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“I was blessed to have parents who were able to send me to college, and I think everybody ought to have that chance.”

Pat Hanrahan won the prestigious Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” for his work to create realistic animation in filmmaking as...

Susan Engeleiter credits public education with helping her attain success as a Wisconsin legislator, the first woman to head the Small Business Adm...

Ada Deer returned to UW–Madison in 1977 as a lecturer in the American Indian Studies program and the School of Social Work, and in 1992, she became...

Tom Falk was a key player in the company’s acquisition of Scott Paper, and also in the turnaround of European operations, achieving major efficienc...

William Campbell’s path to a Nobel Prize started with a fluke — specifically, a sheep liver fluke.

According to family lore, it was the Mississippi River that made Steve Bornstein a Badger.

When Rajiv Batra received his UW acceptance letter, he pulled out a map of the United States and scanned along both coasts to determine where, exac...