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sailboats peacefully floating on Lake Mendota What’s your #MyBadgerSummer story?

Welcome to Summer Term 2024! Get ready to be inspired by these Summer Term students and design your own summer that includes a Badger experience and meeting academic goals.

Two students stand facing the camera, smiling for a photo in front of two large elephants. A clear blue sky and large mountain full of lush greenery stand in the background behind students and the elephants. Animal sciences student packs summer with hands-on experience

Read how an animal sciences student designed her Summer Term to include coursework, study abroad, research and volunteering.

Union Terrace landscape at sunset Share your Summer Term story with #MyBadgerSummer

Welcome to UW–Madison Summer Term 2023! Let us know how you’re using Summer Term with #MyBadgerSummer on your social media channels.

Sara Kaska holding a red Badger t-shirt and cup and smiling Meet a Summer Term student who’s full of heart

This rising junior with a double major is keeping busy this summer with research, work and a Summer Term course in Spanish. She’s learning a lot about cardiovascular health through her job with UW Health and in a lab.

bascom hall framed by red and white zinnias in the foreground Chancellor’s column features benefits of Summer Term

Read Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s comments about how UW-Madison Summer Term can help students stay on track for graduation and stay connected.

headshot of Paige Lesier in summer term template Internship provides professional experience, alumni connections

UW-Madison senior and Summer Term student Paige Leiser shares her experience interning with the Wisconsin in Washington DC program.

students and professor standing outside around an outdoor kiln Students recreate ancient artifacts in summer anthropology course

Anthropology 352: Ancient Technology and Invention is a Summer Term course that explores the impact of key prehistoric and preindustrial inventions on the course of human evolution.

Sarah Candee holding a blue ribbon in her equestriam clothing Summer Term helps Badger athlete find balance

Through UW-Madison Summer Term, Senior Badger athlete Sarah Candee juggles travel, sport and school with grace and enthusiasm.

close-up photo of colorful jelly beans Online lab instructors teach food science and kinesiology with candy and games

If you think hands-on learning isn’t possible in an online course, think again. Over the past few years, UW–Madison instructors have developed engaging lab-based courses…

illustration of sun glasses in front of blue sky with "summer" inside of them and "It's great to see you" at the bottom Welcome to Summer Term! Get your virtual summer backgrounds

Summer Term 2020 is exclusively online . If you were hoping to join us on campus, this is probably not the way you imagined things…

Bucky Badger Chancellor recaps a successful Summer Term

Chancellor Rebecca Blank reflected on what made Summer Term 2019 great in her most recent Blank’s Slate blog . “Summer Term enrollments in 2019 were…

campers at Easter Seals respite camp in a swimming pool with nursing student, all smiling New nursing immersion program offers students meaningful, hands-on experience at respite camp

Katie Dowdy spent part of her UW–Madison Summer Term at summer camp. But it wasn’t all s’mores and swimming. As a student in a summer…

flags blowing above old buildings UW Study Abroad Summer Launch lets student start travel adventures early

By the time Matthew Olson sets foot on Bascom Hill for the first time as a freshman, he will have been taking a UW–Madison class…

Yoga on Bascom Hill Five exciting yet practical summer courses

Summer Term is an ideal time to expand your horizons. Here are five summer courses—some of which are new for 2019—that will do just that.…

Bucky Badger Welcome to Summer Term 2019

Say hello to Summer Term 2019! With over 1,000 courses , an ice cream social, study parties, and much more, it’s shaping up to be…

Travel back in time with these vintage Summer Term photos

UW–Madison summer courses have existed almost as long as the university itself. Here’s a glimpse of Summer Term throughout the 20th century featuring photos from…