Tag: WIS’16

Milwaukee Nonprofit Still Providing Services and Support to Latino Community

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Dispatches from Our Own Wisconsin: Al Castro of the United Community Center  Al Castro is the Director of Health Research Programs at the United Community Center, a nonprofit Latino community organization in Milwaukee.  With an extensive background in social work, Al combines public health issues in his work at UCC, facilitating community-engaged health research in the …

WIS’16 Alumna Thea Whitman Burns Biomass to Study Climate Change

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  Thea Whitman, who traveled along with the Wisconsin Idea Seminar in 2016, studies microbes here at UW–Madison, burning wood in a large furnace in order to look at carbon and its role in soil. The knowledge gained from analyzing the biochar can then be applied to current situations – most notably, climate change. Originally …