Poll: What are you looking forward to over winter break? December 13, 2017 Share In last week’s Wiscopinion, we asked what you were looking forward to during winter break. Your response: Editor’s picks Smart farming UW‘s statewide network of hyper-local weather stations gives Wisconsin growers a powerful tool to reduce costs and improve yields. ‘Prepared for life’: UW–Madison awards the most degrees ever This spring UW–Madison reached a major milestone, awarding 13,733 degrees to new graduates — the most in university history. With the Wisconsin Exchange, UW–Madison is strengthening a culture of civil dialogue across difference The new initiative connects existing programs and cultivates new opportunities to make constructive conversation a visible and integral part of everyday life on campus. Half a million Badgers and counting UW–Madison has reached the milestone of 500,000 living alumni. See how they’re spreading the Wisconsin Idea around the state, country and world.