Whether earnest or eccentric, UW student organizations prepare Badgers for life outside the classroom.
Summer 2024 Feature
Art for All
What makes a good public painting or sculpture? Here are UW–Madison’s most successful works in plain sight.
Feature Stories
Despite significant contributions, these UW researchers have largely been forgotten by history.
In a career paved with hard-earned achievements, screen villain Hans Obma ’02 endeavors to find the role of a lifetime.
Zona Gale 1895, MA1899 achieved spectacular literary success by staying close to home.
Tanya Crane MA’14, MFA’15 revolutionizes an ancient engraving technique to explore personal histories.
On Campus
Chancellor Mnookin announces plans for world-changing innovations.
New banners for Bascom Hall connect the UW and the Ho-Chunk Nation.
The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Frautschi Center will be a welcoming space for visitors.
The UW creates a virtual farm to train workers in the dairy industry.
“Here, You Need to Listen”
The UW’s Center for Interfaith Dialogue teaches students to get along despite their differences.
Traditions & History
Revisiting the restaurants that have sustained generations of meat-eating Badgers.
We remember the one little McDonald’s that did its best to keep campus supersized.
The student organization for sustainable agriculture gets a new name.
Alumni
Raymond Damadian ’56’s discovery gave doctors more insight into their patients. Literally.
A formative five years in Madison shaped the career of Dong-One Kim MS’91, PhD’93, who heads Korea’s leading university.
A biologist hopes to make a highly beneficial fruit more widely available.
Books & Multimedia
Michelle Ephraim MA’93, Phd’98 looks at her life through Shakespearean eyes in Green World.
In The Object at Hand, Beth Py-Lieberman ’83 tells America’s story via the Smithsonian collection.
Ali DeWalt ’13’s novel My Life with the Walter Boys gets new life as a streaming series.
In Wine People, Michelle Wildgen ’97 is less interested in pairing wines than she is in pairing people.
In Legacy on Ice, Sam Jefferies ’11 pays tribute to a hockey great’s life after skates.
