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These campus-area shows have passed into UW–Madison mythology.
From the start, problems plagued a piece of architecture that could have been great.
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.
Edward Schildhauer figured out how the make the darn thing work.
For half a century, idyllic Camp Gallistella served as a makeshift tent colony for UW summer-school students.
A 50-year perspective on the Sterling Hall bombing from alumni who lived through it.
Public History Project seeks “an honest reckoning” with the UW’s past.
Philanthropist Mary Lasker x1922 was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century medical research.
A look back at the telephone’s heyday in UW residence halls.
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…
Throughout the academic year, campus celebrated the 150th anniversary of women receiving UW degrees.
Soon after basketball was invented, women at the UW picked up the sport — even before the men. Intramural teams quickly grew in popularity and competed for an unusual (and bleating) trophy.
An adventurous summer road trip turned the UW’s first female engineering grad, Emily Hahn ’26, into one of America’s most storied travel writers.
Florence Bascom shows off a tool of her trade: a Brunton compass. During her work with the U.S. Geological Survey, she placed benchmarks like the one pictured below, which denoted a site’s exact elevation. Florence Bascom Papers, Smith College There’s an apocryphal story about what set…
In the spirit of the Summer 2019 special women’s issue, we’re profiling a few of the many Badger alumnae — past and present — whose accomplishments deserve wider recognition.
As a nun, Keller defied traditional expectations in becoming the first woman to earn a PhD in computer science. Courtesy of Clarke University In 1965, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller PhD’65 became the nation’s first woman to earn a PhD in computer science. She came close…
When popular graduate student Jenny Morrill MA1905 left campus for the summer, librarians found evidence of “a most awful crime” that she blamed on her morphine addiction.
In 2009, copilot Jeff Skiles ’84 played a key role in the “Miracle on the Hudson” emergency plane landing.
