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Imagine that you’ve been dropped into an unfamiliar country. People are speaking all around you. But you don’t recognize the sounds or objects surrounding you. You don’t even hear words; all t…

The civil rights movement insisted that integration and voting rights would be meaningless without measures to ensure that all Americans had access to decent housing, education and jobs that p…

With three children at home, I know firsthand how voices compete to be heard.

Looking back on the story of your own career, what do you wish you would have known during your college years about yourself, your education, or the world of work that awaited you upon graduation?

I magine the ancient southern Wisconsin landscape as a mosaic of prairies, savannas and forests shaped by fertile ground and the rhythms of natural fire.

I honestly cannot remember a time when the weather did not hold my interest. Growing up in eastern Massachusetts, I had a particularly strong interest in snowstorms whose dramatic fury, couple…

My research seeks to understand the effect the Internet has on the choices we make. When I began studying network communication back in 1994, I thought that it would make our world fairer by g…

Russia is blessed, and cursed, with the most fascinating culture on the globe.

I have been fascinated by factors that lead to economic growth across time and countries. These include patterns of schooling, fertility, the diffusions of technology, and socioeconomic policy…

What makes us prosperous, healthy and happy across our lives?

My research takes me to some very difficult spaces: the Holocaust, disability, traumatic memories. What I seek in these spaces is to understand a shred of a valued cultural practice that we fi…

During this past winter break, I worked 12-hour days in one of the last remaining fragments of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. This 2,400-acre protected forest reserve is situated on a coffee planta…

Potential presidential candidate Scott Walker has been bending over backwards to appease Iowa caucus voters. 

Panache Academy of Beauty – which started in Baraboo and Lake Delton seven years ago – is opening up a Middleton facility at 2275 Deming Way, Suite 102.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s corporate-owned and operated Goodyear Auto Service Center at 437 Commerce Drive has reopened following a November 2014 fire.

A Swiss cheese from Ohio took top honors while Wisconsin products dominated at the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest in Milwaukee this week.

Wisconsin’s first turkey hunting period is a mere four weeks away.

The Wisconsin singer-songwriter tells the story of his migrant and musical life through his songs. 

Two years ago, President Barack Obama claimed his was “the most transparent administration in history.”

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Dane County Board supervisor has surrendered his pass card and keys to the City-County Building after he opened its doors to more than 100 protesters after a fatal polic…