Projects located in or benefitting Green Lake County
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Wisconsin HIV Training System
The Wisconsin HIV Training System provides statewide coordination of training opportunities to increase the capacity of organizations and individuals...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Curb Magazine
Students in Journalism 417 each fall semester produce a magazine circulated throughout the state in print, and without boundaries online. Students pro...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Molecular Biometry Cluster
UW-Madison Professor Julie Mitchell was trained as a pure mathematician and presently does applied work in computational biology. Mitchell collaborate...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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CIMSS Regional Assimilation System (CRAS)
The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Regional Assimilation System (CRAS) is a collection of computer programs design...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Oculoplastic Surgery Service
UW-Madison professor Mark Lucarelli helps teach ophthalmology residents who will go on to be ophthalmologists in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Additionall...
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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...
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Custom Applicator Program (CAP)
Representatives of UW-Madison's Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program, Wisconsin Crop Production Association (WCPA), and Fox Valley Technical Colle...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Turfgrass Diagnostic Lab
The Turfgrass Diagnostic Lab provides assistance to professional and non-professional (i.e. homeowner) turfgrass managers to produce high-quality turf...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Agriculture Financial Advisor (AgFA)
Agriculture Financial Advisor (AgFA) is computerized financial management system developed at the UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability that serve...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Risk Communication in action
Current research includes ongoing surveys about public attitudes toward gene editing, nanotechnology, nuclear energy, synthetic biology, and other eme...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Wisconsin Folksong Collection
The Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, represents materials from two collections housed in three discrete but closely related repositories. Th...
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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...
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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...
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FASD Education and Outreach Projects
Providing training, technical assistance and clinical outreach for the prevention, identification, and treatment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Focus
For more than 35 years, the Institute for Research on Poverty’s flagship publication, Focus, has disseminated poverty-related research findings and th...
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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...
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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...
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Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) mission involves research in Antarctic observational meteorology and the stewardship of Antarctic...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic
The University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic (PDDC) provides assistance in identifying plant diseases and provides e...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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The Midwest Alliance
The Midwest Alliance offers high quality, supportive programs designed to guide students with disabilities in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin more effici...
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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...
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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...
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Leadership Wisconsin
Leadership Wisconsin is Wisconsin’s premier leadership development program with a national reputation for producing highly effective leaders. The goal...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Project HealthDesign
Project HealthDesign is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that's housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School...
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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...
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UW-Madison Science Alliance
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Alliance organizes public science outreach events and programs through collaborations with Wisconsin scien...
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Science Expeditions
Science Expeditions is an annual event held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery which invites lifelong learners...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Orthopedics Workshop for Veterinary Technicians
Participants will explore veterinary orthopedic conditions ranging from ligament and tendon damage to severely comminuted fractures. Participants will...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Marketing Proficiency Testing - Domestic and International
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Laboratory Improvement Division (LID) markets proficiency testing products to laboratories in Wisconsin,...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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No Limits Kids Fitness
This is an adapted fitness program for disabled children ages 7-17. Children with physical disabilities have very few opportunities to participate in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Physics Department Colloquia
The UW-Madison Physics Department sponsors a weekly colloquium featuring invited speakers addressing topical issues connected to physics such as Quant...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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UW Press
The UW Press publishes books (including ebooks) for Wisconsin and internationally. This page (http://uwpress.wisc.edu/WIRegional.html) contains a smal...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Wisconsin Master Naturalist Program
Supported through the University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Extension, the Master Naturalist program promotes awareness, understanding, and stew...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Wisconsin Planetarium Connections
The Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) has forged multiple partnerships in an attempt to create high-quality productions and build...
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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...
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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...
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Veterinary Care for Endangered Whooping Crane Reintroduction in Wisconsin
Since 2001, the Zoo Medicine service of UW Veterinary Care has provided the necessary health services to assist in the reintroduction of the endangere...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Oakhill Prison Humanities Project
OPHP is a collective of volunteers who provide educational programming to individuals incarcerated at Oakhill Correctional Institution, a minimum-secu...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Microfinance Program Development for SWCAP
The Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program (SWCAP) is a local, nongovernmental, nonprofit (501(c)(3)), antipoverty organization serving five...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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SquirrelMapper
Around 150 years ago, vast old growth forests covered the United States, giving melanistic (black) eastern gray squirrels the shadowy habitat they nee...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Rural Cooperative Development Project
The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives (UWCC) and its grant partner Cooperative Network provide technical assistance to rural cooperative...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Fishwerks
Michael Ferris, a Computer Sciences Professor and optimization leader at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), is part of an initiative in coll...
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Cultural mediator for Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities
Mark Louden, Professor of German and Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, is a cultural mediator for the Amish and Old Orde...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Green Lake
Green Lake, home to lake trout and other species, was deemed “impaired” by the DNR in 2014 because of its low levels of dissolved oxygen. Faculty memb...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Gener8tor
Started in Wisconsin, gener8tor is a nationally ranked seed investment fund and business accelerator that invests in high-growth startups. The company...
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Dementia Friendly Toolkit
In response to family caregivers’ stories of challenging medical appointments, community groups’ requests for dementia friendly training materials, an...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Responding to Suspected and Confirmed Cases of Sex Trafficked Children & Youth
To address sex trafficking in Wisconsin, recent state legislation (Wisconsin Act 367) now mandates child welfare agencies to investigate allegations o...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Discovery Box
Discovery Boxes are curated collections of cultural items paired with lesson plans and multimedia materials assembled by University of Wisconsin area-...
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Preparing Practitioners to Identify and Address Sex Trafficking in Northeast Wisconsin
Sex trafficking (ST) occurs when 1) a minor exchanges sex for financial compensation (e.g. food, money, clothing, housing, drugs), known as a commerci...
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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...
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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...
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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:...