Mark your calendar: Wednesday Nite @ the Lab discusses pivotal health discoveries made on campus through talk “100 Years Ago: The Discovery of Vitamin B and the Discovery of the Link between Iodine & Goiter” by David Nelson, Wisconsin Science Museum. In 1917 Elmer McCollum & Nina Simmonds at UW discovered what came to be known as …
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 to 2:15 pm at the Madison Public Library, Room 302. We hope you can join, as there is much to say about the state and …
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. Amb. Thomas-Greenfield will speak about the future of U.S.-Africa relations during this time of great political transition. Learn more about the Ambassador’s legacy of public …
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 Milwaukee and surrounding regions. Attendees from 62 agencies and 16 professional fields heard from keynotes such as Ms. Barbara Day, the Domestic Resettlement Section Chief …
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 Participant passcode: 9330736 For video: (Note: the webinar platform has changed to Adobe Connect). To join the meeting: https://adobeconnect.cdc.gov/zohucall/ If you have never attended an …
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 around the world developing coordinated microenterprises projects. Materials and color palettes have been coordinated in order that products are globally interchangeable from one culture to …
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 University, Taiwan.
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 mean for the longer term resilience of the PPACA in the months and years ahead? Where do we go from here? Join the conversation with us …