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Meet Carolee Dodge Francis, the first Native woman to chair a department at UW–Madison
For the last 30 years, Carolee Dodge Francis has held influential roles in public health and health education in Native American communities and higher education. Now she is adding another first to her career as the first Native woman to chair a department on the UW–Madison campus.
Q&A: UW–Madison’s Emmett Lockwood is breaking barriers in the pool
Emmett Lockwood, 19, is the first openly transgender athlete on the University of Wisconsin-Madison men's water polo team and proud of it. But it hasn’t been an easy journey.
Task force submits ideas for improving campus climate based on student survey results
In its report, the Campus Climate Survey Task Force offers dozens of varied recommendations that fall into six broad categories.
Material objects tell stories – we just have to listen
Keynote speaker Tiya Miles discussed her book “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake,” a poignant story of resilience and of love passed down through generations of women against steep odds.

Diversity Forum 2022
We look forward to welcoming you to the 2022 UW–Madison Diversity Forum on Nov. 14 & 15. Registration is still open to attend the conference virtually. A tradition with more than 20 years of history on the UW–Madison campus, the conference is free and open to the public.
Public History Project Exhibit
The Public History Project exhibition, "Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance," is free and open to the public at the Chazen Museum of Art now through Dec. 23.