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Grow Your Own Security
For two alumni, the Peace Corps provided lessons in sustainability.
Scholarly Success Story
With unwavering support, the Chancellor’s Scholars Program reaches a quarter-century.
Great People
A new scholarship paves the way for a pre-med student.
The Wayfinder
Meg Gaines looks serene and determined on the cover of this issue, and she is both — even when she isn’t being photographed in a boat on Lake Mendota on a chilly fall day.
Winter Wonderment
A computer model replicates snowflakes in all their detail and beauty.
Lights, Camera, Music!
Communication Arts 613: Film Score: Theory and History
Catalog of Horrors
Comparative Literature 203: Scary Monsters
An excerpt from Joyce Carol Oates’s Nighthawk: A Memoir of Lost Time
I arrived by air, breathless with anticipation. I arrived alone. I see myself across an abyss now of four decades as a figure of uncertainty like a line drawing by Saul Steinberg.
What Is Educational Television?
Pop quiz: Is the TV show Hannah Montana educational? If your answer is no, guess again.
Bold Gestures
Taking the long way to find love.
Big Business
History 247: The History of American Business
This is your copilot speaking
At a quarterly magazine, the term timely is relative.
How Does His Garden Grow?
A gardener’s passion and private gifts support a beautiful public space.
A Crescendo is Building
The plans for a new campus performance center are music to many ears.
Word Games
LCA Language 307: First Semester Hmong
Teachers Who Changed My Life
Writers made all the difference to a young man looking for a profession.
! High Priority
Update your profile in the online Alumni Directory
All-Alumni Food Drive Nets Nearly Seven Tons
Badger chapters compete for charity.
Letters: Everyone Loves a Cliffhanger
Re: Capitan Courageous, Winter 2008
Keep in Touch
Professor studies why, for some, only fingers can do the shopping.
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Legal Aid
The Consumer Law Litigation Clinic takes aim at bad business.
A More Perfect Union
Bye-bye, brutalism. Hello, welcoming and green.
We’ve had a little work done
Rather than wait for you to politely ask if we’ve had a little work done, we’re coming clean right upfront.
Raise a Glass in Class
Pilot brewing equipment shows bacteriology students the science of fermentation.