Department of Children and Families (DCF), county child welfare agencies, tribal child welfar...

• Civil Engineering 649: Sustainable Building

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

• Accelerated Durable Highway Bridge Design and Construction

  UW-Madison Professors Lawrence Bank, Jeff Russell and Mike Oliva from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are working with the Wisco...

• Urban Entrepreneur Partnership

  The goal of the Center on Business and Poverty, an initiative of the UW-Madison School of Business, is to support and disseminate high-quality researc...

• Great World Texts in Wisconsin

  The mission of the Great World Texts in Wisconsin program is to encourage more high school and university students to read the classic world texts of...

• 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...

• Medicaid Waiver and BadgerCare Program Evaluations

  The Medicaid Waiver and BadgerCare Program Evaluation consists of several components. These include: affordability and coverage at various income leve...

• Wisconsin Native Plant Garden

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

• Tours at the UW-Madison Geology Museum

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

• Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Consortium

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

• Grants Information Collection

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

• German Words—American Voices

  Drawing on recently digitized interviews from the North American German Dialect Archive at the UW–Madison Max Kade Institute, "German Words, American...

• 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...

• Great Lakes Maritime History Project

  Wisconsin has a proud and colorful history, and one of its richest and most romantic chapters is its maritime history, staged on the waters of Lake Mi...

• History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life

  The History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life collection is based on a bibliography compiled as part of the National Preservation Project for Ag...

• Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study

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

• Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin

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

• James Graaskamp Landmark Research Collection

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

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

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

• Aldo Leopold Archives

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

• Risk Communication in action

  Current research includes ongoing surveys about public attitudes toward gene editing, nanotechnology, nuclear energy, synthetic biology, and other eme...

• Applied Learning Projects (ALPs) for Arts Administration MBA Students

  MBA students in the Arts Administration program participate in hands-on projects with leading nonprofit arts and cultural institutions and statewide m...

• Forensic Sciences Using Strontium Isotopes

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

• WisBlawg

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

• Skin Cancer Screening

  The annual Skin Cancer Screening on the Square is a free service offered to the public, where UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health faculty...

• Engage Children in Science - Service Learning Course

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

• Equine Reproductive Management of Mares and Stallions

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

• Variety Test Results: Corn, Soybeans, Alfalfa, Small Grains

  The mission of this project is to develop relevant corn management programs that address needs expressed by Wisconsin farmers. Although farmers are t...

• Study on the Economic Impact of Tax and Spending Limits on Local Governments

  Fairly or not, Wisconsin has been branded as a high-tax state. This has spurred elected officials to impose tax and spending limits on local governme...

• Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station

  The Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station, within the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy, is a center of expertise serving faculty researchers across the...

• Public Library Director Certification Courses

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

• Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)

  SHOW conducts annual statewide surveys of the health status and health-related needs of the population of Wisconsin. Each year SHOW gathers data on a...

• Medical Spanish 319: A Service Learning Course

  In this course, undergraduates gain the linguistic and cultural tools necessary to facilitate communication between Spanish and English speakers in th...

• 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...

• Raising Hell for Justice: An Autobiography of Congressman Dave Obey

  David R. Obey (D-Wausau, retired) is the longest-serving member of the U.S. Congress in Wisconsin history and the former chair of the House Appropriat...

• Continuing Education Courses for Engineers and Technical Professionals

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

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• Family Business Center (FBC)

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

• Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)

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

• Milk Urea Nitrogen as a nutritional and environmental tool for dairy farmers

  Our Research has shown that Milk urea Nitrogen (MUN), which is easily and routinely measured in the milk of dairy cows, can be used to fine-tune dairy...

• 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...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Folksong Collection

  The Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, represents materials from two collections housed in three discrete but closely related repositories. Th...

• 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...

• Lakeshore Nature Preserve

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

• Center on Education and Work

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

• 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...

• Summer Science Institute

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

• 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...

• FASD Education and Outreach Projects

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

• Integrative Medicine Web-Based Educational Modules for Clinicians and Handouts for Patients

  A UW-Madison team has created educational modules for health care practitioners and made them available on the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicin...

