Category Society & Culture
Freshman seminar helps put CALS students on path to success
To help new students navigate the challenges they face, CALS offers Inter Ag 155, a freshmen seminar course designed to introduce new students to the various options they have.
In Classics Camp, middle schoolers are introduced to the wonders of ancient Greece and Rome
The kids make their own togas and wax writing tablets, visit museums on campus to see ancient artifacts and learn about kid-worthy topics like the Trojan War, Roman weapons and Greek toilets.
Get to know a few of UW–Madison’s early-start international students
Each summer, many first-year Badgers from other countries arrive several weeks early to take part in the International Student Summer Institute. It’s a way for them to ease into American university life while taking an intensive course in English as a Second Language.
Katherine Magnuson will direct Institute for Research on Poverty
IRP, a center established at UW–Madison by the federal government in 1966, was created to inform policies to combat poverty, inequality and their effects in the United States.
Mead Witter School of Music’s Hamel Music Center opening this fall
With opening celebrations of the center planned for the weekend of October 25-27, 2019, many more audiences will experience its state-of-the-art acoustics and inspired setting.
Remembering Toni Morrison: UW–Madison professor offers reading recommendations
“This was a woman who up through her 80s was still vibrant and still writing. That’s the inspiration to me to keep doing what I love,” says literature professor Sandra Adell.
Jim Martin made his mark in sports and law as player, coach, judge
Martin was an assistant coach for the UW football team from 1970 to 1974 and a student at UW Law School from 1974 to 1976. He went on to serve as a Madison city attorney and later as a respected jurist and strong advocate for equal justice.
State of the (campus) art
The Campus Art Exchange makes art formerly banished to storage available for public display in UW–Madison buildings. Artwork must be hung in public spaces such as hallways, common areas, conference rooms or other gathering spaces — not private offices.
First Wave alumna awarded major graduate fellowship
Mackenzie Berry is the recipient of a $20,000 Marcus L. Urann Fellowship from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. She is one of only six recipients nationwide this year to receive the fellowship.
Research looks at how Snapchat filters affect self-image
Graduate student Amy Niu is researching whether selfie-editing filters negatively or positively impact one’s evaluation of self.
Berlin conference explores influence of UW–Madison’s Professor Mosse
George Mosse was a pioneering historian and authority on Nazism who himself fled the Nazi regime. Students flocked to his UW classes, drawn by his charismatic style and his insights into European cultural history.
UW scholars receive major funding to study polarization and civic renewal
Journalism and mass communication researchers have received $1 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to create a center that will expand a study of state and regional communications systems.
Cosmic ray exhibits, conference explore the universe’s mysteries
Event Horizon: portraits of three physicists captured holding an object that inspired their careers, and Messages from the Horizon, which consists of spinning LEDs representing black holes, are on display in the Main Gallery of the Memorial Union.
Cap Times Idea Fest returns to campus Sept. 13-14
Eric Holder will discuss gerrymandering, WARF's Erik Iverson will lead a panel on "How Does Madison Not Become Seattle?" and political scientist Kathy Cramer will highlight the Local Voices Network, among other events.
Wild rice project sows seeds for university, tribal collaboration
A graduate student is working on a project to build connections between the UW and Native American tribes around wild rice protection and restoration efforts.
UW partnerships take 1st, 2nd in Alliance for the American Dream competition
LIFT Dane shared first place for its plan to help Dane County families who are weighed down by fixable civil legal problems and We Care for Dane Kids shared second place with its multi-pronged approach to transform the county's early childhood and after school care sectors.
Blank’s Slate: UW celebrates Pride Month, Stonewall
Chancellor Blank and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor share how campus is marking the 50th anniversary of a groundbreaking moment in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Nominations sought for 2019-20 Outstanding Women of Color Awards
The awards honor women of color among UW–Madison faculty, staff, students or in the greater Madison community who have made notable contributions.
UW–Madison heritage marker honors Ho-Chunk, recognizes land as ancestral home
Ho-Chunk President Wilfrid Cleveland's hope is that the plaque will "be a spark ... to learn about the Ho-Chunk people and the sacredness we hold for this land.”
Old Watrous mosaic looks as good as new — meaning more like it did in 1963
Cricket Harbeck, who restored Bascom Hill's Lincoln statue, returned to campus in May for another project: cleaning up “Man—Creator of Order and Disorder,” a mosaic by James Watrous.