Learning about the state we serve
Faisal Abdu’Allah, a professor and the Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art at UW–Madison, is a printmaker and a trained barber whose artworks explore race, culture and identity. His most recent work is a 7-foot limestone statue of himself that he designed and was created using a robotic tool and the skills of a master …
In this episode of Wisconsin Foodie, show host Luke Zahm travels to the Oneida Reservation meet Laura Manthe and Rebecca Webster, cousins and members of the Oneida Nation. They are both part of cooperative of White Corn Growers and have spent the last couple of years revitalizing White Corn, an ancient heirloom food within the …
Becky Webster, who will host the 2022 Wisconsin Idea Seminar at her family’s farmstead Ukwakhwa: Tsinu Niyukwayayʌthoslu, is teaming up with Oneida Executive Chef Arlie Doxtator to offer a special dinner featuring the ingredients and flavors of Oneida foodways. For over three decades Doxtator has focused on developing menus featuring Original Peoples’ foods while teaching …
We are super excited to be looking forward to the Wisconsin Idea Seminar’s BAY TOUR (May 16-20, 2022). The pandemic brought our bus journeys to a screeching halt, a hiatus that lasted two years. It was the first time since its inception in 1985 that the Wisconsin Idea Seminar bus did not make its annual …
Wisconsin Idea Seminar director Catherine Reiland joined hands with colleagues to develop a special high-impact, community-building learning experience for first-year students that celebrates and honors our connections to land and water while considering Indigenous approaches to learning, Indigenous languages in relation to land, and the current environmental health of land. Read more about how …
Marianne Fairbanks, textile artist and assistant professor of Design Studies at UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology, has been sharing her book weaving tutorial videos with not only her students but with the general public. What started as a training video for the two courses she is teaching this spring is now available to everyone. Fairbanks …
Dispatches from Our Own Wisconsin: Caitlin Cullen of Tandem Restaurant Caitlin Cullen is the chef and owner of the Tandem restaurant in Milwaukee’s Lindsay Heights. Since 2016, she has been using her restaurant to train young people on Milwaukee’s north side for careers in the service industry. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, her restaurant was …
Four Wisconsin Idea Seminar participants have received Distinguished Teaching Awards this year, an honor that recognizes their teaching and celebrates their hard work. William Brockliss, WIS’13, is an associate professor of classical and ancient near eastern studies. Kathleen Culver, WIS’12, is an associate professor of journalism and mass communication. Erica Halverson, WIS’07, is a professor …
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 of Lake Superior Chippewa and leverages his training in library science to support tribal archivists across Wisconsin. Most recently he …
Seminar alumna Andrea Hicks, is partnering with “UniverCity” again to bring real world problem-solving opportunities to UW-Madison civil engineering students. This time her students will be working on feasibility studies for composing manure and yard waste in Pepin County.