The Commons – March 2025

  • Lucas playing guitar for she’s green at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis. Photo by Nick Greseth

    He’s Green

    Raines Lucas is an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, a guitarist in a touring band, and a GLUE researcher.

  • Dorothy Lsoto

    Lighting the Path Forward

    Dorothy Lsoto never imagined she would be earning her doctorate in environment and resources at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

  • L-R: Nimrat Obhi, Amy Cannon, Juliana Vidal, Natalie O’Neil and Jonathon Moir.

    Where Sustainability Meets Chemistry

    “If you want to save the world, be a chemist,” Amy Cannon said to a room of students, faculty, and staff at the Nelson Institute’s Weston Roundtable in late January.

  • How-To: Salt Wisely

    When it’s cold and snowing outside, don’t be so salty.

  • The Soundtrack of Conservation

    Why do birds make so many different sounds? A new UW–Madison study gets at the underlying factors.

  • Forecast: Extreme

    How Wisconsin’s rural communities are prepping for more extreme weather events.