Applications to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s law school skyrocketed this fall and surpassed a national surge.
Leaders at the law school had noticed signs that applications could be up. They monitored how many people registered for the Law School Admission Test, or LSAT, among other indicators.
More than half of the Universities of Wisconsin’s two-year branch campuses in recent years have faced closures or significant structural changes to adapt to shrinking enrollment.
Since 2023, with the closure of UW-Platteville Richland, six branch campuses shuttered or plan to. One campus moved classes online and another is relocating instruction to a nearby technical college.
At 18 years old, Donovan Brendler found himself struggling to find his path in college and grappling with poor academic performance. Eight years later, in 2024, and with a greater sense of direction, he felt prepared to return to college.
That’s when Brendler learned about Badger Ready, a UW-Madison bridge program that provides a pathway to degree completion for adult students with academic barriers to traditional transfer admission. This discovery gave him a sense of empowerment and a renewed belief in his academic potential.
A group of UW–Madison students are fighting to stop cuts to the school’s American Sign Language program.
University Health Services presented a list of suggestions for UHS funding models to the Associated Students of Madison council Wed. night, discussing the future of funding of health services and the impact they will have on students, according to ASM.
Lab director talks accessibility for lab work, research for students.
Across University of Wisconsin campuses, 9.6% of enrolled students utilize disability services, a number that has grown by 95% in the past nine years, according to the 2023-24 Services for Students with Disabilities Annual Report.
The installation debuts on Thursday at the a2ru Conference 2025 at the Play Circle Theater in the Wisconsin Memorial Union. (A2ru is the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities, of which UW-Madison is a part.)
Madison Fire Department credited a fire sprinkler head for putting out most of a fire at the UW-Madison Discovery Building Thursday night.
At 11:15 p.m. firefighters arrived at the building on the 300 block of N. Orchard Street for a fire alarm going off.
MFD said an automatic fire sprinkler head detected the fire and turned on. The sprinkler head also triggered the building’s fire alarm.
Firefighters put out the rest of the fire with a two-and-a-half-gallon water can extinguisher.
A hamper full of kitchen rags and towels caught fire in the UW-Madison’s Discovery Building Thursday night, according to the Madison Fire Department
Firefighters were dispatched to the research center on campus around 11 p.m. Thursday after the building’s fire sprinkler system detected the burning laundry bin triggering the alarms.
The sprinkler system limited damage to a few items in and around the hamper and a nearby wall, before firefighters extinguished the remaining flames.
Solace Home’s residents have a life expectancy of six months or less. Residents arrive there after living on the street, in shelters or in unstable housing situations.
Catlett, 67, had been a nurse for 16 years before she went to medical school. Much of her nursing career was part time so she could also be somewhat of a stay-at-home mom. Then she did her four years of medical school at UW-Madison over six years and did her residency at UW, too. She got her undergraduate degree at Duke University.
Professor Emeritus Edris Makward passed away peacefully on October 9, 2025 at his home in Seattle at the age of 92, after several years of declining health. He served as the Department Chair of African Languages and Literature from 1971-1975, followed by serving as Chair of the University African Studies Program from 1977-78.