• Strengthening Treatment Access and Retention - Quality Improvement (STAR-QI)

  The Wisconsin STAR-QI program (formerly known as STAR-SI) began in October 2006 as a three-year grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Servi...

• Kids Klub

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

• Development of a New Molecular Viral Diagnostic Test

  UW-Madison Pediatrics Professor James Gern worked with a Madison area biotechnology company to develop a rapid and comprehensive test for respiratory...

• Manduca: Using Insects in the Classroom

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

• Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory

  The Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory (TCNL) develops theory and application of neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to re...

• 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...

• Surveys of the Enacted Curriculum

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

• Leadership Opportunities with Communities, the Underserved and Special populations (LOCUS)

  Leadership Opportunities with Communities, the Underserved and Special Populations (LOCUS) is an extracurricular, longitudinal service-learning progra...

• Waisman Early Childhood Program

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

• Policy Capstone Project Leads to Renewable Energy in Wisconsin

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

• Time to Event Analysis of Drug Court Health Outcomes

  A drug court treatment program (DCTP) is provided in Dane County, and in over 1,800 other county jurisdictions in the United States, as an alternative...

• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

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

• Mentorship Achievement Program

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

• Medical students Offering Maternal Support (MOMS)

  The Medical students Offering Maternal Support (MOMS) Program ("Dando a Luz" for Spanish speaking patients) is an extracurricular medical student init...

• 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...

• Doctors Ought to Care

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

• Department of Family Medicine YouTube Channel

  The UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine has established a YouTube Channel to promote health care related digital media to medical students, resid...

• Career Development Facilitator Training

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

• Grandparents University

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Traditional High School Program

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

• 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...

• K-12 Leadership Certification Programs

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

• 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...

• 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...

• The UW Historic Aerial Protography of Wisconsin Project

  The UW Map Library owns an extensive and popular collection of historic aerial photography of Wisconsin, dating back to the 1930s. The project will pr...

• 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...

• Focus

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

• Co-op Care Health Insurance Program

  Co-op Care is a program funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Fund, with the Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives serving as the community partner. The...

• UW Cinematheque

  The Cinematheque is dedicated to showcasing the best in international cinema history and contemporary movies which would otherwise never reach Madison...

• 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...

• Antarctic Meteorological Research Center

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

• Early Mathematics Placement Tool

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

• Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN)

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

• UW-Madison Oral History Program

  The UW--Madison Oral History Program seeks to gather, provide, and provide access to in-depth, historical interviews with current and former UW--Madis...

• Wisconsin State Reading Teacher and Reading Specialist Licenses

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

• Annual University of Wisconsin Reading Research Symposium

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

• Wisconsin 4H Astronomy Project

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Energy Institute

  The Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) is working on one of the most critical challenges of our time – the transition toward new, clean energy systems a...

• Center on Business and Poverty - Associated Projects

  The goal of the Center on Business and Poverty, an initiative of the Wisconsin School of Business, is to support ways in which employers can help impr...

• 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...

• 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...

• Center on Wisconsin Strategy

  The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan "think-and-do tank" dedicated to improving economic performance and living standar...

• Game-based Learning Approaches

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

• 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...

• 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...

• The Wonders of Physics Annual Shows

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

• 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...

• Biocore Prairie Bird Observatory for bird banding

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells

  "Picturing Indians" is a fascinating book about the late 19th century photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett (who made the Wisconsin Dells famous through...

• Building the Case for FRESH Food in Southern Wisconsin

  Farmers Raising Ecologically Sustainable, Healthy Food, or FRESH Food Connection, is a newly formed cooperative of community supported agriculture far...

• 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...

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

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

• Analysis of Socially Responsible Investing as an Investment Strategy

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

• Springs Window Fashions - Sustainability

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

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

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

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

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

• Fitchburg Fields Marketing Plan

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

• 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...

