The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery introduces the newest Kohler Fellows, a prestigious program uniting science and art through interdisciplinary collaboration. Paired artist–scientist teams transform research into creative work that bridges disciplines, reveals new perspectives, and sparks transformative thinking.
The at-home physics kits feature lessons on light, such as how it functions as both a particle and a wave, and how light changes as it passes through a prism.
Three members of the Kohler Fellows met and prerecorded a spontaneous and animated discussion of the concept of “facts.” They were biochemist and geneticist Ana Lindahl, English literature student Julie Dauer, and neuroscience-and-public policy student Andrew Merluzzi. The recording took place live in the WORT studios on Wednesday, December 7th. Find the discussion at FACTS
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The Marie Christine Kohler Fellows @ WID are hosting a panel discussion following the Wisconsin Film Festival screening of Guido Hendrikx’s Stranger in Paradise. The film will be shown on Tuesday, April 4th at 6:30pm at the Sundance Theater in Madison. The film is described as “quite literally, a classroom exercise which assembles would-be migrants …
Transcending disciplinary boundaries at a research university like UW–Madison is challenging, but one group of graduate students is finding unconventional ways to eschew their departmental borders in favor of a new approach to academic inquiry. The team of eight Marie Christine Kohler Fellows @ WID have disciplinary affiliations ranging from English to Neuroscience, but they …
The conveniences of the “internet of things” allow us to remotely check if the garage door is closed or have our phones signal the coffee maker to start brewing when we hit the snooze in the morning, but what are the implications of these conveniences? Is there such thing as being too connected? How is …