L&S News  Author: Mary Ellen Gabriel

The tantalizing titles of First-Year Interest Groups are enough to make anyone want to go back to college. Who wouldn’t want to explore Global Biodiversity and the Sixth Mass Extinction or The Meaning of Life? A FIG fires enthusiasm for deep, meaningful study. But it’s the relationships forged in the “cohort” that really set freshmen up for success.

Inviting the public to engage with hard questions is at the heart of the humanities at UW-Madison.

A shared vision for launching students higher, sooner led to a shining new career center, corporate partnerships and a fired-up network of alumni and friends.

History grad Mike Matucheski blends creativity and a love of tradition with scientific rigor to produce award-winning cheeses for Sartori Cheese Company.

“Neither of my parents went to college,” says Nadler, who has taught philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for more than 25 years. “My father was a really intelligent and talented man—an artist from Montreal who went into advertising in New York. But I wouldn't say that our home was an intellectually rich one, as wonderful as it was.”

What’s in a name? A whole lot of history, but not much zookeeping.

William J. Cronon, the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at UW–Madison, has been elected to the newest cohort of Fellows of the British Academy.

A deep and nuanced understanding of the founding principles of American democracy has long been one of the cornerstones of a political science education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A gift from the Jack Miller Center — as part of the university’s All Ways Forward fundraising campaign — is helping fund a professorship dedicated to American political thought.

On October 28, the Mead Witter School of Music will break ground on the long-anticipated Hamel Music Center.

The Hamel Music Center will feature a 662-seat Mead Witter Concert Hall, a 325-seat Collins Recital Hall, a large rehearsal space, ample lobby, and state-of-the-art technologies.