Stories
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
UW–Madison’s Tech Exploration Lab: Where the classroom meets the real world
Co-Directed by WID faculty Kevin Ponto, the lab is built around a simple expectation: Students come to build, test and refine projects with real problems in mind.
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.
Table talk with a multilingual twist
At UW’s Language Tables, students practice dozens of languages in a welcoming community outside of class. This video features WID's Laura Red Eagle from the Illuminating Discovery Hub's Indigenous Language table.
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24 Hours with WID
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is abuzz 24 hours per day. From “eureka” moments in the middle of the night to methodical pipetting in the middle of the day, to gathering diverse ideas from across the globe in the early evening, something is always happening in our interdisciplinary sphere. Enjoy a sampling of the important work we do in each of these 24 hours and please come back periodically as we refresh with new profiles.
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