Tag: school of engineering

Analyzing an ‘Erie’ algae similarity with Kenya’s Kisumu Bay

When spring comes around, freeing Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, from its annual deep freeze, Paul Block and his students study the season’s climate conditions to predict what summer has in store for the lake. Max Beal, a civil and environmental engineering PhD student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is part of that group. Now …

Castro committed to collaborative, relational approach as college’s inaugural inclusion, equity and diversity leader

At age 18, Chris Castro boarded a plane bound for Miami with his family, unknowingly a one-way journey from Colombia that would upend his life. When they landed, Castro’s parents told him and his 13-year-old sister they wouldn’t be returning home to Bogota, the South American country’s bustling capital. His mother had received death threats …