Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID)

he Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), a transdisciplinary research institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and public half of the Discovery partnership in the Discovery Building, focusing on the interfaces of education, research and business. he Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), a transdisciplinary research institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and public half of the Discovery partnership in the Discovery Building, focusing on the interfaces of education, research and business. he Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), a transdisciplinary research institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and public half of the Discovery partnership in the Discovery Building, focusing on the interfaces of education, research and business. he Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), a transdisciplinary research institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and public half of the Discovery partnership in the Discovery Building, focusing on the interfaces of education, research and business. We consider a full range of phenomena, from cells to societies. Our eight research areas are united by this common informational foundation. We promote a unique transdisciplinary culture for faculty, researchers, students and entrepreneurs, encouraging high-energy collisions within our intellectual commons. We are inspired by powerful intersections among diverse fields, from behavior and mathematics to genetics, computation and the creative depth of the humanities. We are a place where innovative minds come to explore and where innovative companies come to collaborate. We value free expression, risk and the great potential for research to be amplified and accelerated through measurement and computation. Our culture rewards creative, itinerant minds and draws from the radical aesthetic of the arts. If Ben Franklin and Pablo Picasso were to find a home in a 21st-century institute, we like to think they would join us. We believe in the spirit of constructive “hacking,” building a community of tech-savvy minds to solve problems through prototypes and trial and error.