Environment
From the shores of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan to the bluffs of La Crosse, the UW System is helping to preserve and enrich the environment and abundant natural resources of our great state. Increasing energy efficiency, purifying the Great Lakes and creating habitats for endangered animals are just a few examples of the environmental goals our institutions are working toward.
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UWM engineering alumna builds a business in sustainable stormwater management
June 21, 2021
Wisconsin is blessed with an abundance of water. We have so much water, we often end up with too much in the wrong places at the wrong time. This water […]
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All the buzz: Honey bees taking residence at UW Oshkosh
June 16, 2021
Colonies of honey bees are thriving behind the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, thanks to a push by student Mariah Parkin to add the valued pollinators to the campus’ sustainability efforts. […]
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UW-Madison grad combines research, tribal traditions in wolf relationship plan
May 13, 2021
Abi Fergus dreamed of working with wolves from age 11, a dream that became an opportunity to help a Wisconsin tribe shape a future shared with the animal they call Ma’iingan. […]
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Research shapes geology major’s UW-Eau Claire experience
May 11, 2021
Undergraduate research has been a big part of Katherine Langfield’s college experience, but the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire senior geology major still was nervous about presenting her research for the […]
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UWM researchers find that beavers could be a remedy for downstream floods
May 11, 2021
When water rises in the 900-square-mile Milwaukee River watershed, it rushes downstream to the city at the basin’s lower end. With the rise in severe storms driven by climate change, […]
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UW-Stevens Point childcare center nationally recognized for environmental education, practices
May 6, 2021
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Helen R. Godfrey University Child Learning and Care Center (UCLCC) has been recognized among the 2021 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools award honorees. The […]
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UW-Milwaukee undergrad researcher ‘stepping back in time’ on Lake Michigan shoreline
April 27, 2021
Between 35,000 and 40,000 years ago, Lake Michigan’s geography looked drastically different. Much of its present-day shoreline was made up of marshes and bogs. Student researchers are studying fossils deposited […]
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UW-Stout shredded campus office paper being recycled into tissue paper
April 23, 2021
Earth Week activities April 16-22 include campus clean-up, hike and plastics discussion University of Wisconsin-Stout’s shredded office paper is finding new life at Cascades in Eau Claire as tissue paper. […]
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UW–Madison alum’s mask makes Time magazine’s list of best inventions of 2020
April 22, 2021
While studying abroad in Singapore as a University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineering undergraduate student in 2013, Max Bock-Aronson experienced heightened levels of air pollution firsthand. He also happened to be taking an […]
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UW-Stout professor’s research shows economic losses to rivers, lakes and streams from large-scale animal farms
April 21, 2021
Manure management must be part of policy discussion, Raff says A University of Wisconsin-Stout economics assistant professor in the social science department is part of a groundbreaking research study on […]