Maintaining clean, sustainable water resources for future generations is a personal and professional goal for Nelson Institute Water Resources Management student Daniel Igirimbabazi, who experienced water scarcity as a child. His own experiences, coupled with …
Year: 2022
Assist Prof Horowitz new article addresses Global Standards, Corporate Diagrams & Indigenous Agency
This paper, Global Standards, Corporate Diagrams and Indigenous Agency: ExxonMobil in Russia and Alaska, co-authored by Assistant Professor Leah Horowitz, discusses how the government, and others may play important roles in influencing how corporate policies …
UW–Madison’s Li to present work at 2022 SoloDuo Dance Festival in New York City
Work by UW–Madison’s Li Chiao-Ping will be featured at the 2022 SoloDuo Dance Festival, taking place Feb. 6-7 in New York City. Li is the Sally Banes Professor of Dance and a Vilas Research Professor …
Alumnus Paul Schneider creates a new legacy in LACIS
Paul Schneider, MA ’72, MBA ’77, was a senior at New York University when he decided to take his next step by obtaining an advanced degree in Latin American studies. The young scholar had applied …
Workshop empowers educators to confidently teach on genocide
According to the first 50-state survey of Holocaust knowledge, 56% of U.S. Millennials and Gen Z were unable to identify Auschwitz, and around half have witnessed Holocaust denial or distortion online. Though the survey showed …
UW-built spectrograph en route to South Africa
A near-infrared spectrograph—an instrument that splits light into its individual colors, or wavelengths, to form a spectrum like a rainbow—will soon be shipped to South Africa from UW-Madison. The next-generation instrumentation, custom-built by staff in …
Nichole Springer: A worldwide communicator
Nichole Springer can travel to almost every part of the world and find common grounds on which to communicate. That’s because in addition to her native English, Nichole has developed proficiency in Hindi, Urdu, Mandarin …
Badgering: Alvin Thomas
“Beaches all around, beautiful skies, beautiful food, just beautiful people.” That’s how Alvin Thomas describes his home island of Saint Lucia, located in the Caribbean. But it was the people, and the not-so-idyllic social and …
Message from the dean: Wishing you all the best in the Lunar New Year
I write this message at a time of new beginnings. We are one month into a new calendar year, a new semester is barely underway, and the new moon, on February 1, marks the beginning …
The Pathway Forward: How companies, NGOs, and scientists are collaborating to help save the Amazon
Explore how a new collaboration is helping to address deforestation and its links to meat and leather supply chains during the Sustainable Success Lecture on February 24, 2022, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. CT. Register today to …