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Livable Cities Seminar: Global Urbanization and Sustainability
Peter Marcotullio is a professor of geography and director of the City University of New York Institute for Sustainable Cities. He will discuss how cities can be part of the solution to global sustainability challenges. CISC merges the science of sustainability with innovative public programming, examining how cities can proactively respond to environmental change. The…
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Water@UW-Madison: A Wisconsin Idea Symposium
Did you know that UW-Madison has over 100 faculty and scientists involved in water-related research and scholarship? Do you want to learn more about the diversity of water-related scholarship at UW-Madison? Are you interested in meeting colleagues and potential collaborators on the UW-Madison campus? At Water@UW-Madison – A Wisconsin Idea Symposium, each of 50 UW-Madison faculty…
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Ebola and African deployment: Infectious Disease Interest Group
The Infectious Disease Interest Group meets to discuss the Ebola response at 4 p.m. Friday, May 8. Lina Elbadawi, MD, MS, will present “Ebola and African Deployment.” Masia Safdar, MD, and Christopher Crnich, MD, Ph.D., will discuss “Issues, challenges, and lessons learned about Ebola in Madison. The Infectious Disease Interest Group is a collaboration of…
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18th annual Leopold Lecture: Welcome to the New Wild–Saving nature in a human dominated world
M. Sanjayan, executive vice president and senior scientist at Conservation International, delivers the 18th annual Leopold Lecture, discussing ways wildlife and humans are coexisting in our modern world. Drawing on examples from his critically-acclaimed PBS television series EARTH A New Wild, Sanjayan will reveal the surprising ways wildlife and people can mutually benefit each other…
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Screening Event of the documentary ‘Black Gold’
Michaela Brause, an undergradute student at UW-Madison studying Community and Nonprofit Leadership with certificates in Global Health and Environmental Studies, will be holding a screening event of the documentary ‘Black Gold‘. After traveling to Ethiopia with Heidi Busse, Brause has gained a first hand experience of the coffee culture in Ethiopia. Bringing together Global Health, Environmental…