by Stanley A. Temple | Aug 28, 2014 | Magazine Article
In the mid-19th century, the passenger pigeon was the most abundant bird in North America, numbering three to five billion, according to scientist and naturalist A. W. Schorger. A former Wisconsin Academy President, Schorger wrote in 1955 what is still considered to...
by Robert H. Dott Jr. | Aug 27, 2014 | Magazine Article
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. Thanks to Martha Bergland and Paul G. Hayes, we now...
by Robin Chapman, Kathy Kelsey Foley, David Frank, James P. Leary, John J. Magnuson, Pradeep Rohatgi, Stanley A. Temple | Apr 27, 2014 | Videos
We came together at Overture Center in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 27 to celebrate the election of new Wisconsin Academy Fellows, Wisconsinites with extraordinary levels of accomplishment in their fields as well as a lifelong commitment to intellectual discourse and...
by Melvin R. Laird | Nov 1, 2013 | Magazine Article
For nearly seventy years the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs has been serving our veterans in many ways. This department is very special to me and many others, and it is recognized as a model for other state agencies throughout the country. Two veterans of...
by Laura Kiessling | Sep 27, 2013 | Videos
How does a brain cell know that it is different than a blood cell? Or for that matter a cancer cell? In this Wisconsin Academy talk, biochemist Laura Kiessling explains how the carbohydrate “coat” that cells wear on their surface conveys information about...
