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Union Terrace, June 14, 2014, 9 p.m. 71 degrees Wish you were here.
My daughter participated in the [Washington D.C. Semester in International Affairs] program last year, resulting in her catching “Potomac fever” [Classroom, Summer 2014]. She has since graduated, packed her bags, and moved to D.C., and is now in search of employment to pursue her dream of making a difference. …
Photo: Jeff Miller
Although today Michael Lihrman x’15 holds the NCAA championship title for weight throw, his introduction to the sport didn’t come until his junior year at Rice Lake High School in northern Wisconsin.
Back then, the 6-foot-5 senior was looking for a way to…
As a nation, we are deeply polarized. And our partisan divisions will solidify with the approaching 2014 midterm elections and the horserace already under way for the 2016 presidential campaign.
Despite daily deluges, twelve students in this anthropology course spent most of June sifting and winnowing dirt.
Ali Dewalt got a taste of what it’s like to be a hit author before she even arrived on campus.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) may be the newest trend in higher education, but at the UW, the practice of using mass-media technologies to connect the public with university instruction dates back more than eighty years.
As our nation faces a great political divide, UW experts and alumni explore the current state of democracy, our voting system, the enormous power and potential of social media, and the hopeful voices of the next generation.
Newlyweds Matt Hill and Jessi Hill ’12 pose for a photographer at the Memorial Union’s swimming pier on a June evening before heading to their wedding reception at Tripp Commons.
A class project sparked a career as an author and illustrator.
I thoroughly enjoyed your acronym acrobatics editorial in the Summer 2014 On Wisconsin [Inside Story]. It reminded me of a friend who became a member of MAD (Mothers Against Dyslexia). To get this effort off the ground ASAP, they utilized a program called PREGNANT — Parents Reaching Every Goal…
Those who knew Charlie Mohr during Madison’s NCAA boxing championship run in the 1950s were privileged indeed [News & Notes, “Fighting Back,” Summer 2014]. There was no better example of humility and sensitivity on campus. His popularity actually embarrassed him. [He was a] shy, sensitive, lanky, deeply religious boy most…
“Empty Nests” [Summer 2014] mentions UW scientists who have kept the passenger pigeon’s memory alive. I’d like to add Carol Ryrie Brink, author of Caddie Woodlawn (1935), to this list. Brink describes the annual migration of passenger pigeons over a farm south of Menomonie in the fall of 1864.…