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The longtime PA announcer for Badger women’s basketball, volleyball, and softball is not exactly a detached observer.
An innovative study looks to man’s best friend for answers on prevention.
His acclaimed biography profiles the great American abolitionist.
Here’s what it’s like to meet the UW football legend in person.
The campus-area restaurant preserves the classic food and original décor that keep nostalgic Badgers coming back.
Helen C. White Hall opened in 1971 with “135,000 books, a view, and a chance to be alone,” the alumni magazine stated at the time. The three-story section used for undergraduate studying and the book collection is known today as College Library, which stays open 24 hours on…
In 2002, Gillian Laub ’97 made what would be the first of many trips to Mount Vernon, Georgia, to photograph the lives of teenagers in the South. What she discovered was an idyllic yet racially divided town struggling to confront longstanding issues of race and inequality.
For the next decade,…
Mackenzie Straub x’22 (pictured) was one of 796 incoming students during the 2018–19 academic year receiving free tuition through Bucky’s Tuition Promise. Jeff Miller
The first brainchild of the UW’s new Student Success Through Applied Research (SSTAR) Lab, Bucky’s Tuition Promise, has provided financial…
Every few weeks, another one arrives: a visiting artist to create a new work at Tandem Press, UW–Madison’s fine-art print shop. Tandem is affiliated with the art department in the School of Education, and since 1987, it has brought nearly 100 artists to campus — to experiment, to create…
Next-generation Badger stars? Inspired young fans greet the UW women’s hockey team on its return from winning the national championship in March. It was the team’s fifth title since 2006.
Photo by Bryce Richter…
In 1869 — 150 years ago — the first class of women graduated from UW–Madison. In this special issue, you’ll read about some of the amazing women who have passed through campus since. On, alumnae!
Throughout the academic year, campus celebrated the 150th anniversary of women receiving UW degrees.
The landscape of higher education is changing rapidly, says the UW’s chancellor.
Women have served as UW chancellor for 14 of the last 31 years — and counting.
The winners of this year’s UW Cool Science Image contest were announced in March.
The activist has long been on the front lines of women’s and peace movements.
A young girl — Jo Wilder — solves mysteries of the state.
Experts use math to better understand a sea creature’s defense mechanism.
A UW–developed portable weather lab journeys to the Philippine Sea.
An uncertain future for a divisive campus sculpture.
The #MeToo movement reaches far beyond Hollywood and Capitol Hill. The sciences are also grappling with how to address sexual harassment. This past year, the American Geophysical Union adopted a policy that added sexual harassment as a form of scientific misconduct, saying that it willfully compromises the integrity of…
The success of the women’s volleyball team at the Wisconsin Field House is a highlight of Gawlik’s tenure as a top UW athletics administrator. Bryce Richter
Terry Gawlik remembers the day when Title IX became federal law in 1972. She was a successful multisport athlete…
Expansion of the School of Veterinary Medicine, the only veterinary school in Wisconsin, will allow it to serve more farmers and pet owners across the state. The current hospital was built to accommodate 12,000 patients a year; in 2016, it served 26,500. Flad Architects
The only…
A UW geneticist helped to discover a new yeast species, providing a new flavor to brewing companies.
In 2009, copilot Jeff Skiles ’84 played a key role in the “Miracle on the Hudson” emergency plane landing.
Amid a vinyl revival, the UW’s Mills Music Library dusts off its robust record collection.