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Why Wisconsin?

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Why Wisconsin? UW–Madison’s vibrant, interdisciplinary campus arts culture attracts students and professors from around the world. But don’t just take our word for it. By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts They come for the lakes, and those starburst chairs coloring the Terrace at Memorial Union in John Deere green, Allis Chalmers orange, and sunshine yellow. They come …

Connected by Common Threads

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Four Textiles & Fashion Design students are back in Wisconsin after a new internship in Vietnam reconnected them to the Hmong diaspora. By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts This summer, four UW–Madison School of Human Ecology students stepped off the plane into the extreme humidity of Hanoi, Vietnam, more than 24 hours into a journey …