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
The popular run/walk has been a harbinger of spring in Madison for more than four decades.
The last campus-area commercial movie theater closed two decades ago.
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.
Alumni
Brigadier General Andrew Clark ’95 returned to campus to show UW cadets how high they can fly.
Hezouwe Walada ’23 launched an organization to bring resources and much-needed funds to his home continent.
With a little luck, William Campbell MS’54, PhD’57 discovered a drug that has helped millions see.
Books & Multimedia
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.
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.
