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Thursday, Jan. 27 (12:15-1:30 p.m.) Local Tax Rules and School Funding with Ross Milton
Location: 8417 Sewell Social Sciences
View speaker bio HERE.
Part of the Institute for Research on Poverty Seminar Series.
Monday, Jan. 31 (12-1 p.m.) Climate Change: Modeling Health Benefits from Sustainable Energy, Food and Transportation Scenarios with Jonathan Patz
Thursday, Feb. 3 (12:15-1:30 p.m.) Monetary Sanctions and Housing Instability with Mary Patillo
Location: 8417 Sewell Social Sciences
View speaker bio HERE.
Part of the Institute for Research on Poverty Seminar Series.
Thursday, Feb. 24 (12:15-1:30 p.m.) Initial Evidence on the Employment Effects of the 2021 Fully Refundable Monthly Child Tax Credit with Jessica Pac
Location: 8417 Sewell Social Sciences
View speaker bio HERE.
Part of the Institute for Research on Poverty Seminar Series.
Friday, March 25 From Urban Resilience to Climate Justice with Kian Goh
Thursday, March 31 (4:15-5:15 p.m.) Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal with Bob Pollin
Mechanical Engineering, 1513 University Avenue
Room 1153
Speaker bio HERE
Part of the Weston Roundtable Series co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison.
Thursday, April 7 (12:15-1:30 p.m.) Race and Work Hour Insecurity: The Case of Low Work Hours in the U.S., 2000 - 2020 with Linsey N. Edwards
Location: 8417 Sewell Social Sciences
View speaker bio HERE.
Part of the Institute for Research on Poverty Seminar Series.
Friday, April 15 (3:30 p.m.) Safe Harbors, Worlding Education and Transnational Black Feminist Geographies in the Early Twentieth Century with Mae Miller
Thursday, April 21 Earth day 2022: Water on the rise Opportunities for both virtual and in-person participation
This event is part of the Nelson Institute’s Earth Day 2022: Water on the Rise.
Working Together to Improve Wisconsin’s Water: How Community-University Partnerships Catalyze Water Quality Projects in Wisconsin
2:30-3:30 p.m. (in person and virtual)
Learn more about the UniverCity Year program and its efforts to address community challenges through UW-Madison and local Wisconsin government partnerships. Speakers will share how these partnerships have helped to improve water quality by highlighting projects such as those that addressed blue green algae in the Fox River to those that helped farmers to address nitrates in the groundwater. The speakers will also highlight the role students play in these important collaborations.
Hosted by UniverCity Alliance and UW-Madison Extension
Register online ahead of the event.
April 28, 2022 (4:15-5:15 p.m.): Excessive Heat and Human Health: Defining the Problem and Implementing Solutions with Larry Kalkstein
Mechanical Engineering, 1513 University Avenue
Room 1153
View speaker bio HERE.
Part of the Weston Roundtable Series co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 (4:15-5:15 p.m.): Can We Agree on the Truth of Climate, Health, and Elections? The Decline and Rise of Democratic Learning with Archon Fung, Harvard University
Mechanical Engineering, 1513 University Avenue
Room 1153
View speaker bio HERE.
Part of the Weston Roundtable Series co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison.
“Who killed the truth?” Archon Fung speaks on climate change, COVID, and democracy
Marek Makowski | UW-Madison Office of Sustainability | May 19, 2022
Recorded Events 2021
- Assessing Community Impacts of Local Government/University Partnerships Using Ripple Effects Mapping with Josset Gauley and Gavin Luter 10.25.21
- Cities in the Wake of COVID with Joel Kotkin 11.18.21
- Resilience of urban technological-socioeconomic coupled systems with Satish Ukkusuri 11.4.21
- A battle against blue-green algae in Brown County with Michael Cheadle 11.2.21
- Bringing the Wisconsin Idea to your community with APA-Wisconsin 10.29.2021
- A theory of cooperation: John Nash versus Immanuel Kant with John Roemer 3.18.21
- Why cities lose with Jonathan Rodden 3.12.21
- Financial Foundations for Thriving Communities with Shayne Kavanagh from GFOA 3.2.21
- Pandemic resilience: Innovation in land use and policy with Hazel Borys 01.26.21
Recorded Events 2020
- Marketplaces fostering dimensions of sustainability with Alfonso Morales 12.3.20
- Forward in Energy Forum 11.17.20
- Strong America: A bottom-up revolution to rebuild American prosperity with Chuck Marohn 11.17.20
- Movement analytics for sustainable mobility with Harvey Miller 11.13.20
- The impact of cool technologies with Larry Kalkstein 10.22.20
- The city: Choice or fate? with Joe Minicozzi 10.8.20
- The public wealth of cities with Dag Detter 9.22.20
- Understanding policy to foster climate justice with Paty Romer-Lankao 9.17.20
- Fannie Lou Hamer, Black agricultural cooperatives and Freedom Farmers with Monica White
- The affordable housing crisis in Dane County and beyond 2.18.20
Recorded Events 2019
- The power of smart city technologies to transform communities: Experiences with the University of Michigan Urban Collaboratory with Jerry Lynch 10.17.19
- Sustainable urban systems: A new trans-disciplinary science with Anu Ramaswami 2.14.19
- Crossroads of ideas: Preparing for climate change
- Crossroads of ideas: How can we move forward on Wisconsin transportation?
- Beyond open vs. closed: Enabling public-private collaboration with semi-synthetic datasets with Bill Howe 2.7.19