University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Climate & Land Use Change

Cap Times: UW-Madison scientist’s study uses ice records to link Industrial Revolution, climate change

In Madison, there are more than 160 years of records on the freezing and thawing dates of lakes Monona and Mendota. But it was centuries of data on a lake in Japan and a river in Finland that helped a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus and a team of researchers show climate change trends since the Industrial Revolution.

Global Health Institute supports graduate students, visiting scholars and traveling faculty to study human, animal, environmental health

Girls’ health, open spaces, West Nile virus and cardiac care are among the topics University of Wisconsin-Madison investigators will explore with awards announced March 28, 2016, by the Global Health Institute (GHI). The Institute awarded eight Graduate Student Research Awards, one Faculty-Staff Travel Award and three Visiting Scholar Awards in amounts from $2,500 to $8,000. …