Health Links, a student-designed smartphone app, helps connect low-income Madisonians with critical community resources such as food pantries, shelters, and health centers.
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Castillo wins Bucky’s Award in sustainability
UW–Madison senior Maria Castillo received the Conservation and Sustainability Award at the Bucky’s Award Ceremony Sunday evening. The ceremony is a recognition event hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Student Leadership Program. The Conservation and …
UniverCity Year extends to Dane County
UniverCity is now seeking faculty and staff interested in partnering on projects in economic development, affordable housing, county service use, and water quality.
UniverCity: Monona partnership
The UniverCity Alliance brings together students, faculty and research centers from across the UW–Madison campus to provide communities with resources to help develop solutions for urban growth and development issues.
Making rain gardens more effective
Through a combination of outreach, sampling and detailed watershed modeling, UW–Madison researchers are trying to remove some of the obstacles that prevent more widespread use of green infrastructure, and, more importantly, evaluate which green infrastructure …
Reconnecting Milwaukee youth to the Earth
Two UW–Madison students embarked on a summer adventure to teach the concepts of climate change and local, sustainable and healthy eating to children visiting Milwaukee’s Urban Ecology Center. They found their efforts, supported by a …
What does “local food” mean to Wisconsin consumers?
Wisconsin consumers widely agree that “local” food means food grown in Wisconsin, according to a new statewide survey conducted by faculty affiliated with UW–Extension, UW–Madison, and UW–River Falls.
Monona, UW-Madison partner on first ‘UniverCity Year’ project
A new UW–Madison initiative to help boost urban sustainability in Wisconsin has landed its first partner: the city of Monona.
Connecting through capstones
Students on college campuses often find themselves facing a paradox. While they are in an environment that provides endless resources and knowledge, they can also become lost in an academic version of reality.
‘Live from Paris’ will connect Wisconsin with UN climate conference
Madison will have a unique window on COP21 — the catchier name for the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — as it begins …