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Four Years of Building Community Through Indigenous Languages

The Indigenous Language Table begins its fifth year at WID on Sept. 9, continuing to create a space for Indigenous language speakers and learners to connect, practice and strengthen their languages together. Last April, members of the table brought that work to a sold-out audience at Madison’s Playhouse Theater before former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo took the stage. In place of a land acknowledgment, participants shared original poems written and spoken entirely in Ho-Chunk about Teejop, or “four lakes,” the Ho-Chunk name for Madison. English translations appeared on a screen behind them, allowing the audience to hear the language as it has been spoken in this place for thousands of years.

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Study Aims to End the Trial and Error of Mental Health Care

The Center for Healthy Minds and the Lucida Project housed in the Handelsman Lab are collaborating to use real‑time signals from your daily devices and body to predict who may benefit from mental health interventions – within days and even hours.

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A Model for Building Belonging in STEM

WID alumna Martel DenHartog, along with Sarah Miller and WID Director Jo Handelsman, recently published a Perspective in the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education examining how the Tiny Earth Summer Research Course can expand access to research for students at two-year colleges. The article describes how the cohort-based program builds on the Tiny Earth curriculum to give students hands-on university research experience, strengthen scientific and workforce skills, and foster a greater sense of belonging in STEM. The authors also share lessons from the program and considerations for institutions interested in developing similar research experiences.

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Karen Schloss Earns H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship

Karen Schloss is one of eighteen faculty that have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships to recognize exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes and comes with $60,000 that may be spent over five years.