It’s getting mighty crowded in space as debris from satellites, labs, and other things shot into Earth’s orbit degrade over time and threaten to fall back to where they came from.
Spring 2019
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No matter how viewers are binge-watching television these days, they might as well call it Badger-watching, given the multifaceted ways that UW alumni are contributing to our favorite shows.
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay ’92 makes no apologies for being a rabid Badger fan — even in a newsroom populated with Michigan alumni.
Allee Willis ’69 is more than just the composer of the hit songs such as “September” and the Friends theme: she also collects kitsch, throws legendary parties, and supports her hometown of Detroit.
Sharing what’s on your mind — and welcoming the viewpoints of others on contentious issues — is a campus hallmark that could inform the wider world.
Expansion of the School of Veterinary Medicine, the only veterinary school in Wisconsin, will allow it to serve more farmers and pet owners across the state. The current hospital was built to accommodate 12,000 patients a year; in 2016, it served 26,500. Flad Architects
The only…
A UW geneticist helped to discover a new yeast species, providing a new flavor to brewing companies.
Amid a vinyl revival, the UW’s Mills Music Library dusts off its robust record collection.
Otto Puls ’55 is the one constant for Wisconsin Athletics, having served as the Badger men’s basketball official scorekeeper for the past 55 years.
An outdoor marvel, the UW Arboretum hosts hundreds of thousands of visitors per year.
The jersey of legendary Badger hockey player and coach Mark Johnson ’94 now hangs from the Kohl Center rafters.
The sunburst design is sure to spark fond memories. Do you know when it was created?
Lakes are a familiar backdrop in Taschwer’s life. She first learned to water ski as a three-year-old, going on to make history in world competition.
Gabbie Taschwer ’18 doesn’t quite walk on water, but she’s almost that good.
At the Show Ski World Championships in September 2018,…
UW economics professor Menzie Chinn explains the tradeoffs of tariff policy.
The UW Law School is opening a new clinic to help victims of domestic violence file restraining orders.
Former UW women’s basketball point guard Shawna Nicols ’05 is now the official disc jockey for the Badgers.
The Wisconsin Union has hosted hundreds of weddings during the past 90 years.
Bethany Goodrich
Nic Mink ’02, PhD’10 is mad as halibut, and he’s not going to take it anymore. Mink likes fish. But he very much prefers his fish to be good fish. The world has too much bad-tasting seafood, he argues, and it doesn’t have to…
John Curtis, shown here in his lab in 1951, introduced the concept of burning prairie as a means of restoration. The Arb conducted its first burn in the 1940s. UW Archives S04992
Bring up conservation in Wisconsin and you’ll often hear the name John Curtis MS1935,…
Chris Burt ’83 has long been fascinated by weather — of the extreme variety.
Priscilla Priebe
Long before she led the UW women’s hockey team to two NCAA Division I championships, goalie Alannah McCready ’10 was a member of several boys’ youth hockey teams in Blaine, Minnesota.
“When I was growing up, there were no girls’ teams for me to…
Former teacher Jessica Stovall ’07 appears in a series exploring the inequalities in education.