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Badger Retrospective

Posted on January 14, 2026

Many events that have shaped UW–Madison’s history are well documented while others are more obscure. In this issue, we reveal some happenings from years gone by that may have missed the headlines, including a student …

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100 Years Ago

Posted on December 16, 2024

A quick scan of Wisconsin newspapers from December 1924 reveals that the university has always received more than its share of year-end coverage in a city whose population reached 47,973 that year (and this figure …

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The Academic Staff Word Search

Posted on December 13, 2023

Academic Staff at UW–Madison can often find themselves in an alphabet soup of acronyms. Can you find the Academic Staff acronyms in the word search below? You can use the Alphabet Soup Decoder Ring to …

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100 Years Ago

Posted on September 25, 2023

A quick scan of Wisconsin newspapers from September 1923 reveals that UW-Madison has always been newsworthy and that reporting from one hundred years ago may sound familiar to readers today.

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