Chancellor’s Office Initiatives

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is dedicated to pushing boundaries to new levels of excellence through initiatives designed to accelerate advancements in education, research, and discovery on campus and beyond.

The Wisconsin Exchange

The Wisconsin Exchange: Pluralism in Practice initiative aims to help students, faculty, and staff engage, live, and lead in a polarized world. It connects existing campus programs and cultivates new opportunities to make constructive conversation a visible and integral part of everyday life at UW–Madison.

Learn about the Wisconsin Exchange

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Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE)

The Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) initiative is designed to help address significant, complex challenges of particular importance to Wisconsin and the world. Through strategic investments in people, resources, and educational opportunities, RISE builds on the university’s strengths. RISE focus areas include human-centered AI, environmental sustainability, and health research to improve human healthspan.

Learn about RISE

Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub

Expanding upon a long campus legacy of innovation, the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub is working to translate ideas into opportunities for entrepreneurial students, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty by creating a founder-first ecosystem to develop talent and help launch entrepreneurial careers.

Learn about the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub

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Environmental Sustainability

Guided by five goals, the university is advancing its research and education missions while making campus a living laboratory for environmental sustainability practices. The cross-campus initiative is the most comprehensive environmental sustainability initiative in UW–Madison’s history.

Learn about sustainability on campus

Initiatives in action

Dan Ludois, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, works in his lab.

Badger Tech Foundry, first “spoke” in the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub, focused on helping early-career researchers become serial entrepreneurs

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With the Wisconsin Exchange, UW–Madison is strengthening a culture of civil dialogue across difference

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When it comes to sustainability, UW–Madison earns STARS Gold

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Office of the Chancellor
163 Bascom Hall
500 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706

Email: chancellor@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-9946