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Mitch Henck: Mom taught me to think, laugh and root with passion
I never truly felt the importance of Mother’s Day until this year, when my mother died April 19.
Expect uncertainty: Unraveling new survey techniques
Across disciplines, one fundamental truth emerges: In everything, there is variability.
Sparking new conversations through music
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…
Microtargeting: Campaigns appeal for passionate publics
Sarah, who is a stay-at-home mom of three boys, joined Moms Demand Action through Facebook.
Discovering and understanding the other in me
I love in Arabic, think in French, live and work in English, and sometimes dawdle in Spanish.
Helping preserve Native American languages for new generations
If I asked what your language means to you, what would you say?
Building robust markets to bolster food systems
Almost 30 years ago, I was enjoying blues musicians playing outdoors at Chicago's Maxwell Street Market using electricity stolen from a ramshackle building.
Computer data drives study of plant growth, genetics
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.
What time is it? Unraveling the Earth’s history
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.
Cracking the code of health care terminology
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.
Research tackles communication disorders in kids
It has been said that communication is the essence of human life.
Collaboration, new perspectives unlock discovery
My liberal arts training strongly shaped my work.
Basic research uncovers crucial math symmetry
Many mathematical discoveries happen at the boundaries between fields, when we realize connections between things that previously seemed unrelated.
Gifts unlock promise of discovery at Letters & Science
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.
Mindfulness and dodging the second arrow
One of our most amazing human capacities is our ability to think.
Successful careers built from a world-class education
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new wave of job-seeking candidates is highly skilled, brilliantly educated and full of ideas and enthusiasm.
Objects tell us about history, and us
The many tangled connections between people and the material world are the grist for material culture scholars as we try to understand the human condition.
Bringing a complex African odyssey into focus
Two thousand years ago, the Roman historian Pliny the Elder wrote “Ex Africa semper aliquid novi,” which translates to “Out of Africa, there is always something new.”
Understanding a cyber-attacker’s style
Who are the bad guys that attacked my computer?
Using chemistry to defy the conventional
When I was a student taking organic chemistry, I learned that certain carbon-based materials are capable of acting like metals or semiconductors.