Teaching and learning
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.”
Art for Fruit’s Sake
Paintings show horticulture students how fruits and vegetables have changed over the centuries.
History Book
If these shoes could talk: Students learn the art of making objects speak.
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.
Adopting History
A UW professor inspires students to honor WW II soldiers.
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.
Humanities for the Real World
Take the tradition of storytelling and creativity within the humanities fields and blend it with a commitment to join the digital age, and you have the recipe for an exciting campus evolution.
Behind the Screens
What does it take to produce one of those courses with the funny name? We look at the intense planning, the in-the-field work, and the post-production effort required to create a MOOC.
Exam Jitters?
Professors get them, too.
Wren Singer
Advising the advisers to help students think bigger.
Teaching Controversy
How can we prepare our kids to participate in the highly polarized world of politics?
Thinking Inside the Box
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.
Nuclear Engineering 234
Nuclear Engineering 234
A Bridge between Cultures
Chinese alumni create talk-show videos to educate, ease isolation.
One Quote
"... If I don't pay them that, they'll leave"
Quick Takes: Spring 2014
UW News in Brief
The Frankenpianist
Music professor by day and eccentric genius by night, Christopher Taylor is creating a double-keyboard instrument that could revolutionize the world of piano-playing.
Creative License
Now a UW faculty member, renowned cartoonist and author Lynda Barry explores the genesis of creativity, teaching the powerful connection between our hands and our brains.
Bookshelf: Winter 2013
Highlighted books from the Winter 2013 issue
A Badger Tale
Go Big Read novel spans the globe via two characters.
A Leap of Faith
Does religion have a place at a public university? The Lubar Institute contends that it does — not to proselytize, but to give students a safe place to explore beliefs and cultivate understanding.
History 201
Combating misconceptions about ancient Rome.