• Humanities Without Boundaries Lecture Series

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

• Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series

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

• Humanities NOW

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

• 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...

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

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

• Project Teach Sustainability: Spring Harbor

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

• Project Teach Sustainability: IMMS

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

• Wisconsin Manure Management Advisory System

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

• Online Chinese language courses for business professionals and high school students

  The Language Institute, in collaboration with several other campus units, has developed and is currently offering a two semester sequence of online Ch...

• Mentoring young women in Mathematics

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

• Entrepreneurial Management Venture Analysis Program - Wisconsin School of Business

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Global Health Institute

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute promotes equitable and sustainable global health education, research, service and interdis...

• School of Music Wind Ensemble Tour

  The UW School of Music Wind Ensemble makes it a practice to engage in several tours, performing for talented high school musicians in Wisconsin, Minne...

• 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...

• Biosolids safety research

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

• Wisconsin Institute for Healthy Aging

  The Wisconsin Institute for Healthy Aging is a partnership of the SMPH and state and private and community health care partners, dedicated to providin...

• A model for genetics in the classroom

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

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

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

• Wisconsin MBA Evening Program

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

• Wisconsin MBA Executive Program

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

• Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic

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

• Glenn Stephens Elementary - PTO - Science Night

  From 2007 to 2012, I organized the Science Night at Glenn Stephens Elementary. Every year approximately 12 scientific groups from the UW (e.g.: Neuros...

• Industry Partnerships, Bridges and Pathways: Experience Raising Skills in Wisconsin

  COWS has long provided technical assistance to the Department of Workforce Development and the Wisconsin Technical College System to improve education...

• Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center — Regenerative Medicine Speakers

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

• PosiPair.com

  The Web site name is a contraction of "Positive Product Pairing". PosiPair aims to facilitate links between green businesses and their partners, but a...

• Rural and Urban Scholars in Community Health (RUSCH)

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

• Wisconsin Public Utility Institute

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

• Smart Prevention: Improving aquatic invasive species prevention programs in Wisconsin

  The Center for Limnology is sharing information about the vulnerability of Wisconsin lakes to infestation by invasive species. Aquatic invasive specie...

• 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...

• Outreach lectures on the physiological effects of alcohol

  Based on a lecture series developed for an interdisciplinary course (ILS 111: Alcohol; Behavior, Culture and Science), I have given invited lectures a...

• Sustainable Springs Window Fashions

  Springs Window Fashions produces blinds, shades, and drapery which have sustainable qualities. One of these qualities is heat retention/blockage, and...

• Lands’ End-Solar Hot Water Energy

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

• Land’s End- Calculating a Carbon Footprint

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

• Lands' End- Sustainable Clothing Dyes Project

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

• Recollection Wisconsin

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

• Greening of Willy St.

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

• Partnerships for Sustainability Project

  Partnerships for Sustainability (PFS) is a nonprofit organization designed to provide businesses of 250 employees or less in Southeastern Wisconsin wi...

• Innovation and Economic Development Research Program

  The Innovation and Economic Development Research Program is a state-funded annual grants program that awards funds to faculty or academic staff who ar...

• The Prints of Warrington Colescott: Sixty Years of Art & Satire

  Since the 1940's, Wisconsin printmaker Warrington Colescott has trained his artistic eye on the fashions and foibles of human behavior. The University...

• Book on the Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes

  The book "Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes," by archeologist Robert Birmingham, has been published by the Un...

• Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative

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

• Wisconsin Bioenergy Summit

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

• Charter Street Heating Plant Conversion

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

• 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...

• Annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium

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

• 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...

• University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI)

  The University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) was founded in 1992 by Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA and is recognize...

• 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...

• We Conserve

  We Conserve is a campaign that was initiated in April 2006, following a $29 million investment to increase the energy efficiency of the campus facilit...

• UW E-Business Institute (UWEBI) and Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP)

  The UW E-Business Institute (UWEBI) and the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP) have an established partnership to enable Wisconsin m...

