Outreach Activities

Projects

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Curb Magazine

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

• 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...

• ARMS After School Science Clubs/WISCIENCE

  The Adult Role Models in Science (ARMS) program at WISCIENCE develops materials and training workshops for after-school providers and volunteers to le...

• Biocore Outreach Ambassador Program

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

• ARMS Family Science Nights

  The Adult Role Models in Science (ARMS) program at WISCIENCE provides resources for schools and community centers to coordinate Family Science Events....

• Annual Colloquium on Aging

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

• 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....

• Washburn Observatory Public Nights

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

• Wisconsin 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...

• Expanding Your Horizons Conference

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

• Small Business Development Center at UW-Madison

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

• Kemp Natural Resources Station

  UW-Madison's Kemp Natural Resources Station is an off-campus research, teaching and outreach facility dedicated to environmental stewardship and the s...

• Legal Assistance To Institutionalized Persons Project (LAIP)

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

• Wisconsin Innocence Project

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

• Community Supervision Legal Assistance Project (CSLAP)

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

• Family Court Clinic

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

• Neighborhood Law Clinic

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

• Center for Professional and Executive Development

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Great World Texts in Wisconsin

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

• Wisconsin Native Plant Garden

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

• 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...

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

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

• University of Wisconsin Press

  Since 1937, UW Press has published thousands of books, including hundreds that document the culture, heritage, natural history and people of Wisconsin...

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

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

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• Putting the Public in Wisconsin Public Opinion: Listening to Wisconsinites' Concerns

  UW-Madison Professor Katherine Cramer traveled around the state between May 2007 and November 2012 visiting places where local residents gather on a r...

• 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...

• World Cinema Day

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

• Lakeshore Nature Preserve

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Allied United for Health

  Allied United for Health (AUH) organizes health outreach programming for the community-campus partnership between the UW-Madison School of Medicine an...

• Exploring Materials Science: Research Experiences for Teachers Program

  The Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program is funded by the National Science Foundation and is hosted by the UW-Madison Materials Research Sc...

• Grandparents University

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

• University Preschool Laboratory

  The UW-Madison Preschool Laboratory is part of the education and research program of the School of Human Ecology. Laboratory staff are committed to us...

• 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...

• Evaluation Research Program

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

• Area Health Education Centers (AHEC)

  The Wisconsin AHEC System is part of a national initiative, begun in the 1970s, for improving the accessibility and quality of primary health care. Th...

• 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...

• Reach Out and Read in MEDiC Free Clinics

  Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national program that supports children’s language and literacy development, which is essential for young children to be...

• J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution (formerly Evolution Initiative)

  The Crow Institute was launched in 2010 in honor of the world-renowned UW-Madison geneticist, James Crow. The Institute provides training opportunitie...

• 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...

• Community Service Programs - School of Medicine and Public Health

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

• Wisconsin Singers Performances, Workshops and Outreach

  Since 1967, Wisconsin Singers has been traveling to more than 35 communities annually, helping service organizations and music booster groups raise do...

• Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center — Regenerative Medicine Speakers

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

• Wisconsin Network for Health Research (WiNHR)

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

• Wisconsin 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...

• Metropolitan Unified Fiber Network Project (MUFN)

  The Metropolitian Unified Fiber Network (MUFN) is a public-private partnership to enhance broadband capacity, affordability and access in the greater...

• 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...

• TESci

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

• UW-Madison Biotechnology Center (UWBC)

  The University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center (UWBC) is Wisconsin's catalyst to advance biotechnology research, education and industry for the bene...

• UW 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...

• Supernatural Presences in East Asian Culture

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

• Wisconsin Coverts Project

  The Wisconsin Coverts Project is a woodland wildlife management program for private landowners in Wisconsin and neighboring states. Over the course o...

• Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit (WCWRU)

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

• Family Voices Community-University Partnership Project

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

• 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...

• UW Educational and Performance Outreach Program

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

• Wisconsin Idea Science Constellation

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

• Madison Early Music Festival

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Climate Leadership Challenge (CLC)

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

• Arboretum I-MAP

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

• 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...

