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Increasing African-American representation in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Project (WRAP)

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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 Asset-Based Community Development Approach” The article describes the development and implementation of an asset-based community development (ABCD) approach for increasing …

WIS’19 Alumnus Fields Writes About Korea DMZ for The Washington Post

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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 will not magically produce solutions to that division,” Fields writes. “But it will at least allow Americans to understand how …

WIS Collaborator Leads Creative Placemaking Summer Workshop

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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 …

Wisconsin Idea Seminar Dairy Advisor Works to Support Grad Students

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  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 …

WIS’18 Alumna Jennifer Van Os Helps Cool Cows

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  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 …

WIS’17 Alum Uses ‘Badger’ to Study Bluff Erosion in Wisconsin

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  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 …

WIS’18 Alum Talks Hygge – Pleasant Togetherness

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  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.  

WIS’16 Alumna Thea Whitman Burns Biomass to Study Climate Change

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  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 …

Seminar alumni Hicks and Tinjum partner with rural school on sustainable system

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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 energy expenses. Wisconsin Idea Seminar faculty alumni Andrea Hicks and James Tinjum are part of the team that is helping …

WIS16 Alum James Tinjum Brings Light to Solar Energy in Puerto Rico

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  James Tinjum of the Department of Engineering Professional Development is biking around the Upper Midwest to increase awareness of solar energy and raise funds for a solar project at a shelter for abused children in Puerto Rico. On an electric bike prototype, the 2000K trip to 50 sites will take about two weeks.