The Wisconsin Alumni Association shares stories of the original occupants of the campus area.
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UW–Madison grapples with the prejudice in its past.
A new sculpture at the Chazen Museum connects agriculture on two continents.
The Multicultural Homecoming Yard Show featured diverse fraternities and sororities.
Amy Free ’96 promotes equity as an interpreter across campus.
The 19th-century building now boasts up-to-date student spaces.
Mike Jackson ’04, MBA’13 oversees the department’s diversity efforts during a transformative time.
The UW redoubles its commitment to a welcoming campus environment.
Lisa Skriloff ’77 helps companies reach out to underserved communities.
In Tomboyland, Melissa Faliveno ’06 questions the meaning of queerness and class.
Peaceful protesters take a knee for Black Lives Matter.
A unique group of poets, musicians, and activists came together in the inaugural cohort of First Wave, the UW’s pioneering scholarship program.
The Mercile J. Lee Scholars Program reflects its namesake's humane approach.
Strength in numbers: a women-led UW faculty group meets in 1975 for the formation of what has become the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. UW Archives S17032
Before the 1970s, to study the history of the world was largely to learn of men fighting wars.…
Throughout the academic year, campus celebrated the 150th anniversary of women receiving UW degrees.
In 2002, Gillian Laub ’97 made what would be the first of many trips to Mount Vernon, Georgia, to photograph the lives of teenagers in the South. What she discovered was an idyllic yet racially divided town struggling to confront longstanding issues of race and inequality.
For the next decade,…
Mary Hinkson ’46, MS’47 was born to dance, but as a black woman at the UW, she found Madison far from welcoming. Rather than give up, she became one of the nation’s leading performers.
Women have served as UW chancellor for 14 of the last 31 years — and counting.
Born in war-torn Hong Kong to a prominent but absent father and his sixth concubine, UW physicist Sau Lan Wu has overcome stunning obstacles on her path to three major scientific discoveries.
The success of the women’s volleyball team at the Wisconsin Field House is a highlight of Gawlik’s tenure as a top UW athletics administrator. Bryce Richter
Terry Gawlik remembers the day when Title IX became federal law in 1972. She was a successful multisport athlete…
As a nationally renowned sex reassignment surgeon, Marci Bowers ’80 — a transgender woman herself — is helping her patients find joy and belonging.
Sharing what’s on your mind — and welcoming the viewpoints of others on contentious issues — is a campus hallmark that could inform the wider world.
As assistant dean for Student Diversity Programs in the School of Education, Aaron Bird Bear MS’10 fills a lot of roles: recruiting and retaining students from underrepresented communities, overseeing the summer College Access Program, and serving as a consultant for American Indian Curriculum Services. He also co-leads a group…
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…
Paula Burch-Celentano
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…
A resource center for African American students has a new home on campus.