Learning about the state we serve
Water@UW–Madison hosts an annual photo contest, accepting submissions for both artistic photos and pet photos. This year, the top 3 images in the artistic category were won by 2019 WIS participant Christian Andresen and WIS intern Bethany Prochnow. In first place was Andresen’s “Wisconsin Veins”, followed by Prochnow’s second-place “Trout Lake Sunset”, and Andresen’s “Arctic …
Seminar alumna Andrea Hicks, is partnering with “UniverCity” again to bring real world problem-solving opportunities to UW–Madison civil engineering students. This time her students will be working on feasibility studies for composing manure and yard waste in Pepin County.
Sherry Wagner-Henry, director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at UW–Madison, and her team will lead a creative placemaking workshop this summer for artists, arts and cultural leaders and workers, urban and rural planners, BID staff, Main Street and neighborhood association staff and volunteers, and anyone else interested in arts-based community development. The workshop …
What initially drew you to papermaking? I was introduced to the fine craft of hand papermaking during my MA degree at the University of Iowa, studying Textile Design. Tim Barrett (who was awarded a MacArthur Award for his work as both a practitioner and teacher of hand papermaking in 2009) joined the faculty as …
Kent Weigel, a professor, extension specialist, and chair of the Dairy Science Department, helps change graduate students’ lives through a new program — the Dairy Research Partnership. This new initiative encourages dairy-related businesses to fund the education of graduate students who are conducting industry-related research. The program is supporting four graduate students this year …
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, where she has collaborated with owners Daphne and Lloyd Holterman on a number of research projects that look at cow …
Lucas Zoet, an assistant professor of geoscience traveled along with the Wisconsin Idea Seminar in 2017. Since then, he has been working on a project that studies the bluffs of Wisconsin’s eastern shores. Lake Michigan currently has very high water levels, which contributes to erosion, slides, and collapses. A key component of the project …
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 Scandinavian Studies, traveled along with the Wisconsin Idea Seminar in 2018. Listen to Andersen’s WPR interview where he discusses hygge.
Thea Whitman, who traveled along with the Wisconsin Idea Seminar in 2016, studies microbes here at UW–Madison, burning wood in a large furnace in order to look at carbon and its role in soil. The knowledge gained from analyzing the biochar can then be applied to current situations – most notably, climate change. Originally …
Pavana Prabhakar participated in the 2017 Wisconsin Idea Seminar.