Learning about the state we serve
Our 2018 Wisconsin Idea Seminar collaborators Ian Karl and Toben Lafrancois talk to ‘Central Time’ about how youth in a an underwater therapeutic photography program at Northwest Passage, a residential mental health facility in northern Wisconsin, capture breathtaking images that have eluded professional researchers for years. Karl and Lafrancois will team up to lead the …
Katherine Charek Briggs currently serves as the Assistant Director for the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s LGBT Campus Center, which provides education, outreach, advocacy, and resources for student communities and their allies to improve campus climate and their daily intersectional experiences. Charek Briggs is instrumental in making all student feel welcome, and has recently worked with colleagues …
In certain campus circles Margaret “Peg” Geisler, 82, is best known and celebrated as the founding director of the Wisconsin Idea Seminar, the UW–Madison’s signature study tour for faculty and staff. Others now know Geisler and her life experiences with cancer as the inspiration that launched an international search for “extreme survivors” of metastatic breast …
Some may not know that the University of Wisconsin–Madison sits on native Ho-Chunk land. The Ho-Chunk Nation is one of 11 federally recognized American Indian Nations in the state of Wisconsin. For millennia the area which is now the city of Madison was called Dejope and was a significant cultural and governmental center for Ho-Chunk …
The Wisconsin Idea Seminar will once again be hitting the road May 14-18 for this year’s Big Lake Tour. Take a peek inside the plans for the 2018 Wisconsin Idea Seminar and learn about the Seminar’s Milwaukee-based collaborators who discuss dementia from the perspectives of Latino and African American communities. Read more.
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 the cold hardiness of fruit crops to better understand fruit crop physiology and production. Atucha serves in three main roles: …
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 about her job.
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.