• Sonderegger Research Center (SRC)

  Established in 1985 through the UW School of Pharmacy, the Sonderegger Research Center (SRC) conducts research that promotes health, improves healthca...

• 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...

• Wisconsin PeerSpectives Network

  Wisconsin PeerSpectives Network: Peer-to-Peer Learning for Entrepreneurs, is a way for peer groups, composed of eight to 12 noncompeting business own...

• Supervisory Leadership Series

  The Supervisory Leadership Series, held on the UW-Madison campus through the Small Business Development Center, is designed to offer core supervisory...

• High Performance Leadership Series

  The High Performance Leadership Series, held on the UW-Madison campus through the Small Business Development Center, is designed for people that are l...

• People and Communication Skills Series

  The People and Communication Skills Series, held on the UW-Madison campus through the Small Business Development Center, is designed for business lead...

• Financial Management Series

  The Financial Management Series, held on the UW-Madison campus through the Small Business Development Center, teaches people how to set up financial r...

• UW Cardiovascular Research Center

  The UW Cardiovascular Research Center brings together over 130 researchers, physicians and educators to focus on ways to prevent and treat cardiac pro...

• UW Institute on Aging

  The Institute on Aging at UW-Madison focuses on addressing the problems of aging, which include diseases and impairments, challenges during later life...

• 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 Health Osteoporosis Clinical Center and Research Program

  The UW Health Osteoporosis Clinical Center and Research Program located in Madison, provides clinical evaluation and treatment of people with osteopor...

• MicroExplorers

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

• 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...

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• AgrAbility

  Since 1991, AgrAbility of Wisconsin has been promoting success in agriculture for farmers with disabilities and their families. Services are available...

• Earth Focus Day Camp (EFDC)

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

• Center for Community and Economic Development (CCED)

  We teach, learn, lead and serve, connecting people with the University of Wisconsin, and engaging with them in transforming lives and communities.

• Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS)

  The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) is a research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's College of Agricultural and Life S...

• Program on Agricultural Technology Studies (PATS)

  The Program on Agricultural Technology Studies (PATS) is an applied research and extension unit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The program pr...

• Center for Communication Research

  The Center for Communication Research is dedicated to promoting communication research at the University of Wisconsin and beyond. It is committed to...

• Evaluation of "democracy it is!"

  Democracy it is! was a program for K-12 in-school use with eight programs designed to meet the needs of educators in reaching and exceeding Wisconsin...

• Evaluation of Fusion Science Theater

  Fusion Science Theater is an innovative program in which science educators, theater educators, science outreach professionals, and theater artists cr...

• Summer Science Camp

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

• UW Center for Nonprofits

  The Center for Non-profit Leadership was established at UW-Madison in 2008 through the School of Human Ecology. The center coordinates faculty intere...

• Family Impact Seminars

  The Family Impact Seminars is a series of presentations, briefing reports and discussion sessions that provide state policymakers with high-quality, o...

• The SRC Education and Outreach Group

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

• 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...

• 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 Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit (WCWRU)

  The US Geological Survey Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit (WCWRU) is one of two federal cooperative units in the state. The Cooperative Un...

• WisItalia

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

• Family Voices Community-University Partnership Project

  Family Voices is a partnership program of several University of Wisconsin-Madison units with the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County. The partnership p...

• 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....

• Wisconsin Pesticide Applicator Training Program (PAT)

  Wisconsin's Pesticide Applicator Training Program (PAT) provides leadership in coordinating the state's educational effort dealing with pesticides, an...

• Nutrient and Pest Management Program (NPM)

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

• WI Sustainable Business Green Masters Program

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

• Exploration by Design

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

• Urban Horticulture Field Day

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

• UW-CREATe

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

• The Midwest Alliance

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

• ARTe Design

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

• Managing Nutrients on Wisconsin Soils

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

• Training for Nutrient Management Planners

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

• 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...

• Business, Environment & Social Responsibility Program (BESR)

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

• Special Symposium on Applied Evolution

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

• Center of Rapid Evolution (CORE)

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

• Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)

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

• 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...

