With coordinating support from UW–Madison's Wisconsin Sea Grant, the East River Collaborative brings together The Nature Conservancy, NEW Water and local governments to build a more resilient East River watershed.
You are what you … drink? In Milwaukee, tens of thousands of households still receive drinking water through lead service lines. The pipes were installed in the 19th century and early 20th century, before medical research made clear that even a small amount of lead is toxic, particularly for small children. Like many cities in …
With support from UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Office of Rural Health, Vilas County communities replaced a strained volunteer system with a 24/7 paramedic service.
Having grown up in a small town in northern Minnesota, Dr. Mike Medich knows all too well how difficult it can be to receive prompt, quality health care when you live in the countryside, or anywhere outside of a large metro area. “We had physicians in town, but sometimes depending on the medical problem, we …
UW–Madison's Early Career Teaching Institute is a four-day program that provides professional development opportunities and supports teachers through their first five years in the classroom.
As students arrive for the school day in Mackenzie Straub’s third-grade classroom in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, they check in on a large, interactive screen that includes a photo of their teacher and another notable: Bucky Badger. It’s a nod to Straub’s fond feelings toward her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Straub earned a bachelor’s …
Potato farmers across Wisconsin have a long history of partnership with UW–Madison vegetable researchers to ensure a healthy harvest, from the initial seed supply to disease prevention and management. Decades of fruitful collaboration have made Wisconsin a model for other states, and UW continues innovating for increased productivity and sustainability.
The premise behind UW's Teacher Pledge is simple but transformational: If you pledge to stay, we pledge to pay. Because training quality educators and keeping them in Wisconsin are critical to addressing the state’s teacher shortage.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has moved up two places to sixth out of 920 public and private universities in the United States in university research expenditures, exceeding $1.7 billion in research expenditures for the first time, according to the NSF Higher Education Research and Development (HERD), released Nov. 25, 2024.
Rural peer advisers are current college students who fan out to rural schools and communities to answer questions, provide information, and share first-person insights with students, parents and high school counselors.