Category Society & Culture
Panczenko, longtime director of Chazen Museum of Art, to retire
Panczenko grew the Chazen's holdings from approximately 12,000 objects to more than 21,000 today, making it the second-largest collection of art in Wisconsin. Read More
UW-Madison ranked first in number of Peace Corps volunteers
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ranked first among large schools on the Peace Corps 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. There are 87 Badgers currently volunteering worldwide. Read More
Jennifer Warren wants more female movie directors
Of the top 100 films released in 2016, women directed only four. Actress, director and UW alumna Jennifer Warren is out to change that. Read More
Center for Journalism Ethics announces finalists for Shadid Award
The six projects nominated for the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics combined aggressive reporting on important issues with care for the consequences of that reporting. Read More
UW to award Clyde Stubblefield posthumous honorary degree
Stubblefield wasn’t just a drummer. He was an innovator and an inspiration to musicians, both in his adopted home of Madison and around the world. Read More
University experts help Roelli create champion cheese
Roelli Cheese Haus in southwest Wisconsin got help in creating its championship cheese from the Center for Dairy Research at the UW–Madison. Read More
Communications expert advises how science should respond to fake news
The rise of fake news has dominated the world of politics recently, but fake news is not at all new in the world of science, says life sciences communication Professor Dominique Brossard. Read More
Wisconsin Without Borders Marketplace makes a difference throughout globe
Wisconsin Without Borders Marketplace (WWBM), a UW–Madison student organization, collaborates with artisan groups from Mexico, Ecuador, Nepal, India and Kenya to sell their jewelry, scarves and bags in Madison. Read More
Diversity inventory program aims to highlight, connect campus initiatives
UW-Madison has launched the Diversity Inventory Program (DIP), a searchable online database of programs, services and other activities related to diversity on campus. Read More
Trailblazing African history scholar Jan Vansina dies
Vansina's work led to acceptance in the academic world of oral traditions as valid sources of history, countering the once-prevalent attitude that cultures without texts had no history. Read More
UW offering computer user experience design certificate
Given the value of improving interactions between humans and computers in a digitized world, user experience design practitioners are increasingly in demand. Read More
Wisconsin Idea seminar showcases Badger state to UW–Madison faculty, staff
A five-day tour that has become a staple of the Wisconsin Idea will introduce dozens of UW–Madison faculty and academic staff to the geography, culture and history of Wisconsin. Read More
Video: Philip Denis uses passion to blaze ‘Pathways’
Philip Denís, a graduate student and advisor at UW–Madison, discusses his work for Pathways to Educational Achievement, cultivating 'my own Wisconsin experience" and raising his children in the Badger community Read More
Video: I calculate, therefore I am: Mixing math and philosophy
By double majoring in math and philosophy, Hannah DeBrine says she learns both kinds of truth: Logical truth, and individual people's truth. Even if a good philosophy class ends with more confusion than it started with. Read More
Important new insights into the influence of poverty on child maltreatment
A new set of studies published this week and edited by researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the first to try to get at the causal mechanisms behind the economic factors that are strongly associated with child maltreatment. Read More
‘Magic’ plus UW science equals world-champ cheese
Wisconsin cheese is at least as old as the state. The University of Wisconsin–Madison has one of the world’s great institutions of dairy food science,… Read More
Sesame Street brings UW center’s kindness curriculum to kids
Sesame Street is emphasizing kindness in its upcoming season with the help of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a research center that studies the science of well-being and how it can be nurtured. Read More
Telling the tale of midlife in the United States
MIDUS is a national longitudinal study on aging explicitly focused on midlife, including transitions from young adulthood to midlife, and from midlife into old age. Read More
Inspired by King, students share a day of service and reflection
Martin Luther King Jr. is known for poetic words and heroic actions. On Monday, the University of Wisconsin–Madison community came together to consider King’s legacy and how he continues to inspire. Read More
Three restaurants to open Jan. 17 in Memorial Union
Memorial Union’s iconic der Rathskeller and new restaurants Carte, a made-to-order salad and sandwich shop, and Strada, an Italian eatery, will begin serving customers Jan. 17. Read More