Features

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'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.

An ever changing campus

The current Ogg Hall, located at the intersection of Dayton Street and Park Street, was built in 2007, with features the residents of ""Old Ogg"" lived without: more spacious bedrooms, central air conditioning, classrooms, kitchens on each floor, and updated security systems.  Old Ogg was originally built in 1965, and was torn down in Fall 2007. As with any building on campus that faces demolition, students who had ties to Old Ogg lost a part of their college experience when the building came down.

Who's ready for college?

Parents often say the high school diploma is no longer as valued as it was in the past, and insist that college is the best route to success. However, according to an August 2009 U.S. News and World Report article, 30 percent of university students drop out after their first year, and this alarming percentage could be linked to the lack of academic preparation given to high school students, which is essential to college graduation.

Early-bird sales fly in before Turkey Day

It was a tragic accident that should never have happened in the first place. On Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, over 2,000 people in line at the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y., surged through the doors in the early morning hours of a post-Thanksgiving sale. In the ensuing flood of aggressive and violent shoppers, a Wal-Mart temporary employee was trampled to death, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.