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UW–Madison to name new Computer, Data & Information Sciences building for John and Tashia Morgridge

For the first time, a University of Wisconsin–Madison building will bear the name of John and Tashia Morgridge, alumni and visionary partners to UW–Madison, who have for decades made significant contributions to the university, beginning with a humble $10 gift in the 1960s.

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UW–Madison and Sandia National Laboratories expand strategic partnership

Earlier this month, UW–Madison and Sandia National Laboratories, the largest of the Department of Energy National Laboratories, celebrated the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the two institutions for a strategic partnership to sustain the future of science and engineering for national security.

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UW student with foreign policy ambitions receives esteemed Truman Scholarship

As an undergraduate majoring in economics and political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Pranav Krishnan has studied and researched some of the weightiest topics facing the world, from the rise of authoritarian regimes to the future of democratic institutions.

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A New Family Tree for Familiar Flowers

The story of how Thomas Givnish and his team of researchers reconstructed the rise, spread and species diversification of Calochortus, a large group of flowering plants in the lily family.

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