by Diane Mayerfeld, Susanne Wiesner | May 26, 2021 | Videos
Part of the Academy’s Climate & Energy Series, “Climate Change, Carbon, and Sustainable Agriculture” featured Diane Mayerfeld (Senior Outreach Specialist, UW-Madison Division of Extension) and Susanne Wiesner (Research Associate, UW-Madison)....
by Jane Elder | Sep 29, 2020 | Magazine Article
There was a particularly sage observation I once heard from my undergraduate psychology professor. I can’t remember the specific lecture in which this observation arose, but it has stuck with me for years: “One of the signs of good mental health is the ability to...
by Jane Elder | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
If you live in a flood-prone area, you may be familiar with a term like 500-year flood, which is a description engineers, planners, and emergency agencies use to predict the likelihood, frequency, and scale of flooding events. A 500-year flood, which has a 0.2% chance...
by Jenny Peek | Feb 17, 2017 | Magazine Article
While 2016 was the warmest year on record, NASA records show that the ten warmest years since scientists began recording the Earth’s surface temperature have all occurred since 2000. For those who understand that human activity is warming our planet, there is a...
by Shelby Deering | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
On the outskirts of Plain, Wisconsin, a small town of around 800 that lies less than an hour from Madison, stands a nondescript white brick building surrounded by farmland. From the outside, the Cedar Grove Cheese factory looks exactly like the numerous cheese plants...
