When they are up and running in 20 months, the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery should be a â??cauldron of exciting interactionsâ? between researchers, social scientists, artists, educators and the public, former UW-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley said today.
â??Ten years from now, I hope weâ??ll look back on a lot of great new stuff and say this is where it started,â? said Wiley, who is the interim director of the public half of the new research center that backers hope will be a model of interdisciplinary and collaborative science.
Wiley was joined at a Wisconsin Innovation Network luncheon by Carl Gulbrandsen, WARF’s managing director and board chairman for the Morgridge Institute for Research (MIR), the private half of the $150 million, 165,000-square-foot WID project. It is going up on the 1300 block of University Avenue between Randall Avenue and Orchard Street and is expected to open in the fall of 2010.