In a lab filled with test tubes and microscopes the last thing one may expect to see are grape seeds and cranberry vines. However, this is necessary as Amaya Atucha and her team are studying …
Month: November 2017
WIS’17 Alumna Leslie Orrantia’s Q&A with the Capital Times
Leslie Orrantia, director of community relations for the UW-Madison’s Chancellor’s Office, participated in the 2017 Wisconsin Idea Seminar’s River Tour. Read her Q&A with the Capital Times on her community engagement and what she values …
Wisconsin Idea Seminar Alumni in New Faculty Focus
School of Veterinary Medicine professors Amelia Munsterman and Fernando J. Marqués participated in the 2017 Wisconsin Idea Seminar. UW News recently featured them in their New Faculty Focus series. New Faculty Focus: Fernando J. Marqués …
A Community Leader Inspired by the World
From Europe to South America, Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings has traveled the world, but still calls the state of Wisconsin home. Originally from Odanah, Jennings graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013 with a Bachelor of …
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Ideas Together is a newsletter that features people and places animated by the Wisconsin Idea. Many of the folks we highlight have engaged the Wisconsin Idea Seminar in some way: as collaborators, participants, expert advisors, …
WIS’17 Alum Justin Vandenbroucke Mines Data from the South Pole
As a graduate student, physicist Justin Vandenbroucke helped build the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory, a cubic kilometer of sensors drilled deep into the ice. Now Vandenbroucke is an assistant professor in the Department of …