• Posse Program

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

• Madison Early Music Festival

  The Madison Early Music Festival was created in 2000 to provide an opportunity for musicians, scholars, teachers and early music enthusiasts to gather...

• Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth (WCATY)

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

• Wisconsin China Initiative

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

• Wisconsin-China Water Collaborations: Past, Present, and future

  The Wisconsin China Initiative held a panel discussion on water collaborations on the UW-Madison campus in October 2010. The event featured four keyno...

• Leadership Wisconsin

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

• 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...

• The Role of Organizations and Interorganizational Relationships in Reducing Disparities in Infant Mortality

  The United States has one of the highest rates of infant mortality of any industrialized nation, and also demonstrates markedly persistent racial and...

• Evenings of American Indian Storytelling

  Each winter, the American Indian Studies program at UW-Madison joins the Wunk Sheek student group in hosting the Annual Evenings of American Indian St...

• Fusion Technology Institute (FTI)

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Integrated Mosquito Management Website

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

• Collegiate Poetry Slam

  The fourth annual Collegiate Poetry Slam, held by the Multicultural Student Coalition, creates a unique space on campus for UW-Madison students, facul...

• Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM)

  The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM), located within the Waisman Center at UW-madison, is a research center dedicated to creating a world...

• Climate Leadership Challenge (CLC)

  The Climate Leadership Challenge (CLC) is a philanthropically funded annual student innovation competition, open to all students at UW-Madison. The c...

• The Weston Roundtable Series

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

• Arboretum I-MAP

  The Arboretum I-MAP is an interactive website that offers users a new way to connect with the Arboretum. Users have the opportunity to acquire general...

• The Glove Project

  The glove project, which began in 2008, was led by a team of UW-Madison engineers that scientifically measured hand pressure during cycling and studie...

• Sustainable Energy Working Group

  The Sustainable Energy Working Group was created through the UW-Madison Sustainability Initiative to develop and promote a culture of energy literacy...

• Health Sustainability Working Group

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

• UW System eCampus

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

• SHAPE

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

• 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...

• Basic Small Animal Ultrasound Techniques

  The Basic Small Animal Ultrasound Techniques is an annual one-day conference held through the Office of Continuing Veterinary Medical Education at the...

• Local and Regional Food Distribution Project

  The Local and Regional Food Distribution project was developed in response to a rise in inquiries from Wisconsin farmers looking for high-volume loca...

• Global Health Initiative Health Incubator Series

  Vision: Equitable and sustainable health for people, animals and ecosystems—across Wisconsin and the world. Mission: We embrace a new global health et...

• 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 Learning Center Science Outreach Program

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

• Allied 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...

• MEDiC Preventative Medicine Initiative

  MEDiC Free Clinics delivers a monthly educational, preventative medicine sessions at Porchlight's Brooks Street SRO Program housing facility. Each mo...

• MEDiC Free Dental Clinic

  MEDiC Free Clinics operates a free dental clinic serving residents of the Salvation Army Homeless Shelter. An average of 200 homeless individuals rec...

• Family-Focused Intervention for Latino Families Affected by Parental Depression

  When a parent has depression, the child shares the confusion and shame associated with the depression. This risk is highest when the family lives in p...

• 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...

• 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...

• Project HealthDesign

  Project HealthDesign is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that's housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School...

• Sharing Science with Wisconsin

  There are a myriad of science outreach activities and events occurring year-round, every day at UW-Madison, which are free and open to the public. The...

• UW-Madison Science Alliance

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

• Science Expeditions

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

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

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

• Improving Family Interview of Empowering Families Milwaukee Home Visiting Program

  Katherine Magnuson is conducting research with the Milwaukee Department of Health to improve their Empowering Families Milwaukee (EFM) home visiting p...

• 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...

• Syntax Untangler

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

• 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...

• CyCLeS: Cycling of Carbon in Lake Superior

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

• 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...

