Category: News

Moonshine: Celebrating poetry and dance

UW–Madison dance students and others got a chance to learn from professional dancers and choreographers in a Moonshine Masterclass, held after the Dance Department’s live performance of Moonshine, a mix of music, theater, dance and poetry. This year’s Moonshine features excerpts from “Summer Somewhere” a new choreo poem collaboration between special guest Danez Smith, an …

Alumna Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, to speak at spring commencement

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a top diplomat on the world stage, will take to the Camp Randall stage this May to address University of Wisconsin–Madison graduates. Thomas-Greenfield, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, will be the keynote speaker for spring commencement at UW–Madison on May 14. She will be returning to the place she credits …

Kaplan receives IES grant to develop forecasting models for UN Sustainable Development Goals

UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, has received a three-year, $897,000 grant from the Institute for Education Sciences to work on the development of probabilistic forecasting approaches to model trends toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal […] Read the full article.

Holly Gibbs featured in The Guardian article highlighting loopholes in Amazon soy moratorium

Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) and Department of Geography professor Holly Gibbs is featured in a recent article from The Guardian highlighting the challenges surrounding a landmark Amazon soy moratorium. […] Read the full article.

WICCI releases assessment report, ten years in the making

The Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI), a nationally recognized collaboration of scientists and stakeholders working together to help Wisconsin policymakers and citizens understand the impacts of climate change, has released an assessment report that outlines the latest climate impacts and solutions […] Read the full article.

Fellowship will bring Thai cheese retailers, marketers to Wisconsin to learn about specialty cheeses

The University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the Center for Dairy Research will help host a group of cheese retailers and cheese marketing specialists from Thailand later this year thanks to a Cochran Fellowship Program grant from the USDA – Foreign Agricultural Service. The program was developed in close collaboration with …

WRM student, Daniel Igirimbabazi aspires to create solutions to the world’s water resource challenges

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 his interest in science, inspired him to seek a career in water resource management and community engagement, which he hopes …

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 and global standards are implemented at sites of extraction. Moreover, adaptation of community engagement, benefit-sharing, and environmental monitoring in one …

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 with the School of Education’s Dance Department… Read the full article.

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 to Columbia, Georgetown, and Yale, when one of his professors suggested adding one more university to the list—the University of …