by Shirley S. Abrahamson | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
In “Visible Prisons / Invisible People” (Wisconsin People & Ideas, Summer 2011) Sister Esther Heffernan posits that “[w]e are in the middle of a crisis,” with prisons “more visible today than ever before,” but filled with a large “invisible” population. According...
by Sister Esther Heffernan | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
We are in the middle of a crisis. Yet, many of us don’t even know it. When we give any thought to jails or prisons we tend to take them for granted as places to safely put away “bad people.” We may notice the city or county jail as we walk or drive...
by Dietram Scheufele | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
Recent scientific breakthroughs, such as nanotechnology, are changing the world as we know it. Gold nanoshells, for both imaging and targeting tumors, have the potential to revolutionize cancer treatments. At the same time, nanotechnology has raised concerns about...
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...
by Richard Davidson | Apr 3, 2012 | Videos
Richard Davidson appears in his first public talk in Madison connected with his new book, The Emotional Life of Your Brain, co-authored with Sharon Begley. The brain-research pioneer and Wisconsin Academy Fellow offers a new model for our emotions: their origins,...
