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Popular Science: Your air conditioning habit makes summer smog worse

Tracey Holloway, a Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies researcher and GHI Advisory Committee member, shows that air conditioning makes summer smog worse.

Zoonoses & One Health Updates Call

Join the Zoonoses & One Health Updates call from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention One Health Office at 1 p.m. Tentative Speaker Schedule   News from the CDC One Health Office Casey Barton Behravesh MS, DVM, DrPH, DACVPM Captain, U.S. Public Health Service Director, One Health Office Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

CIHR Fellow Evaluates Feasibility of “Social Prescriptions” for College Students

CIHR fellow & GHI collaborator Dr. Maggie Grabow evaluates feasibility of “Social Prescriptions” for college students.

Christopher Olsen named Global Health Institute director of graduate certificate program

Christopher Olsen has been named director of the Graduate|Professional|Capstone Certificate in Global Health.

Break the Cycle: The Power of Food to Interrupt the Revolving Door of Prisons

Join the Nelson Institute for a film screening and conversation facilitated by Fabu Phillis Carter examining the interconnections between race, mass incarceration and urban agriculture. REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED BY SLOW FOOD UW. Cinematography & Editor: Nyal Mueenuddin Producers: Mattie Naythons, Jamie Trapp, Katie Faryniarz, Mackenzie Marcus, and Carrie Lierl More information: nelson.wisc.edu/events/everyones-earth Funding provided by: Ira and …

La Follette Seminar Series: The Economic Returns to Interventions that Increase Learning

In the past decade, hundreds of studies have measured the learning outcomes of education interventions. The impact sizes often are reported in terms of “standard deviations,” making them difficult to communicate to policymakers beyond education specialists. David Evans of the World Bank will discuss two alternative approaches to demonstrate the effectiveness of learning interventions: one …

Transportation and Health: How will we get there?

James Woodcock, Ph.D., MSc, a senior research associate with the Centre for Diet and Activity Research at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, focuses on modeling health and sustainability, especially how to improve health in the transition to a low-carbon transportation system. He will introduce the methods and results of studies that have modeled …

Black Cultural Center to hold grand opening Wednesday

Black Cultural Center to hold grand opening on Wednesday. Check out the full day of events:

4W Plenary V: Multiple Ways of Knowing: Insights Grounded in Indigenous Experiences

How can universities create a nurturing space for indigenous scholars?  What should a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between Native Americans and academia look like? Native graduate students and faculty at UW-Madison describe community-based indigenous research and the climate needed to help them succeed. Ada Deer (Menominee), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Department of Interior—Bureau …

4W Plenary IV: Social Transformations to End Exploitation and Trafficking for Sex (STREETS): Survivor and Educator Perspectives on Human Trafficking Education

An update of STREETS activities and a presentation of the preliminary results from a STREETS study with educators and survivors of trafficking. Jean M. Geran, Co-Directors, UW-STREETS Initiative Araceli Alonso, Co-Directors, UW-STREETS Initiative Amy Bintliff, UW-STREETS Project Assistant This lecture is a part of the 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being and is free and open to the …