Studying in Memorial Library’s cages has been a rite of passage for generations of students.
Traditions & History
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In the 1970s, UW–Madison hosted thrilling professional basketball games.
Isthmus returns to the racks after shutting down during the pandemic.
In the days before virtual enrollment, getting your preferred classes required creativity and collaboration.
The steam whistle signals boaters while startling Terrace crowds.
Before social media, UW students shared messages via Langdon Street graffiti.
The SWAP shop gives new life to UW surplus while helping the environment.
A century-old arts venue is hidden within a lecture hall.
The Multicultural Student Center offers a safe haven for students of color.
In the spring of 2020, Badgers took their courses to go as a pandemic sent students away from the campus they love.
A century ago, UW–Madison grads spearheaded the suffrage movement.
Remembering UW–Madison’s first class of WAVES.
The official UW–Madison tour brings a magical campus to life.
Students and community members bond at traditional Shabbat dinners.
A look back at the telephone’s heyday in UW residence halls.
Here's the definitive account of how and when the tradition began.
Over six decades, UW teams won 14 Big Ten championships.
No men allowed: a group of 1960s female students relaxes in the Elizabeth Waters Residence Hall courtyard. The dorm would be the last on campus to remain segregated by gender. UW Archives 2018s00424
By 2005, Elizabeth Waters Residence Hall was the last standing gender-segregated dorm on…
Strength in numbers: a women-led UW faculty group meets in 1975 for the formation of what has become the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. UW Archives S17032
Before the 1970s, to study the history of the world was largely to learn of men fighting wars.…
The Wisconsin Union has hosted hundreds of weddings during the past 90 years.
UW Archives 2018s00431
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…
The creepy history of Science Hall provided inspiration for a UW professor’s gothic novel.
It was a gray Friday afternoon, cloudy and unusually chilly for September, with a heavy chance of rain. Most of the sailing classes offered through Wisconsin Hoofers had been canceled for the day — except for Jay Chan’s sailing lesson, which he prepared for eagerly despite the darkening skies.…
On a campus situated between two lakes, it’s only natural that students take advantage of the water. Just two years after the Hoofer Sailing Club formed in 1939, it already boasted more than 450 registered members. Today, UW–Madison students and community members still enjoy hopping into one of…