by Jason Smith | Mar 18, 2015 | Magazine Article
It was a tornado that forged an almost twenty-year collaboration between Appleton-area artist Judith Waller and scientist James Brey. In 1993 Waller was a new Professor of Art at UW–Fox Valley with a burgeoning interest in environmental issues. Brey was a faculty...
by Erika Janik | Nov 6, 2012 | Magazine Article
Algebra textbooks are something I’ve tried hard to avoid since high school. Deciphering pages of what seemed incomprehensible sequences of numbers—not to mention the x’s and y’s that seemed so friendly when known as “letters” and so forbidding as “variables”— consumed...
by Evan M. Cohen | Nov 6, 2012 | Magazine Article
Have you ever had difficulty understanding complex scientific ideas and themes? Sometimes these challenging topics can be overwhelming, even downright frustrating to those who are scientifically literate. Discussions about abstractions like consciousness generally...
by Tom Fitz | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the Spring 2012 edition of Wisconsin People & Ideas. The mining bill we reference in this piece, AB 426, had passed through the Wisconsin Assembly and moved into the Senate in February 2012. After several ammendments...
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...