• Arboretum Ecological Restoration Work Parties

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

• Madison Neighborhood Indicators

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Delta Internship Program

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Language Assessment Support Services

  UW-Madison Outreach Specialist and Director of Services for Transcription and Consultation Services for SALT Software company, Karen Andriacchi, provi...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Fighting Autism

  Associate Dean of the College of Letters and Science Susan Ellis Weismer is investigating early language development and is seeking predictors of kind...

• Communication Development in Children with Cerebral Palsy

  Professor Katie Hustad’s research is focused on the study of changes in speech language, cognition and functional communication abilities among childr...

• Improving Language and Cognitive Outcomes in Bilingual Children

  UW Professor Margarita Kaushanskaya’s research aims to examine how input in two languages affects language and cognitive outcomes in children, both th...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

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

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

• 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...

• Part-time MSW program with UW-Eau Claire

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Orthopedics Workshop for Veterinary Technicians

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

• Exploring interfaces between science and the humanities

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

• 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...

• UW-Madison scientists played role in potato genome project

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

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

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

• Biomedical engineering student invention expo showcases solutions

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Celebrate Read an E-book Week with a free e-book from UW Press

  The University of Wisconsin Press celebrated Read an E-Book Week by highlighting the hundreds of titles it has available in e-book formats. Read an E-...

• 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...

• 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...

• Undergraduate Symposium

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

• CARDS Community Advisors for Research Design and Strategies

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, the Lussier Community Education Center and the Goodman Community Center have been awarded a thr...

• Using satellites to enhance air quality understanding

  Professors Tracey Holloway (Nelson Institute/SAGE) and Steven Ackerman (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences/CIMSS), along with Wisconsin Department of Na...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Radiation Measurements Inc.

  UW medical physicist John Cameron founded Radiation Measurements Inc., a spinoff company which creates quality control devices to test the accuracy of...

• Networking Across the Supply Chain:Transportation Innovations in Local and Regional Food Systems

  We are gathering together business representatives from across the Upper Midwest who are building new supply chains for a regional food system to shar...

• Marketing Proficiency Testing - Domestic and International

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

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

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

• Tomotherapy

  The Tomotherapy Project at the UW Department of Medical Physics designed a new way to treat cancer and to quality assure those treatments. It was the...

• Planning Dairy Farms in Transition

  Dairy farms in Wisconsin are transitioning from labor intensive stall/stanchion style dairy systems to more modern milking systems and freestall cow h...

• 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...

• Partner School Network

  The Partner School Network (PSN) at the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Education is made up of 25 schools across four local districts and...

• Aging with Intellectual Disability: Support for Wisconsin's Group Home Workers

  Based on research in Australia with caregivers of older adults with intellectual disability and in collaboration with the Wisconsin Dept. of Health Se...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP)

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

• Write-by-the-Lake Writer's Workshop & Retreat

  Public school teachers and writers from across the state attend this annual June writing week sponsored through UW-Madison Continuing Studies to impro...

• 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...

• 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...

• National Alliance on Mental Illness

  Dr. Gooding, an internationally recognized expert on schizophrenia and other forms of psychotic disorders, serves as a consultant for the state and lo...

• 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...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Telestroke Network

  There are 15,000 patients who suffer a stroke each year but only a tiny fraction receive the only drug proven to help them: tPA. Patients don't receiv...

• 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...

• Physics Department Colloquia

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

• Walter and Martha Renk Laboratory of Food Safety

  The Walter and Martha Renk Laboratory addresses basic and applied research problems of concern to consumers, food animal producers and food processing...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• CIMSS iPad Library

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

• Jobs for Wisconsin Grads

  All 13 UW-System four-year institutions are part of a partnership that allows an employer to post a job opening once and that position will be sent to...

• 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...

• Ride the Drive Helmet Fitting Stations

  Stemming from the project leader's observations at early events that many children had poorly-fitting bicycle helmets, this event takes place at Madis...

• 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...

• 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...

