Mitch Bruenig, owner of Mystic Valley Dairy in Sauk City, is one of 5000 farmers in Wisconsin that have joined forces with Wisconsin-based Revolution Plastics to recycle plastic feed bags and other agricultural plastics. …
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WIS17 Alum Philip Romero Receives Shaw Scientist Award
Philip Romero, a biochemistry assistant professor, receives a 2018 Shaw Scientist Awards from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. The awards come with $200,000 in seed funding to support innovative research approaches and the career development of …
WIS Collaborator Helps Study Irrigation in Central Sands
Justin Isherwood, farmer and writer living in central Wisconsin, is helping UW researchers study how much water from rain and irrigation enters the crop before being transferred into the atmosphere, and how much seeps deep …
Wisconsin Idea Seeded in Service
Public service has long been one of UW-Madison’s premier traditions and missions, and continues today, with the guiding principle of the Wisconsin Idea. The Wisconsin Idea inspires members of the campus community to improve people’s …
WPR’s ‘Central Time’ Interviews WIS Northwest Passage Collaborators
Our 2018 Wisconsin Idea Seminar collaborators Ian Karl and Toben Lafrancois talk to ‘Central Time’ about how youth in a an underwater therapeutic photography program at Northwest Passage, a residential mental health facility in northern …
Wisconsin Master Naturalist Program Featured in Isthmus
The Wisconsin Idea Seminar team is thrilled to see the Wisconsin Master Naturalist Program on the front cover of the Isthmus (April 5, 2018). The 2018 Wisconsin Idea Seminar participants will learn about the train-the-trainer …
Including Everyone in the Wisconsin Idea
Katherine Charek Briggs currently serves as the Assistant Director for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s LGBT Campus Center, which provides education, outreach, advocacy, and resources for student communities and their allies to improve campus climate and …
Wisconsin Sea Grant Beneficiaries Lead 2018 WIS Hike
The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, which receives funding from the federally-funded national Sea Grant, recently awarded $2.8 million to a variety of Great Lakes research and education projects, including “Under the Surface,” an …
First WIS Director Beats Cancer Odds
In certain campus circles Margaret “Peg” Geisler, 82, is best known and celebrated as the founding director of the Wisconsin Idea Seminar, the UW-Madison’s signature study tour for faculty and staff. Others now know Geisler …
Acknowledging Wisconsin’s Native Histories
Some may not know that the University of Wisconsin-Madison sits on native Ho-Chunk land. The Ho-Chunk Nation is one of 11 federally recognized American Indian Nations in the state of Wisconsin. For millennia the area …