With singular intensity, Michael Mann ’65 pits loners against the powers that be.
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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.
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All the World On Stage
UW professor of design Aly Amidei creates costumes, characters, and a caring environment for performers.
Traditions & History
Revisiting the restaurants that have sustained generations of meat-eating Badgers.
We remember the one little McDonald’s that did its best to keep campus supersized.
The student organization for sustainable agriculture gets a new name.
Alumni
Raymond Damadian ’56’s discovery gave doctors more insight into their patients. Literally.
A formative five years in Madison shaped the career of Dong-One Kim MS’91, PhD’93, who heads Korea’s leading university.
A biologist hopes to make a highly beneficial fruit more widely available.
Books & Multimedia
Michelle Ephraim MA’93, Phd’98 looks at her life through Shakespearean eyes in Green World.
In The Object at Hand, Beth Py-Lieberman ’83 tells America’s story via the Smithsonian collection.
Ali DeWalt ’13’s novel My Life with the Walter Boys gets new life as a streaming series.
In Wine People, Michelle Wildgen ’97 is less interested in pairing wines than she is in pairing people.
In Legacy on Ice, Sam Jefferies ’11 pays tribute to a hockey great’s life after skates.