Category: Campus

Reimagining rural spaces: WSB students design affordable housing in UniverCity Alliance

Wisconsin School of Business | April 16, 2019 Tom Landgraf has a message for his capstone real estate students: Get out of the classroom. Read the story.

UniverCity Year program to partner with Pepin County

UW–Madison | Feb. 20, 2019 Pepin County is the latest partner for the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s UniverCity Year program, which brings faculty, students, and community members together to improve the sustainability, resilience, and general wellbeing of Wisconsin’s communities. Read the story.

Gavin Luter of UW-Madison discusses partnership with Pepin County

WRDN, Reel Country 1430 | Feb.12, 2019 UniverCity Alliance Director, Gavin Luter discusses the new UniverCity Year partnership with Brian Winnekins of WRDN in Durand, Wis. Listen to the story.

Know Your Madisonian: Academia gets real

Wisconsin State Journal | Jan. 5, 2019 As director of the UniverCity Alliance at UW–Madison, Gavin Luter tries to bridge the gap between academia and the “real world.” Read the story.

UW–Madison engineering students design sustainable system for rural school

UW–Madison | Dec. 6, 2018 A team from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is proposing a renewable energy system to help offset Juda School’s energy expenses by 25 percent. Read the story.

Making the Wisconsin Idea Local

Wisconsin Idea Seminar | Oct. 30, 2018 Gavin Luter describes the UniverCity Year and explores the heart of the Wisconsin Idea in this Wisconsin Idea Seminar at UW–Madison.

Project putting UW resources to work for local communities

Wisconsin Public Radio | Sept. 6, 2018 The UniverCity Alliance project is starting its third year trying to connect local communities to the brainpower of UW–Madison. We talk to the director of the program about what they’ve accomplished and what the project will look like in this next year. Listen to the story.

UW–Madison, Green County launch UniverCity partnership

UW–Madison | August 16, 2018 Finding practical solutions to community-based challenges is at the heart of a new three-year partnership between Green County and the UniverCity Alliance partnership program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that will kick off Aug. 21 with a gala event at the Monroe High School Performing Arts Center. Read the story.

Eight projects win Baldwin grants

UW–Madison | June 12, 2018 The subjects of the eight projects selected for grants from the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment are varied, but all will help the university contribute knowledge and resources across the state. Read the story.

UW-Madison’s UniverCity Alliance names Gavin Luter as director

Global Health Institute | June 6, 2018 Gavin Luter has been named director of the UniverCity Alliance at UW–Madison, which connects students and educators with communities to solve local challenges. Read the story.