One morning in 1978, the novelist David Rhodes rolled his wheelchair to the door of his farmhouse in rural Wisconsin to find his neighbor, Dick Woolever, waiting to make him an offer. “God woke me up in the night and told me how to make an elevator for you,” he said. This was three years after a motorcycle accident left David paralyzed from the chest down.
Artist, Activist, and Educator Frank Juárez explores the impact of Latino/a/x artists and organizations on creativity and connections in a growing number of communities throughout the state.
Geneticist and 2024 Wisconsin Academy Fellow Ahna Skop brings creativity to her research, teaching, advocacy, and outreach.
In 1929, as much of the country began to feel the pain of The Great Depression, German emigrant Ellis Huntsinger found a new fortune in the ground beneath his feet just south of Eau Claire.
Here in Wisconsin, like most northern latitudes, the vast majority of freshwater research occurs during the warmer months of "open water" season...
On January 20, 2024 the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters was honored to welcome Madeline Grace Martin and Angela Trudell Vasquez...
Wisconsin Academy and the UW-Madison's Trout Lake Station welcomed Mary Burns for an artist's talk at Minocqua Public Library that was live-...
On December 4, 2023, the Wisconsin Academy hosted an event featuring three Wisconsinites who attended COP28, the 28th Conference of the Parties to...
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