Tag: Will Erikson

Applications Open for UW–Madison’s Corporate Sustainability Internship Program 

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Applications are now open for UW–Madison’s Corporate Sustainability Internship Program, a summer-long internship that provides students with real-world sustainability experience in corporate environments.  Rooted in the Wisconsin Idea, the program connects undergraduate and graduate students with Midwest companies seeking support on sustainability initiatives. Businesses bring forward specific project needs, and program staff match them with candidates whose skills and interests align.   …

Fourth-annual Sustainability Symposium highlights links between sustainability and health

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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 …

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

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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 …