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Research

Better diversity training is built on research, not intuition

Posted on February 5, 2016

Throwing your cans and bottles in the recycling? Avoiding aimless Internet browsing during work hours? Offering your seat on the bus to someone less able to stand in the aisle? Brauer’s research explores how to …

Posted in NewsTagged Faculty, L&S, Research

Student honored for approach to insuring agriculture losses

Posted on December 16, 2015

Adolph Okine, a first-year Ph.D. student studying actuarial science at the Wisconsin School of Business, took an innovative statistical approach to predicting the negative effects of climate change on agriculture, and it paid off.

Posted in NewsTagged Agriculture, Business, Climate, Economy, Research

Grad student research recognized in Japan

Posted on December 15, 2015

December 15, 2015 | by Sarah Olson University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate student Eleanor Bloom presented her research on sustainable systems for residential heating and cooling at a conference last month in Kashiwa, Japan, where she earned second …

Posted in NewsTagged Academics, Energy, Engineering, Research, Students

Professors utilize Northern Wisconsin as a lab

Posted on March 20, 2015

For the past decade, professor Ankur Desai has been working with collaborators from across the country to study the uptake and emission of carbon in northern Wisconsin’s forests, wetlands and lakes.

Posted in NewsTagged Climate, Faculty, Research

Combining biomass and solar energy conversion

Posted on March 11, 2015

In a study published March 9 in Nature Chemistry, UW–Madison chemistry professor Kyoung-Shin Choi presents a new approach to combine solar energy conversion and biomass conversion, two important research areas for renewable energy.

Posted in NewsTagged Energy, Faculty, L&S, Research

UW-Madison addresses urban food insecurity

Posted on March 11, 2015

Food insecurity has implications for health, community stability and local economies, and an interdisciplinary team of UW–Madison researchers has launched a project to study ways to boost the availability and consumption of healthy food in …

Posted in NewsTagged CALS, Economy, Food, Research, Wisconsin Idea

Bioenergy research leads to 100th patent

Posted on March 2, 2015
Posted in NewsTagged Biosciences, Energy, Government, Research, Technology, The Wisconsin Idea

Munching bugs reduce the carbon sink

Posted on March 1, 2015
Posted in NewsTagged Climate Change, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Environment, Forests, Research

Climate Quest winner announced

Posted on February 26, 2015

by Jill Sakai MIGHTi (Mission to Improve Global Health Through Insects) is the winner of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Climate Quest competition, sponsored by American Family Insurance and Madison Gas and Electric.

Posted in NewsTagged Food, Health, Office of Sustainability, Research, Students, Wisconsin Idea

Harnessing the grid to illuminate crop growth

Posted on February 4, 2015
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Plants, Research, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
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