University of Wisconsin–Madison
October 6, 2015 | by Maija Inveiss When it comes to digging through and learning from trash, UW–Madison Office of Sustainability interns are pros. October 6, 2015 | by Maija Inveiss When it comes to digging through and learning from trash, UW–Madison Office of Sustainability interns are pros.
September 29, 2015 | by Jill Sakai If you’ve eaten at a campus dining center recently, something may have been missing from your order – but perhaps you didn’t even notice. Beginning this semester, University Housing’s registers no longer automatically print receipts for every transaction. The Wisconsin Union is following suit, testing a similar change …
A new landmark report on community-university research partnerships from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) features a critical analysis of practices in the United States from two University of Wisconsin–Madison authors.
September 22, 2015 | by Maija Inveiss and Jill Sakai Groups of UW–Madison students converged on lawns outside Dejope Hall and Gordon Dining and Event Center last night to celebrate sustainability on a beautiful evening. Two Sustain-A-Bash events, held simultaneously in the Lakeshore and Southeast residential areas of campus, welcomed new students to learn …
September 14, 2015 | by Maija Inveiss and Jill Sakai When people look at the 2015 master plan for UW–Madison, they will not find a section about sustainability, says Gary Brown, the director of campus planning and landscape architecture. Instead, they will see a plan that integrates elements of sustainability throughout. September 14, 2015 | …
One of the environmental downsides of major research universities is that they receive and discard a lot of expanded polystyrene. Commonly called styrofoam, EPS is ubiquitous in packaging materials for fragile lab equipment and sensitive chemicals.
Sept. 8, 2015 | by Maija Inveiss Allen Centennial Gardens, a popular botanical centerpiece on campus, is offering students a fun way to learn about garden design. A new Garden Design Competition is open to UW–Madison students across all disciplines, from landscape architecture to engineering to communications. Teams of two to four students will compete …
The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, a multi-institutional research center based at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has inked a new contract with the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will provide nearly $20 million in support over the next five years.
A former chair of the Water Resources Management program saw an opportunity and the current chair seized it. The result: another shining example of WRM’s impact on Wisconsin communities.
For more than 100 years, the electric utility business model has looked the same – one private, centralized source providing all of its customers’ energy needs.