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Hailing from South Korea, Hyemin “Hamni” Park brings a unique perspective to the UW–Madison political science PhD program. She sat down with the International Division to discuss her research on how East Asian thinkers grappled with Western political concepts, her decision to pursue graduate studies at UW–Madison, and the supportive environment she’s found within the …
The man on stage closes his eyes and begins to strum his silver guitar, swaying slightly with the melody, as he gently sings about pain, grief, and loss: All of them were bone All of them were blood All of them were flesh That somebody loved Joe Goodkin (BA, Classics ’99) is singing ‘Somebody Loved,” …
Jenna Greene calls her contribution to Earth RepAIR, the UW–Madison team participating in the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition—a $100 million global challenge funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation—“a narrow piece of the puzzle.” But all puzzle pieces are essential to the whole. Greene, who graduates from the La Follette School of Public Affairs …
Professor of German Pamela M. Potter was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2023-24 academic year. The position allows for uninterrupted curiosity-driven research among a community of scholars at one of the world’s foremost centers for intellectual inquiry. Each year, IAS welcomes more than 200 of the world’s most …
Her adventure around the world started with a class about space. Claire James, the inaugural winner of the Wolff Fellowship, which provides substantial funds for post-graduation travel, pinpoints an early astronomy class as key to how she approached her college education. “I might not have ever sought out that class if it weren’t for the …
Emily Burke never expected she would get the chance to speak directly to Pope Francis. But there she was last month, face-to-face with the Pontiff—virtually, at least, over Zoom–suggesting ways in which the Catholic Church could begin to take a leadership role in addressing the ongoing problem of climate change. For Burke, a graduate student …
Experts from UW–Madison are available to discuss the latest situation in Ukraine with the news media. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared a state of emergency after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered military operations, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes and shelling. Links listed below faculty bios will take you to recent news articles/features in which …
A near-infrared spectrograph—an instrument that splits light into its individual colors, or wavelengths, to form a spectrum like a rainbow—will soon be shipped to South Africa from UW–Madison. The next-generation instrumentation, custom-built by staff in UW–Madison’s Washburn Astronomical Laboratories, just passed pre-shipping review and is on schedule to be disassembled and soon shipped for installation …
If you’re wearing gold jewelry right now, there’s a good chance it came from an illegal mining operation in the tropics and surfaced only after some rainforest was sacrificed, according to a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers and alumni who studied regulatory efforts to curb some of these environmentally damaging activities in the Amazon. …
It took awhile for Scott Mellor to realize he was teaching his class backwards. For years, Mellor, a distinguished teaching faculty member with the Department of German, Nordic and Slavic+ Studies, would begin his popular World of the Sagas course, a First-Year Interest Group (FIG) based on the legends and lore of Iceland and the …