L&S News

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation named 126 fellows from 44 institutions in the 2026 cohort, chosen from more than 1,000 nominees. Congratulations to assistant professors Dallas Albritton, Paul Apisa, Annie M. Bauer, Tina Wang and Yang Yang for this prestigious honor.

Herb Kohl Philanthropies will be donating $30 million to the La Follette School of Public Affairs to support renovations that will transform Music Hall into Herb Kohl Hall. The donation will help connect the growing school, which is currently spread across 28 buildings on campus.

Herb Kohl Philanthropies has announced a $30 million lead private gift to the La Follette School of Public Affairs to support programming and renovations to Music Hall, which will serve as La Follette’s future home under the new name of Herb Kohl Hall.

Dean Wilcots will temporarily step away from the College on May 17 to lead UW–Madison.

University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers just released a groundbreaking study on the same mushrooms behind an uptick in poisonings in California.

More than 200 College of Letters & Science students came together to cheer on a Wisconsin Badgers Women's Basketball Team victory.

Eight L&S faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators.

In case you missed them, we rounded up some of the most popular stories from the College of Letters & Science last year.

Jeremy Morris forecasts how this new technology may impact the future of the music industry.