We are excited to share the finalists for the 2023 Women’s Philanthropy Council Annual Giving Project. Earlier this summer, we issued a call for proposals and received 13 submissions from across campus.
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WiBee mobile app seeks to assess, bolster Wisconsin’s wild bees
On a warm summer day in Wisconsin, bees across the state are hard at work collecting pollen and nectar for their livelihoods. Hopping from flower to flower in crop fields, prairie parcels and woodlands, some of these beneficial insects are under surprisingly close scrutiny. Around the state, growers, gardeners, researchers and others—with cell phones in hand—are using a mobile app to track the bees they observe and their flower visitations.
Tracking Sustainable Behaviors
Nancy Wong, professor of consumer science in the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology, designed an energy-tracking app to make reducing day-to-day energy usage more accessible.
Fueling Dreams: Chad Navis Studies, Encourages Entrepreneurship
Chad Navis, assistant professor of management and human resources, uses his research into entrepreneurship to inform his classes, encouraging students to start successful businesses.
Timing the Market—Charitably
Regularly purchasing securities at their lowest value and selling them at their highest value is about as likely as winning the lottery. But there is a charitable way to time the market—not in the sense of attempting to predict market price movements but rather by making timely adjustments to a trust portfolio without the constraints imposed by taxation of gain.
