In the classic game of rock, paper, scissors—during each round—one of these mock items formed by participants’ hands comes out on top. In thinking about groundwater and with a scientific twist, rock always comes out …
Awards
Ginder-Vogel earns award for water research
Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Matthew Ginder-Vogel has been named a 2020 Research Award Winner by the Wisconsin Section of the American Water Works Association.
WPR – Manoomin Article
An Important Crop For Native People, Wild Rice Is Negatively Impacted By Changing Conditions
Sarah Dance – WPR Interview about Manoomin
A new research project lead by a UW graduate student looks to bring together tribal and university researchers on the issue of wild rice protection and restoration. We hear from the student about the aims …
Wild Rice Project Sows Seeds for University Tribal Collaboration
The Ojibwe people tell of a prophecy that spurred their journey from the Atlantic coast of North America to the Great Lakes region more than 1,000 years ago — revelations that told them to travel …
Over the moon over Manoomin
Sarah Dance, a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently awarded a Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant to fund research into wild rice in Wisconsin. When her advisor, Matthew Ginder-Vogel, assistant professor in …
Jacqueline Mejia Awarded DOE SCGSR Fellowship
Doctoral candidate Jacqueline Mejia was awarded a fellowship from the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research to work with Professor Jack Gilbert at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. Congratulations! Jackie’s project will use …
Balgooyen Awarded NSF Fellowship
Meet Sarah Balgooyen, a second year Ph.D. student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Environmental Chemistry and Technology program. She has been awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study how filters composed of manganese oxide …