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Lakes are a familiar backdrop in Taschwer’s life. She first learned to water ski as a three-year-old, going on to make history in world competition.
Gabbie Taschwer ’18 doesn’t quite walk on water, but she’s almost that good.
At the Show Ski World Championships in September 2018,…
Who moo? Cool showers can comfort cows while they’re being milked.
UW economics professor Menzie Chinn explains the tradeoffs of tariff policy.
The UW Law School is opening a new clinic to help victims of domestic violence file restraining orders.
Former UW women’s basketball point guard Shawna Nicols ’05 is now the official disc jockey for the Badgers.
The Wisconsin Union has hosted hundreds of weddings during the past 90 years.
Bryce Richter
After 70 secretive years, a gargoyle has been reunited with its twin. One of the sandstone statues, which sat atop the old Law School, was thought to have been destroyed during the building’s 1963 demolition. But the children of Paul Been ’49 LLB’53 grew…
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3D printing seems like science fiction come to life.
“It’s kind of Star Trek–like,” says Dan Thoma MS’88, PhD’92, director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering, who has researched the technology for 25 years.
Remember when Captain Picard commanded the replicator on the…
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In 2017, the Badgers lost just one football game. In 1968, they couldn’t win one.
It’s almost impossible to believe in these days of annual bowl game appearances, but the UW once suffered through 23 straight winless games — 22 losses and…
Jeff Miller
After a doctor affiliated with Michigan State University was convicted of sexually assaulting numerous young women under his care, including student-athletes, UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez requested a wide-ranging review of his department’s health- and safety-related policies and procedures. “We are treating this…
Wrestling bears, a soaring eagle, and curious fawns are among the 22 million images captured by a first-of-its-kind network of volunteer-run trail cameras in Wisconsin.
The project — called Snapshot Wisconsin — was launched in 2016 by the state’s Department of Natural Resources to monitor wildlife and to help…
Mason Muerhoff
Nomen est omen, said the ancient Romans, who liked their maxims to rhyme: one’s name is one’s destiny. And while there’s little empirical evidence about this aphorism, put Anna Pidgeon PhD’00 down on the side of support. The professor with the columbiform name has…
Mike Leckrone is as synonymous with the Badger spirit as Bucky. This year he’s saying his good-byes after 50 years with the UW Marching Band.
It’s been two decades since the first human embryonic stem cell lines were derived at UW–Madison. What effect has the discovery had on scientific research and human health?
The country’s population of whitetail deer is at record numbers, and a UW scientist’s work grapples with what that means for their environment.
Adam Steltzner PhD’99 just wanted a regular job, so he became an engineer — eventually, one of NASA’s top engineers. Now he’s helping lead the search for life on Mars.
New research from the UW shows video games could help teach empathy to adolescents.
Valerie Donovan ’11, MA’12 coordinates resources and support networks across campus.
WAA recognizes the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients.
Madison-area lake levels continued to rise after a record-breaking storm on August 20, 2018, dumped more than 10 inches of rain on parts of Dane County and caused flooding on the UW–Madison campus lakeshore. Street closures in the downtown area also complicated matters for students who moved into…
A UW researcher finds that a different kind of breakfast could improve health.
Dutch elm disease claims Elmer, a campus tree more than a century old that stood outside the Hector F. DeLuca Biochemistry Building.
An aspiring journalist chooses an unexpected stop on his career path: his hometown newspaper.