University of Wisconsin–Madison
The pandemic couldn’t hold them back — they’ve won major national academic honors, appeared on network TV shows, helped classmates avoid COVID-19, improved the campus, and even won a Grammy. Here’s a look at just a few of the students who will be graduating from UW–Madison May 8. Consider them a small subset of the …
For Robert Sarwark, joining the Peace Corps just made a lot of sense. As an undergraduate, the UW–Madison English/Creative Writing major (’06) had studied abroad in Spain, where he discovered a deep love for international travel. A year or so after graduating, he heard a friend talking about the positive experiences he’d had with AmeriCorps. …
Lusayo Mwakatika grew his first garden at the age of 14. He harvested his own vegetables, sold them to friends and neighbors, and used the earnings as his allowance. It was a living extension of the passion for agriculture he developed while growing up in Malawi, where farming is a pillar of culture.
In fall 2020, members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Engineers Without Borders (EWB-UW) student chapter concluded a project that brought clean water to 130 homes in the rural community of Zapote, Guatemala. The system runs from a mountain spring and includes more than nine miles of piping largely buried in hand-dug trenches. Spanning five years …
Thank you to all who participated in Day of the Badger 2021. Whether you supported the International Division by sharing a global memory on social media or made a gift that will support international experiences, we appreciate it! Thanks to 26 generous gifts, more than $4,600 was raised for international initiatives and programming. That is …
Through poetry, Hajjar Baban has found her voice and her calling. Her chosen field, she says, allows her to “be honest about my understanding of the world while changing and imagining new ways of being. Baban has been named one of 30 recipients of a 2021 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a …
UW–Madison’s Jin-Wen Yu, a professor in the School of Education’s Dance Department, will present “Non-Ordinary,” a concert of contemporary, cross-cultural, cutting-edge dance, on April 10-11 in Taipei, Taiwan. The concert is shared with emerging Taiwanese choreographer Chien-Kuei Chang, featuring 10 outstanding Taiwanese professional dancers.
On March 24, Chancellor Blank released a revised policy on outbound travel to broaden the definition of “essential” travel for UW–Madison students, faculty, and staff. The revision allows some students to travel abroad to conduct research under an exemption to the current suspension of university-sponsored outbound travel. However, a student whose request for exemption meets …
Access to clean water is a huge issue across the globe. Even in areas with water resources, a lack of infrastructure or reliable energy means purifying that water is sometimes extremely difficult. That’s why a water vapor condenser designed by University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers could be revolutionary. Unlike other radiative vapor condensers, which can only …
Mexican wolves in the American Southwest disappeared more quickly during periods of relaxed legal protections, almost certainly succumbing to poaching, according to new research published Wednesday. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin–Madison found that Mexican wolves were 121% more likely to disappear — despite high levels of monitoring through radio collars — when legal rulings …