by Tim Donohue | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In his “Wisconsin 2050: Pioneering the Future” Academy Evenings talk, professor of bacteriology and head of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at UW-Madison Tim Donohue discusses the growing field of bioenergy, the production of energy from such...
by Liaquat Ahamed | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
The global economy is racked by its worst crisis since the Great Depression. What are the lessons to be learned from the world economic collapse of the late 1920s and how might the current downturn affect our thinking a generation from now? Drawing on his Pulitzer...
by Constance Steinkuehler | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
For those with a vested interest in online technologies for learning, the knowledge and skills that constitute successful participation in massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) places them squarely among the most promising new digital technologies to date....
by Jeffrey Williamson | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
Jeffrey G. Williamson, Emeritus Professor of Economics from Harvard University, discusses how, with the exception of Africa, global emigration rates have declined since the late 1980s and early 1990s. Williamson projects that U.S. immigrants will be more African and...
by Jane Mahoney | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
While organ and muscle atrophy is a natural part of getting older, research shows that there are many community-based prevention programs and other ways in which to improve overall physical health and reduce the risk of falls. In her Academy Evening talk, Dr. Jane...
by Bruce Dethlefsen, Donald Nichols, Jeremi Suri, JoAnna Poehlmann, Judith Faulkner, Maury Laws, Robert H. Dott Jr., Steve Ackerman | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
Every year the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters celebrates the election of five new Wisconsin Academy Fellows. These distinguished individuals from a wide range of disciplines have extraordinary levels of accomplishment in their fields as well as a...
