Learning about the state we serve
Teal VanLanen, Director of Improvement & Community Engagement for the Algoma School District, spoke on October 3rd at a panel presentation presented in collaboration with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. “Communities do hold the solutions and have the power to make sustainable, equitable changes for health and opportunity for all,” says VanLanen. In May of …
Dr. James DeLine, a rural healthcare provider in Wisconsin’s southwestern Vernon County, shares his experiences of practicing family medicine since 1983. DeLine works closely with specialists at UW–Madison to provide unique genetic testing for Plain community members, many with rare conditions. In 2019 and 2017 the Wisconsin Idea Seminar traveled to visit Dr. DeLine at …
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.
The 2019 Wisconsin Idea Seminar visited De Soto Area Schools and heard from teachers and administrators of the powerful floods of August, 2018. This piece includes video footage of the inundated football field and football players’ commitment to help the surrounding community clean up after the disaster.
Sierra features Dylan Jennings, a UW–Madison alumnus and elected tribal council member for the Bad River Band of Lakes Superior Ojibwe, and powerful spokesperson for water and land stewardship in northern Wisconsin. Dylan says, “The Bad River in northern Wisconsin has a unique and nationally recognized watershed and estuary,” he said. “It’s also one of the only …
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 of Lake Superior, including the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Langston is a Wisconsin Idea …
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 of Lake Superior, including the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Langston is a Wisconsin Idea …
Chef Luke Zahm, owner of Driftless Cafe in Viroqua since 2013, is the new host of “Wisconsin Foodie” on Wisconsin Public Television. His episodes will begin in January 2020. The 2019 Wisconsin Idea Seminar participants met Zahm at the Driftless Cafe to learn about his perspectives on food, and how his identity as a chef …
Rivers shaped our learning during the Wisconsin Idea Seminar 2019 River Tour, where over five days and 600 miles 40 faculty and academic staff made stops at some of Wisconsin’s famous waterways: the Milwaukee, the Wisconsin, the Mississippi, and the Kickapoo. We learned how communities developed at the water’s edge and how their orientation to …
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.