Month: February 2020

Every graduation ceremony is rich with personal stories. Here are just a few from this year’s winter graduates.

Keynote speaker Jason Gay, the sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a 1992 UW–Madison graduate in political science, stressed the messiness of life. Eleven years ago, he got sacked from Rolling Stone magazine. Read his …

UW–Madison conferred 1,770 degrees Sunday to undergraduate, graduate and professional school students. About two-thirds of those students, or 1,200, took part in the ceremony at the Kohl Center. Many others will participate in spring commencement …

Family and friends packed the Kohl Center on Dec. 15 to celebrate with 1,200 graduates taking part in winter commencement exercises. See the photos here.

As the student speaker at UW–Madison’s winter commencement, Lisa Kamal has made an impact far beyond the 7,379 people who heard her at the Kohl Center Dec. 15. Videos of Lisa’s speech have been viewed more …

It’s a rite of passage for UW–Madison graduates, wearing their graduation gowns, to pose for a photo on the lap of the Abraham Lincoln statue atop Bascom Hill. With the Dec. 15 commencement ceremony less …