• Indigenous Language Table

    Indigenous Language Table
    Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, United States

    Open Language Table for Indigenous Languages. Most Wednesdays on the first floor of the Discovery Building and hosted by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery ID Hub in Room 1145. An Indigenous Language Table is designed to enable language learners to develop spoken language skills outside of the classroom setting, build community, strengthen language purpose, and

  • Crossroads of Ideas: Democratizing Data

    Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, United States

    Making Scientific Data FAIRThis last Crossroads of Ideas of the semester will feature presentations and a fireside chat all about the data life cycle and what it takes to make scientific data FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reuseable. Panelists will journey through a day in the life of data from collection to interpretation, the

  • Crossroads of Ideas: Tomorrow’s Yellowstone

    Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, United States

    Yellowstone, climate change and the importance of sharing science.This edition of Crossroads of Ideas will feature a panel discussion hosted by Kelly Tyrrell and will cover the topics of how Tomorrow's Yellowstone came about, an overview of Monica Turner’s lab’s work, and how the University Communications team approached the project before arriving in, during, and

  • Pours & Prose

    Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, United States

    A Celebration of Wine and Wine PeoplePresented by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Writer in Residence, join us for an evening celebrating all things wine!Michelle Wildgen, WID Writer-in-Residence, recently released her latest book, Wine People, which made the Oprah Daily list, TIME’s “25 New Books You Need to Read This Summer,” and many others. Join

  • SoundWaves:

    Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, United States

    A Celebration of Time, pt 3In this third presentation of Celebrations of Time, SoundWaves is looking at how we know when events occurred in the past, through the lens of geology (objects on Earth), astronomy (distant objects), anthropology (human prehistory), pathology (the human body), and, as always, music.Presenters:Brad Singer - Department of GeoscienceProfessor Brad Singer

  • Crossroads of Ideas: Palettes, Pigments, & Perception–Watercolor Connections

    Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, United States

    Explore the mixability of watercolor chemistry and visual perception with our experts in the field. Speakers: Kaitlin Walsh – Independent artist specializing in abstract anatomical watercolor and oil paintings. Kristin Labby – Beloit College professor incorporating technical studies of art and artifacts into her instrumental analysis chemistry courses. Karen Schloss – University of Wisconsin–Madison associate

  • SoundWaves: Celebrations of Time, part 2

    Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, United States

    All that Jazz, and more!SoundWaves is looking at (and listening to) Time all year. In this second installment, learn what time does to a Supreme Court precedent and to the environment, how time affects chemical reactions and how it behaves weirdly in our universe, and how time feels in jazz.Lu Lu, physicsAsifa Quraishi-Landes, lawElizabeth Maroon,