• REACH BC+: Retention and Enrollment to Achieve Children’s Health and Build Capacity

  This project will expand on the work of the program Covering Kids & Families, which informs Wisconsin residents about BadgerCare Plus (BC+), a state-f...

• German Day

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

• Small Business Venture Development Plans

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

• UW-Madison Science Alliance

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

• Science Expeditions

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

• 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...

• Slow Food UW Educational Outreach and Social Justice Initiative

  The purpose of the Slow Food Educational Outreach and Social Justice Initiative is to create a lasting connection between UW students, the South Madis...

• 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...

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

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

• Health Impact Assessment of Climate Change in Wisconsin

  The overall goal of this research project is to develop predictive models of climate change-related precipitation variability that pose environmental...

• Madison Neighborhood Indicators

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

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

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

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

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Computed Tomography Course

  This is a practical course for veterinarians with access to computed tomography (CT) to improve study quality and reading skills of neurologic, vascul...

• Advanced Small Animal Ultrasound

  This program will offer the small animal clinician an advanced level introduction to diagnostic ultrasound of important “small parts,” including scann...

• Orthopedics Workshop for Veterinary Technicians

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

• 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...

• Hip-hop workshop focuses on teaching tools

  The UW-Madison Office of Multicultural Initiatives has teamed up with Urban Word NYC to offer a weeklong program for teachers, educators, community le...

• Science of Fireworks presentation

  Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea and professor of chemistry, leads this annual presentation befo...

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

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

• Careers Conference

  The annual Careers Conference, hosted by UW-Madison's Center on Education and Work, focuses on assisting practitioners, working at levels K-12 through...

• Undergraduate Symposium

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Forgiveness Education in Milwaukee's Central City

  Since 2003 Robert Enright and his colleagues have been providing forgiveness education programs for charter schools in Milwaukee's central city. Resea...

• 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...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Congressional "Energy Update" on Capitol Hill

  On July 10, 2013 the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) hosted an energy briefing in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with Wisconsin legislative staff...

• Wednesday Nite @ The Lab on the Air

  Wednesday Nite @ The Lab is a public science series offered every Wednesday night, 50 times a year. WN@TL invites Wisconsinites to experience science...

• UW System Women's Studies Consortium

  The Women's Studies Consortium was established as a part of the UW System in 1989 and expanded its programs and collaborations in 2013. WSC is a colla...

• Wisconsin Energy Institute/Bioenergy Research Centers host Science Café briefing before the House Senate and National Labs Caucus

  On July 22nd, 2013, more than 80 congressional staff members gathered in Washington, DC for a Q&A-style briefing intended to update the House Science...

• 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...

• 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...

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

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

• Wisconsin Regional Artist Program

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

• Certificate in Criminal Justice

  The centerpiece of the Criminal Justice Certificate Program is an intensive field internship. These internships allow students to connect to the commu...

• National Alliance on Mental Illness

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

• Teacher Training Workshop: The Hmong in Contemporary and Historical Perspective (Appleton/Madison)

  In June 2013, UW-Madison's Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Center for East Asian Studies collaborated with the Appleton, Oshkosh, and Madison H...

• Wisconsin Idea Scholar Program (2012-13)

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

• Women's Studies Consortium

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

• 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...

• CIMSS Student Workshop on Atmospheric, Satellite, and Earth Sciences

  The CIMSS Student Workshop on Atmospheric, Satellite, and Earth Sciences features an exciting five-day agenda in meteorology, astronomy, remote sensin...

• Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium

  Professor Paul Zedler's project is one of a nation-wide set of fire science consortia that are funded by the Federal Joint Fire Science Program. The p...

• BCERP: Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program

  This program, centered at UW-Madison, investigates the environmental and genetic causes of breast cancer and translates them to cancer prevention. Kno...

• Great Lakes Early Detection Network

  The Great Lakes Early Detection Network (www.gledn.org) is a website for reporting invasive plant locations. The website is free for anyone to use. Us...

• American Council on Exercise Exam Preparation Courses

  The Division of Recreational Sports offers outreach courses that prepare individuals for national certification. The American Council on Exercise (ACE...

