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This year’s spring commencement speaker at UW–Madison, Meghan Duggan, a Department of Integrative Biology alumna, Badger sports legend and trailblazing leader who scaled the heights of her sport, winning Olympic gold in women’s hockey as captain of Team USA in 2018.

Botanist and professor Simon Gilroy and Haddie McLean, manager of The Wonders of Physics, have received this year’s Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Awards. The awards recognize one UW faculty member and one academic staff member for their work engaging the public in science, technology, engineering, arts and math.

As the 96th Academy Awards ceremony looms, professors in the Department of Communication Arts weigh in on the question.

As the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences prepares to open a new state-of-the-art-building in 2025, they're launching the opportunity to make a lasting impact through "The Badger Effect." The campaign is seeking 500 donors to make a generous gift of $2,019 in honor of the School's founding year.

24 exceptional L&S graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2023-24 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their strengths and commitment surrounding the craft of teaching.

Associate Professor of Economics Karam Kang zooms in on what works and what doesn’t in municipal governance.

The Communication Arts community has lost one of its truly stellar figures. David Bordwell, the Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at UW–Madison, died on February 29, 2024 at the age of 76 after a lengthy illness.

For more than 25 years, the American Indian & Indigenous Studies program has presented "An Evening of Storytelling." At the event, indigenous storytellers share stories in their language followed by an English translation. Listen to Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin Joey Awonohopay to talk about the importance of sharing these traditions.

The La Follette School of Public Affairs establishes the Jack Salzwedel Distinguished Faculty Chair in Business and Regulation to honor the former American Family Insurance Chair and CEO. This new endowed chair was made possible by a generous $3 million donation from American Family Insurance.