The Wisconsin Idea first sparked to life in 1914. That was the year federal funding established Cooperative Extension at UW-Madison. The same funding expanded home economics education—the field of study that became the seed of …
Ripple Effects
Student Story: How we created a designer Badger bag
Student team, pictured left to right; Morgan Szabo, Lena Krubeck, Jenna Tipple, Summer Stewart, Jenna Byrne, Danielle DiFerdinando, Elizabeth Wanzer, Zoe Jalil, Brianna Chin, Kendra Trost, Whitney Wnuk. A group of ten students at the …
HDFS’s Lauren Papp Receives National Research Mentor Award
SoHE’s Vaughan Bascom Professor of Women, Family, and Community, Lauren Papp, is the winner of the 2017 Board on Human Sciences, Inc. (BoHS) Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. The award is part of annual honors presented …
Golf outing raises $20K for SoHE student internships
The first annual SoHE Golf Scramble took place on September 11 and exceeded expectations by raising $20,000 for SoHE student internships at local non-profits, including The Playing Field. More than 100 SoHE alumni, friends and …
2016 Distinguished Alumni Winner: Elizabeth Schar
It has been said that human ecologists have been quietly and humbly changing the world for centuries. Because of Elizabeth Holloway Schar’s (BS ’75 Family and Consumer Journalism) many and varied contributions that continue to …
Gift Launches Money + Relationships + Equality (More) Program
For 32 years, Lorna Jorgenson Wendt was a full-time wife, mother, manager of her home and corporate spouse. Overnight, she became one of the most visible women in America and a pioneer in the quest …