University of Wisconsin–Madison
In February 2024, UW–Madison Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin announced an ambitious set of environmental goals for campus. While several of these efforts focused on facilities and infrastructure, they also prioritized the teaching and research mission of the university. From there, the Sustainability Research Hub was born. A little over a year later, the team is …
Biking and walking tours, hands-on experiments, interactive activities at the Lakeshore Preserve and Arboretum, a First Nations history walking tour, and more programs headline sustainability events at this April’s Community Open House.
This article, by Kamryn Truesdale, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Madeline Fisher’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories. Mary Blanchard, the Associate Director at the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI), …
Purchase Your Energy and Water Saving Kits today! The Office of Sustainability and the Wisconsin Energy Institute have teamed up with Focus on Energy to offer heavily discounted energy- and water-saving products to UW–Madison faculty and staff, as well as to students who live off-campus. The Energy-Saving Fair partnership follows on a successful 2020 promotion …
Multiple entrepreneurial student teams at the University of Wisconsin–Madison took home cash prizes for new innovations in energy technology and environmental sustainability at the end of February. Read the full article on the Wisconsin Energy Institute news page here.
Alex Wendricks, a senior studying Agriculture and Applied Economics, always possessed a passion for renewable energy technologies. But he never imagined that he’d compete in the Collegiate Wind Competition with WiscWind, or partner with Dane County to analyze the feasibility of incorporating residential wind turbines in subsidized housing projects, or create a hypothetical wind farm …