In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wisconsin Idea Seminar’s BAY TOUR (May 11-15, 2020) has been postponed to 2021. This is the first year since its inception in 1985 that the Wisconsin Idea Seminar …
Month: March 2020
Seminar Collaborators Discuss the Future of Farming
Mitch Breunig, third-generation farmer at Mystic Valley Dairy in Sauk City, and Kent Weigel, livestock geneticist and chair of UW-Madison’s dairy science department, passionately explained some current struggles associated with dairy farming in a recent …
Know Your Madisonian: Bringing indigenous perspective to UW-Madison campus
As an American Indian curriculum consultant at UW-Madison’s School of Education, Omar Poler helps integrate concepts of Native history, culture and tribal sovereignty into the curriculum. Poler is a member of the Mole Lake Band …