Wisconsin Institutes For Discovery on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery is a public-private research and outreach partnership that is located in the Discovery Building on the
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery - Discovery Building Home
{{Coord, 43.072916, -89.408095, display=title University of Wisconsin–Madison
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery is a public-private research and outreach partnership that is located in the Discovery Building on the University of Wisconsin–Madison
A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...
campus. It consists of two institutions: the privately funded Morgridge Institute for Research
The Morgridge Institute for Research is a private, nonprofit biomedical research institute in Madison, Wis., affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The institute works to improve human health by conducting, enabling and translating ...
, and the publicly funded Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Both institutes opened in 2010. The publicly funded institute is headed by Jo Handelsman, and the privately funded institute is led by chief executive officer Brad Schwartz.
Both institutes are housed in the same facility, the ground floor of which serves as a "town center", providing several small and large meeting and collaboration areas and variety of dining options. This town center design is based on the philosophies presented in the Wisconsin Idea
The Wisconsin Idea is a public philosophy that has influenced policy and Ideal (ethics), ideals in the Wisconsin, U.S. state of Wisconsin's education system and politics.
In education, emphasis is often placed on how the Idea articulates educa ...
. Above the town center on the ground floor, the building has three floors of modular, non-traditional research and lab space, designed to promote collaboration amongst researchers. The building is also designed using green
Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 Nanometre, nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by ...
techniques, and is expected to use 50% less energy and water than the next most recent research building on the UW–Madison campus.
Building Design Information
* Size: 330,000 square feet * Cost: $213 million * Architect, Design Architect, and Laboratory Planner: Ballinger, Philadelphia, PA * Associate Architect/Interior Designer: Uihlein Wilson Architects, Milwaukee, WI * MEP Engineer: Affiliated Engineers Inc., Madison, WI * Landscape Architect: Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, PA * Structural and Civil Engineer: Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer & Assoc. Inc., Madison, WI * Construction Manager: J.H. Findorff & Sons Inc., Madison, WI, and M.A. Mortensen Co., Brookfield, WI * Commissioning Engineer: Facility Dynamics Engineering, Columbia, MD and Champaign-Urbana, IL * Stone Fabricator: Quarra Stone Company LLC, Madison WIAwards
* Awarded 2012 Laboratory of the Year by R&D Magazine http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2012/06/laboratory-all * Received the 2012 Innovation in Green Building Award http://www.usgbc.org/articles/university-wisconsin-%E2%80%93-madison-receives-2012-innovation-green-building-awardSee also
*John Morgridge
John P. Morgridge (born 1933) is an American businessman who was the CEO and chairman of the board of Cisco Systems.
Early life and education
Morgridge was born to L. D. Morgridge and Ruth Gordon Morgridge, who were both teachers and church membe ...
* James Thomson (cell biologist)
*Patricia Flatley Brennan
Patricia Flatley Brennan is the director of the National Library of Medicine. Prior to that, she was the Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Brennan received ...
References
External links
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery - Discovery Building Home
{{Coord, 43.072916, -89.408095, display=title University of Wisconsin–Madison