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 …
Big Lake Tour 2018
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 …
Wisconsin Idea Sowed in Agriculture
What was it like growing up on your family’s farm, Mystic Valley Dairy? I feel so blessed to have grown up on my family’s dairy farm right outside Sauk City, about 20 miles north of …
WIS’18 Alumna Jennifer Van Os Helps Cool Cows
Jennifer Van Os, an assistant professor of dairy science, visits milk producers around the state to study cow comfort. In May, she will accompany the Wisconsin Idea Seminar to Rosy-Lane Holsteins in Watertown, Wisconsin, …
WIS’18 Alum Talks Hygge – Pleasant Togetherness
Claus Andersen spoke to Wisconsin Public Radio about hygge, the notion of pleasant togetherness, that is embedded in Scandinavian culture and which has recently caught on in the United States. Andersen, an assistant professor of …
WIS Collaborator Mystic Valley Dairy Recycles Silage Plastic
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. …
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 …
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 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 …
Mystic Valley Dairy Helps UW Dairy Researchers Detect a ‘Silent Killer’
The 2018 Wisconsin Idea Seminar is set to visit Mystic Valley Dairy in Sauk City as it begins the 5-day tour of the state. Owner Mitch Breunig will give a tour of the farm covering …