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Bryce Richter
Even in today’s era of selfies and Snapchat, a bulletin board in the corner of the College Library lobby has turned into a must-see spot for the library’s thousands of visitors.
Dozens of comment cards make their way into the suggestion…
Award-winning chef Tory Miller (right) is part of a new UW program that links breeders and growers with top Madison chefs.
For farmers who sell vegetables directly to consumers, disease resistance and high yield are often the top priorities when choosing varieties, but a UW…
Ahoy and namaste, Badgers! Members of Outdoor UW practice their morning SUP yoga on Lake Mendota. Outdoor UW is the Union’s “outlet to the outdoors” (it rents boats, holds classes, and hosts Hoofers), and SUP is short for standup paddleboard, which is something like a surfboard without the surf.
Matt Perko
John Woolley MA’74, PhD’80 was 12 when he stood at a Nashville, Tennessee, curb watching President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade scoot past him en route to the airport. The chief executive was in Woolley’s hometown on May 18, 1963 — just months…
Apart from being quadrupedal, furry, and commonly found on your couch, cats and dogs have little in common. But the two species share one more — much less fortunate — trait: both can contract canine influenza.
Sandra Newbury DVM’03, clinical assistant professor and director of the UW School of…
The UW’s Chazen Museum of Art will host an exhibition of the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, in honor of the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. Shakespeare First Folio, 1623. Folger Shakespeare Library
William Shakespeare may be known as the English language’s…
Bryce Richter
In 2014, an exhaustive book about income inequality — French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century — became a New York Times bestseller. According to a review in the Guardian, “Many of the book’s 700 pages are spent marshaling…
In an excerpt from his best-selling book, Matthew Desmond MS’04, PhD’10 sheds new light on the harsh realities of housing and poverty.
Sequencing the DNA of every plant in Wisconsin is a daunting task, but a UW team recently accomplished just that. After four years, the project has now gathered information for some 2,600 species — from the most primitive fern to the most advanced flowering plants, plus conifers, birch trees,…
“There are way too many artists and way too few galleries,” says Barry Carlsen MFA’83. That’s why he started Big Ten(t), an alliance connecting UW–Madison alumni with places to show their work.
Carlsen invites Badger artists to participate in shows, and they pay a fee for renting gallery space…
College students and their parents are in closer contact than ever, and that bond has transformed the way universities interact with families.
Elan Kriegel ’03 runs the data shop for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. After the election, he and his team will use their algorithms and their passion to help other causes.
Grandparents University welcomes its first great-grandchild and continues a treasured tradition for one Badger family.
A Green Bay Packer’s daughter embarks on a quest to understand the brain disease that took his life.
Feeling overwhelmed? UW research shows one simple act can make a difference.
The late boxer visited campus twice — as an amateur athlete who competed at the Field House and as the heavyweight champion who was also an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War.
Kathryn Clarenbach ’41, MA’42, PhD’46 is largely unknown, but her name belongs alongside those of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem in the history of modern feminism.
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are part of everyday life. What happens when political candidates and their campaigns wade into the social media scrum?
The portrait painter’s roster includes four U.S. presidents and several celebrities, such as George Clooney and Paul Newman.
UW graduate students develop a new use for drones: detecting explosives buried in war zones.
For a World War I veteran’s loved ones, a UW degree is better later than never.
Tractor image, Shutterstock; all other images, IStock; photo illustration by Nancy Rinehart
Growing up on a dairy farm in Viroqua, Wisconsin, Melanie Buhr-Lawler ’00 heard her dad’s tractors and other loud equipment every day. Now, as a clinical associate professor of audiology at UW–Madison,…
The picture book Waiting has earned Kevin Henkes x’83 two of the highest accolades in children’s literature for 2016: designations as a Caldecott Honor Book and a Geisel Honor Book. This is only the second time that anyone has won that combination, and these wins…
Return main feature: Love Is Not A Mystery
Psychologist John Gottman has identified four behaviors that are the death knell for most relationships, but it’s possible to fight them off and preserve a healthy union.
Criticism
A complaint focuses on a specific behavior, while…
Return main feature: Love Is Not A Mystery
Build love mapsHow well do you know your partner’s inner psychological world, his or her history, worries, stresses, joys, and hopes?
Share fondness and admirationThe antidote for contempt, this level focuses on the amount of…
UW scientists hope that quickly sharing results will generate answers about the virus.
Burnout and depression are common among medical students, but a UW course teaches them tools to stay healthy, along with their patients.
