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Gary Rhoades, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Arizona, shares a seasoned, national perspective on the rapidly changing landscape of higher education. Rhoades will focus on state policy models that are emerging nationally and the extent to which these models are...
Upcoming Academy Evenings
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February 22, 2012 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
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March 5, 2012 - 9:30am - 11:00am
Historian Kerry Trask discusses how and why the Black Hawk War of 1832 was in an important sense the “big bang” that created Wisconsin, and why the story of that war has been a primary narrative we have persistently told and retold over the past 180 years. Trask's talk focuses...
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March 27, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Jonah Lehrer, contributing editor at Wired magazine and the author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist, shares a sparkling and revelatory introduction to the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative “types...
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April 3, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Richard Davidson appears in his first public talk in Madison connected with his new book, The Emotional Life of Your Brain, co-authored with Sharon Begley. The brain-research pioneer and Wisconsin Academy Fellow offers a new model for our emotions: their origins, their power...
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April 17, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
"Rx for Health Care Reform" offers a probing look at the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its ramifications in several areas, including public health and the law. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel of the University of Pennsylvania headlines a panel of experts who will answer your questions....
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April 24, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Historian, writer and Wisconsin Academy Fellow John Gurda has been studying Milwaukee since 1972. The Making of Milwaukee is his most ambitious undertaking--with 450 pages, more than 500 illustrations and a cast of thousands, it is the first full-length history of the city...
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April 26, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Featured speakers are Susan H. and John T. McFadden. Susan McFadden, Ph.D., is a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Her current research addresses late-life relationships, especially among people who have dementia. John McFadden, M.Div., is an...
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May 8, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Featured speakers are John D. (Jack) Swanson, M.D.; Lee M. Vogel, M.D.; and Norma Turk, M.D. Dr. Swanson, who practices at at Fox Valley Hematology & Oncology, S.C., specializes in palliative care, which provides comfort by treating the patient’s symptoms and improving the...
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May 14, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
The featured speaker is Neil Binkley, M.D., who earned his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin and subsequently received training in internal medicine at the Marshfield Clinic. After several years in private practice, he returned to UW-Madison and completed a geriatrics...
