Features

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Fair Trade: Without new buyers Fair Trade could be at risk

UW budget crunch: What's at stake

Student loans: Debt sucks

'Beer Professor' retires after 40 years

'I didn't have any reason to live'

From tear gas to Third Eye Blind, State Street's changing Halloween landscape

Witches of Whitewater: Fact or Fiction?

Foreign students face health-care barriers

Madison student-entrepreneur brings streetwear to campus

Independence is where the heart is

The hidden cost of an education

UW-Madison junior James Richardson scoffed when he checked his bank statement after he paid his last tuition bill. He found a total of $4 left in his account. Although frustrated with his depleted funds, he managed to muster a smile.

Road-tripping 2010: six alternative stops in the Midwest you can't pass by

House on the Rock Spring Green, Wisc.

Decoding L-O-V-E

Create online profile? Check. Upload photo? Check. Fill out personality questionnaire? Check. Mail in cheek swab sample? Huh?

Closer than you think

Of the sexual assaults reported last year at UW-Madison, more than 60 percent of the victims were attacked by someone they knew.

Sunny with a chance of cutting costs

After pounding through papers, projects and midterms into mid-March, there is only one thing on any college student's mind: spring break.

College ready with no senior year?

Friday night football games, skip days, prom, applying to colleges . These are typical highlights that make the senior year of high school most memorable. However, while some kick up the effort a notch for this final year, others bask in thoughts of graduation and essentially take the academic year off.

Searching for buried hope: UW students work to keep Haiti fresh in our minds

The latest estimated death toll from Haiti's recent earthquake is 212,000, according Haiti's prime minister. The United Nations has reported that more than 300,000 are injured and three million have been affected worldwide by the earthquake.

Cutting Edge Science at the Bottom of the World

In one of the coldest places on Earth, UW-Madison scientists are building the world's largest telescope to search for some of the universe's smallest particles.

Addicted to Energy

Sales of energy drinks are expected to grow at an annual rate of 12 percent and exceed $9 billion by 2011, according to a recent study by the research publisher Packaged Facts. These figures are up from $1.2 billion in 2002, according to a recent article in the Progressive Grocer.

Balancing Science and Ethics

For 17 years, researcher Ei Terasawa restrained rhesus monkeys and left them fully conscious while repeatedly pumping deadly chemicals into their exposed brains. It wasn't until the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) discovered that a neglected monkey had accidentally died under her care that her push-pull perfusion experiment was put on hold and the treatment of primates in lab settings was reevaluated.