With singular intensity, Michael Mann ’65 pits loners against the powers that be.
Spring 2024 Feature
The Speech That Launched Your Life
Relive the UW’s wisest commencement addresses.
Feature Stories
UW researchers preserve animal DNA for species that face extinction.
How the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour became a unique campus institution
Badger graduates have provided a century of care and innovation to patients around the world.
Marcela Guerrero MA’05, PhD’15 is breaking barriers as the Whitney’s first curator of Latino art.
On Campus
Chancellor Mnookin calls for respect for those with differing opinions.
New coach Mike Hastings engineers a stunning turnaround for UW men’s hockey.
Veronica Pham MFAx’24 preserves an ancient form of papermaking, with a twist.
University leaders work out a compromise with the state legislature.
A special Babcock Hall flavor celebrates the UW’s 175th anniversary.
The Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise will cover UW tuition and expenses.
The program guarantees financial support for students from low-income Wisconsin families.
All the World On Stage
UW professor of design Aly Amidei creates costumes, characters, and a caring environment for performers.
Traditions & History
For decades, the pharmacy and eatery was a go-to gathering spot for UW students.
Enthusiasm for the annual celebration has persisted for more than a century.
The last campus-area commercial movie theater closed two decades ago.
Alumni
Kashana Cauley ’02 used social media as a springboard for TV, magazine, and fiction writing.
Wade Crowfoot ’96 seeks to protect natural resources for all Americans.
Grace ’16 and Michael van Meurer ’15 are changing the conventional gift paradigm.
Books & Multimedia
In Deliver Me from Nowhere, Warren Zanes MA’94 goes deep with Nebraska, the beloved dark horse of the Boss’s discography.
Anika Fajardo ’97’s The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore reminds readers that even in loss, one is never truly alone.
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.
