Learning about the state we serve
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 players’ commitment to help the surrounding community clean up after the disaster.
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 in northern Wisconsin has a unique and nationally recognized watershed and estuary,” he said. “It’s also one of the only …
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 of Lake Superior, including the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Langston is a Wisconsin Idea …
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 of Lake Superior, including the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Langston is a Wisconsin Idea …
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 met Zahm at the Driftless Cafe to learn about his perspectives on food, and how his identity as a chef …
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 Wisconsin, the Mississippi, and the Kickapoo. We learned how communities developed at the water’s edge and how their orientation to …
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.
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 Asset-Based Community Development Approach” The article describes the development and implementation of an asset-based community development (ABCD) approach for increasing …
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 will not magically produce solutions to that division,” Fields writes. “But it will at least allow Americans to understand how …
Pavana Prabhakar participated in the 2017 Wisconsin Idea Seminar.