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  • WID congratulates Stephen Wright

Stephen Wright honored with Vilas Research Professorship

Created for the advancement of learning and supported by the estate of professor, U.S. senator and UW Regent William F. Vilas (1840-1908), Vilas Research Professorships are granted to UW–Madison faculty with proven research ability and unusual qualifications and promise.

  • A hand holds a paint brush and is making a stroke on canvas.

Reshaping Memory with Artist-in-Residence, Viviane Silvera

Interdisciplinary artist Viviane Silvera illuminates the science of memory by turning it into an experience. Silvera will be at UW-Madison April 13-24 as the Division of the Arts Spring 2026 Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence, in partnership with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), for a packed slate of appearances, workshops, discussions and screenings, including Crossroads of Ideas (April 22) at WID and a discussion with writer Dale Kushner and WID Writer-in-Residence Michelle Wildgen April 23 at 5 pm at the

  • Portrait of Claudia Solís-Lemus, a plant pathology professor at UW–Madison, smiling in a professional headshot with a blurred academic setting in the background.

Tracing life’s hidden histories

Associate Professor Claudia Solís-Lemus of the Department of Plant Pathology leads a lab in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery focused on producing novel methods and models to reconstruct the Tree of Life.