When she received the call, emotions washed over Preeti Chopra in waves: shock, disbelief, great joy. “I had to hold onto something and sit down,” recalls Chopra, Professor of Visual Studies, South Asian Art and …
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Pandemic brought life lessons for Jai Khanna, winter commencement student speaker
Graduating senior Jai Khanna is still tweaking the speech he’ll give Sunday as the student speaker for UW–Madison’s winter commencement. But he knows one message he wants to impart: Live life in the moment. It …
Dean Vallabh Sambamurthy Receives Distinguished Alumnus Award From Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Vallabh “Samba” Sambamurthy, Albert O. Nicholas Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. Sambamurthy accepted the prestigious award on …
Division of the Arts Announces Two Artists-In-Residence For The 2021-22 Academic Year
The Division of the Arts’ Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program (IARP) selected two artists-in-residence to teach a 3-credit interdisciplinary course and host public events in Madison for their respective residencies in the 2021-22 academic year. Arun …
Madhubani from Home: Ella Quainton’s Story of Feminism, Painting and Travel in a Changing World
Ella Quainton sat in front of her computer in her childhood home in Princeton, New Jersey, scrolling through images of Madhubani art and reading articles about the style. Madhubani art, native to the Mithila region …
Opening Eyes Around the World
In Sitapur, India, a surgeon from Suresh Chandra’s team performed a 20-minute, $25 cataract surgery on a man who was blind in both eyes. By removing the cloudy lenses that covered his eyes, Chandra’s team …
Global Gateway program expands to Botswana and India
First they went to Shanghai. Next they went to Rio. This summer, 30 UW–Madison students will take part in faculty-led programs in Botswana and India—new locations offered through the Global Gateway Program. The Global Gateway …