• 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...

• 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...

• St. Croix Tribal Health Center Head Start Physicals

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

• Ride the Drive Helmet Fitting Stations

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

• Promoting Double Reed Instrument Culture in Wisconsin Schools

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

• GLS Center Playsquads

  Through games, the Games Learning Society Center makes scientific discovery visible to the public by creating digital games for learning science. Whil...

• Science on a Sphere

  In 2007, The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) received a Baldwin grant purchase a 3D globe to create a intriguing view into the work done a...

• Wisconsin Express

  This week long immersion program, held annually in May, brings health professions students from all majors into Wisconsin communities to explore the c...

• Community Health Internship Program (CHIP) - Wisconsin AHEC

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

• UW Press

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

• 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...

• Wisconsin Telepsychiatry Project

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

• Wisconsin Public Psychiatry Statewide Training Project

  Since 1995 Dr. Ronald Diamond has been providing mental health related training to public mental health clinicians, police, emergency room staff, judg...

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

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

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

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

• Wisconsin 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...

• Pennsylvania Dutch Documentation Project

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

• Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Wisconsin WIC Program

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

• Pro Arte Quartet and UW Arts Outreach

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

• 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...

• Gloves-On Course and Carotid Course

  University of Wisconsin Division of Vascular Surgery offers both a Gloves-On course (where attendees scrubbed into the operating room or catheterizati...

• Community and Regional Food Systems

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

• UW Geology Museum Tour Program

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

• Rock and Fossil Identifications

  It often begins with an email or phone call with, "I found this strange rock...". The UW Geology Museum and its staff serve as resources for Wisconsin...

• Wisconsin ADRC Participant Appreciation Breakfast

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

• Solomon Carter Fuller Memory Screening Day

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

• Wisconsin ADRC Community Lecture

  This free annual conference brings the latest findings in Alzheimer’s research to medical professionals and our community. The presentation features t...

• "Dig into Reading" Library Program

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

• Milking Research and Instruction Lab

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

• K-12 Family Science Nights

  In collaboration with the Adult Role Models in Science (ARMS) group at UW-Madison, UW genetics faculty organize a series of Family Science Nights at K...

• 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...

• Italian Day

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

• Innovating through materials with the UW-MRSEC

  The Interdisciplinary Education Group of the UW Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (UW-MRSEC) teaches the greater Wisconsin community a...

• UW-Madison Math Circle

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

• Nonprofit Board Leadership and Development

  This course is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate students to serve on nonprofit boards, learn about the roles and responsibilities of bo...

• Medical Imaging Research Partnership

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

• Community-University Exchange - South Madison

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

• Trails Forward

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

• 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...

• Wisconsin Planetarium Connections

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

• Upward Bound at UW–River Falls

  Faculty and staff at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) help organize and implement math and science content in the Upward Bou...

• Bringing the Universe to Wisconsin

  Bringing the Universe to Wisconsin is a two-year (2012-2014) public program funded by the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment. The p...

• 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...

• 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...

• Giving Life to LiFE: Lifestyle and Functional Exercise Program to Reduce Falls in Wisconsin Communities

  The Lifestyle and Functional Exercise program (LiFE) is an innovative, six month, in-home fall prevention program that integrates exercises into daily...

• Badger Volunteers™

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

• Transition Cow Facility Design

  This workshop will help you learn how to ask your lender for money to build a barn and not add any additional milking cows. Using the Dairyland Initia...

• Design of Positive Pressure Tube Systems for Improved Ventilation of Calf Barns

  Dr. Ken Nordlund will present on the deficits of common ventilation systems in calf barns, management of air quality and cold stress to minimize respi...

• Design of Positive Pressure Tube Systems for Milking Center Holding Area Heat Abatemen

  Drs. Ken Nordlund and Nigel Cook will present problems in holding area cooling and how positive pressure tube systems provide a lower energy effective...

• Central Sands Water Initiative

  Numerous lakes and streams are drying up in the farm-rich Central Sands region of Wisconsin, but there’s little agreement on what’s causing it. Expert...

