Whether earnest or eccentric, UW student organizations prepare Badgers for life outside the classroom.
Summer 2024 Feature
Art for All
What makes a good public painting or sculpture? Here are UW–Madison’s most successful works in plain sight.
Feature Stories
Despite significant contributions, these UW researchers have largely been forgotten by history.
In a career paved with hard-earned achievements, screen villain Hans Obma ’02 endeavors to find the role of a lifetime.
Zona Gale 1895, MA1899 achieved spectacular literary success by staying close to home.
Tanya Crane MA’14, MFA’15 revolutionizes an ancient engraving technique to explore personal histories.
On Campus
Chancellor Mnookin announces plans for world-changing innovations.
New banners for Bascom Hall connect the UW and the Ho-Chunk Nation.
The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Frautschi Center will be a welcoming space for visitors.
The UW creates a virtual farm to train workers in the dairy industry.
“Here, You Need to Listen”
The UW’s Center for Interfaith Dialogue teaches students to get along despite their differences.
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.
