The 2018 Wisconsin Idea Seminar is slated to take a trip to the regional Milwaukee office of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute to learn about Milwaukee-based community leaders and Latino and African American families who are …
Al Castro is a passionate social worker who brings humor and empathy to his work as the Health Research Program Director for the United Community Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Thousands of individuals benefit from the …
The office shelves of the Dean of the Graduate School are filled with books about molecular immunology and cytokines—no surprise, perhaps, because Dean William Karpus is a professor of pathology and microbiology-immunology from Northwestern University. …
In a lab filled with test tubes and microscopes the last thing one may expect to see are grape seeds and cranberry vines. However, this is necessary as Amaya Atucha and her team are studying …
Leslie Orrantia, director of community relations for the UW-Madison’s Chancellor’s Office, participated in the 2017 Wisconsin Idea Seminar’s River Tour. Read her Q&A with the Capital Times on her community engagement and what she values …
School of Veterinary Medicine professors Amelia Munsterman and Fernando J. Marqués participated in the 2017 Wisconsin Idea Seminar. UW News recently featured them in their New Faculty Focus series. New Faculty Focus: Fernando J. Marqués …
From Europe to South America, Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings has traveled the world, but still calls the state of Wisconsin home. Originally from Odanah, Jennings graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013 with a Bachelor of …
Ideas Together is a newsletter that features people and places animated by the Wisconsin Idea. Many of the folks we highlight have engaged the Wisconsin Idea Seminar in some way: as collaborators, participants, expert advisors, …
As a graduate student, physicist Justin Vandenbroucke helped build the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory, a cubic kilometer of sensors drilled deep into the ice. Now Vandenbroucke is an assistant professor in the Department of …
Walking into the classroom and studio spaces in the School of Human Ecology is enough to excite and stimulate the mind with a dynamic spectrum of colors, cloth, fabrics, and patterns. It is no wonder …