Month: April 2026

A perfect storm

How students teamed up with professors from Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Mead Witter School of Music to transform Wisconsin weather into musical performance.  By Julia Walkowicz, Division of the Arts When Molly McKellar saw an email inviting students to turn Wisconsin weather data into composed music, the opportunity felt too perfect to pass up.  …

Beneath the airwaves

Three UW–Madison Communication Arts students exemplify the unseen labor powering the ‘best college radio station in the country.’ By Ted Hyngstrom, Division of the Arts Flip the dial to 91.7 FM, and you’ll likely hear one of the 230 volunteer radio hosts that power WSUM — the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s student-led radio station, named best college station …

Flow State

Design students weave together the state’s waterways, two cultural tours, and the Wisconsin Idea to create the textile gifts that keep on giving. By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts, with Lauren Goulette This is a story about water.  Deep underground, thousands of years of glacial melt joined with thriving watersheds and steady rain to …