From understanding the viral spillover risk of diseases like coronavirus to research on the health of great apes, Nelson Institute alumna Sarah H. Olson is at the forefront of some of today’s most pressing environmental …
Month: May 2021
UW–Madison’s Kaplan accepts visiting professorship in Heidelberg, Germany
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan has been named the Max Kade Visiting Professor at the Institut für Bildungswissenshaft (Institute for Education Science) at the University of Heidelberg for the fall 2021 semester. Kaplan is the Patricia Busk …
For Elizabeth Lang Oreamuno (MA’20), Pandemic Inspires Award-Winning Journalism
When Elizabeth Lang Oreamuno was starting out as a reporter in Costa Rica, a renowned journalist at a competition dismissed her by saying the kind of journalism she wanted to do didn’t exist there. But …
Earth’s vegetation is changing faster today than it has over the last 18,000 years
MADISON – A global survey of fossil pollen has discovered that the planet’s vegetation is changing at least as quickly today as it did when the last ice sheets retreated around 10,000 years ago. Beginning …
First we tamed turnips. Then we turned them into bok choy and other veggies.
Humans likely domesticated turnips near the Hindu Kush mountains, near present day Afghanistan, 3,500 to 6,000 years ago before spreading them east and west and breeding them into related vegetables like bok choy and broccoli …
Manantlán Biosphere Reserve supported by UW-Madison highlighted in Nature
Nelson Institute adjunct professor and Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology alumnus, Eduardo Santana Castellón recently co-authored a letter to the editor titled, Value of Mexican Nature Reserve is More than Monetary in the journal …
“If I had three minutes to talk to President Biden about the Peace Corps…”
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Peace Corps on March 1, University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a conversation with 11 former Peace Corps directors. Topics ranged across the decades, with a focus on this unprecedented …
Lei using Cotter award to study authoritarian legislators
Reed Lei, assistant professor of public affairs and political science, received the Jerry and Mary Cotter Faculty Fellow award this spring. Lei, who joined the La Follette School in August 2020, will use the funding …
Fuller receives Hobbins Graduate Student Award in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
Regina Fuller is one of two recipients of the Deborah A. Hobbins Graduate Student Award in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice from UW–Madison’s Center for Research on Gender and Women. Fuller was recognized for her …
Celebrating the first graduating King-Morgridge Scholars
Scholars reflect on their experiences and the future ahead The King-Morgridge Scholars program, which was made possible through the generosity of the King and Morgridge families, endows six scholarships each year to enterprising, creative young …