FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jason A. Smith, Wisconsin Academy communications director

MADISON–The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters is currently seeking individuals to be honored and recognized as Wisconsin Academy Fellows. Established by the Academy in 1982, the Wisconsin Academy Fellows Award recognizes educators, researchers, mentors, artists, and civic or business leaders from across Wisconsin who have made substantial contributions to the cultural life and welfare of our state and its people.

Anyone in Wisconsin age eighteen or older can nominate someone for the Wisconsin Academy Fellows Award. Award-winning nominees generally demonstrate careers marked by an unusually high order of discovery; invention; technological accomplishment; creative productivity in literature, poetry, or the fine or practical arts; historical analysis; legal or judicial interpretation; philosophical thinking; or public service. To learn more, visit our Fellows page or download a complete list of current Wisconsin Academy Fellows.

Please consider submitting a nomination to honor someone in your community with a Fellows Award at wisconsinacademy.org/nominate. Deadline for submitting Fellows Award nominations is 11:59 pm (CST), September 30, 2017.

Wisconsin Academy Fellows Award nominations are accepted online through the Wisconsin Academy’s website. Nomination materials include (but are not limited to): a support statement, a nominee’s CV or résumé, and three letters of recommendation.

Nominations are reviewed biennially by a panel of Academy Fellows and Academy Board members before approval by the full Wisconsin Academy Board. The next group of Academy Fellows Award winners will be announced in early 2018. A reception to honor and recognize new Academy Fellows will be on Friday, April 6, 2018, in Madison.

If you have questions about the Wisconsin Academy Fellows Award or nomination process, please contact fellows@wisconsinacademy.org.

Since 1870, the Wisconsin Academy has worked to improve life in Wisconsin by sharing great ideas from the sciences, arts, and letters. Our signature publication is Wisconsin People & Ideas, the quarterly magazine of Wisconsin thought and culture; programs include the James Watrous Gallery in Overture Center for the Arts, which showcases contemporary art from Wisconsin; Academy Talks, a series of public lectures and discussion forums; Wisconsin Initiatives, exploring major sustainability issues and solutions; and a Fellows Award, which recognizes accomplished individuals with a lifelong commitment to intellectual discourse and public service. The Wisconsin Academy also supports the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission and many other endeavors that champion Wisconsin thought and culture.