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The UW vet school’s inaugural class pays it forward with an endowed scholarship.
Impress your family and friends with these fascinating facts.
Joel Baraka x’22 devises a novel way for children to learn in his own onetime home.
After the failures of 2016, the UW’s Elections Research Center makes a significant contribution to the presidential race.
Tech giant Jeff Kessenich helps UW students launch their own STEM careers.
A unique group of poets, musicians, and activists came together in the inaugural cohort of First Wave, the UW’s pioneering scholarship program.
Summer’s not what it used to be — not at UW–Madison, anyway.
Summer on campus has always been swell, boasting one-of-a-kind study spots like the Memorial Union Terrace and Picnic Point. But over the last four years, the university has transformed the summer academic experience to better help students advance…
Every few weeks, another one arrives: a visiting artist to create a new work at Tandem Press, UW–Madison’s fine-art print shop. Tandem is affiliated with the art department in the School of Education, and since 1987, it has brought nearly 100 artists to campus — to experiment, to create…
Rod Hassett ’62 has sourced his hometown to inspire the next generation of engineers — diversifying his profession along the way.
From the beginning, the UW has been a higher education pioneer in research, education, and innovation.
Archaeologist Chris Fisher MA’95, PhD’00 risked snakes, spiders, jaguars, and flesh-eating bacteria to discover a lost city in Honduras.
Andy Manis
By day, Mark Zimmer ’82, JD’85 is a Madison lawyer. But by night, he’s a classical-music detective, hunting for clues in archives around the world to identify lesser-known works by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Together with Netherlands-based composer A. Willem Holsbergen, Zimmer…
Bill Robichaud ’83 has devoted his career to saving the saola, a recently discovered mammal that may go extinct before scientists can even study it.
Should a Chinese couple have one baby? Two? More? UW obstetrician Fuxian Yi and his homeland are at odds over children.
Bryce Richter
In 2014, an exhaustive book about income inequality — French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century — became a New York Times bestseller. According to a review in the Guardian, “Many of the book’s 700 pages are spent marshaling…
A Green Bay Packer’s daughter embarks on a quest to understand the brain disease that took his life.
The title of director/editor Chad Gracia ’92’s debut documentary film — The Russian Woodpecker — invites so many questions, but, it turns out, it has nothing to do with birds and everything to do with Fedor Alexandrovich: an eccentric, Ukrainian artist who is…
Benjamin Franklin was right. Taxation is an absolute certainty in life — even life near the South Pole.
Paintings show horticulture students how fruits and vegetables have changed over the centuries.
In his recent book, Brian Williams PhD’99 sets the record straight on Afghanistani general and now vice president Abdul Dostum, who, along with his cavalry of two thousand Uzbek horsemen, helped the United States defeat the Taliban in a key battle in late 2001.
UW Professor William Bleckwenn 1917, who first used sodium amytal to treat people with schizophrenia, had little idea that his pioneering work would lead to what is popularly known as truth serum.
As a student, UW sociology professor Alice Goffman spent six years immersed in a poor Philadelphia neighborhood. What she learned shaped her understanding of urban policy and inspired a break-out book.
Now a UW faculty member, renowned cartoonist and author Lynda Barry explores the genesis of creativity, teaching the powerful connection between our hands and our brains.
A UW scholar weighs the credibility of Wikipedia.
Name any topic pertaining to Wisconsin life and culture, and prolific author Jerry Apps ’55, MS’57, PhD’57 has probably written about it.
The UW’s Global Health Institute offers seed grants for studies.