As the first Black woman aviator in the military, Marcella Ng ’78 is used to breaking through barriers.
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UW students learned to navigate a campus turned upside down.
Jake Wood ’05 offers veterans a new sense of purpose.
Celebrating Ada Deer ’57, Gary Ebben ’82, and Thomas J. Falk ’80.
Remembering UW–Madison’s first class of WAVES.
John Becker LLB1890 lost his career in public service when his words were deemed a crime.
Sarah Morton
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…
The First World War changed the course of history and — for a time — the UW’s mission. To help with the war effort, the campus shifted much of its focus to educating and training future soldiers. “When the war was declared … there was not an instant’s hesitation in…
A submarine detector tested in Lake Mendota is just one of the contributions UW faculty members made to the war effort.
From telegraphy to auto repair to engineers, the UW campus organized to prepare student soldiers for war.
When the U.S. entered the First World War, the UW joined the fight by training soldiers, conducting poison-gas research, and sending students to work on Wisconsin farms.
Old Abe, the bald eagle mascot who went into battle with the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, sits atop the arch. Statues of a veteran soldier and a young recruit flank the opening. Jeff Miller…
For a World War I veteran’s loved ones, a UW degree is better later than never.
For veterans who feel adrift upon returning home, Jake Wood ’05 has a suggestion: come along with us.
In April 1990, students began a nearly weeklong sit-in outside the chancellor's office
A UW professor inspires students to honor WW II soldiers.
“Ag 101” training for the Wisconsin National Guard.
Ron Silverman ’69 stared into the jaws of death five years ago when he found himself fitting a crown molding for the mouth of Saddam Hussein.