The Open Seat addresses food insecurity on campus.
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Chancellor Rebecca Blank finds reasons for hope in challenging times.
An emergency fund helps students weather the COVID-19 crisis.
The Bandana Project turns students into supporters for struggling classmates.
For half a century, idyllic Camp Gallistella served as a makeshift tent colony for UW summer-school students.
Our article on the Sterling Hall bombing is a unique contribution to the historical record.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank finds reasons to hope in challenging times.
A 50-year perspective on the Sterling Hall bombing from alumni who lived through it.
Our community takes action after a Homecoming video controversy.
UW–Madison explores noninvasive weapons screening.
The official UW–Madison tour brings a magical campus to life.
Students and community members bond at traditional Shabbat dinners.
Winter in Madison isn’t all bad, right? Right? Last January, Hanna Hohener x’23, Jennifer Chandler x’23, and Max Johnson x’22 “borrowed” trays from a cafeteria to take part in a UW tradition of makeshift sledding on Observatory Hill. Photo by Bryce Richter…
The new facility is stunning inside and out.
Summer’s not what it used to be — not at UW–Madison, anyway.
Summer on campus has always been swell, boasting one-of-a-kind study spots like the Memorial Union Terrace and Picnic Point. But over the last four years, the university has transformed the summer academic experience to better help students advance…
The Mercile J. Lee Scholars Program reflects its namesake's humane approach.
Participants in UW Adventure Learning Programs (ALPs) ride a giant swing at a new facility in Stoughton, Wisconsin. ALPs — a student organization — administers the facility and runs team-building workshops for students and nonstudent groups.
Photo by Jeff Miller…
Here's the definitive account of how and when the tradition began.
The campus-area restaurant preserves the classic food and original décor that keep nostalgic Badgers coming back.
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.…
Mackenzie Straub x’22 (pictured) was one of 796 incoming students during the 2018–19 academic year receiving free tuition through Bucky’s Tuition Promise. Jeff Miller
The first brainchild of the UW’s new Student Success Through Applied Research (SSTAR) Lab, Bucky’s Tuition Promise, has provided financial…
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.
The landscape of higher education is changing rapidly, says the UW’s chancellor.
Bryce Richter
After 70 secretive years, a gargoyle has been reunited with its twin. One of the sandstone statues, which sat atop the old Law School, was thought to have been destroyed during the building’s 1963 demolition. But the children of Paul Been ’49 LLB’53 grew…
Madison-area lake levels continued to rise after a record-breaking storm on August 20, 2018, dumped more than 10 inches of rain on parts of Dane County and caused flooding on the UW–Madison campus lakeshore. Street closures in the downtown area also complicated matters for students who moved into…