Category: Events
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Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Host “Climate Forward Report” Briefing.
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters is hosting a community briefing to provide an update on the Climate Forward Report (2014) recommendations on Wednesday, June 28, from 1:00…
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Event honors Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield and highlights U.S.-Africa relations.
Please join the African Studies Program for a special event featuring the former Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs (2013-2017) and UW alumna, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.…
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Our City of Nations 2017
In 2015, over 200 multidisciplinary professionals came together to share experiences and learn how to do better as individual providers, agencies, and as a community to support welcoming citizens to…
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Zoonoses & One Health Updates Call
Wednesday, June 7 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET ACCESS INFORMATION – BOTH AUDIO AND VIDEO Please note: this call will NOT be recorded. For audio: Toll-free number: 800-857-9372…
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Wisconsin Without Borders: A Global Initiative
As a part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 4W Initiative, students and faculty members from the Design Studies program in the School of Human Ecology have partnered with traditional artisans…
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Liver Fat, Hepatic Enzymes and the Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Study of 132,377 Adults
A presentation of “Liver Fat, Hepatic Enzymes and the Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabetes” will be given by GHI collaborator Dr. Sean Chen from the Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical…
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Trumping Health Care Reform? Perspectives on the Past, Lessons for the Future
What role did misperceptions of health care and health insurance play in the 2016 Presidential Election? What is happening with the current Republican health care reform efforts? What do these past events…
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WN@TL This Week: Randy Jackson on the Bioenergy Sector
Agronomy professor Randy Jackson will be the featured speaker at Wednesday Nite @ the Lab this week. His talk, titled “What are the bottlenecks of bioenergy?” will address some common questions about second-generation bioenergy…
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Taste of Timor
Join the Madison-Ainaro Sister City Alliance for the first annual Taste of Timor gala celebration. There will be fine cuisine cooked in Madison from recipes gathered across East Timor. Taste the…
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Infectious Disease Interest Group
Meeting rescheduled to Friday, May 19. Stephanie Schauer, Ph.D., from the Wisconsin Immunization Program, will present “Mumps: The diagnostics are challenging and the epidemiology is interesting,” to the Infectious Disease…
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UW Health Quality Improvement Symposium
Learners from across the UW Health science disciplines will present posters of their QI projects for faculty, staff and all those interested. Posters will be judged by a group of…
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2017 Wisconsin Without Borders Awards Ceremony
The 2017 Wisconsin Without Borders Awards Ceremony recognizes the work of students, faculty, staff and community partners that demonstrates excellence in collaboration between the university and local and global communities.…
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Challenges of Feeding the World in 2050
The world’s interconnected global markets, burgeoning appetites and an increasingly variable climate have already started to levy a heavy burden on our food systems that deliver safe, nutritious, and accessible…
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One Health Happy Hour Panel: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Tickborne Disease
Join Dr. Tom Green, Dr. Lyric Bartholomay, Dr. Christine Muganda and Jordan Madli for a conversation about tickborne disease. Johnny Uelman will moderate the discussion.
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Zoonoses & One Health Updates Call
Join the Zoonoses & One Health Updates call from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention One Health Office at 1 p.m. Tentative Speaker Schedule News from the CDC…
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Break the Cycle: The Power of Food to Interrupt the Revolving Door of Prisons
Join the Nelson Institute for a film screening and conversation facilitated by Fabu Phillis Carter examining the interconnections between race, mass incarceration and urban agriculture. REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED BY SLOW FOOD UW.…
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La Follette Seminar Series: The Economic Returns to Interventions that Increase Learning
In the past decade, hundreds of studies have measured the learning outcomes of education interventions. The impact sizes often are reported in terms of “standard deviations,” making them difficult to…
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Transportation and Health: How will we get there?
James Woodcock, Ph.D., MSc, a senior research associate with the Centre for Diet and Activity Research at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, focuses on modeling health and…


