With more than 25 years of experience in the comics industry, Mike Baron ’71 has conjured up futuristic worlds, split personalities, phantoms, weather wizards, executioners, psychopathic scum — and countless characters who could fill Camp Randall Stadium …. or destroy it.
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Zuzana Buřivalová Honored with Inaugural Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Award
Nelson Institute professor Zuzana Buřivalová was recently named an inaugural recipient of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Award.
EOI Graduate Passionate to Provide Climate Solutions using Remote Sensing and GIS
Recent graduate of the environmental observation informatics (EOI) MS program, David Kolodziejski found his niche in geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing after a long period of career exploration.
A Voice for the Wild
“Chances are you’ve probably heard of the controversy involving a proposed mine near the Boundary Waters,” a voice echoes over the sound of howling wind as the camera sweeps over a dark, frozen landscape.
CHE Graduate Student Symposium: Watersheds
The Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) is excited to welcome you to gather with CHE students and faculty on March 25 for our annual Graduate Student Symposium.
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This is an exciting time for the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE)!
Earth Day 2023: Species on the Move
Across the globe, climate change has put people, animals, and plants in a constant state of movement.
Q & A: Grace Bulltail
It’s not every day a working professional engineer trades their “PE” stamp for academia.
From the Big Apple to Small-Town Wisconsin
As an out-of-state student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Aly Scanlon looked for opportunities to feel more at home in the place she was attending school.
Bikepacking for Credit
Imagine biking 50 miles up a mountain carrying nearly 100 pounds of gear with only peanut butter, tortillas, and applesauce to keep you going.
Partnerships in Greener Pastures
About 80 miles northwest of Science Hall sits 538 acres of farmland.
Managing Public Lands for Conservation
The Nelson Institute Issue Brief is a quarterly publication that summarizes and conveys up-to-date scholarship from across the UW–Madison campus on key issues of environmental concern.
Christopher Kilgour Joins Nelson Staff
To help ring in the new year, the Nelson Institute staff welcomed a new team member: Christopher Kilgour.
Wisconsin Idea to the Ninth
In a record-setting cohort, University of Wisconsin–Madison’s UniverCity Year program will be partnering with nine communities across Wisconsin during the 2022–25 academic years and leveraging university resources to move forward their goals.
10 Environmental Campus Features
The landscape of UW–Madison is one aspect of campus that distinguishes us from our Big Ten rivals.
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I’m happy for this opportunity to introduce myself and to write about the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), which has been my professional home for over 20 years!
Expanding Forest Conservation One Datapoint at a Time
From boreal evergreens in the north to tropical jungles in the south, the forests of our world provide humanity with the potential to be an important solution to climate change.
Map Maker
Yanhua Xie, a researcher at the Nelson Institute’s Center for Sustainability and Global Environment, has been working to build agriculture irrigation maps at a level that has never been done before.
Tracey Holloway among Inaugural Advisory Board for Outrider
The Nelson Institute’s Tracey Holloway was recently named to the inaugural advisory board of the Outrider Foundation, a Madison-based nonprofit that that addresses issues of nuclear security and climate change through multimedia storytelling.
Q & A: Meet Shawn Steffan
It’s the circle of life – which is something Department of Entomology faculty member and U.S. Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) research entomologist Shawn Steffan knows all too well.
A Legacy Recorded
“Is Lake Mendoza frozen yet?” Believe it or not, that’s a common wintertime question from alumni seeking reports from their alma mater (particularly alumni who have migrated to warmer climates).
Nelson Alumna Among Most Influential Black Leaders
Nelson Institute alumni award winner Linda Vakunta has earned another impressive accolade: she was recently named one of Wisconsin’s most influential Black leaders by the Madison-based news outlet Madison365.
Two Nelson-Affiliated Papers among Most Mentioned Studies of 2022
Each year, the UK-based, climate-focused Carbon Brief website releases a list of the top 25 most mentioned scientific papers.
Nelson Embraces the Work Ahead
Since an initial Campus Climate Survey in the fall of 2016 and a follow-up in 2021, the Nelson Institute has prioritized addressing the experience for its faculty, staff, and students.
Partnership in the Air
Imagine you’re on a beach, and you pick up one single grain of sand.