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Bill Hibbard ’70, MS’73, PhD’95 and other artificial-intelligence experts want to ensure that AI meets its potential for good — avoids dystopian scenarios.
The List Issue featured four University Archives images in search of captions. Readers answered the call and helped identify three of them, with the first image (below) generating the most replies.
The dueling knights were part of an event sponsored by the Society for Creative…
A UW alumna hoops it up and inspires players decades younger.
Meet a Badger who made one of the most important contributions to public health in the 20th century.
UW alumni who were in Madison during an era known for its protests and flamboyant pop culture will return to campus this summer for a once-in-a-lifetime event.
Jazz musician…
The planning took months. For a brief moment, when emotions ran high, they almost called it off. But when the big day arrived, it was glorious. Some might even say magical.
“The opening itself felt very…
The Chazen presents 10 to 12 temporary exhibitions each year, featuring works from its permanent collection and pieces on loan from museums around the world. About 20,000 works of art that represent a range of historical periods, cultures, and countries — including this 1967 screen print of Marilyn Monroe…
I always knew my children would be smarter than me — I just didn’t expect…
An NFL career left Brandon Williams ’16 bankrupt. But he’s reinvented himself and found success in multiple fields.
John Becker LLB1890 lost his career in public service when his words were deemed a crime.
In Alaska, where glaciers are melting, Fran Ulmer ’69, JD’72 leads a commission tasked with helping U.S. officials decide what to do about climate change.
Tara Linhardt ’93 found that Himalayan and Appalachian tunes have a lot in common — and she promotes traditional music in both worlds.
Steve Miller x’65 reflects on how his time on campus, being an English major, and growing up with a famous godfather affected his music career.
After his NBA career ended in 2010, Michael Finley ’14 took roles behind the scenes with the Dallas Mavericks and in Hollywood.
The influence of Lloyd Barbee LLB’56, a civil rights leader and lawyer in the 1960s and ’70s, lives on through Justice for All: Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee, which was edited by Barbee’s daughter and civil rights lawyer Daphne Barbee-Wooten ’75. The book includes a foreword…
At home in New Orleans, Ladee Hubbard MFA’14 was booked. She had a full-time job as an adjunct lecturer in Africana Studies at Tulane University, a growing family, and a super-powerful calling: to write a novel. Sight unseen, Hubbard moved to Wisconsin with…
When the Wisconsin Alumni Association opened Alumni Park in October, it offered more than a green space on the Lake Mendota shoreline. It also included dozens of exhibits that feature hundreds of UW alumni and the things they’ve done to leave a mark on the world. Tucked in…
To thank the university that launched you into the real world, sometimes writing a check doesn’t feel like enough.
That was certainly the case for Tom Koehler MS’96, who gave his 40-acre yak farm to UW–Madison in 2012. The aptly named “Green Bay Yakkers”…
Angie Treinen ’88, DVM’93 received a novel idea this year from the UW’s Geology Museum for her family farm’s award-winning corn maze: a giant trilobite. The now-extinct marine creature — and the state’s official fossil — once cruised the planet’s seas, including those…
If you had been a female student at the UW in the late 1860s, your first year would have included the not-so-challenging courses listed below. For a brief period in its early days, the University of Wisconsin had a special college known as the Female College. Although the…
When the Winter Olympics open February 9 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, these Badger alumni will represent the United States as members of the U.S. women’s hockey team. The squad won silver in the last two winter games, but is coming off of its fourth consecutive world title.…
Military history professor John Hall spent 15 years on active duty as an infantry officer and strategic planner for the U.S. Army before joining the UW–Madison faculty in 2009. Now he is recording history as it happens.
In a new Pentagon appointment as a…
Suomi NPP satellite
Named after Verner Suomi, who founded the UW’s renowned Space Science and Engineering Center in 1965 and is often called the father of satellite meteorology…
Actor, cocreator, writer, and executive producer of Workaholics
Dan Katz ’07 @BarstoolBigCatCohost, Pardon My Take podcast
Jacquelyn Gill MS’08, PhD’12 @JacquelynGillCohost, Warm Regards podcast; ice age…
Ever wonder which parts of the world have the highest concentration of UW–Madison grads?
Top 10 Cities with the most alumniMadison metro area
Milwaukee metro area
Minneapolis/St. Paul
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