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WAA is planning gala events around the nation to help the UW Foundation kick off its new comprehensive campaign. The next event, Wisconsin Ideas: Let the World Know, will be held in Milwaukee on June 11. Program highlights include remarks from Chancellor Rebecca Blank, inspirational alumni stories, innovations from…
Alumni voices have played a role for more than 150 years.
Every day is Take Your Dog to Work Day for Philip Tedeschi.
Kim Kelleher's latest move has landed her at Wired magazine, where she is VP-publisher.
Meet the 2015 Forward under 40 honorees.
A record-breaking gift builds a legacy of chairs and professorships.
Mark Riccobono's UW–Madison experience served as an awakening.
For Lisa Nett ’97, a tree doesn’t just grow in Brooklyn.
Multicultural activities aim to broaden alumni engagement
An excerpt from The Opening Kickoff explores how UW legend Pat O'Dea "put the foot in football" and gained long-overdue respect for the Wisconsin team during the early days of intercollegiate athletics.
A class project sparked a career as an author and illustrator.
A powerful social platform is engaging citizens in the political process.
How can we prepare our kids to participate in the highly polarized world of politics?
For Anna Therese Day ’10, going the freelance route in pursuit of a journalism career wasn’t so much a choice as it was a calling.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association has presented Distinguished Alumni Awards since 1936. Meet the four celebrated honorees.
I enjoyed “Commencing a New Era” [News & Notes, Spring 2014]. Another event that occurred in 1990 involved a senior named Jordan Marsh ’90. He recognized that the ROTC policy conflicted with the state’s civil rights law, so he organized a sit-in. It started with just a handful of…
Math and music are connected in some surprising ways, and David Kung '94, MA'96, PhD'00 has made it his business to become an expert in all of them.
What can we learn from the demise of the passenger pigeon? Key Wisconsinites say the lesson is clear: don't let it happen again.
Wherever she's gone in life, the medically underserved have always found Jenny Amani MD'09.
When this landscape architect — and fellow Badgers in his Chicago firm — tackle a project, they do far more than put in bushes: they engage the community and create an experience.
As scientists unravel the mysteries of human DNA, genetic counselors stand ready to interpret what it all means.
The predecessor to today's campus radio station may have been tiny, but it forged lifelong bonds among students from the 1950s to the early '90s and sponsored one heck of a trivia contest.
