Learning about the state we serve
Edward Xiong, designer of the 2025 Wisconsin Idea Seminar journey book cover, and three other UW–Madison undergraduates studying textiles and fashion design in the School of Human Ecology traveled to Vietnam for six weeks over the summer for the inaugural 2025 Hmong Design Studies Internship led by Design Studies Professor Jennifer Angus. Students collaborated with …
The Morgridge Center for Public Service is celebrating their 30th anniversary this year! As they commemorate their three decades of connecting campus with community through service, community-based learning and research, they have produced a physical and online magazine featuring stories of leaders, students, and community partners who have been a part of the center’s history …
The SoulFolk Collective is a multidisciplinary research lab led by Jessica Stovall, an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies, that engages in scholarly inquiry to amplify the voices, stories, and lived realities of Black communities in Wisconsin. The SoulFolk’s current work includes the Black Madison Archive project, an interactive map and oral …
Morgan Jerald, assistant professor of psychology, discusses cultivating curiosity and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration in this L&S faculty interview. Dr. Jerald’s research, rooted in Black feminist scholarship, examines the influence of the media and other sociocultural factors on Black women’s gender beliefs, health, and sexual well-being.
On the last day of the 2025 Wisconsin Idea Seminar, Angela Johnson, teaching faculty in the Art Department, mentioned her upcoming trip to Nepal to Jay Stokes, King-Morgridge Scholars Program manager in the International Division. Johnson would be leading two bookmaking workshops in Kathmandu with Edgewood College’s Artistic Heritage in Nepal Program. It just so …
Dispatches from Our Own Wisconsin: A profile series showcasing fresh stories and insight from our Wisconsin Idea Seminar partners facing, engaging, and addressing critical issues in their communities As our Wisconsin Idea Seminar team works remotely during Wisconsin’s ‘Safer at Home’ order, we are seeing how Wisconsinites across the state are showing remarkable resilience …