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 …
College of Letters and Science
Global problem, local solution
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.” …
GNS+ professor awarded fellowship at Institute for Advanced Study
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 …
Wolff Fellowship awarded to ‘exceptional’ graduate
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 …
Zooming with the Pope
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 …
L&S Experts on Ukraine
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 …
UW-built spectrograph en route to South Africa
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 …
Gold’s Price: Meeting demand for gold comes at a high cost to the environment
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 …
Game On: Scott Mellor leverages a popular videogame to engage students in a first-year medieval studies course
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 …
War is misery: A new book by distinguished history professor Mary Lou Roberts explores the visceral suffering of soldiers through their diaries
“Dogfaces.” “Dough feet.” “The poor bloody infantry.” Soldiers in Europe during the second World War called themselves a range of names, and neither knew nor cared much about their generals’ plans. But they filled their …