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
The popular song “It’s Dark on Observatory Hill” immortalized a campus hot spot.
For a university situated on an isthmus, transportation is no easy matter.
The last campus-area commercial movie theater closed two decades ago.
Alumni
These former Badgers haven’t let their careers get in the way of love.
Books & Multimedia
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz MFA’18 investigates an identity crisis in The Indian Card.
In I Am Nobody’s Slave, Lee Hawkins ’01 recounts his family’s tradition of resilience despite generations of racial violence.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Bite by Bite explores the nourishing and narrative properties of food.
Aerospace-engineer-turned-artist Mary Jo Hoffman ’87 captures quiet moments in her blog-turned-book, Still: The Art of Noticing.
Michelle Ephraim MA’93, Phd’98 looks at her life through Shakespearean eyes in Green World.
