Think about the products you’ve used since you woke up this morning: the toothpaste on your toothbrush; the yogurt with your breakfast; the fragrance on your dresser; the pills in your medicine cabinet. The taste …
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Alum Rattavut Teerakapibal uses his passion and wealth of technical knowledge for formulation and process development to improve HIV therapies
Chronic diseases account for $3.8 trillion in annual health care spending in the United States. Patients’ lives are interrupted with recurring medical attention and burden. Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is one such chronic …
Alum Mohamed Amin empowers clinicians and patients with culturally relevant care
One of the largest annual religious observances for the world’s nearly 2 billion Muslims is Ramadan, which lasts for an entire month and means that participants refrain from eating or drinking between sunrise and sunset …
Six Badgers recognized in list of Wisconsin’s most influential Latino leaders for 2021
Six UW–Madison alumni were recognized by Madison365 last week as being among the “Most Influential Latino Leaders” list for 2021. A nonprofit online news publication, Madison365 has published annual power lists recognizing Wisconsin leaders from …
UW Alum Aaron Williams to deliver keynote speech at International Education Week
Growing up in the 1950s in a segregated neighborhood on Chicago’s southside, UW alumnus Aaron Williams, MBA ’73 was influenced early on to consider possibilities beyond his working-class neighborhood and even the borders of the …
Memoir by UW–Madison alumnus Lor recounts journey from Laos to U.S.
UW–Madison alumnus Pao Lor is the author of a new memoir, titled “Modern Jungles: A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival,” published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Lor earned his doctorate from the School …
Meet Some of the Notable UW–Madison Graduates of Spring 2021
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 Peaceful Partnership
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 …
From Malawi to UW and Back: Student Commencement Speaker Lusayo Mwakatika Advances Agriculture in his Homeland
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 …
Alum highlight: Scott Muir ’06
I was a proud member of the first group of Wisconsin in Washington (WIW) program students to arrive in D.C. in 2005. While interning at Voice of America (VOA), the world’s largest international broadcaster, I …