University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Events

Upcoming Weston Roundtable to discuss heat health warning system

The lecture given by three graduate students will take place Feb. 9 at 4:15 p.m. in 1153 Mechanical Engineering.

Crossroads of Ideas: Science to the Rescue

This discussion will be held on Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Discovery Building. It will also be livestreamed on Zoom.

Climatologist Larry Kalkstein discusses excessive heat, human health in Weston Roundtable lecture

Madison and Milwaukee are pilot cities through the Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation for advancing a heat wave ranking system based on human health.

UniverCity Alliance announces Spring 2022 Urban Futures Lecture series

Join UniverCity Alliance and partners across campus for a series of urban-minded lectures during the Spring 2022 semester.

Join us! Recommendations on Madison’s Sustainable Development Strategies

December 15 (4:30pm): WI School of Business students & Professor Yongheng Deng. East Atrium, Grainger Hall.

Tune in! UniverCity Year, Waunakee, and the Ho-Chunk History Project

November 30 (12-1pm) for Badger Talks LIVE on Facebook.

11/16 Badger Talks Live: UniverCity Alliance’s partnership with School of Medicine and Public Health

Maria Morgen never doubted how her classroom experience in Public Health 780 would connect with the real world.  The class, taught by Deputy Director of the Master of Public Health Program Barbara Duerst, connects students with communities working to improve local health outcomes through the UniverCity Alliance’s UniverCity Year program.  “We’re working directly with the …

Cities in the Wake of COVID with Joel Kotkin

Kotkin will discuss pre-existing conditions, what changed with COVID and where things might end up–even happily.  Advanced registration required. November 18 (11:00am CT) in Zoom.

UCA events in Spring 2019

February 7, 2019 Dr. Bill Howe, University of Washington“Beyond Open vs. Closed: Enabling Public-Private Collaboration with Semi-Synthetic Datasets” Data Science student visit: 9:00 a.m., Wisconsin Institutes for DiscoverySocial Science student visit: 11:30 a.m., 8411 Sewell Social SciencesPublic lecture: 4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m., 1163 Mechanical Engineering Data too sensitive to be “open” typically remains “closed” as proprietary …

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.