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Preparing medical students to practice in rural areas
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Wisconsin follows national decline in cancer death rates
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UW-Madison UniverCity Year program seeks faculty to partner with counties
Finding practical solutions to community-based challenges is at the heart of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s UniverCity Year. Launched in 2016 with the Wisconsin Idea in mind, the program has traditionally partnered with a single community on projects to accelerate innovation and improve the lives of people in Wisconsin. This year, UniverCity Year expects to make a…
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A freshwater mussel apocalypse is underway–and no one knows why
GHI Associate Director Tony Goldberg discusses the importance of mussels with National Geographic.
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2019 is the wettest year ever recorded for Wisconsin and the Midwest
The year’s not over, but 2019 will already go down as the wettest year ever across the Midwest and Wisconsin since record-keeping began in 1895. More than 43 inches of rain and snow — 43.48 inches to be exact — fell across nine states in the Midwest through November. The total bumps the previous record set back…