University of Wisconsin–Madison
At 8 pm, the Lakeshore Nature Preserve is already pitch-black. Makeela Magomolla greets me near the entrance, armed with a headlamp and backpack, and we make our way down the path. By now, I’ve already missed sunset, the ideal time to see bats exiting the bat roost— which is hardly a 2-minute walk from the …
“I had never written a grant before,” said Loren Smith, a third-year food science major at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. But over the past year, she and a cross-disciplinary team of students, faculty, and staff did more than write a successful proposal to the UW–Madison Green Fund, a program that supports student involvement in campus …
Michelle Gullickson has always been curious about the role of sustainability in education, first as an educator, then as a graduate assistant at the UW–Stevens Point Office of Sustainability, and now as Green Fund coordinator at the UW–Madison Office of Sustainability. The UW–Madison Green Fund offers financial support for student-led environmental initiatives and, just as …
Re-Wear It, a registered student organization, promotes conscious consumerism and sustainable fashion in the Madison community. They host bi-weekly clothing swaps for campus community members to donate unwanted clothing and pick up a new piece for their closet. By promoting conscious consumerism and creating a circular waste economy, they advance UW–Madison’s zero waste by 2040 …
Written by Tia Gaffney, UW–Madison undergraduate & Zero Waste Project Assistant As an eager incoming freshman obsessed with all things sustainability, I regularly scoured the Office of Sustainability Instagram for a taste of the opportunities coming my way. One day, I came across a post about a program dedicated to freshmen living in the residence halls. “Serve as …
In the fourth episode of the SustainUW Podcast’s new miniseries, Sustainability Conversations Across the Big Ten, hosts Ren Nickel and Nate Dancer meet with Kate Nelson, John Gardner, Ahnika Seifert, Carley Rice, and Hannah Lauber, representing multiple areas of sustainability from the University of Minnesota, to discuss their zero-waste initiatives, composting, and more. SustainUW members …
The latest episode of The SustainUW Podcast miniseries, Sustainability Conversations Across the Big Ten, turns west to the University of Washington to explore how a large, multi-campus institution moves sustainability from planning to practice. Hosts John Ernst and Ren Nickel spoke with Daimon Eklund, communications manager for the University of Washington Sustainability Office, and Emily …
If you’re outside the orbit of the Center for Limnology, you might not have heard of TLS. In the Northwoods, though, it’s an established, and popular, part of the landscape. And yet, many on campus don’t know that UW–Madison operates a field station conducting long-term research on Wisconsin’s lakes far from the shores most students …
Applications are now open for UW–Madison’s Corporate Sustainability Internship Program, a summer-long internship that provides students with real-world sustainability experience in corporate environments. Rooted in the Wisconsin Idea, the program connects undergraduate and graduate students with Midwest companies seeking support on sustainability initiatives. Businesses bring forward specific project needs, and program staff match them with candidates whose skills and interests align. …
One of UW–Madison’s five institutional sustainability goals, first announced by Chancellor Mnookin in February 2024, is to reach net-zero emissions by 2048. Campus leadership set an interim target of 100% renewable electricity by 2030 as an important step on the path to this ambitious goal. Through a strategy that includes working with electric utilities, supporting …