Teaching and learning
Brain Trust
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.
Lake Laboratory
Dawn patrol on Lake Mendota: Carolyn Voter PhDx’18 (right) and Alexandra Linz ’13, PhDx’18 collect water samples before sunrise. The work was part of a…
“Yes, and …”
Improv techniques help medical professionals learn creativity and spontaneity.
Russia in Focus
The new Wisconsin Russia Project aims to help the U.S. be more prepared to manage a calculating Kremlin with yet-to-be-determined ambitions.
Classrooms Mobilized
From telegraphy to auto repair to engineers, the UW campus organized to prepare student soldiers for war.
Women Make Waves
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The war yielded some positive outcomes for female students. Many gained leadership positions on campus that had…
Danielle Evans
Danielle Evans is no stranger to praise. During her 33 years, the UW assistant professor of creative writing has graduated from the
Tradition, Reinterpreted
Bryce Richter
This isn’t your typical henna design — and it’s not intended to be. Students created the henna…
Spring Fashion Show
In the moments before the music begins, the nervous energy is palpable.
Nearly three dozen student models line up along a…
Pomp and Circumstance
UW hockey coach Tony Granato x’17 goes back to school.
The Great War at Home
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.
Stitching History
UW students connect to a designer’s lost legacy.
Better Aging Through Art
Changing our perceptions of aging is at the heart of The Penelope Project: An Arts-Based Odyssey to Change Elder Care,…
Climate Chameleon
UW–Madison is home to one of the most flexible and unique research facilities in North America.
Brandon Shields MBAx’17
A care package in Afghanistan leads a former marine to seek an MBA from the Wisconsin School of Business.
Physician, Heal Thyself
Burnout and depression are common among medical students, but a UW course teaches them tools to stay healthy, along with their patients.
Musical Theater Performance
When we start staging things, if you don’t know your lyrics, you are going to get killed
Story Time
Doctors in training at the UW write down patients' memories — along with their symptoms — in a VA hospital program that documents the lives of military veterans.
Shawn Peters
The instructor behind “The Wire course.”
History Book
If these shoes could talk: Students learn the art of making objects speak.
Art for Fruit’s Sake
Paintings show horticulture students how fruits and vegetables have changed over the centuries.
Get Real
RE 306: Real Estate Process
Kathy Cramer
Meet a Badger who is one of the caretakers of the Wisconsin Idea.
Research in the field (or forest)
At a tiny building in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, scientist Claire Phillips studies carbon in soil samples. The UW has been conducting research at the site for a decade, exploring how forests change over time, under the direction of Ankur Desai, an associate professor in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Budget Fallout
For UW–Madison, the hits just keep coming.
Chemic Book
Veronica Berns PhD’14 found a novel way to make chemistry easier to understand.
Jim Doyle
A former governor sees “bright, committed” people taking us into the future.
Badger Brewski
A food science course is putting a new meaning behind “microbrewery.”
Street-Dance Scientist
He does popping. He devotes time to his company. He teaches adults and kids about science. He works on his doctorate. Is there anything Jeff Vinokur ’12 isn't doing?
When Black History Is Your Own
Descended from a family who helped found a historic African-American community, Thulani Davis gained a unique perspective that allows her to bring the Reconstruction era alive for her students.
Land of Possibilities
In a new UW lab, students create cool things for our interconnected world.
Introduction to Private Pilot
Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics 601
Anteaters to Zebra Fish
A UW service makes sure rare and wonderful species are in good hands.
Design Studies 501: Global Artisans and Pragmatic Design
The cultures of multiple homelands were stitched together in a School of Human Ecology class during fall semester.
Safe Haven
Thai alum finds asylum at the UW.
Malala’s Story
This year’s book program says go read — and then go do.
English 175
Frankenstein, Robocop, Google: Human Memory/Digital Memory
Mark Riccobono ’99: Pioneer for the Blind
Mark Riccobono's UW–Madison experience served as an awakening.
Lisa Nett ’97: Arbor Day All The Time
For Lisa Nett ’97, a tree doesn’t just grow in Brooklyn.
Adopting History
A UW professor inspires students to honor WW II soldiers.