Students
Someone to Watch over Earth
The UW’s legacy with environmental issues started in the 1860s when student John Muir embraced nature. It continues evolving on today’s campus, where classes meld filmmaking skills with community activism.
Badger Beauty
What happened to the “Campus Mascot for the Seventies”?
Weathering the Storm
WAA helps seniors face tough job market.
Team Player: John Clay
Running back wants to improve lives of urban children.
Great People
Faculty and staff lead by example with scholarship gifts.
Drumming up Support
Band alumni are in step with a project to upgrade the practice field.
How Sweep It Is
Students play broomball on a cleared section of frozen Lake Mendota.
Gearing Up for Game Day
WAA welcomes Class of 2013 into Fifth Quarter tradition.
Scholarly Success Story
With unwavering support, the Chancellor’s Scholars Program reaches a quarter-century.
Great People
A new scholarship paves the way for a pre-med student.
Student Watch
Whose ’bot is the best?
Strategic Study Group
Web-based history course reaches out to members of the military.
Quick Takes
UW news in brief.
How Wired are UW Students?
Technology is an intrinsic part of campus life.
Lights, Camera, Music!
Communication Arts 613: Film Score: Theory and History
Team Players: Samantha, Rob, and Casey Dehn
The three siblings never thought they’d all converge as Badger athletes.
Traying
When resourceful students borrow cafeteria trays to slide down snowy campus slopes, there’s just one unwritten rule: have fun!
Faulty Forensics
Wisconsin Innocence Project goes beyond DNA to ferret out bad courtroom science.
Student Watch
A pillow and a cell phone? Check. Lumber and tools to build a loft and a George Foreman grill to make burgers before football games? Not allowed.
UW on the Air
Fire up your DVR, because there’s more than football to watch on the Big Ten Network.
Catalog of Horrors
Comparative Literature 203: Scary Monsters
Trippin’
Students perform the musical Hair.
Hey, Dummy
What did ventriloquy, dances, and electioneering have in common? Dormsylvania!
John Bechtol
With more student veterans on campus, he helps navigate the path through college.
Pat Answers
St. Patrick's Day in Madison used to mean just one thing: the annual battle between engineering students and those at the Law School. It was shysters vs. plumbers, and everyone took a side.
Memorial Union Canoes
Renting a canoe is a bargain for a little piece of serenity during a hectic semester or a chance to explore campus during the less stressful summer months.
Big Business
History 247: The History of American Business
Team Player: Laurie Nosbusch
Sophomore wasted little time making an impact on the UW women’s soccer program.
Student Watch
UW Forensics makes a comeback.
An Investment during ‘Tough Times’
Chancellor’s undergraduate initiative gains support from board of regents.
A Crescendo is Building
The plans for a new campus performance center are music to many ears.
Word Games
LCA Language 307: First Semester Hmong
Having a Ball
Snowball fight on Bascom Hill
Empty Den Syndrome
A Mama Badger blogs about saying good-bye.
Failing the Fitness Test
Recreational Sports Board asks for $60 million to pump up facilities.
Team Player: Valyncia Raphael
Left fielder hopes she’ll make her biggest hit off the field.
All Together Now
Chancellor calls upon cooperation and innovation during tough economic times.
First in Their Families
About one out of every five students in the UW’s 2008 freshman class is entitled to say, “I’m the first person in my immediate family to go to college.”
Legal Aid
The Consumer Law Litigation Clinic takes aim at bad business.
See Food?
Photographing meals aids healthy eating.