Stories by John Allen
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David Kretschmann is working to make baseball bats break safely.
With state funding falling, regents raise tuition 5.5 percent.
When you enroll at the UW, you’d better be prepared to learn a lot — and to develop your upper body strength.
Does genomics hold the secrets for the future of medicine? Eric Green believes it does — and that Bill Gahl is showing the way.
What region has the foulest mouths on the Internet?
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.