Teaching and learning
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.
Quick Takes: Fall 2013
UW news in brief
Building a Better Burger
Students create new recipe for a Wisconsin restaurant chain.
HIV: Sex, Society, and Science
This is a class about HIV, but it’s also about critical thinking, about using the scientific method to conceptualize a complex problem . . .
Light it up
Neon at the Stock Pavillion
Student Watch: Summer 2013
Tips and tricks for the dinner table during a job search
Music 660: The Legendary Performers
Today’s successful artists are influenced by the greats of past eras.
The ABCs of MOOCs
As the university prepares to offer its first massive online open courses, we take a look at this new phenomenon and its implications for UW-Madison.
Complicated Compounds
The cruelest course on campus may not live up to its legend.
Student Watch: Spring 2013
La Maison Française
Something Old, Something New
A look inside Nancy Nicholas Hall
Finding Your Inner Neanderthal
Modern scientific tools provide clues to an ancient species.
Student Watch: Winter 2012
New residential community focuses on arts and design.
Badger Tracks
News briefs from the Wisconsin Alumni Association
Being Neighborly
Students discover there’s much to savor in south Madison.
Lessons from Stephen Ambrose
“We’ll get along a lot better if you don’t compliment me so much.”
Glowing Reviews
This year’s Go Big Read selection illuminates Marie and Pierre Curie.
Mobility Marvel
Engineering students help a surgeon get back on his feet in the OR.
School of Hard Rocks
A geology course first offered seventy years ago is still challenging students.
Imagine a Business
Creative ideas and a supportive campus culture are helping more and more students embrace the entrepreneurial spirit.
2012 Distinguished Teaching Awards
Celebrating good teaching.
Tasty Teaching
A popular option for first-year students brings classes down to size.
Brave New Reference
A UW scholar weighs the credibility of Wikipedia.
Game On
It began with power pellets, gobbling ghosts, and Ms. Pac Man.
Student Watch: Summer 2012
Trudging up Bascom Hill with the complete works of Shakespeare weighing you down may have become a thing of the past.