Tag: Faustina Sekyere

The sustainable scoop—UW–Madison students & faculty rethinking ice cream for energy efficiency

“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 …

Fourth-annual Sustainability Symposium highlights links between sustainability and health

The fourth-annual Sustainability Symposium opened with Paul Robbins, Dean of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, crediting students for the strides UW–Madison has made in sustainability, saying it was because they “would not leave this alone.”  He noted that alongside the university’s net-zero goal, zero waste commitment, and RISE–EARTH initiative, UW–Madison recently earned its first …