Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., an internationally recognized activist in agriculture, gender, property rights and environment, will present the keynote address for the three-day 2017 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being. Her talk, “Women Lead the Way: From Violence to Non-Violence, from Greed to Sharing, From Hate to Love,” at 4 p.m. April 27 is also …
Schedule 3:00 – 3:05 PM: Welcome and Introduction 3:05-4:20 PM: Research talks by UW-Madison faculty and researchers Neil Stenhouse, Life Sciences Communication Ankur Desai, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Monica Turner, Zoology Andrea Hicks, Civil & Environmental Engineering Jim Kossin, Space Science & Engineering Center 4:30-5:30 PM: Keynote Lecture by Prof. Josh Lawler, University of Washington Many species …
The 2017 Quality Improvement Leadership Institute is scheduled for July 24-28.
Greg Nemet, GHI Advisory Committee member, and Gregg Mitman, former Advisory Committee member named 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellows.
Sandra Begay-Campbell, principal member of the technical staff at Sandia Labs National Laboratories, leads the panel discussion on climate, energy and the future of the planet. The discussion will focus on solar and renewable energy, climate change, and policy. She will be joined by: GHI Director Jonathan Patz Sumudu Atapattu, director of the UW Law …
A documentary film screening and community discussion examining the interconnections between race, mass incarceration and urban agriculture. Building Food Justice Capacity in South Madison is a four-year community-university partnership that uses food as a strategy to break cycles of systematic incarceration of minorities by our criminal justice system. The partnership asks the question: How could …
This talk will focus on the opportunities and challenges in using satellite data for health exposure assessment and understanding air pollution. For over 10 years, satellites have been used to characterize spatial and temporal patterns in air quality on a global basis, and planned programs over the coming few years will greatly expand satellite capability. …
GHI Director to give opening Keynote at the Inaugural Planetary Health Conference in Boston next Friday.
In the spring of 2017, the Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host the 14th Midwest International Economic Development Conference on Friday, April 21, and Saturday, April 22, 2017, at the Pyle Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The keynote speaker will be Pascaline Dupas, Associate Professor of Economics …
Mona Hanna-Attisha, M.D., MPH, is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and director of the pediatric residency program at Hurley Children’s Hospital in Flint, Michigan. She was recently heralded internationally for her study that exposed elevated lead blood levels in Flint children. Hanna-Attisha now directs the Michigan State University and …