Craig Eley, ACLS Fellow, and Steve Paulson, Executive Producer of the To the Best of Our Knowledge on Wisconsin Public Radio, will conduct a seminar entitled: The Art of Radio: Making Scholarly Voices Public. They’ll discuss the tension between scholarly knowledge and public audiences, the power of radio as a platform, and provide some practical …
The Global Health Institute is looking for a student employee as an office assistant, supporting the Institute administrator and accountant. The successful applicant will work in the Medical Sciences Center Offices for 10 to 15 hours a week. Hours are flexible, based on class schedule. Learn more. The position is posted here.
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UW-Madison researchers show that spring will come earlier as a result of rising temperature--causing havoc with plant/animal life.
GHI Director Jonathan Patz was a featured speaker when the UW-Madison kicked off its comprehensive campaign
Please join the UNA-USA Dane County Chapter as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the UN Day on October, 18th, 2015. We are pleased to welcome Ambassador John E. Lange, a Senior Fellow of Global Health Diplomacy at the UN Foundation, as our keynote speaker. He will present: “Global Health & Sustainable Development“. Ambassador John …
Thanks to Ford, Slow Food UW addresses barriers to fresh, healthy food
This roundtable will address the ongoing controversy about the benefits and concerns surrounding vaccines. In spite of decades of successful immunization campaigns and the debunking of studies linking vaccines to diseases such as autism, vaccination is still heavily resisted by several segments of American society. We have assembled an interdisciplinary group of experts to examine …
Because Tomorrow Needs Her is an urgent call to all involved and all who care that more needs to be done to address the specific medical needs of women and girls around the world. We know how to save their lives, yet 800 women die every day from pregnancy-related causes. We know how to ease …
Organized by the Wisconsin Energy Institute, this year’s Energy Summit will be held at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery and Union South on the UW–Madison campus on Tuesday, October 13, 2015. “The Energy Summit is about bringing different people together to think through some of the most difficult challenges of our time,” says Holloway. “Without …