• Community Health Internship Program (CHIP) - Wisconsin AHEC

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

• UW Press

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

• Wisconsin Land Use Codes

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

• SoundWaves

  Professor Daniel Grabois created the SoundWaves series in 2012 as a way to bring scientific knowledge and music to the Madison community. SoundWaves e...

• 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...

• World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium

  WIDA is a project at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) that began as a federal grant in 2003 to develop a standards and assessment sy...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• West Nile Virus in the Upper Midwest

  Since 2004, Dr. Tony Goldberg's lab has studied West Nile virus in the Upper Midwest. The focus is on a study site in the west Chicago suburbs. The la...

• Kibale EcoHealth Project

  Wisconsin was the location of an outbreak of Monkeypox virus in 2003, originating from rodents imported from Africa. Exotic pathogens remain a major c...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Infant Study ("WISC")

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

• Wisconsin Statewide Broadband Initiative

  Dr. Bruce Maas is collaborating with the State CIO and DPI CIO, as well as leaders of state agencies, municipalities, representatives of telecommunica...

• 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 Master Naturalist Program

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Active Early

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Aldo Leopold Elementary School Outreach for World Languages

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

• Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Memory Screenings

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

• 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...

• 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...

• "Dig into Reading" Library Program

  In the summer of 2013 UW Geology Museum personnel traveled throughout south central and south western Wisconsin to public libraries as part of their S...

• 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...

• Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL)

  CALL is a formative assessment of leadership in elementary and secondary schools that assesses leadership as a function across the entire educational...

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

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Italian Day

  In April 2015 the Center for European Studies will host the sixth Italian Day for high school students. In 2013 Over 180 students from Wisconsin high...

• 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...

• MMSD Math Task Force

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

• Addressing Postpartum Depression in Wisconsin Home Visiting Programs

  The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) has identified postpartum depression as a major concern for women served by Home Visiting Prog...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Post Graduate Psychiatric Nursing Capstone Certificate Program

  Sobering statistics about the rise in military suicides as soldiers transition back to families and communities drive home the need for a stronger com...

• Wisconsin Planetarium Connections

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

• 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...

• WebEx Journal Club

  Each month, the Division of Vascular Surgery hosts an outside speaker to present materials on vascular issues via WebEx which is accessible via comput...

• 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...

• University of Wisconsin Electronic Health Record Public Health Information Exchange (UW e-Health PHINEX)

  The University of Wisconsin Electronic Health Record – Public Health Information Exchange (UW eHealth - PHINEX) links clinical care and public health...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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....

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Books about Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin

  The University of Wisconsin Press has published several books about Frank Lloyd Wright that contribute to the international interest in Wright that br...

• 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...

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

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Public Health Research Network (WPHRN)

  The Wisconsin Public Health Research Network (WPHRN) links public health practitioners and researchers to answer questions and disseminate discoveries...

• 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...

• 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...

• Accountable Care Communities

  Public Health Madison and Dane County was awarded a $50,000 planning grant in 2014 from the Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) at the UW-Madison Scho...

• 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...

• Phosphorus and water quality of the Yahara Lakes

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

• Alcohol Related Injury Screening and Education (ARISE)

  Edgerton Hospital partnered with several local agencies to develop a program to address the high rates of alcohol related injury, especially among you...

• 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...

• 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...

• Oakhill Prison Humanities Project

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

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

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

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

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

• Public Humanities Fellowship

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

• Briggs & Stratton Corporation

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

• Sustainability Metric Workbook

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

• 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...

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

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

• Future Roots: Business Plan Development

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

• Lady Pietro Lavender Farm: Wholesale and Commercial Market Analysis

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

• Sustainability Report for Bladesmith Gastro Brewery

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

• Visual Impressions Waste Diversion

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

• Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Roadmap Marketing

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Cut Flower Growers School

  The Wisconsin Cut Flower Growers School provide technical training for people interested in starting a business growing and selling cut flowers and ot...

• 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...

• 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...

• New Madison Brewpub Sustainability Program

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

• Future Roots Crop Production Plan

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Microfinance Program Development for SWCAP

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

• 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...

