by Jason Smith | Oct 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
You might have noticed something different about our cover. This will be the first issue in my thirteen years as editor of the magazine in which we don’t feature a real person on the cover. I thought that featuring a figurative sculpture—or imagined person, if you...
by Jane Elder | Oct 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
When I was handed a key to the Academy office building in January of 2012, I had no idea it would be the beginning of a ten-year journey. And what a journey it has been. As this will be my last column in the magazine as executive director, I want to say thank you to...
by Jody Clowes, Martha Glowacki | Apr 13, 2020 | Magazine Article
Building a specimen collection of plant, animal, and mineral resources was a matter of scientific interest and civic pride for the Wisconsin Academy’s 19th-century founders. Such specimens were more than curiosities: they were physical documents of the region’s...
by Jane Elder | Apr 7, 2020 | Magazine Article
Imagine what it was like on that February afternoon in 1870, when hundreds of people crowded into Wisconsin’s State Agricultural Hall for the convention to organize the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Wisconsin was a young state, and the nation was...
by Curt Meine, Chelsea Chandler, Bill Berry, Jane Elder | Apr 6, 2020 | Magazine Article
Introduction • By Jane Elder Initiative. It’s a noun that implies impetus and action. Over the last twenty years, the Academy has marshaled its unique capacities as a convening organization at the intersection of science and culture to provide what conservation...
