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Carson Gulley was more than the maker of fudge bottom pie at UW-Madison

Carson Gulley was a Black culinary, radio and TV pioneer in the mid-1900s. Now, his legacy lives on at the ...

Starship Robots Keep Hungry UW-Madison Students Fed

If you've been to Madison sometime in the past year, chances are you've seen them — stout strangers from a ...

What Role Did Camp Randall Play In The Civil War?

We recently received a question from a listener. John Hanson from Madison wrote to us saying: “Camp Randall has more ...

UW Dairy Animal Welfare Specialist Thankful for the Cows

As a Harvard undergrad studying psychology, Jennifer Van Os never pictured herself working in a Wisconsin dairy barn. “A decade ...

A Day In The Life Of The UW Marching Band

On a cloudy, balmy weekday afternoon, the University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band was preparing for something a quarter of them ...

Wisconsin 101: Babcock Ice Cream Carton

When you see a carton of ice cream from Babcock Hall Dairy Plant, it’s not particularly flashy. It’s red, white, ...

UW-Madison Researchers Study Coyotes In The City

Coyotes have moved into areas within the Madison city limits. What does that mean for human and canid coexistence? Researchers ...

Motorcycle Gang Holds Bi-Annual Bike Showcase In Pine Bluff

Pine Bluff, ten miles west of Madison, is a typical rural Wisconsin community. It has a church, a couple of ...

Back To School

It was September and the Education building’s large auditorium wasn’t air conditioned on one of the end of summer’s sultry ...

Polo Star Swings Into Action For The UW Polo Club Very Few People Even Knew Existed

Alyssa Daniels started attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison assuming she would spend her college years as a normal student. Then everything ...

Mildred Harnack: Remembering The Wisconsin Woman Who Resisted Hitler

Mildred Fish Harnack was the only American woman executed by Hitler during World War II. Writer Meg Jones tell us ...

Rice Lake Man Throws Everything Into Achieving Olympic Dreams

“It's kind of funny because my mom is 5'5'', my dad's 5'7''. My brother is 5'9'' and I'm 6'5''.  I ...

Cartoonist Lynda Barry Explores The Question, “What Is An Image?” Thru Her Art

Cartoonist Lynda Barry has made a career out of putting life on paper. A Wisconsin native, she has returned to ...

UW Professor Teaches A Dairy Sensory Evaluation Course

States like California may cultivate wine taste-testers; but here in Wisconsin, we develop dairy taste-testers. For 36 years, UW-Madison Emeritus ...

Lake Winnebago Sturgeon Spearing

This Wisconsin Sea Grant video was shot in 2008 and describes spearfishing for sturgeon on Lake Winnebago.