An innovative curriculum is preparing UW students for a rapidly changing world.
Fall 2023 Feature
“I’m Going to Be Intense”
How head coach Luke Fickell will transform Badger football
Feature Stories
UW research may solve the plastics problem that menaces the planet.
Nightshift workers played a significant part in your UW experience. You just didn’t know it.
On Campus
The UW’s longtime sports center has been replaced by modern recreational facilities.
UW–Madison will adapt its approach to race-conscious admissions.
Best seat in the house — or out of it. The Well Red Bucky statue watches fireworks alongside others celebrating the UW’s 175th anniversary on July 26. The skyrockets put the launch in Launch Day, the name the UW gave to the date on which Wisconsin Governor Nelson Dewey…
Flexible bioelectronics will revolutionize human health.
The UW’s online archive of film and broadcasting publications is a fan’s dream come true.
Grace Stanke ’23 brings Wisconsin nice and nuclear know-how to an American tradition.
The latest upgrade to campus wellness facilities goes beyond traditional sports and fitness.
A Culture of Winning
Women’s basketball coach Marisa Moseley turns UW players into “the best version of themselves.”
Traditions & History
Enthusiasm for the annual celebration has persisted for more than a century.
The last campus-area commercial movie theater closed two decades ago.
The popular run/walk has been a harbinger of spring in Madison for more than four decades.
Alumni
Steve Marker ’89 has made a lifelong career producing and performing alternative rock music.
Karen Murphy ’93 is one of the rare women to serve as COO for an NFL team.
A nimble athlete and a fast learner, Elzie Higginbottom ’65 turned a track scholarship into a real estate education.
Books & Multimedia
In A Forty Year Kiss, Nickolas Butler ’02 gives long-lost romance another chance.
Rickey Fayne’s debut novel traces the consequences of desperation across generations.
Richard Cates PhD’83 recounts his family’s journey from owning to knowing their farmstead in A Creek Runs through This Driftless Land.
Cameron Lee Small ’12, MS’16 offers grace and guidance for exploring questions about identity in The Adoptee’s Journey.
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz MFA’18 investigates an identity crisis in The Indian Card.
In I Am Nobody’s Slave, Lee Hawkins recounts his family’s tradition of resilience despite generations of racial violence.
