by Nikki Kallio, Kathryn Gahl, Kathleen Dale, Lisa Vihos | Oct 23, 2015 | Videos
Every year Wisconsin People & Ideas, the Wisconsin Academy’s quarterly magazine of Wisconsin thought and culture, hosts fiction and poetry contests that garners hundreds of submissions from across the state. In addition to securing cash prizes of up to $500...
by David Mladenoff | Oct 8, 2015 | Videos
From our pines and sugar maples in the north to our oaks in the south, we have more forest in Wisconsin today than at any other time in the last 100 years. Join us for an evening with ecologist David Mladenoff who will guide us through the vast and winding history of...
by Maryo Gard Ewell, Helen Klebesadel | Sep 24, 2015 | Videos
Explore the history and future of rural arts in Wisconsin with two of its greatest leaders. Maryo Gard Ewell, arts administrator and daughter of arts advocate Robert E. Gard, will tell the story of how the Wisconsin Idea fostered the development of Wisconsin’s rural...
by Hector DeLuca | May 12, 2015 | Videos
Renowned biochemist and Wisconsin Academy Fellow Hector DeLuca discusses the profound application of vitamin D in medicine, including new treatments in the areas of immunity and autoimmunity, in this special Wisconsin Academy Talk. DeLuca shares insight from a career...
by Mrill Ingram, Chris Kucharik, Stephen Carpenter | Feb 3, 2015 | Videos
In this Wisconsin Academy Talk we explore how tools like scenario-building, storytelling, and the arts can help us better envision our role in prospective responses to climate change. Panelists include: Mrill Ingram, a Visiting Scholar with at the University of...
by John O. "Jack" Holzhueter, Andy Kraushaar, Michael Lesy, Martha Glowacki | Oct 31, 2014 | Videos
Photographer, archivist, visual thinker, bricoleur: Paul Vanderbilt devoted his life to understanding the way images convey meaning. Learn more about this brilliant, complex man with our three panelists: Jack Holzhueter, who worked closely with Vanderbilt at Wisconsin...
