When: April 24th, 4:30 p.m. Where: Health Sciences Learning Center, Room 1309 James Svenson, 2016 GHI Seed Grant recipient, presents on his team’s collaboration with a group from Stanford University to develop a computer-based app that can be used by village health promoters in San Lucas Tolimán, a town of 17,000, to monitor their diabetic …
WHERE: 1335 Health Sciences Learning Center WHEN: April 23rd, 5:00 p.m. Thirty years ago, as much of the world was being ravaged by horrific diseases like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, three remarkable young people, barely out of their teens—Jim Yong Kim, Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl—came together in a squatter settlement in Haiti, determined to provide world-class medical …
WHEN: April 23rd, 12:00 p.m. WHERE: Health Sciences Learning Center, Room 1335 Jonathan Samet, a pulmonary physician and epidemiologist, is dean of the Colorado School of Public Health. Previously, he served as Distinguished Professor and Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Keck School of Medicine of USC Department of Preventive Medicine and founding director of the …
When: Monday April 23rd, 2018, 12:00pm In the third annual Local Government Summit, the Wisconsin Academy and partners will convene a two-day summit to share practical resources and explore emerging issues in local energy planning and resilience in Wisconsin communities. Local leaders and representatives from organizations actively serving as resources to these communities (research teams, …
WHEN: April 23rd, 7:30 a.m. WHERE: Monona Terrace Communities across the country and world are finding themselves faced with opportunities that require novel approaches and collaborative problem-solving, especially as they strive to develop inclusive and sustainable environments. Creativity and innovation, supported by technology and advanced via passionate grassroots engagement, are the tools that are making a …
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When: Tuesday April 17th, 2018, 9:00am Where: Nancy Nicholas Hall Community and nonprofit efforts are increasingly relied upon to mitigate social problems and meet basic needs, and their educational, organizing and advocacy work has never been more important in addressing systemic problems. However, traditional giving practices have been challenged for their efficacy in creating real …
Araceli Alonso, GHI Advisory Committee member, receives 2018 Academic Staff Excellence Award
The annual Undergraduate Symposium showcases undergraduate creativity, achievement, research, service-learning and community-based research from all areas of study at UW–Madison including the humanities, fine arts, biological sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. This past year nearly 700 students presented, displayed or performed their work for members of the University, the surrounding community, family and friends.