• Helping Farmers Cope with Changing Climate

  Drought, flooding, new pests brought on by temporal changes in the onset and duration of the growing season—these are only a few climate related chall...

• Protecting Our Pollinators

  More than two-thirds of the world’s crop plants—including many nuts, fruits and vegetables—depend on animal pollination, most of it provided by bees....

• Hunter's Network of Wisconsin

  Hunting is an important part of Wisconsin’s history and culture and plays a crucial role in wildlife management. It has a $1.4 billion impact on the s...

• Arts Outreach

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

• Slow Food UW History

  Since 2007, Dr. Zepeda has provided leadership and supervision to the Slow Food UW student organization. The organization promotes good clean fair foo...

• Project CRYSTAL

  Project CRYSTAL provides a hands-on laboratory experience for middle school students in an active, state of the art research laboratory. Through teach...

• International Politics and Practice Capstone Certificate (IPPCC)

  The Department of Political Science designed the IPPCC to educate online learners who lead and serve professionally in the international arena. The pr...

• ITA Tribal Technology Institute (TTI)

  In alignment with the UW-Madison's "Inclusive Excellence" diversity initiative, the Tribal Technology Institute, a program under the direction of the...

• 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...

• Compassion Project, Center For Investigating Healthy Minds

  Based on the findings of Dr. Richard Davidson (who has found a link between the practice of compassion and healthier brains) the Appleton Compassion P...

• Native American Center for Health Professions (NACHP)

  The Native American Center for Health Profession's vision is to improve the health and wellness of American Indian people. The mission is to enhance t...

• TED-Ed: What are Stem Cells?

  This collaborative effort in stem cell education for teachers throughout the state — in fact, for the nation and world — was published on Sept. 10, 20...

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

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

• 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...

• Wiigwaasi-Jiimaan: These Canoes Carry Culture

  Wayne Valliere was the Windgate artist in residence from September to November 2013. He built a birchbark canoe in the woodshop in the Art Department,...

• 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...

• 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...

• Vernon County Farm to School

  The Vernon County Farm to School Initiative works to improve southwest Wisconsin's health and environment by educating local students on healthy eatin...

• 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...

• 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...

• Oakhill Prison Humanities Project

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

• Reducing Alcohol Abuse among LGBTQ Youth in Wisconsin

  This project will replicate a culturally-competent alcohol harm reduction and prevention model tailored for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and qu...

• Dementia Wellness Project for Underserved African American Elders

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

• Bilingual Healthy Choices Project

  The Bilingual Healthy Choices Project, or Elecciones Saludables, is a 12 week program for Milwaukee families to help them fight obesity with a "learni...

• Lifestyle Initiative for Fitness Empowerment Foundation Cross Plains Community Project

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

• Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Monona

  The Natural Step Monona (TNSM) is a nonprofit grassroots community organization in city of Monona. We collaborated in a total of three service learnin...

• Public Humanities Fellowship

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

• YumButter: Day Without Food Campaign

  Yumbutter is a young startup in the nut butters industry. They are a registered B Corp and have a Buy One Feed One aspect to their sales. The team wor...

• Parenthetical

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

• Wisconsin 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...

• 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.

• 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...

• Wisconsin Science Festival

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

• 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...

• Building Capacity of Wisconsin Producers to Access Wholesale Markets

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

• Public Humanities Exchange

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

• 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...

• Engaging students in Wisconsin dementia friendly community efforts

  Since 2014, the Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE) has supported students volunteering with and learning from Wisconsin community efforts...

• Educational opportunities for nursing assistants and personal care workers

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

• 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...

• Kickapoo Valley Tourism Project

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

• Wisconsin Pollinator Plan

  Without pollinators, we would no longer be able to take a sip of coffee or ask for guacamole on our burritos. Flower-loving bats, birds and bees are n...

• Student Hometown Projects - Cross Plains

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Student Hometown Projects - Hudson

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Student Hometown Projects - Green Bay

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Student Hometown Projects - Kenosha

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Midwest Grape Growing School

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

• Water Sustainability and Climate Project

  The Water Sustainability and Climate project is examining how changes in climate, land use, and human demand could impact water quality, food producti...

