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.
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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 …
WIS’19 Alumnus Fields Writes About Korea DMZ for The Washington Post
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 …
WIS Collaborator Leads Creative Placemaking Summer Workshop
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, …
Wisconsin Idea Seminar Dairy Advisor Works to Support Grad Students
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 …
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’17 Alum Uses ‘Badger’ to Study Bluff Erosion in Wisconsin
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 …
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’16 Alumna Thea Whitman Burns Biomass to Study Climate Change
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. …
Seminar alumni Hicks and Tinjum partner with rural school on sustainable system
As part of UW–Madison’s UniverCity Year partnership with Green County, a team from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s senior capstone design course is proposing a renewable energy system to help offset Juda School’s …