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How can we prepare our kids to participate in the highly polarized world of politics?
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.
I recently read “Off the Prescribed Path” [Summer 2014], and I am highly disappointed and offended. I am an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, and am also Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe. I have worked for the Ho-Chunk Nation Department of Health as a physician assistant since graduation in…
For Anna Therese Day ’10, going the freelance route in pursuit of a journalism career wasn’t so much a choice as it was a calling.
Turns out those weekly bathroom breaks are part of a grand plan.
A tasty hybrid fish is making its way to your local grocery store.
I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciated “Coming of Age” [Spring 2014 On Wisconsin]. As the mother of a son on the autism spectrum, I found the information interesting. Parents of children with autism — and also special needs — live in constant worry about…
[In regard to “Radio Daze,” Spring 2014], Slichter Hall was already a women’s dorm in fall 1953 when I came to Madison. I was a disc jockey for WMHA in 1954. I brought in many of my own 45 rpm records to play, including my theme song by Jimmy…
This new center keeps a focus on the end game: getting a degree.
Les Mayers ’56 asked in the Spring 2014 issue [Posts] if others shared his experience of using his jacket as a sail when skating on Lake Mendota. A friend and I used to “skate” next to the lake by Memorial Union by just standing on the icy sidewalk and…
“My mindset is to go forward and go at people whenever I get the ball.”
An innovative UW program is aiming to bring Madison and Washington closer together, one semester at a time.
The campus has an unquenchable appetite for words made up from the initials of other words.
Your article on Nuclear Engineering 234 [Classroom] brought back memories. In 1962, I was a graduate student in nuclear engineering, and we had this idea to open up the reactor for Engineering Week. We had the reactor operating and producing the blue glow. We thought this would really impress…
In an excerpt from his new book, UW professor Jordan Ellenberg argues that math is part of our daily lives and encourages us to embrace its power.
On March 7, 2014, the lights went out for the last time at UW–Madison’s Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC).
I enjoyed the article about UW pianist Christopher Taylor [“Frankenpianist,” Spring 2014].
In particular, it was great to hear that the dual manual Steinway is in such good hands. In 1977, I was taking Robert C. Nesbit’s History of Wisconsin course. I was able to meet many living composers,…
I enjoyed “Commencing a New Era” [News & Notes, Spring 2014]. Another event that occurred in 1990 involved a senior named Jordan Marsh ’90. He recognized that the ROTC policy conflicted with the state’s civil rights law, so he organized a sit-in. It started with just a handful of…
NCAA men’s basketball tournament semifinal, AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, April 5, 2014