Category: Arts & Humanities

An unfortunately common experience that many who want to go into teaching face are receiving unsolicited comments on their finances or uncertainties in their future.

So Brandon Taylor wrote about why he left science in an essay for Buzzfeed. It’s a story that starts at the University of Wisconsin Madison, where he went to study biochemistry.

“Parkland” describes Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, student protests that came in response.

Before becoming  the writer and editor that he is today, Brandon Taylor was a doctoral student and biomedical researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And it is that period of his life that he draws on heavily for his debut novel, “Real Life.”

Aria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book, Hard Damage, (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) won the 2018 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Kenyon Review, the Yale Review, New Republic, and elsewhere. She was part of the 2018–2019 Ron Wallace Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

In a statement on the band’s website, officials said that the university’s suspension of face-to-face classes would prohibit the Badger Band from meeting to rehearse for at least four weeks.

When he set out to write a novel, Brandon Taylor, a former doctoral student in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, approached it like a scientist.

Like many students, composer and pianist Becca May Grant was clueless about life beyond the UW-Madison campus when she arrived in Madison in 1994. After all, why should a young white girl from Lakeville, Minnesota, know anything about the city’s diverse south side neighborhoods and the people who live there? But then a service learning project at Fountain of Life Covenant Church introduced her to a new world, just down the road from the university. And she forged a connection with that new world through the power of gospel music.

The similarities between Wallace and Taylor are strong. They are both from the south, queer, black, and felt deeply unhappy with the PhD programs they completed in the midwest. One day, fed up, Taylor decided to drop out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and commit himself to becoming a writer.

Author of ’The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ urges students to stay curious.

The monumental James Watrous mural was moved from the Webcrafters building on Fordem Avenue to the Chazen Museum of Art.

University of Wisconsin alumni Virgil Abloh continues to make ripples in the fashion and design world since graduating in 2003 with a degree in civil engineering.

Award-winning science writer and author Rebecca Skloot is set to give a lecture in Shannon Hall at Memorial Union on March 4.

“Real Life” is a raw, uncomfortable and deeply powerful look at what it means to be black and queer in a university setting much like Madison’s. The novel, released Tuesday, is written by former Madison resident Brandon Taylor, who was a biochemistry doctoral student himself at UW-Madison, and decided to leave the program to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop about four years ago.

Maidenberg, 42, grew up in Israel until age 7, when her family moved to New Jersey. She came to San Francisco in 2000, shortly after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she focused on “African and Diasporic studies with focus on contemporary African Art,”

It was written by Don Voegeli, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and the longtime music director at WHA (now known as Wisconsin Public Radio).

At last, after having written three apprentice novels, I’d had enough of floundering alone and applied to MFA programs. The day I got into the one at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, I wept for hours, because that was the program where Lorrie Moore taught.

“It’s truly an honor to be here to support my friend for all the things you’ve accomplished from teenagehood to adulthood to beyond,” said Sofia Snow, Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI)/ First Wave Director and First Wave First Cohort Alumna.

When he set out to write a novel, Brandon Taylor, a former doctoral student in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, approached it like a scientist.

Award-winning author Marlon James will give a free lecture at the Madison Central Library on Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. as part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Distinguished Lecture Series. James will tackle a variety of topics, according to WUD, including writing, the Caribbean, and race and gender.

The Daniel Gregg Myers Green Room recognizes a young man who died in a car crash months after graduating in 2008.

Listen to “Outspoken” as an audio book narrated by Rueckert, who worked as a radio host for Wisconsin Public Radio and earned a degree in vocal performance. The author is currently a speaking coach and conducts media training and national media outreach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Deborah Blum wrote “The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” in 2018 focusing on Wiley. It was chosen by the UW–Madison as its Go Big Read common book program selection for the 2019-20 academic year.

On Wednesday, Jarrett Adams was admitted to the Wisconsin State Bar in a ceremony at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Joining Adams was Keith Findley, co-founder of and now senior advisor to the Wisconsin Innocence Project, in which legal experts lead University of Wisconsin-Madison law students in efforts to overturn wrongful convictions.

Smith has maintained a strong connection to performative poetry, but during their time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they began devoting more attention to written work.

In addition to the band, the university also had a float in the parade featuring Bucky Badger and some of the school’s cheerleaders.

The UW Marching Band and Greendale Marching Band performed during the Rose Parade in Pasadena.

People made their own ornaments Sunday with the help of University of Wisconsin-Madison art students at the sold-out UW Glass Lab.

DeWalt, who mentored Clifton throughout her undergraduate career at UW-Madison and beyond, was not only a mentor to Clifton, but also an inspiration and a true friend.