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During the All Ways Forward comprehensive campaign, UW–Madison added and improved several buildings and facilities.
It wasn’t easy bringing Jean Dubuffet’s 500-pound Danse Élance to campus.
The 19th-century building now boasts up-to-date student spaces.
Bee cool: a honeybee approaches cherry blossoms in the UW Arboretum’s Longenecker Horticultural Gardens. The bee clearly has good taste. The Arb was designated a National Historic Landmark in January. It joins four other UW landmarks: the Red Gym, North Hall, Science Hall, and the Dairy Barn.…
Enjoy a stunning nighttime view of the UW’s iconic Carillon Tower.
Run, swim, and dribble at the UW’s state-of-the-art recreation center.
The SWAP shop gives new life to UW surplus while helping the environment.
For 19 years, Ian’s Pizza has been a quintessential student experience.
Hancock Agricultural Research Station delves into vegetable experimentation.
In honor of COVID-19 workers, UW athletic facilities glow with an uncharacteristic hue.
An ambitious new project connects muralists and UW researchers.
The campus-area restaurant preserves the classic food and original décor that keep nostalgic Badgers coming back.
Helen C. White Hall opened in 1971 with “135,000 books, a view, and a chance to be alone,” the alumni magazine stated at the time. The three-story section used for undergraduate studying and the book collection is known today as College Library, which stays open 24 hours on…
An outdoor marvel, the UW Arboretum hosts hundreds of thousands of visitors per year.
Students appear to walk on water at the flooded limnology pier on Lake Mendota. On one day in August, parts of Madison received 10 inches of rain, causing widespread damage.
Photo by Jeff Miller…
Stargazers take in a nighttime view using the observatory’s vintage telescope. Washburn hosts regular public observing sessions and posts its schedule on Twitter. Built in 1881, the observatory was a gift to the UW from former Wisconsin Governor Cadwallader Washburn, who directed that the 15.6-inch telescope lens be…
Bryce Richter
Major projects are under way on the UW–Madison campus to remove bottlenecks for students who need access to chemistry classes to graduate, modernize campus dairy operations, and make more room for meat science teaching and research.
Chemistry building expansion and renovation
Jeff Miller
Those aren’t wagon wheels that passersby spotted earlier this year during construction of the Hamel Music Center at the corner of Lake Street and University Avenue. The so-called windows are sound chambers — part of a system that will help provide optimal acoustics…
A pair of lion cubs, born in 2017, are a major draw, along with the zoo’s Arctic Passage exhibit — home to polar bears, grizzly bears, and harbor seals — which opened in 2015. The zoo opened in 1911, after William Vilas 1858, MA1886 and his wife, Anna,…