Looking Back

Looking Back is a review of people and events that helped shape the history of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Share your memories at quarterly@med.wisc.edu.

The TRIUMPH of a Dream   It began in 1974, the dream of an inner-city academic campus where minority medical students and other students interested in urban health could get training. Over 36 years, the School of Medicine and Public Health's Milwaukee Academic Campus (MAC) has gone through many transitions. Most recently, MAC has seen the culmination of the school's urban health education efforts with the creation of the Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health, or TRIUMPH, program. Read More

The Blue Bus: Dissent, Service and Learning   The escalation of the Vietnam War, the morals of the new left and the unrest on college campuses across the nation led to a major eruption of events in the late 1960s. The University of Wisconsin-Madison was not an exception. But while the UW Medical School was largely distanced from the chaos, a few students were consciously aware of the social problems on the streets of Madison, and decided to do something about it. Read More