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The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (sometimes referred to as WID) is an interdisciplinary public research institute on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in Madison, WI[1]. The institute is located in the Discovery Building, which also houses the private biomedical-focused Morgridge Institute for Research and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's Town Center, with which WID regularly partners to deliver outreach programming and public events. WID opened in 2010 with five research themes, which have since evolved as collaborations crossed disciplinary boundaries and new research teams formed.

The current research strengths of WID, the faculty of which hold dual appointments at the institute and in home departments across campus, include data science and visualization, tissue engineering and nanomedicine, -omics, health, and agriculture, and complex systems[2]. WID is unique in its approach to science: calling on a broad community to identify and find solutions to big problems, encouraging interdisciplinary thought and action, and championing the Wisconsin Idea as a central tenet.

WID also houses "Discovery Hubs" that are designed to be integrators for the campus community, generating new ideas that nucleate new collaborative projects[3]. The hubs make use of WID expertise to provide services that assist other researchers in applying specialized tools to a range of problems extending beyond the scope of WID's programs. The current hubs are the Data Science Hub, the Multi-Omics Hub, and the Discovery Dialogue Hub.

The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is led by Director Jo Handelsman, who was appointed in February, 2017, after serving in the Obama White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy[4].

  1. ^ "Wisconsin Institute for Discovery". Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
  2. ^ "Research". Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. 2017-08-04. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
  3. ^ "Discovery Hubs". Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. 2017-08-04. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
  4. ^ "Jo Handelsman named director of Wisconsin Institute for Discovery". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
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