The 2019 Wisconsin Idea Seminar visited De Soto Area Schools and heard from teachers and administrators of the powerful floods of August, 2018. This piece includes video footage of the inundated football field and football …
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UW alum Jennings calls for protection of wild rice beds
Sierra features Dylan Jennings, a UW-Madison alumnus and elected tribal council member for the Bad River Band of Lakes Superior Ojibwe, and powerful spokesperson for water and land stewardship in northern Wisconsin. Dylan says, “The Bad River …
WXPR’s ‘We Live Up Here’ Features Lake Superior and Nancy Langston
Nancy Langston, a professor of environmental history at Michigan Tech in Houghton, Michigan, shares how she finds inspiration to fight climate change in the collaborative efforts–past and present–of Native communities who live along the shores …
WXPR’s ‘We Live Up Here’ Features Lake Superior and Nancy Langston
Nancy Langston, a professor of environmental history at Michigan Tech in Houghton, Michigan, shares how she finds inspiration to fight climate change in the collaborative efforts–past and present–of Native communities who live along the shores …
Viroqua Chef Luke Zahm New Host of WPT Show
Chef Luke Zahm, owner of Driftless Cafe in Viroqua since 2013, is the new host of “Wisconsin Foodie” on Wisconsin Public Television. His episodes will begin in January 2020. The 2019 Wisconsin Idea Seminar participants …
2019 Wisconsin Idea Seminar photo essay highlights state’s rivers
Rivers shaped our learning during the Wisconsin Idea Seminar 2019 River Tour, where over five days and 600 miles 40 faculty and academic staff made stops at some of Wisconsin’s famous waterways: the Milwaukee, the …
Baker Carries on Family Traditions at Sherman Phoenix
Adija Greer-Smith, owner of Confectionately Yours at the Sherman Phoenix shared the origins of her business with the 2019 Wisconsin Idea Seminar. Learn more from her interview with The Shepherd Express.
Increasing African-American representation in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Project (WRAP)
Wisconsin Idea Seminar 2018 collaborators Gina Green-Harris and Stephanie L. Houston, together with others, produced a new opinion article in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. “Addressing Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease and African-American Participation in Research: An …
WIS’19 Alumnus Fields Writes About Korea DMZ for The Washington Post
David P. Fields, associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies at UW-Madison, authored “How Korea was divided and why the aftershocks still haunt us today” in The Washington Post. “Understanding who divided Korea …
WIS’17 alumna Prabhakar receives young investigator award for structural material work
Pavana Prabhakar participated in the 2017 Wisconsin Idea Seminar.