UW–Madison : Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Grants Awarded

Press release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison:

Käri Knutson

June 15, 2021

The Wisconsin Idea is big and full of possibility. Seven projects receiving larger grants and 13 projects receiving seed grants from the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment show the range of how UW–Madison faculty, staff and students can work with community members to create and disseminate knowledge and solutions that will benefit and enrich the lives of the people of Wisconsin, the nation and the world.

The competitive grant program honors the legacy of Ineva Reilly Baldwin and Ira Baldwin. Ineva taught and served in the university administration as assistant dean of women and associate dean of the College of Letters & Science. Ira was a longtime UW teacher, researcher and administrator, and served as dean of the Graduate School and the College of Agriculture and as vice president for academic affairs. The Baldwin endowment, at the time it was gifted to the university, was one of the largest gifts ever received by UW–Madison.

The seven projects receiving larger grants (up to $120,000) are:

Advancing I-SITE in African-American Communities Center for DREAMers at UW Drawing Water: Engaging Community through Art and Science in Northern Wisconsin Malawi Women in Agribusiness Project Partnering with the Hmong Community to Build Better Medical Translation Tools and Preserve Hmong Narratives to Reduce Health Disparities The PBS Wisconsin and Nehemiah Partnership: Centering Black History to Build a Stronger Wisconsin Retrofitting Latinxs into the Wisconsin Historical Narrative

View the full project descriptions. 

This press release was produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The views expressed here are the author’s own.