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A popular consumer science course digs into our relationship with money.
Photo by Angie Treinen Angie Treinen ’88, DVM’93 received a novel idea this year from the UW’s Geology Museum for her family farm’s award-winning corn maze: a giant trilobite. The now-extinct marine creature — and the state’s official fossil — once cruised the planet’s seas, including those…
Some faculty members come and go; others stick around and become legends.
The UW very nearly hired two professors who were destined to win Nobels. Both of them slipped through the university’s fingers in a two-year period.
From the beginning, the UW has been a higher education pioneer in research, education, and innovation.
UW professor Tony Stretton is well into his fourth decade of teaching undergraduates the wonders of brain science — and still has a lot of fun doing it.
Dawn patrol on Lake Mendota: Carolyn Voter PhDx’18 (right) and Alexandra Linz ’13, PhDx’18 collect water samples before sunrise. The work was part of a 44-hour limnology experiment that took place in July 2016 and examined how light affects bacteria and carbon exchange. Photo by Jeff Miller…
Regina Miller, Origin Photo Breath. Purpose. Compassion. For many people who have lost a loved one or are experiencing other profound challenges in life, simple words such as these are helping them heal — one page at a time. Inspired by her personal recovery,…
Photo by Jeff Miller UW–Madison’s long-standing tradition of fearless sifting and winnowing is rekindled each year through the Distinguished Lecture Series, which since 1987 has hosted intellectual jousts and provocations. More than 200 speakers have appeared over the last three decades. The roster…
Return main feature: Love Is Not A Mystery Psychologist John Gottman has identified four behaviors that are the death knell for most relationships, but it’s possible to fight them off and preserve a healthy union. Criticism A complaint focuses on a specific behavior, while…
Return main feature: Love Is Not A Mystery Build love maps How well do you know your partner’s inner psychological world, his or her history, worries, stresses, joys, and hopes? Share fondness and admiration The antidote for contempt, this level focuses on the amount of…
Burnout and depression are common among medical students, but a UW course teaches them tools to stay healthy, along with their patients.
The Facebook query was exacting and cryptic: “We need perhaps three or four individuals with excellent archaeological / paleontological excavation skills. … The catch is this — the person must be skinny and preferably small. They must not be claustrophobic, they must be fit, they should have some caving…
From faculty showcases to national news, alumni weigh in on this cherished Badger principle.
By the time Roberto Rivera ’04 devised his own UW major, he had already experienced a life's worth of challenges. But that didn't stop him from showing other young people a way out.
A study finds that early mindfulness training leads to improved academics.
I very much enjoyed the piece on Phil Rosenthal [“Staying Power,” Fall 2015]. In particular, I cheered the fact that “…after more than thirty years in the newspaper business,” he had covered grizzly crime scenes and survived. Those bears are very dangerous! Lona Morris Jupiter ’56 San Francisco, California…
Every day is Take Your Dog to Work Day for Philip Tedeschi.
An unexpected process may lead to an earlier diagnosis for sick babies.
A UW service makes sure rare and wonderful species are in good hands.
For Lisa Nett ’97, a tree doesn’t just grow in Brooklyn.
How can we prepare our kids to participate in the highly polarized world of politics?
Music professor by day and eccentric genius by night, Christopher Taylor is creating a double-keyboard instrument that could revolutionize the world of piano-playing.
Now a UW faculty member, renowned cartoonist and author Lynda Barry explores the genesis of creativity, teaching the powerful connection between our hands and our brains.