College of Letters & Science

Projects

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Strategic Action Plan for Village of Norwalk

  The Strategic Action Plan for the Village of Norwalk in Monroe County was meant to assist the citizens and Village Board of Norwalk in assessment of c...

• Menominee Dictionary Project

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Curb Magazine

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) Computational Chemistry Project

  The Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) computer program, developed at UW-Madison, is used internationally in chemistry teaching and research. The NBO Program...

• 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,...

• 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,...

• 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...

• 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)...

• 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....

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Western Wisconsin Cultural Initiative

  This program helped enrich the musical offerings of several rural school districts in western Wisconsin by way of a brass trio ensemble, school progra...

• 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...

• Great World Texts in Wisconsin

  Great World Texts in Wisconsin connects scholars at UW-Madison with thousands of high school students and teachers in dozens of school districts throu...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Cost-Benefit Analyses for Local, State, and International Clients

  La Follette School of Public Affairs Professor David Weimer, a major national figure in public policy research, supervises teams of graduate students...

• Wisconsin Film Festival

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Focus

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

• UW Cinematheque

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

• Leaflets on the Web

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Election Data Collection System

  Four faculty at UW-Madison are partnering with the state's Government Accountability Board to implement new election data collection systems. The pro...

• Teacher Training on Carbon Cycling, Climate and Climate Modeling

  In summer 2009 and 2010, Galen McKinley, assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, will offer a training workshop to...

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

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• The Weather Guys monthly call-in radio show on climate and weather (Larry Meiller's show)

  Steve Ackerman and Jon Martin are regular monthly guests on Larry's show since 1998; taking listener's questions about climate and weather. In 2008, w...

• 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...

• Linguistic Voices on Campus

  Linguistic Voices on Campusis a podcast series, in which Anja Wanner invites scholars and students from the UW-Madison to discuss common beliefs abou...

• Controls on Permeability of Deep Sandstone Aquifers

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

• Child Maltreatment Prevention Literature Review

  This was a social work class project completed in response to a request from the Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, who w...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Unemployment Rate Forecast

  Each month, I provide a twelve month forecast for the seasonally adjusted Wisconsin unemployment rate. In addition to point forecasts (the expected fu...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Modeling School Finance Reform in Wisconsin

  In cooperation with the School Finance Network, a collaborative effort of all the major education organizations in the state--representing school boar...

• Research on Education, Deliberation, and Decision-making

  Americans have long recognized that education plays an important role in society as a means of achieving personal growth, economic success, and even d...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• African Storytelling on Wheels

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

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

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Expanding Your Horizons

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

• Nature Talks for Children

  UW Honorary Fellow and recent graduate student Brian Walsh leads scientific presentations and demonstrations to children in summer camps and public sc...

• Delta Internship Program

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

• 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...

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

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

• 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...

• Telehealth Partnership with Marshfield Clinic

  UW Clinical Professor Lyn Turkstra, along with the University of Wisconsin, continues to collaborate with Marshfield Clinic in its telehealth project....

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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....

• Service Learning in Cambodia

  This outreach project, developed in partnership with a Madison-based NGO, Cambodian Schools Project, gives UW students the opportunity to engage in gl...

• 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...

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

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Genocide Prevention

  Dr. Scott Straus works with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to help train government officials and the general public on the principles of...

• Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Volunteer

  Professor Janet Jensen has been volunteering with one of the younger Milwaukee Youth Symphony orchestras, Sinfonia, during their rehearsals on Thursda...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Theatre for Young Audiences at Taliesin

  This project offers a quality multicultural theatre program to underprivileged rural schools. The program is an extension of the annual Theatre for Yo...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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.)....

• Resilience of walleye fisheries in Wisconsin

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

• Oakhill Prison Humanities Project

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

• Public Humanities Fellowship

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

• Potawatomi language project

  I have been working with the Forest County Potawatomi to create a dictionary of their language, and to record narratives, stories, and conversations t...

• Endangered Language Fund

  I am President of the Endangered Language Fund, a non-profit which supports endangered language preservation and documentation efforts world-wide.

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

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

• 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...

• Out of Hospital (OOH) Hearing Clinics

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Putting You to Work: Employment Writing Workshops Across Madison

  To help address the problems of unemployment and underemployment in our community, the Madison Writing Assistance (MWA) program offered a two-year ser...

• 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...

• 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...

• Uncovering the Mystery Behind the Trempealeau Mounds

  With the help of 11 UW-Madison students and six local volunteers, Danielle Benden, senior curator in the UW-Madison Department of Anthropology, is wor...

• 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...

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

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

• German School of Madison

  The German School of Madison is a nonprofit organization that offers weekly German language classes and social activities for children aged 3-18 with...

• 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...

• Menominee language translation and revitalization

  Monica Macaulay, a linguistics professor and president of the Endangered Language Fund, has worked with the Menominee tribe since 1998. Her latest pro...

• Fishwerks

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

• 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...

• Uncovering Ancient Life at Aztalan: New Explorations at One of Wisconsin’s Most Important Prehistoric Native American Communities

  Aztalan State Park, outside of Lake Mills, WI, was inhabited by two distinct groups of Native Americans nearly a millennium ago. Over three years, we...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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:...

• Retrofitting Latinxs into the Wisconsin Historical Narrative

  Latina/o/xs have a long-rooted presence in Wisconsin but their histories are largely absent in institutional archives. To provide more visibility to L...

• Writing Center Pedagogy in Secondary Schools

  With this initiative, our writing center aims to (1) strengthen literacy education in Wisconsin high schools, (2) support the start and growth of new...

• UniverCity Year - Dane County

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

• UniverCity Year - Adams County

  Project Description: Adams County and UniverCity Year partnered from 2019-22. This partnership focused on economic development of the county, includin...

• UniverCity Year - Egg Harbor

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