This hands-on, real-world research will inform the Office of Sustainability about available options for improving campus sustainability and resilience.
Academics
Resilience Spotlight: Applying advanced climate models to future-proof building specification
Today’s building specifications are designed for local weather conditions based on historical data. As future weather conditions vary significantly from historic trends due to human-induced climate change, building specifications must be recalibrated away from the …
Resilience Spotlight: Creating climate-ready communities in Wisconsin
University and community experts are coming together to make Madison a climate-ready community.
UW–Madison recognized as Green College & Cool School
UW–Madison has been included in The Princeton Review Green Colleges and the Sierra Club’s Cool Schools, which are resources used by prospective students who are interested in finding schools with exemplary commitments to the environment …
What’s it like to attend a sustainability conference as a student?
In late October, staff and student interns from the Office of Sustainability traveled to Spokane, WA for the 2019 AASHE Conference. AASHE, which stands for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, …
Top-Down versus Bottom-Up: Two Approaches to Sustainability
This guest article was written by Jason Gallup, Student Programs Director at the Office of Sustainability. The window for avoiding the catastrophic effects of environmental degradation is small. As a society, we are now well …
Office of Sustainability Hires New Student Programs Manager
Jason Gallup officially started as the new Student Programs Manager for the UW-Madison Office of Sustainability on Dec. 1. On his first day on the job, Gallup was already enthusiastically diving into Madison’s waste stream …
Learn More About Sustainability
Spring 2018 Course Highlight: Integrated Liberal Studies 251, Integrated Physical Science Topic: Radioactivity, People, and the Planet Instructor: Professor Cathy Middlecamp Credits: 3 Radioactivity! Perhaps no other phenomenon is so intertwined with our hopes and fears, our …
Business and Sustainability Certificate Program Means Making Green, But Greener
Professor Ann Terlaak did not enter academia with a grand plan to bring a sustainable certificate program to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. Instead, following on her undergraduate degree in economics, she entered …
AASHE Conference Focuses on Solidarity and Sustainability Solutions
Beyond the boundaries of colleges and universities, organizations like the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) tend to remain under the radar. They are similar to other specialized groups and associations, …