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The UW very nearly hired two professors who were destined to win Nobels. Both of them slipped through the university’s fingers in a two-year period.
UW professor Tony Stretton is well into his fourth decade of teaching undergraduates the wonders of brain science — and still has a lot of fun doing it.
Should a Chinese couple have one baby? Two? More? UW obstetrician Fuxian Yi and his homeland are at odds over children.
Danielle Evans is no stranger to praise. During her 33 years, the UW assistant professor of creative writing has graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, been featured in The Paris Review, and published a wildly successful 2010 short story collection about race and coming of age…
There’s more to genetically modified foods than what you hear in political debate. Just ask UW professor Jiming Jiang and his hardy — if unloved — potato.
UW music professor Christopher Taylor debuts the new instrument he developed on campus.
In 2014, an exhaustive book about income inequality — French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century — became a New York Times bestseller. According to a review in the Guardian, “Many of the book’s 700 pages are spent marshaling…
Burnout and depression are common among medical students, but a UW course teaches them tools to stay healthy, along with their patients.
UW computer sciences professor Gurindar Sohi developed technology that is at the heart of a legal dispute with Apple, Inc.
UW’s Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center researchers identified a method to make paper easier to produce.
Becoming “Facebook official” is a milestone in modern romance, but can it also help love last?
A record-breaking gift builds a legacy of chairs and professorships.
Using her understanding of human decision-making, Laura Schechter is improving sanitation in Senegal — and in the process, she's changing the way that social scientists and economists think.
As a student, UW sociology professor Alice Goffman spent six years immersed in a poor Philadelphia neighborhood. What she learned shaped her understanding of urban policy and inspired a break-out book.
In an excerpt from his new book, UW professor Jordan Ellenberg argues that math is part of our daily lives and encourages us to embrace its power.
“Location aware” technology for smartphones.
As flu season begins, UW researchers work to stay a step ahead.
Catering to our obsession with the entire tradition of stately homes, titles, and pomp and circumstance.
Personal peace and forgiveness strike a chord.
As the university prepares to offer its first massive online open courses, we take a look at this new phenomenon and its implications for UW-Madison.
On Wisconsin dispatches a bevy of reporters to track down UW experts and ask for advice on everyday stuff.
Ecologists re-create the sound of a morning with Leopold.
Superstorm Sandy shows the capacity of UW satellite science.