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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 A…
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,…
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…
No offense, 2017 grad, but your cap is wrong: your story didn’t finish; it’s only begun. Another 6,000 or so bachelor’s and master’s students started their next chapter in May 2018. Photo by Jeff Miller…
The Chazen presents 10 to 12 temporary exhibitions each year, featuring works from its permanent collection and pieces on loan from museums around the world. About 20,000 works of art that represent a range of historical periods, cultures, and countries — including this 1967 screen print of Marilyn Monroe…
When the Wisconsin Alumni Association opened Alumni Park in October, it offered more than a green space on the Lake Mendota shoreline. It also included dozens of exhibits that feature hundreds of UW alumni and the things they’ve done to leave a mark on the world. Tucked in…
The collection spans a full century of work from multiple sculptors, and is just a small portion of the more than 100 pieces of public art that bring color to campus.
At the Alumni Park grand opening in October, visitors admired the new statue of Bucky Badger. Andy Manis Alumni Park welcomed more than 2,600 visitors at a grand opening on the weekend of October 6–8, despite intermittent rain on Friday and Saturday. The park is…