L&S News

Mead Witter School of Music professor Dan Grabois explodes musical boundaries with EARS.

Professor of psychology notes that toddlers who learn gender stereotypes at an early age through channels like children's TV programming, will struggle to escape them as they grow into adults.

The College of Letters & Science’s STEM Runway program helps students from underrepresented groups find their science path and thrive.

We have been at this for almost 250 years. If history has taught us anything about keeping democracy alive in the U.S., it’s the importance of staying involved and informed.

John Berry is a transition metal chemist. That means he experiments with elements in “the big middle part of the periodic table” that are able to bond with one another in strange and interesting ways, producing electronic properties that can initiate new types of chemistry—including in the field of catalysis.

Classics alum Joe Goodkin (’99) converts Homer’s greatest works into folk operas and shares with a UW class.

Catalina Toma and her students take a deep dive into the dynamics of online relationships and the role of computer-mediated communication in our lives.

Jennifer L. Mnookin, Dean of the School of Law and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been named the 30th leader of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Known for years to his students and colleagues for his annual “final lecture,” William Cronon returned to campus recently for a retirement celebration, that prompted Susan Zaeske, associate dean for arts and humanities in the College of Letters & Science, to joke, “We’ve waited a long, long time for this: Bill Cronon’s final lecture!”