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Stealth Sculpture Project enlivens WID workspace
We’ve enlivened our workspace for researchers on the third floor of the Discovery building, thanks to the help of Lynda Barry. Barry, who’s a cartoonist, author and Discovery Fellow at WID, curates the...
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Tools for Discovery: Carrie Roy
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the tools, computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries. Carrie Roy is a postdoctoral researcher and...
View ArticleOrson Welles: A superstar meteor impact in Wisconsin
Lives of Red Stone River is a profile series by WID Director David Krakauer examining the people, places and ideas that exemplify creative life in the state of Wisconsin. The series searches for the...
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Drawing Jam with Lynda Barry [photos]
Launched at the WID’s first Counterfactual Campus event in October 2012, the Drawing Board Project invites people of all ages to envision the UW–Madison of 2112. What will be different about the...
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WID’s first Frontier Fellows cohort merges science, abstraction, education
Light-emitting microbes that showcase the potentials of synthetic biology, interactive theater that delves into the complexity of pain, and kinetic, artistic representations of scientific data are some...
View ArticleFollow: The Art of Conversation #WIDArtConvo
This 1869 painting by Anselm Feuerbach depicts a scene from Plato’s Symposium. We tracked The Art of Conversation on Twitter with #WIDArtConvo, gathering content from the evening event and workshops...
View ArticleLynda Barry helps us imagine the future of education [VIDEO]
Launched at WID’s first Counterfactual Campus event in October, the Drawing Board Project invites people of all ages to envision the UW–Madison of 2113. What will be different about the appearance,...
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Paul Davies: Clashes and collaboration a part of mix to tackle life’s ‘big...
For theoretical physicist and best-selling author Paul Davies, it’s not a matter of proving or disproving the existence of extraterrestrial life, but rather asking how life happened in the first place....
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Tools for Discovery: Jordan Ellenberg
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the tools, computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries. Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics and...
View ArticleBringing the Stealth Sculpture Project to life [VIDEO]
We’ve enlivened our workspace for researchers on the third floor of the Discovery building, thanks to the help of Lynda Barry. Barry, who’s a cartoonist, author and Discovery Fellow at WID, curates...
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WID Director partners with Distinguished Scholar in radio segment to explore...
In the 21st century, the scientific community needs to combine disciplines not traditionally paired together to solve problems. At least that’s the sentiment of David Krakauer, WID Director and...
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App Awe: Super Hexagon on the brain
App Awe is a WID essay series exploring the transformative potential that lives at the intersection of gaming, research-science, education and society. By David Krakauer, WID Director and Co-Director...
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Art of Conversation speakers: Skilled discourse still at heart of success in...
After joining us April 16 and 17 for The Art of Conversation, a series of workshops and Evening Talk geared at sharing tips to expertly and confidently portray science and ideas, the event speakers had...
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Tools for Discovery: Sushmita Roy
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries. Sushmita Roy is an assistant professor of biostatistics and...
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Hackathon community links humanities and sciences on campus
Jillian Sayre contends that Herman Melville’s whaling ship Pequod and its encounters with other boats at sea may have toted meaning beyond the characters onboard. An associate lecturer of English at...
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Tools for Discovery: Tim Taylor
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries. Tim Taylor is the director’s special projects manager and...
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Artful hacking: Madison poet laureate considers computation at Humanities...
Science has long fascinated Madison poet laureate Wendy Vardaman, but the former engineering student hasn’t always found a place for these interests in her creative work — unless you count the time she...
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App Awe: Dwarf Fortress — Just another computer game?
App Awe is a WID essay series exploring the transformative potential that lives at the intersection of gaming, science, education and society. By Eddie Lee, research associate at the Center for...
View ArticleBadger Startup Summit Keynote: WID Director David Krakauer on higher...
WID Director David Krakauer kicked off the 2013 Badger Startup Summit on Aug. 19, exploring the status quo in higher education and suggesting how a shift in thinking is necessary to adapt to new...
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Cartoonist Lynda Barry joins WID, launching new “Image Lab”
When award-winning cartoonist and author Lynda Barry distributes her hand-drawn syllabus to students on the first day of class, she intentionally skips introductions. In this environment, a student’s...
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