The UW Board of Regents approved the Universities of Wisconsin’s operating and capital budget requests Thursday, which include plans to freeze tuition for two years, raze a prominent UW-Madison building and get the campus its first new dorm in more than a decade.
Hospital costs in Wisconsin are about 26% higher than in Illinois, according to a new study comparing the two states, but a hospital trade association questions the report’s methods and disputes its conclusions.
The reason for the difference isn’t certain, says the report’s co-author, University of Wisconsin economist Anthony Lo Sasso. But he says it could be because most metro areas in the state have one dominant hospital and healthcare system.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison would receive an additional $260 million in state funding, and in-state students would experience a tuition freeze if state lawmakers greenlight the UW system’s budget plans for the next two years.
Kenosha residents have three upcoming chances to donate blood and help the University of Wisconsin–Madison defend its title in the Abbott and Big Ten Conference We Give Blood Drive competition — and each city-sponsored drive comes with a free UW hat and a Culver’s coupon for a pint of custard.
“She is the smallest surviving baby by weight at 355 grams to graduate from our NICU. She makes history,” Dr. Claudette Onyelobi said.
Dr. Onyelobi, who is affectionately known as “Dr. O,” is UW Health Kids Neonatologist and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Onyelobi is also the Director of Small Baby Care at American Family Children’s Hospital and UnityPoint Health-Meriter.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department was prepared for a loss of football season ticket buyers for the 2026 season.
The numbers after two straight losing seasons, however, are striking.
Wisconsin’s season ticket base for 2026 is down more than 7,000 compared to the year before. It’s off more than 11,000 over 2023.
The UW Cinematheque returns with regular free showings for its fall series starting Thursday, Aug. 27, after its summer screenings were canceled due to campus cooling problems.
Have you ever wondered which Wisconsin high school has the highest success rate at getting into the state flagship? Or how many students from your alma mater apply to the University of Wisconsin-Madison?
In an effort to be more transparent, UW-Madison has published this data. Covering the state’s high school graduating class in 2024-25, the dashboard shows how many public high school students graduated from each school, how many of the graduates applied to UW-Madison, how many were admitted and how many enrolled.
Interim chancellor Eric Wilcots and founding dean of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence (CAI) Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau presented a measured view of artificial intelligence in higher education at a Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association (WFAA) virtual panel on August 18.
Wilcots and Arpaci-Dusseau both said students should be AI competent when they graduate, but that UW-Madison needs to handle AI’s pervasiveness in college life: cracking down on take-home assessments while navigating emptier classrooms and a “silent spring” on Piazza, a popular classroom forum and social networking tool, as students increasingly turn to chatbots.
prominent UW-Madison professor and expert in artificial intelligence has resigned after an investigation found he violated a university policy on consensual relationships.
Life Sciences Communication professor Dietram Scheufele also failed in his faculty responsibilities, including maintaining honesty and integrity, university spokesperson Gillian Drummond said. His departure, part of a settlement agreement, follows an investigation completed in September 2025 into complaints filed by three female students, including accusations of sexual harassment and hostile and intimidating behavior. His last day was Aug. 15.
