Overarching Initiative

Documentary Video

Although not listed in the original grant application, WISELI committed to creating a documentary video to disseminate in a more public way the transformation of the UW-Madison campus. Eclipse Multimedia Productions, Inc./Dan Schwartzentruber was chosen to create our documentary videos. We expect to complete this project in three phases:

Phase 1: History and Beginnings of WISELI
Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute: Year One

This documentary on the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, captures the first year of a five-year National Science Foundation-funded effort to investigate why such a small percentage of faculty in the biological and physical sciences are female. The documentary looks back on the remarkable efforts of UW-Madison administrators and women faculty over the years to enhance the working environments of women scientists and engineers, and shows how WISELI is currently using the campus as a living laboratory to study and test interventions expected to have a positive effect on the advancement of women in science and engineering.

The video is available for viewing online at the ResearchChannel website.

This video was also awarded two bronze "Telly Awards" in 2004: One for Documentary Video, and one for Educational Programming.

Phase 2: Highlighted WISELI Programs

This video covers in detail some of WISELI's most exciting new programs: the Life Cycle Research Grants, the Workshops for Hiring Committee Chairs, and the Climate Workshops for Department Chairs. In addition, the video discusses some unanticipated outcomes and highlights many of the partners we have been working with in our quest to transform the UW-Madison.

This video will be available in Spring, 2006.

Phase 3: UW-Madison Transformed?

This video will combine footage from videos 1 and 2 to create one final product highlighting the entire 5-year WISELI project, to answer the question "Was the UW-Madison transformed by the ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award" and "What next?" We expect this video to be available by late 2006/early 2007.