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CCR graduate student awarded NCAR Fellowship

Posted on May 23, 2022

Rudradutt Thaker, research assistant with Nelson Institute’s Center for Climatic Research (CCR) and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, has been awarded a fellowship through the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s (NCAR) Graduate Visitor Program.

Posted in ccr, June 2022, News, Students

Nelson Institute students and faculty earn top spot in global XPRIZE challenge

Posted on April 25, 2022

Nelson Institute faculty and students are part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison team Earth RepAIR and among the top 60 groups, and one of only 21 teams focusing on direct air capture, in the XPRIZE competition, a $100 million global challenge funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation.

Posted in May 2022, News, Students

Nelson Institute students participate in global study on urban environmental change and adaptation

Posted on April 11, 2022

Nelson Institute students and researchers participated in a global study investigating the impact of urbanization on biological evolution.

Posted in News, Students

Nelson Institute students and faculty win XPRIZE for Carbon Removal Student Competition

Posted on November 17, 2021

Nelson Institute Energy Analysis and Policy (EAP) faculty and students were among the University of Wisconsin–Madison team members who received a top award from the $5 million XPRIZE for Carbon Removal Student Competition.

Posted in December 2021, News, Students

Two Nelson Institute students awarded as Global Health Institute Planetary Scholars

Posted on November 5, 2021

The Global Health Institute (GHI) Planetary Scholars program has chosen a cohort of five students as scholarship recipients for the ’21-’22 school year, two of which are Nelson Institute students.

Posted in News, November 2021, sage, Students

Environmental Conservation program helps student to spread his wings

Posted on August 10, 2021

While growing up in San Diego, California Pharaoh Graham begged his parents to take him to the zoo.

Posted in August 2021, News, Students

CCR and Geoscience students awarded post-doctoral positions

Posted on July 8, 2021

The Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research (CCR) is proud to announce that two students have been awarded postdoctoral positions. Cameron Batchelor, a PhD student in the Department of Geoscience, under the advisement of assistant …

Posted in July 2021, News, Students

Nelson grad student among planetary health scholars

Posted on June 9, 2020

The spring 2020 University of Wisconsin-Madison Planetary Health Scholars, which include Nelson Institute and Cultural Anthropology graduate student Pearly Wong, recently completed five-minute, virtual mini lectures describing their projects and their goals. Each video is …

Posted in News, Students1 Comment

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