Stories by John Allen
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There’s nothing in the family law classes to prepare future Badger attorneys to understand the relationship between a woman and a merman.
Who are the UW’s all-time awesomest alumni? On Wisconsin picks its list of greatest grads (and even one non-grad) in fields ranging from agriculture to technology.
The persistence of "hipsters" shines a light on product choices.
Art 316: Lithography
Bud Selig's office decor opens a window onto its occupant's personality — or does it?
Wisconsin does not, perhaps, have the most felicitous climate for outdoor sports.
Bud Selig looks back on his career, and ahead to a return to Madison, considering it all through “the retrospect of history.”
Chancellor Biddy Martin believes that UW-Madison can help Wisconsin on the road to financial stability. The best path, she says, lies in greater flexibility for the university.
For the first time in more than sixty years, a current U.S. president visited campus when Barack Obama spoke before an estimated crowd of 17,500
What's that campus that looks so much like the UW? It's the fictitious Grand Lakes University, which 25 years ago hosted non-grad Thornton Melon (aka Rodney Dangerfield).
With every brain she dissects, neuropathologist Ann McKee ’75 discovers more about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the disease that results from repeated brain injuries. Her studies are changing how sports — especially football — are played.
Boot camp program helps students navigate the biosciences.
New Charter Street power plant will include biomass.
Happy trails, Bernie. Thanks for keeping our UW memories alive.
As a graduate student, theater professor Patrick Sims became engrossed in the story of lynching survivor James Cameron. For a decade, he's been working to create a one-man play that preserves Cameron's place in history.
UW launches new center to study mindfulness and mental health.
Did the Zoological Museum's taxidermists take on the Easter Bunny?
Before Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, there was George Schaller MS’57, PhD’62, whose crusade to protect the world’s most beautiful and endangered animals has taken him to the globe’s most remote regions.