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The Past and Future of American International Leadership
If the 20th century was the "American Century," what will the 21st century bring? How can the United States maintain its international leadership and build a better world? UW-Madison history professor...
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Heat Waves and High Water: Climate Change, Public Health, and the 2050...
In his Academy Evening talk Jonathan Patz, professor and Director of Global Environmental Health at UW–Madison and lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, outlines...
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Alzheimer's and More: Halting the Progression of Neurological Diseases
What role does oxidative stress play in the development of many chronic neurodegenerative diseases? How might we prevent or cure such diseases? In his Academy Evening talk, UW–Madison pharmacy...
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Children's Learning and Development: New Approaches to the Old Nature-Nurture...
In their Academy Evening talk, UW–Madison psychology professors Jenny Saffran and Seth Pollak look at contemporary perspectives, complex human behaviors, and new insights about the emergence of young...
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A Decade of Stem Cells: Changing the Face of Medicine Ten Years Later
The Wisconsin Academy, along with UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), hosts a free, two-day event to highlight the accomplishments of stem cell research in the state and to...
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Educational Inequality in the Aftermath of No Child Left Behind
Under No Child Left Behind, efforts to reduce educational inequality have focused on raising standards and holding educators accountable for whether students meet their targets. This aim has now been...
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Early Language and Your Toddler
In this Academy Evening talk Susan Ellis Weismer, a UW-Madison professor of communicative disorders, takes parents and caregivers through the stages of child language development. Weismer also shares...
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The Future of Public Education
In her Academy Evening talk Diane Ravitch, the "best living historian of education" (Washington Post) and America's "soberest, most history-minded education expert" (Wall Street Journal), gives us one...
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James Watrous Gallery artist talk with Chele Isaac & BA Harrington
Chele Isaac and BA Harrington's collaborative, multimedia installation work at the James Watrous Gallery explores themes of dislocation, migration, and the way nostalgia distorts and narrows the idea...
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Keeping College Accessible: Charting a New Course for Higher Education
Gary Rhoades, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Arizona, shares a seasoned, national perspective on the rapidly changing landscape of higher education. Rhoades focuses on state policy...
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John Magnuson on the Waters of Wisconsin Initiative
How can we ensure healthy aquatic ecosystems and clean, abundant water supplies for tomorrow’s Wisconsin? Begun in 1999, the Waters of Wisconsin (WOW) initiative directly engaged hundreds of Wisconsin...
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Tom Jones Artist Talk at the James Watrous Gallery
Tom Jones’s "Encountering Cultures," a photographic series focused on historical reenactments of the French fur trade era (circa 1760–1840) called Rendezvous, opened on March 9th at the James Watrous...
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Imagine: How Creativity Works
Jonah Lehrer, contributing editor at Wired magazine and the author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist, shares a sparkling and revelatory introduction to the new science of creativity....
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Jonah Lehrer & Richard Davidson: On Consciousness, Creativitity and...
Author and Wired contributor Jonah Lehrer came to Madison in March of 2012 for an Academy Evening talk on the science of creativity. On a tour around town, we stopped by the Center for Investigating...
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Age On: Friendship, Community, and Dementia
Featured speakers at this talk, the first of the 2012 Wisconsin Academy Age On Series in Menasha, are Susan H. and John T. McFadden. Susan McFadden (PhD) is a psychology professor at the University of...
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Age On: End of Life Decisions
How can we prepare for the difficult decisions and conversations surrounding end of life decisions? In the second presentation of the Wisconsin Academy's 2012 Age On! Series of free, public talks,...
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Age On: What's New with Vitamin D and Osteoporosis
In the last of the 2012 Age On! Series of free Academy Evening talks in Menasha, WI, Dr. Neil Binkley discusses new research involving vitamin D and osteoporosis. Binkley, who earned his medical degree...
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The Emotional Life of Your Brain, with Richard Davidson
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...
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