Alumni of color reconnect for a weekend of special events on campus sponsored by the College of Letters & Science.

Over the course of five decades, Janet Shibley Hyde shaped her field and her students.

The Institute will honor Ken Dill, a biophysicist from Stonybrook University, for contributions to theoretical and computational chemistry.

Layne Hailu travelled thousands of miles from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to UW–Madison with the goal of eventually applying his talents back home to solve real world problems. Hailu, a junior who passed away in Madison on Aug. 19, is being remembered by friends as a changemaker and innovator.

Marisa Otegui, UW–Madison botany professor and member of the Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging, is co-principal investigator on the project. Her research focuses on how cells manage the flow of proteins and other specialized substances called metabolites between different cellular compartments.

While wild mushrooms are widely regarded as poisonous and associated with decay, the Professor of Botany points out that they're essential to plant roots acquiring nutrients.

A Black couple saw the appraisal of their home rise more than $300,000 when they removed all traces of Blackness and had a white colleague stand in to present it. That's reminiscent of racially exclusive housing covenants from the 1960s, says the assistant professor of history.

Prough, who spent the last 18 years with the City of Fitchburg, takes over the strategic coordination of information technology throughout the college.

Professor of political science reminds us that presidents don't possess the power to declassify documents at will.