University of Wisconsin–Madison
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a report urging a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Gregory Nemet, a Nelson Institute affiliate and a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs is a lead author on the report which outlines options for mitigating climate change impacts […] Read …
The UW–Madison Filipinx American Student Organization (FASO) is playing a leading role in hosting the first post-pandemic Midwest Filipino American Summit (MFAS), which is being held on campus April 2, with more than 400 Filipinx students from seven states expected to attend. FASO’s eight executive board members are doing most of the planning for this …
Think about the products you’ve used since you woke up this morning: the toothpaste on your toothbrush; the yogurt with your breakfast; the fragrance on your dresser; the pills in your medicine cabinet. The taste that lingers on your tongue long after you’ve rinsed and spit and the note that scents your skin well into …
UW–Madison’s Ashley L. White is the author of a paper that proposes a new framework for preparing future teachers to better connect with and educate the nation’s increasingly diverse student population. The article — published earlier this year in the journal Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies — is titled, “Reaching Back to Reach …
As an intern at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, UW–Madison nuclear engineering undergraduate Brienna Johnson is relishing the experience of living abroad and working on efforts that could help improve nuclear energy worldwide. The IAEA is the world’s foremost intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the peaceful use of …
Last week over 500 artists from around the world — including from Canada, Poland, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, and New Zealand — descended on UW–Madison for the Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) conference, “Our Shared Future,” hosted by the School of Education’s Art Department. As a result, there was a virtual explosion of …
In October 2021, with a grant through the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, the University of Wisconsin Law School launched a new center to support Wisconsin’s DREAMers, an all-encompassing term describing individuals who have lived in the United States without official lawful status since coming to the country as a minor. Now, five months later, the …
In a span of 20 minutes, a dozen students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison visited a Japanese pastry shop, a high-tech sushi restaurant, and got ice cream — twice. But they all left a little hungrier. They were the virtual guests of their counterparts at Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (OUAVM), taking a …
Emily Burke never expected she would get the chance to speak directly to Pope Francis. But there she was last month, face-to-face with the Pontiff—virtually, at least, over Zoom–suggesting ways in which the Catholic Church could begin to take a leadership role in addressing the ongoing problem of climate change. For Burke, a graduate student …
Nelson Institute affiliate and La Follette School of Public Affairs Professor Greg Nemet and Nelson Institute affiliate and Professor, Jonathan Patz are featured in a Wisconsin Public Radio story discussing the future of energy. This discussion was prompted by the U.S. ban on Russian oil imports, which is leading to a larger discussion about the …