New chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin crafts a “collective vision” for the university’s future.
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For Jennifer L. Mnookin, the Wisconsin Idea is personal.
UW–Madison grapples with the prejudice in its past.
A campus initiative sheds light on Wisconsin’s Indigenous languages.
The chancellor has mixed feelings about leaving UW–Madison after a transformative tenure.
The chancellor leaves the university stronger than she found it.
Barry Alvarez receives a remarkable honor at Camp Randall Stadium.
A chance encounter led Chris Walker to study dance and, now, head UW’s Division of the Arts.
After making it to the university, Gayle Williams Langer ’83 spent her life serving it.
With vaccination rates high, UW–Madison plans for regular operations.
UW–Madison cautiously plans for a “new normal” this fall.
UW faculty and staff personally contact quarantined students.
The UW redoubles its commitment to a welcoming campus environment.
UW–Madison adapts to keep people safe for fall 2020.
For now, standardized tests are optional for UW admission.
Images from an extraordinary year on campus by UW photographers Jeff Miller and Bryce Richter
An interview with LaVar Charleston MS’07, PhD’10
In the midst of a crisis, let’s pause to remember why our work matters.
A husband’s gift transforms the UW School of Social Work.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank finds reasons to hope in challenging times.
Our community takes action after a Homecoming video controversy.
In 1869 — 150 years ago — the first class of women graduated from UW–Madison. In this special issue, you’ll read about some of the amazing women who have passed through campus since. On, alumnae!
Women have served as UW chancellor for 14 of the last 31 years — and counting.
A champion of Title IX, Saunders-Nordeen became the UW’s first women’s athletic director in 1974. UW Archives dn05052510
As the first UW women’s athletic director (1974 to 1990), Kit Saunders-Nordeen MS’66, PhD’77 helped open the door for women to participate in intercollegiate athletics.
She began her…
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…
Valerie Donovan ’11, MA’12 coordinates resources and support networks across campus.
Bryce Richter
Between 1919 and 1926, two UW student organizations took the name Ku Klux Klan, and a report delving into that era of campus history “does not make for comfortable reading, nor should it,” says Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
In the wake of a white nationalist…
The former UW football star who made the Badgers a national force.