It is the year 2010 and Chris Kucharik, a professor of agronomy and environmental studies at UW–Madison, is talking to a bunch of farmers in rural Wisconsin about a not-so-hot topic: climate change. The town …
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Where Health and Heat Meet
This essay, by Veronica Goveas, is one of three winners of the 2024 Sustainability Writing Awards hosted by the Office of Sustainability. You can read more about Veronica here. I grew up in a village in Wisconsin, …
Public trust in scientists is falling fast, so Nan Li looks to art and emotion
This article, by Tayt Armitage, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students …
Qunying Huang uses AI and machine learning to make predictions — and save lives
This article, by Rodrigo Cuellar, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students …
Systems modeling, electrification, and equitable energy access: A look into Morgan Edwards’s Climate Action Lab
This article, by Joie Ling, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students …
Ankur Desai’s research benefits both local farmers and the International Panel on Climate Change
This article, by Zach Thomas, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students …
How do we make sense of sense? For Noah Feinstein, the answer is plural.
This article, by Chelsea Severin, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students …
Emotion, rather than information, influences climate denial, Lyn Van Swol’s research finds
This article, by Dinesh Baskaran, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students …
Feng He’s research looks “to reproduce past climate change to predict the future”
This article, by Matheus Pupo, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students …
For Gregory Nemet, hope for the climate’s future may just come from the past
This article, by Bryce Johnson, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students …