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.
Speakers
- Gavin Luter, managing director, UniverCity Alliance, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Andrea Hicks, associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director of Sustainability Education and Research, Office of Sustainability, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Bret Shaw, associate professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication and Division of Extension, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- David Kolodziejski, student, Environmental Observation and Informatics program, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Ford Freyberg, student, Environmental Observation and Informatics program, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hosted by UniverCity Alliance and UW–Madison Extension