Dispatches from Our Own Wisconsin: Dani Lind of Rooted Spoon Dani Lind, owner and head chef of Rooted Spoon, leverages her local agricultural connections to bring quality ingredients to the small town of Viroqua, Wisconsin. …
River Tour 2017
Seminar Alumni Receive Distinguished Teaching Awards
Four Wisconsin Idea Seminar participants have received Distinguished Teaching Awards this year, an honor that recognizes their teaching and celebrates their hard work. William Brockliss, WIS’13, is an associate professor of classical and ancient near …
Freshwater Scientist Makes Waves in Green Bay
Sarah Bartlett, Water Resources Specialist at NEW Water — a water resource utility serving Northeast Wisconsin that cleans 38 million gallons of clean water per day — is collaborating with the Wisconsin Idea Seminar to …
James Deline Followed an Unusual Path to Become a Wisconsin Country Doctor
Dr. James Deline, a central fixture in the La Farge community, has practiced medicine in Vernon County for nearly 40 years. Deline works at the intersection of rural and Amish healthcare, and sees many rare …
Emboldening the Wisconsin Idea through Education
Lyn Macgregor, associate director of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, is a community sociologist. She participated in the 2017 River Tour and collaborated with the 2019 River Tour. Macgregor received her B.A. …
Seminar Collaborator James DeLine Plays Essential Role in Rural Healthcare
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 …
Seminar alumna Hicks leads engineering students to Pepin County for composting
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 …
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’17 alumna Prabhakar receives young investigator award for structural material work
Pavana Prabhakar participated in the 2017 Wisconsin Idea Seminar.
WIS Collaborator and Pediatric Immunologist Developing Genetic Screening Tailored to Amish Newborns In Wisconsin
Dr. Christine Seroogy, a pediatric immunologist and associate professor at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, heads a project funded by the UW-Madison Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, to pinpoint the unique genetic disorders …