Campus news
Who Looks Like a Surgeon?
When UW surgeon Susan Pitt captured an homage to a New Yorker cover on her smartphone with help from some colleagues at a conference, …
New Lineup
I scream, you scream for Babcock ice cream.
Inside Story Summer 2015
We feel your pain.
Badger Tracks Spring 2015
WAA is planning gala events around the nation to help the UW Foundation kick off its new comprehensive campaign. The next event, Wisconsin Ideas: …
Quick Takes: Spring 2015
UW news in brief.
How can you not care about the past?
It’s a question that Erika Janik MA’04, MA’06 has been asking since her childhood.
The Cost(s) of College
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.
Making It Count
How can we reform the American voting process?
Social Potential
Can spending time online translate into citizen action?
We’re still struggling to build a more perfect union
As a nation, we are deeply polarized. And our partisan divisions will solidify with the approaching 2014 midterm elections and the horserace already under way for the 2016 presidential campaign.
Practical Magic
Fans of Harry Potter and other pop-culture touchstones transform into activists.
The Reach of Facebook
A powerful social platform is engaging citizens in the political process.
Teaching Controversy
How can we prepare our kids to participate in the highly polarized world of politics?
Does Democracy Work?
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.
Constructing Community
An artist shares his rare talent — and his culture.
Land of acronym acrobatics
The campus has an unquenchable appetite for words made up from the initials of other words.
Quick Takes: Summer 2014
UW News in Brief
Off the Prescribed Path
Wherever she's gone in life, the medically underserved have always found Jenny Amani MD'09.
Waisman’s Legacy
Waisman’s legacy started with a different name: Kennedy.
An Independent Woman
I was a better person for having known her.
Still a Member after All These Years
Is my name in a database ... ?
Diva
Brown Swiss are divas.
The scene of the crime
Before she became one of the country’s most powerful prosecutors, Bridget Brennan began her legal career oh and one.
Reporting on Rand
A student reporter jumps at the chance to hear a published writer speak in person.
Scripts and the City
Special narcotics prosecutor Bridget Brennan ’77, JD’83 is leading New York's battle with the illegal trade in prescription drugs.
Ale’s Well
The Beer Mapper helps people choose the right suds.
News
Good news and bad news
On Top of the World
With the assistance of WAA, various incarnations of Bucky have been to all seven continents and floated on every ocean.
Ask UW-Madison
Our professors, scientists, and lecturers are go-to sources when reporters look for analysis of current events or need help explaining complicated issues.
George Washington had the right idea.
“Every Action done in Company, ought to be with Some Sign of Respect, to those that are Present.”
Wisconsin: Where I Row
I never think about my time at Wisconsin without thinking about rowing.
Insta-Badgers
Images from UW–Madison’s account on Instagram
Personal Peace
A UW professor guides those who have been seriously harmed by others along a path to forgiveness.
World Peace
A UW alumna encourages leaders to take a new approach to conflict: honoring dignity.
Math, Mentoring, and Motherhood
Dove soap selects math prof as role model.
Out with the Old, in with the Older.
Newly discovered documents shed light on the Union Theater’s history
A Variation on Camelot
A California girl finds paradise in Madison.
Little Libraries
There is something so charming about the homemade book houses that many people find them hard to resist.
Lessons from Stephen Ambrose
“We’ll get along a lot better if you don’t compliment me so much.”
What does it take to succeed as the head of a major public research university?
Former UW–Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala recently told the New York Times that the job is like that of a tugboat captain: you try to get the ship aligned and pull it in the right direction.