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Happy Mothers Day to all of those special moms out there.

An unlikely series of twists and turns has taken Tsipis from coaching a team of 9-year-old boys to taking control of a Badgers program he calls “sleeping giant.”

UW-Madison researchers are using a powerful gene editing tool that could improve human health, but also raises serious ethical questions.

Democrats want info on 28 awards for which no staff review was found, but WEDC says request is burdensome.

Tsipis vows to recruit and land the state's top prep players, something the previous women's basketball coaching staff at UW did not do.

It would be nice to see attention paid to government transparency in cases where an elected official isn't out to protect his own power.

I never truly felt the importance of Mother’s Day until this year, when my mother died April 19.

Across disciplines, one fundamental truth emerges: In everything, there is variability.

A couple of months ago, after I’d finished making a presentation to a veterans’ organization in western Wisconsin, a man wearing a Milwaukee Brewers sweatshirt and a cap indicating that he’d served with the airborne in Vietnam, approached me and…

Sarah, who is a stay-at-home mom of three boys, joined Moms Demand Action through Facebook.

I love in Arabic, think in French, live and work in English, and sometimes dawdle in Spanish.

If I asked what your language means to you, what would you say?

Almost 30 years ago, I was enjoying blues musicians playing outdoors at Chicago's Maxwell Street Market using electricity stolen from a ramshackle building.

There are pencil marks on a wall in our house that record a child’s growth. A pencil, a ruler, and some coaxing are all you need to quantify the precious process.

My father was born in 1936, into a world on the brink of war, and a country recovering from the depths of the Great Depression.

For years, it has been received wisdom: if you are a doctor or a nurse, the language you speak belongs to you alone. Patients can’t possibly use or understand it.

It has been said that communication is the essence of human life.

My liberal arts training strongly shaped my work.

Many mathematical discoveries happen at the boundaries between fields, when we realize connections between things that previously seemed unrelated.

As a student at UW-Madison in the early 1980s, I was awed by all of the classes available and keenly aware of satisfying my breadth requirements.