Tag: Buildings

“I felt like a mini-expert”: Corporate sustainability internship program is a win-win for students and Wisconsin businesses 

In his late twenties, University of Wisconsin–Madison senior Nick Brennan decided he wanted to go back to school.   Brennan felt that “mechanical engineering would be a good way for me to get a generic, versatile degree that I could take and do whatever I wanted with,” so he decided to enroll at Madison Area Technical …

2024 Go Big Read panel offers space for sustainable disability discourse on campus

“The experience of disability is wide, and deep, and sprawling, and can look like a lot of different things … it’s important for us to have that space to share with the community,” said Rebekah Taussig, the author of “Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body,” which was the 2024 Go Big …

“The implications are enormous”: graduate student’s innovative climate research could change building design

When she was young, Gesangyangji would stare at the peaks on the mountains surrounding Lhasa, her birthplace in the Tibetan Plateau. They were covered in snow. But as she grew up she noticed the snow disappearing, the white lines chased up the mountain by gray and green rock. “I was wondering,” she said, “Why is …

Terrace trees find new life inside renovated Memorial Union

The Memorial Union Renovation (MUR) team has minimized the project’s environmental footprint through each phase of the process by staying true to a promise of sustainability. The team had hoped to avoid removing any Terrace trees, but found some were showing signs of deterioration. They sent the trees removed from the Terrace to The Wood …