UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank launched the first issue of a new e-newsletter Tuesday that focuses on the university’s research projects that have a positive impact on Wisconsin communities, according to Blank’s blog, Blank’s Slate.
The newsletter, Wisconsin Ideas, is an effort to ensure more people understand UW-Madison’s role in community-based outreach done through research, programming and the knowledge alumni take with them from the classroom, according to the chancellor.
Blank said in the blog that while many understand the university’s educational mission, the central idea to UW-Madison’s existence is less known.
“We want to show how people everywhere in the state connect with the university and our research,” Blank said in Blank’s Slate. “[Our research mission] affects our economy, our health and our quality of life.”
The first issue of Wisconsin Ideas describes the collaboration between the College of Engineering and Oshkosh Corp., a company that has recently entered a multi-billion dollar defense contract to build safer and more mobile combat vehicles.
