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  • Age On: Friendship, Community and Dementia

    Featured speakers at this talk, the first of the 2012 Wisconsin Academy Age On Series in Menasha, are Susan H. and John T. McFadden. Susan McFadden (PhD) is  a psychology professor at the...

  • Imagine: How Creativity Works

    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...

  • Tom Jones Artist Talk at the James Watrous Gallery

    Tom Jones’s Encountering Cultures, a photographic series focused on historical reenactments of the French fur trade era (circa 1760–1840) called Rendezvous, opened on March...

  • Keeping College Accessible: Charting a New Course for Higher Education

    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 focuses on state...

  • James Watrous Gallery artist talk with Chele Isaac & BA Harrington

    Chele Isaac and BA Harrington's collaborative, multimedia installation work at the James Watrous Gallery explores themes of dislocation, migration, and the way nostalgia distorts and narrows...

  • Early Language and Your Toddler

    In this Academy Evening talk Susan Ellis Weismer, a UW–Madison professor of communicative disorders, takes parents and caregivers through the stages of child language...

  • The Future of Public Education

    In her Academy Evening talk Diane Ravitch, the "best living historian of education" (Washington Post) and America's "soberest, most history-minded education expert...

  • A Decade of Stem Cells: Changing the Face of Medicine Ten Years Later

    The Wisconsin Academy, along with UW–Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), hosts a free, two-day event to highlight the accomplishments of stem cell research in the...

  • Children's Learning and Development: New Approaches to the Old Nature-Nurture Debate

    In their Academy Evening talk, UW–Madison psychology professors Jenny Saffran and Seth Pollak look at contemporary perspectives, complex human behaviors, and new insights about the emergence...

  • Alzheimer's and More: Halting the Progression of Neurological Diseases

    What role does oxidative stress play in the development of many chronic neurodegenerative diseases? How might we prevent or cure such diseases? In his Academy Evening talk, UW–Madison...

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