Learning about the state we serve
WIS’22 alum Alvin Thomas, assistant professor in Human Development and Family Studies in the School of Human Ecology co-authors a piece in Salon. “As researchers who study the role of fathers in the lives and development of their children, we couldn’t help but notice a pattern. Headline after headline decried the crisis facing parents, yet …
Lake Michigan and the people who live along its shores shaped the contours of the 2022 Wisconsin Idea Seminar’s “Bay Tour.” For five days along 600 miles, the cohort of 29 faculty and academic staff became students of Wisconsin life, whether at a farm that grows Oneida traditional foods, a program that helps incarcerated people …
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 …