Programs
Through our programs for faculty, students and the community, WID is a place where innovative minds come to explore, play, imagine and create. Our program space extends to the edges and intersections of academic disciplines. We invite the curious—scientists and artists, entrepreneurs and researchers, writers and readers, and teachers and learners—to see how they can collide and connect in our creative commons.
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Collision Labs
WID builds experimental spaces for transdisciplinary projects and prototypes to grow and thrive.
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Counterfactual Campus
Imagining the future of the university and its partners, WID discusses what will be of enduring value in our institutions, what can be left behind and what needs to be radically transformed in order to survive.
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Discovery Fellows
WID unites creative minds focused on novel scientific projects and ideas by bringing together new combinations of academic expertise.
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Distinguished Scholars @ Discovery
WID invites talented experts to bring fresh perspectives to its core mission and values.
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Emerging Interfaces Awards
WID provides a small group of graduate students the opportunity to pursue research projects that blend technology, science, the arts, humanities, social sciences or education into their respective fields of study.
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Frontier Fellows
WID connects interdisciplinary teams of UW–Madison students with the institute’s network. Fellows pursue team projects that expose them to a wider world of ideas.
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Humanities Hackathon
WID and the Center for the Humanities develop and apply computational techniques to humanities topics to uncover unexpected connections and intriguing patterns in music, visual art, literature and historical works.
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Hybrid Cinema
WID and the UW Cinematheque explore memorable, illustrative film scenes related to science and examine the evolution and mechanics of how science is transformed in the process of making movies.
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Hybrid Zone X
HzX supports the excellence of the university’s basic research and hybridizes it with a risk-prone style and entrepreneurial spirit to seed new ideas, entrepreneurial teams and ventures.
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Marie Christine Kohler Fellows @ WID
Marie Christine Kohler Fellows @ WID work and collaborate in the institute, organizing a range of stimulating events serving the campus community and beyond.