The Wisconsin Academy's Fellows Program

The Wisconsin Academy Fellows Award recognizes educators, researchers, mentors, artists, and civic or business leaders from across Wisconsin who have made substantial contributions to the cultural life and welfare of our state and its people.

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from Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine

Language as Order and Play

Language as Order and Play

Contemporary artists Helen Lee and Anne Kingsbury share an exploration of language as a central theme in their work. Similarly, both rely on glass as a primary material. Yet their ...
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, by Marcia Bjornerud

Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, by Marcia Bjornerud

What can we learn about ourselves by looking at rocks? In her latest book, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, Lawrence University geology professor and ...
Tracking Climate Change with Satellite Imagery: The Wisconsin Connection

Tracking Climate Change with Satellite Imagery: The Wisconsin Connection

We have much to learn about the vagaries of climate. One of the most important means of doing so involves a fleet of satellites dedicated to the task of watching ...
Studying Wisconsin: The Life of Increase Lapham, by Martha Bergland and Paul G. Hayes

Studying Wisconsin: The Life of Increase Lapham, by Martha Bergland and Paul G. Hayes

At long last we have a biography of Increase A. Lapham, one of Wisconsin’s most important early residents. He was surveyor, botanist, geologist, antiquarian, meteorologist, limnologist, and all around good citizen ...

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