For most of us, bugs are an irritation. Mosquitoes are to be swatted. Ticks avoided. Spiders … well, let’s not go there. For Susan Paskewitz, keynote speaker at the April 10 Global Health Symposium, insects are cool – and gorgeous – and understanding them is a way to contribute to health in Wisconsin and around …
The 4W is seeking proposals on the broadly defined theme of Our Bodies, Our Earth: Voice, Violence, and Peacemaking from across the disciplines addressing feminist perspectives on women, gender and voice in research, scholarship, program development, pedagogy, curriculum, creative work and/or community activism. The 4W interprets ‘voice, violence and peacemaking’ broadly and will consider proposals focused on topics …
GHI is hiring for two student positions: a general/education intern and a communications intern.
Green spaces in cities help control floods, store carbon
Channel3000: Hundreds gather to celebrate International Women’s Day Saturday
Full 2018 MTC Program Jointly sponsored by: Global Health Institute Wisconsin Environmental Health Network Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Department of Pediatrics SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital – Madison, Department of Continuing …
Bruce Lanphear, M.D., MPH, is a clinician scientist at the British Columbia Children’s Research Institute and a professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Over the past decade, Lanphear has become increasingly vexed by the inability to control the “pandemic of consumption” – the largely preventable, worldwide epidemic of chronic disease and …
4W Innovation Award The 4W Innovation Award is intended as general support– which can be used toward summer salary, course buy out, or other arrangement with school or department– to allow a faculty or academic staff member to devote time to develop a key initiative related to women and wellbeing and aligned with the vision …
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 …
UW-Madison celebrates International Women’s Day March 3