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Weston Roundtable: Cultivating Resilience LLC, Resilient agriculture
The Weston Roundtable is made possible by a generous donation from Mr. Roy F. Weston, a highly accomplished UW-Madison alumnus. Designed to promote a robust understanding of sustainability science, engineering and policy, these interactive lectures are co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Office of…
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UW-Madison celebrates International Women’s Day March 3
UW-Madison celebrates International Women’s Day March 3
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Healthcare Access and Reform: A Panel Discussion
Finding equity for rural and urban communities REGISTER NOW Significant changes are underway in federal and state policy related to how we pay for and deliver healthcare. These policies affect everyone in the state, as do trends of an aging population and advances in technology. Furthermore, many Wisconsin residents are employed by hospitals, insurance companies,…
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Global Health Tuesday: Polluted Fish and Cycles of Poverty
2016 GHI Seed Grant Recipient Peter McIntyre discusses his project on tracing the global scope of mercury contamination of inland subsistence fisheries, ecological patterns, health threats and source tracking. This project addresses an unrecognized facet of the cycle of poverty: contamination of food fish with neurotoxins. Mercury from global and local sources biomagnifies in fish, and…
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Susan Paskewitz keynotes annual Global Health Symposium
Join the UW-Madison global health community Tuesday, April 10, at Union South for the Global Health Symposium: Advancing Health in Uncertain Times.