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 Idea Seminar
Including Everyone in the Wisconsin Idea
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 …
First WIS Director Beats Cancer Odds
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 …
Acknowledging Wisconsin’s Native Histories
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 …
Wisconsin Idea Seminar brings UW to state
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 …
Harvesting Ideas and Fruit with Amaya Atucha
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 …
WIS’17 Alumna Leslie Orrantia’s Q&A with the Capital Times
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 …
Wisconsin Idea Seminar Alumni in New Faculty Focus
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 …