Wisconsin Institute for Science Education and Community Engagement
We are thrilled to announce the winning designs of the 2024 WISCIENCE Sticker Contest! The 4 winning artists created beautiful designs that express the theme of "Science for Sustainability" in original ways.
Find out which WISCIENCE courses will be offered in spring 2025.
This August, WISCIENCE and collaborators brought twenty-five biology educators from colleges and universities across the United States together for three days in Madison to develop Core Concept Teaching Tools (CCTT) for college biology classes. The CCTTs are designed to help students break down complex biological phenomena by guiding students to transfer and apply their knowledge …
To start the fall semester, about 25 new transfer students from 24 schools in 11 states and 5 countries gathered in the BioCommons to learn about life at UW–Madison—and make some new friends in the process.
This summer, 35 undergrad students from colleges across the USA traveled to Madison to spend ten weeks getting hands-on experience as scientists.
Find out which WISCIENCE courses will be offered in fall 2024.
BioHouse Residential Learning Community Seeks Seminar Mentors for Fall 2024 Application Deadline: Monday, April 29, 2024 Residential learning communities bring together faculty, staff, and students around a thematic focus, building discipline-based communities that support academic success. Each community offers a unique seminar for residents, as well as aligned co-curricular activities. The BioHouse seminar is designed …
GUTS drop-in tutoring in Steenbock Library has moved from the library’s main floor to the BioCommons (lower level)! For Spring 2024, tutors will be available Sunday through Wednesday from 4–10 PM. Find a time to meet with a tutor—click below to see the schedule.
WISCIENCE seeks an undergraduate or graduate student to assist with a literature review on researcher skill development. This project involves approx. 20-30 hours of work to be completed by March 15th, 2024. Project overview: The student will review the literature to identify frameworks describing key skills that researchers should learn at the undergraduate, graduate, and/or …
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our first-ever sticker design contest—Julia Tlapa and Abigail Truscott! Want these stickers for yourself? Pick them up for free at the BioCommons. We asked students to interpret the theme of “Belonging in STEMM” (science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine). To us, this means: The final submissions were …