• Wisconsin Idea Exchange Database

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

• Chorus for Alzheimer's Patients

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

• Rural Nursing Shortage

  A three-week Rural Community Health Immersion Clinical program is helping nursing students gain a new perspective on health care that can only be foun...

• First Enologist at UW-Madison

  There are currently 110 wineries and commercial cider makers in Wisconsin, and that number will only continue to grow. This is why Nick Smith was hire...

• Computer Modeling Helps to Prepare for Large Storms

  In order to help decision-makers understand the potential effects of extreme precipitation events, Kenneth Potter, professor of Civil and Environmenta...

• Measuring the Impact of Farmers Markets

  In order to improve farmers markets not only in Wisconsin but throughout the U.S., Alfonso Morales, associate professor in urban and regional planning...

• Plastics Research Enhanced by University Resources

  With the help of Tim Osswald, UW-Madison plastics engineering Professor, Teel Plastics has been able to have a competitive edge over other companies b...

• Vegetable Research Analyzes Best Growing Practices

  The Hancock Agricultural Research Station has allowed UW-Madison researchers to explore the vegetable industry in order to sustainably increase produc...

• GlovesOn Surgeon Training

  The best way for practicing surgeons to better their skills is through hands-on education, which is why the UW-Madison Department of Surgery began the...

• Eco-Fruit Program

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

• Microgrids Help Power Milwaukee Industry

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

• Reducing Dementia Stigma in Watertown

  By the year 2035, it is projected that 200,000 people in Wisconsin will be living with dementia. With two-thirds of these people living within communi...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Rural Cooperative Development Project

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

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

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

• Music Engagement and Outreach Program

  A component of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Music, the Music Engagement and Outreach Program works to share the expertise of its thre...

• Recovering Analog and Digital Data (RADD)

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

• Little Aldos

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

• Department of Surgery Regional Services

  The Department of Surgery provides specialized clinical and surgical services to communities throughout the state and region through an expansive netw...

• Specialty Care Training in Speech Pathology

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

• The Quill literary journal

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

• Cultural mediator for Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities

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

• Farm to School, Center for Integrated Agricultural Studies

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

• Strategic Impact Consulting Projects

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

• Building Capacity for Mosquito-borne Disease Surveillance in Santo Domingo, Ecuador

  This project will convey UW expertise and skills for trapping and identifying mosquito vectors that spread many important public health pathogens, inc...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Flambeau River Community Growing Center

  The Flambeau River Community Growing Center is located in the Northern Wisconsin city of Park Falls. It is a collaborative community project headed by...

• 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...

• Fortalezas Familiares

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

• 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...

• 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...

• Gener8tor

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

• Dementia Friendly Toolkit

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

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

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

• Caring Connections: Supporting families by improving residential care visits

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

• 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...

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

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

• Engaging growers with citizen science to improve management of crop pollinators

  This project develops a mobile-enabled application that allows users to easily collect information, in a standardized and rigorous way, on the abundan...

• 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...

• Kids with Incarcerated Parents Blog

  In this blog, I bring up issues that I encounter in my professional role as a scientist and an advocate for children whose parents are incarcerated. I...

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

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

• How to Reduce Workplace Stress Though Communication & Leadership Skills

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

• Helping Infants and Toddlers Cope with Parental Incarceration

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

• Best. Friday. Ever. event series

  At Allen Centennial Garden we believe gardeners, through their gardens, can save the world. Best. Friday. Ever. embraces the Wisconsin Idea and celebr...

• Pathways for Underrepresented Youth to Pursue Occupational Therapy: Diverse-OT Outreach Across WI

  As a student organization, Diverse-OT strives to create pathways for underrepresented students to pursue a career in occupational therapy (OT). In wor...

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

  In recognition of the vital role of direct care workers in older adults' quality of life, the School of Nursing’s Center for Aging Research and Educat...

• Tap Talks at Central Waters Brewery

  Tap Talks at Central Waters Brewery is a forum for researchers to share their science and work with interested members of the public in an informal se...

• East Asia Now

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