• Sustainability and All that Jazz

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Midwest Grape Growing School

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• SquirrelMapper

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

• Addressing the Emerald Ash Borer

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

• Pasture Partnership With Organic Valley

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

• Solar Panel Test Facility

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Mobile Fish Identification

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

• Supercomputers Allow for Cheaper Vehicle Testing

  Using the power of supercomputers, Dan Negrut, a UW-Madison associate professor of mechanical engineering, is setting up a simulation software infrast...

• 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...

• 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...

• Eco-Fruit Program

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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....

• 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...

• UW-Madison Professor Tracks Migration Patterns for Nationwide Project

  The types of people who choose to stay in or leave a community say a lot about the community itself. This is why Katherine Curtis, associate professor...

• Rural Cooperative Development Project

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Recovering Analog and Digital Data (RADD)

  The iSchool at UW-Madison spent 2016-17 rescuing Wisconsin history in audiovisual form. Oral histories and video documentaries in the Mineral Point Li...

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

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

• Supporting Smart Spaces

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

• Wisconsin Act 31 educational site

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

• UniverCity Year

  UW-Madison is partnering with the city of Monona for the first UniverCity Year. This initiative, led by Jason Vargo, an assistant scientist at the Nel...

• Research on AIS knowledge in Midwest lakes

  The Department of Natural Resources has been aided by Bret Shaw, an associate professor in the Department of Life Sciences Communication. Shaw and res...

• Urban Canid Project

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

• 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...

• Specialty Care Training in Speech Pathology

  Speech-language pathologists from around the state can partner with specialized speech-language pathologists in the UW Voice and Swallow Clinics for h...

• Fishwerks

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

• Surgery Clinical Research Experiences for High School Students

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

• The Use of Sensorized Breast Models for Clinical Skills Assessment

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

• Farm to School, Center for Integrated Agricultural Studies

  The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems is a lead partner in Wisconsin Farm to School (WIF2S) and Wisconsin Farm to Early Care and Education (W...

• 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...

• MEDiC–Center for Families Pediatric Clinic

  MEDiC, a UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) organization which operates seven student-run free clinics, provides healthcare to underserved...

• Building a comprehensive network of fruit growers to improve sustainable production of fruit crops in Wisconsin

  Fruit production in Wisconsin contributes over $400 million to the state economy. Underserved communities, such as Hmong, Amish and Latino, are import...

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

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

• University of Wisconsin African-American Athletes Oral History Project

  This project deepens our understanding of the African-American experience at the University of Wisconsin by recording oral history interviews with bla...

• Covering Wisconsin (CWI)

  Covering Wisconsin (CWI), based at the UW School of Human Ecology and affiliated with UW-Extension, connects residents with appropriate insurance cove...

• Deer population and forest change

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Fortalezas Familiares

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

• Small Scale Climate Models

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Statewide Digital Parcel Map Initiative

  The Statewide Digital Parcel Map Initiative resulting from Act 20, the state’s 2013-15 biennial budget bill. The Act directed the Dept. of Administrat...

• Great World Texts

  Great World Texts is a program through the Center for the Humanities. It creates a relationship between scholars at the university and high school tea...

• 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...

• Gener8tor

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

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

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

• Dementia Friendly Toolkit

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

• Response to Act 31: Disseminating Resources on American Indians in Wisconsin to Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers in the State

  WisconsinFirstNations.org addresses educator and administrator need for authentic and accurate PK-12 resources to address Wisconsin academic standards...

• 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...

• 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...

• Literacy by the Lakes

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

• Show me the bees! Engaging growers with citizen science to improve management of crop pollinators

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

• 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...

• eSchoolCare

  For many students, the school nurse may be the only health care professional seen consistently. School nurses face challenges: too little time, few re...

• 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...

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

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

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

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• CARE U: A Workshop for CNAs and PCWs Caring for Older Adults

  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...

• 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...

• Discovery Box

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

• Research & Environmental Education Partnerships: A Speed Networking Forum

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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:...