With singular intensity, Michael Mann ’65 pits loners against the powers that be.
Spring 2024 Feature
The Speech That Launched Your Life
Relive the UW’s wisest commencement addresses.
Feature Stories
UW researchers preserve animal DNA for species that face extinction.
How the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour became a unique campus institution
Badger graduates have provided a century of care and innovation to patients around the world.
Marcela Guerrero MA’05, PhD’15 is breaking barriers as the Whitney’s first curator of Latino art.
On Campus
Chancellor Mnookin calls for respect for those with differing opinions.
New coach Mike Hastings engineers a stunning turnaround for UW men’s hockey.
Veronica Pham MFAx’24 preserves an ancient form of papermaking, with a twist.
University leaders work out a compromise with the state legislature.
A special Babcock Hall flavor celebrates the UW’s 175th anniversary.
The Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise will cover UW tuition and expenses.
The program guarantees financial support for students from low-income Wisconsin families.
All the World On Stage
UW professor of design Aly Amidei creates costumes, characters, and a caring environment for performers.
Traditions & History
The Italian restaurant was a romantic getaway for UW–Madison couples.
UW–Madison’s dance department — the oldest in America — turns 100.
Alumni gather “up north” every year to enjoy nature, make connections, and learn from UW experts.
Since the 19th century, Music Hall’s tower has kept the UW running on time.
Alumni
Lisa Yaszek MA’92, PhD’99 shines a light on nontraditional writers in a male-dominated genre.
Two Badgers have created the Brick to eliminate digital distractions.
Books & Multimedia
Jeff Oloizia ’07 talks story, form, and fish fry on his podcast, Writing Forward.
On Pearls 2, rapper Zhalarina Sanders ’15, MS’18 tells family stories in her grandmother’s tongue.
Three friends reckon with their once-entangled lives in Girls Our Age by Phoebe Thompson MFA’24.
Amanda Rizkalla MFA’23 documents a family’s quest for stability through the eyes of an eldest daughter in Hungered.
Political corruption and personal betrayal fan the flames of a heated election in Jon Hickey ’04’s debut novel, Big Chief.
Ann Packer’s Some Bright Nowhere asks just how much we’re willing to do for those we love.
