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When you join WAA, you’ll receive Badger Insider in your mailbox two times a year.
Badger Insider is an exclusive publication for members of WAA, featuring your campus memories, the UW’s rich history, and points of UW-Madison pride. Each issue captures the Badger experience, with stories and photos contributed by UW alumni themselves.

If You Want to Be a Badger
Thanks, WAA members, for sticking by the UW through this difficult year. Celebrate the new year with “If You Want to Be a Badger” by the UW Marching Band.
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Bolster Your Career. Build Your Community.
Jessica Pharm ’10 is empowering Black professionals to make their jobs work for them.
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Checking In: 2021 Hopes
This past year was a challenge for all of us, so let’s look ahead. What UW activity are you looking forward to in 2021?
Read More >Poll: Homecoming Virtual Events
This year’s Homecoming features virtual events. Which ones are you most looking forward to?
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Badgering: Shiloah Coley ’20
Shiloah Coley ‘20 is changing the world one brushstroke at a time.
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80 Facts about Bucky
Your favorite sweatered mustelid is turning 80 years old — we have no idea how old that is in badger years — but to celebrate a new decade of life, we’re taking a look back and sharing some of our favorite facts about Bucky Badger.
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Badgering: Jason Gay ’92
“This may be the most dramatically strange undertaking in the history of professional sports,” remarks Jason Gay ’92, who covers sports and life in his Wall Street Journal columns.
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How to Run from the Blues
Sports psychiatrist Claudia Reardon ’01, MD’06 offers insight on how to keep up mental health, even during a pandemic.
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Assigned Reading: Dietram Scheufele MA’97, PhD’99
John E. Ross Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Department of Life Sciences Communication.
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Bucky List: Top Five Influential Student Demonstrations
Sometimes Badgers abandon their “Midwest nice” reputation and fight for a cause they believe in.
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