The Great Lakes Civilian Conservation Corps works to preserve the shorelines of Wisconsin’s coastal counties.
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Summer Field Course Centers the History, Culture and Experiences of Native Students
Students experienced field and classroom learning focused on human relationships with land, water, wildlife, forests and plants.
Welcoming Baratunde Thurston to the Jordahl Stage
“When I say Jordahl, you say lecture!” Baratunde Thurston began, followed by the chants of the crowd.
A Night of Celebration: Rendezvous on the Terrace
The sun sets over Lake Mendota as a buzz of chatter can be heard from Nelson Institute faculty, alumni, and students attending the 2023 Rendezvous on the Terrace celebration.
The South Florida Façade
“What is this place?” Anna Andrzejewski asked herself. Surrounded by palm trees, bright colors, sprawling suburbia, and the occasional alligator, she couldn’t make sense of the strange cultural landscape of South Florida when she visited nearly 20 years ago.
Gone Fishin’ with Jesse Weber
Some Wisconsinites may embark on annual fishing trips, but Jesse Weber’s fishing excursions look a little bit different.
Director’s Cut
It promises to be an exciting year ahead for the Center for Ecology and the Environment (CEE).
Trekking with Tigers
When Sam Helle was growing up in the middle of Milwaukee, she didn’t expect to someday be a conservation biologist surveying tiger populations in the foothills of the Himalayas.
An Environmental Campus Walkabout
During the Spring 2023 semester, 13 Nelson Institute undergraduates took to the trails, streets, and sidewalks of the UW–Madison campus with a mission: to create an audio-based walking tour focused on the stories of environmental activism on campus.
Industry Revolution
Making copies, sorting files, delivering documents. These are tasks one might associate with your standard internship, but they’re nowhere to be found in the lineup of duties for students participating in UW–Madison’s Corporate Sustainability Internship Program.
Turning Ditches into Rain Gardens
Hello, property owner! Do you have unsightly ditches ruining your curb appeal?
The Rise of Sustainability Communications
Across higher education, offices of sustainability show “optimism at the end of the world.”
Twelve Years of Climate Change in Wisconsin
Steve Vavrus, director of the State Climatology Office, looks back on how Wisconsin’s climate has changed since the 2011 WICCI assessment report.
Q & A with Andrea Dutton
Andrea Dutton stumbled upon the field of geoscience by complete accident.
A Zeal for Zambia
Lend Nelson Institute PhD student Colleen Henegan your ear and she’ll tell you all about her time in Zambia, a landlocked country in the south of Africa.
Q & A: Meet Morgan Edwards
What do you get when you combine the immediacy of the climate crisis with the nuances of public policymaking?
EnviroPros@10: History in the Making
“I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the university reaches every family in the state.”
Profiting Sustainably
In Kyle Tanger’s playbook, the best defense is a good offense.
On Art and the Environment
What links the environment and art?
Lights, Camera, Conservation
Pretend, for a moment, that you’re in the audience for Taylor Swift’s highly talked about Eras Tour.
Center for Climatic Research Names New Bryson Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering professor and Nelson Institute faculty affiliate Paul Block has recently been named the Reid A. Bryson Distinguished Professor Chair for Climate, People, and Environment.
Litigation Mitigation
“Diesel dupe.” “Dieselgate.” “Emissionsgate.” Headlines were ripe with nicknames when the news broke in September 2015 that Volkswagen Group had violated the Clean Air Act by installing software in their diesel engines that tampered with emissions-testing results.
UniverCity Alliance Hits the Road
To celebrate partnership across Wisconsin, UniverCity Alliance went on UW–Madison’s 175th anniversary celebration state tour.
Government, Meet Academia
Six years after the conclusion of its inaugural partnership with the city of Monona, UniverCity Year has partnered with 29 Wisconsin communities, connecting local governments with UW–Madison resources.
Now Showing: Maya Land: Listening to the Bees
Like many other Indigenous groups, the Maya don’t view nature as a resource to take from, but as a collection of subjects to build reciprocal relationships with.