In a career paved with hard-earned achievements, screen villain Hans Obma ’02 endeavors to find the role of a lifetime.
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The 1965 College Bowl team went undefeated at a time when campus needed a boost.
Matt Amodio MS’17 became a legendary Jeopardy! winner with a unique style of play.
In Blindspotting, Rafael Casal x’10 explores a single mother’s struggles.
Manu Raju ’02 rises to CNN’s chief congressional correspondent at a turbulent time for politics and media.
In A Wilderness of Error, Errol Morris ’69 revisits a notorious murder case.
Young reporters use new strategies to bring local news back from the brink.
Former classmates re-create their teenage musicals in “Encore!”
Laura Schara went from a fashionista to a TV outdoorswoman.
Hannah Berner finds her sweet spot on Bravo’s Summer House.
Journalist Peter Greenberg ’72 crisscrosses the globe to dig up inside info on the world’s largest industry.
The honorees have made exceptional contributions to the world.
In 2002, Gillian Laub ’97 made what would be the first of many trips to Mount Vernon, Georgia, to photograph the lives of teenagers in the South. What she discovered was an idyllic yet racially divided town struggling to confront longstanding issues of race and inequality.
For the next decade,…
A young girl — Jo Wilder — solves mysteries of the state.
No matter how viewers are binge-watching television these days, they might as well call it Badger-watching, given the multifaceted ways that UW alumni are contributing to our favorite shows.
The creepy history of Science Hall provided inspiration for a UW professor’s gothic novel.
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DIY CareerJenni Radosevich ’05 (above, center) was crafting long before it was cool — before Pinterest and the do-it-yourself (DIY) deluge in pop culture.
She has many fond memories of visiting the craft store with her mom, dipping her hands in tie-dye,…
Can Bill Nye, the famed Science Guy of the ’90s, really save the world?
Sesame Street partners with UW researchers to promote kindness.
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UW–Madison’s long-standing tradition of fearless sifting and winnowing is rekindled each year through the Distinguished Lecture Series, which since 1987 has hosted intellectual jousts and provocations. More than 200 speakers have appeared over the last three decades.
The roster…
She uses virtual reality to tell some of the world's toughest — and most important — stories.
Groundbreaking series from Jill Soloway ’87 nets eleven Emmy nominations.
Fans of Harry Potter and other pop-culture touchstones transform into activists.
NCAA men’s basketball tournament semifinal, AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, April 5, 2014