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  2. Year: 2021
  3. Month: May

Month: May 2021

Alumna at the forefront of wildlife-transmitted disease research

Posted on May 26, 2021

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 …

Posted in NewsTagged Nelson Institute, population health

UW–Madison’s Kaplan accepts visiting professorship in Heidelberg, Germany

Posted on May 24, 2021

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 …

Posted in Faculty & Staff, NewsTagged School of Education

For Elizabeth Lang Oreamuno (MA’20), Pandemic Inspires Award-Winning Journalism

Posted on May 21, 2021

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 …

Posted in Alumni, Faculty & Staff, NewsTagged Costa Rica, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Earth’s vegetation is changing faster today than it has over the last 18,000 years

Posted on May 20, 2021

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 …

Posted in NewsTagged climate change, geography, National Science Foundation

First we tamed turnips. Then we turned them into bok choy and other veggies.

Posted on May 19, 2021

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 …

Posted in NewsTagged Department of Botany

Manantlán Biosphere Reserve supported by UW-Madison highlighted in Nature

Posted on May 14, 2021

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 …

Posted in Alumni, NewsTagged Department of Botany, Environmental Studies, Nelson Institute

“If I had three minutes to talk to President Biden about the Peace Corps…”

Posted on May 12, 2021

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 …

Posted in NewsTagged Peace Corps

Lei using Cotter award to study authoritarian legislators

Posted on May 12, 2021

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 …

Posted in Awards & Grants, Faculty & Staff, NewsTagged La Follette School

Fuller receives Hobbins Graduate Student Award in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

Posted on May 10, 2021

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 …

Posted in Awards & Grants, Faculty & Staff, NewsTagged School of Education

Celebrating the first graduating King-Morgridge Scholars

Posted on May 7, 2021

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 …

Posted in NewsTagged king-morgridge
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