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Winter 2014
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As the cost of college education rises, so does the need for financial literacy. UW administrators and researchers are trying to find the best ways to educate students and parents about debt, value, and planning for the future.
Take the tradition of storytelling and creativity within the humanities fields and blend it with a commitment to join the digital age, and you have the recipe for an exciting campus evolution.
The Wisconsin National Guard, with Badgers among its members, is dismantling the massive amount of stuff that supported military efforts in Afghanistan. And a UW professor is playing a key role in bringing it home.
In 1964, the university was marked by rising interest in civil rights, a legendary live music scene, and such a large incoming class that officials considered banning student cars and bicycles and building a campus subway or monorail.
Readers of On Wisconsin span the decades, so the memories of how you paid for college — and how much you paid for college — no doubt vary widely.
Citizen scientists provide clarity for lake researchers’ big questions.
Irwin Goldman packages seeds for the Open Source Seed Initiative. Using envelopes such as the one below, OSSI sent material to 6,000 people in 16 countries. Photo: Bryce Richter.
Free the seeds, feed the future.
Last April, professors Irwin Goldman of horticulture and Jack…
A new effort guides entrepreneurs from campus to commercialization.
Who knew? Tagging bumblebees can help farmers with their crops.
During Hoofers’ Winter Carnival last February, students built themselves a classmate out of snow on Lake Mendota. Hoofers are the Union’s outdoors activities clubs.
Multicultural activities aim to broaden alumni engagement
For Lisa Nett ’97, a tree doesn’t just grow in Brooklyn.
Mark Riccobono's UW–Madison experience served as an awakening.
I work for the [Pennsylvania Department of Corrections] and I applaud this work [“Fulsome Prison Blues,” Fall 2014]. Great, great job. We do need reform in the criminal justice system. We need to stop privatization of prison systems and various services in prisons. Trading stock and lobbying based on…
[The Fall 2014 On Wisconsin] is one impressive edition. I’m glad to see that the UW still has professors of great caliber. The article by Michael W. Wagner [“Does Democacy Work?”] was excellent and thought provoking. This article will be scanned and sent to many friends. [As I…
Loved the article and photos of your red foxes [“Bucky, Beware!” Fall 2014]. Since moving from Wisconsin to Colorado six years ago, we have had the privilege of meeting many red foxes in our backyard. They are not only beautiful, but [they] don’t cause any harm and interact with…
The photo [of the construction on Library Mall, “It’s Time for a Change,” News & Notes, Fall 2014] choked me up a bit yesterday. I was a member of the band Deyenasoar Feathers from 1987 to 1990 and am now an art professor at the University of Tennessee-Martin.
I…
Just saw the ultrasound of my first grandchild. Reminded me of the day I sat next to my wife and saw the smudgy images of my unborn daughter, now pregnant with my grandson. “Love at First Image” [News & Notes, Fall 2014] nails it in the bull’s-eye: an upcoming…
Although, as pointed out in the article “Behind the Screens” [Fall 2014], there is some criticism of MOOCs, I have found them to be a tremendous opportunity to continue the process of lifelong learning.
Taking part in the Coursera program has allowed me to take challenging science courses online…
This well-written compilation of articles [“Can This Democracy Be Saved?” Fall 2014 On Wisconsin] explores how divided our country has become. Somewhere in my lifetime, we turned the word compromise into an epithet that has turned politics into a blood war. We seem, as a nation, to be intent…
