University of Wisconsin–Madison
“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 …
Despite a rainy start, Sustain-a-Bash 2025 was a huge success. Sustain-a-Bash is an annual week-long celebration of sustainability on campus, co-hosted with University Housing. This year, Sustain-a-Bash consisted of a native planting party, Green Fund and Wisconsin Urban Planning Association kickoff events, national voter registration day, a crafternoon with the Disability Cultural Center, and a …
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 interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories. Dr. Noah Feinstein is worried about climate change. “Lots of academics …