UW-Madison researchers are “paving the way for scalable and practical” quantum computing by using advanced sensors to improve the technology.
That’s according to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which is touting the approach as a top licensing prospect in its portfolio of engineering and computer science research from the university.
UW-Madison researchers are calling the Trump administration’s plan to rewrite the rules for awarding and managing federal grants “catastrophic” and “a dagger to the heart of science.”
Those are among a flood of nearly 500,000 public comments from researchers and higher education groups over the last few months, overwhelmingly opposing the Office of Management and Budget’s proposal released in late May.
Starship Technologies has withdrawn its tiny, white food delivery robots from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus alongside other universities in the United States, the company announced early June.
The robot delivery company, based in Estonia and San Francisco, said they reduced their campus operations to focus on retail grocery chains and hot food delivery in cities across Europe and the United States.
A man accused of poisoning a UW lab worker earlier this year is heading to trial, online records show.
Makoto Kuroda, 41, is charged with second-degree recklessly endangering safety and tampering with household products. The charges stem from an April 5 incident in which Kuroda allegedly contaminated his coworker’s belongings with toxic chemicals.
For Leah Nordin, the transition from Shawano High School to the University of Wisconsin has meant a new campus, new teammates and a new level of basketball.
The Shawano native arrived in Madison on June 7 as part of Wisconsin’s incoming freshman class and has spent the last month getting acclimated to college life while preparing for her first season with the Badgers.
It turns out Shawn Eichorst isn’t the only athletic director in town with good intentions and a plan to put student-athletes in the best possible position to succeed.
This past week, Eichorst officially took over the University of Wisconsin athletic program, a 23-sport Big Ten enterprise that casts a long shadow over the community.
Astronomers have found a pair of the lightest giant planets known in the universe in a star system about 1,100 light-years away, according to a new study.
The discovery of these two gas giants, which are less dense than cotton candy, will help astrophysicists better understand the most extreme and unusual ways planets can form.
Now that UW-Madison police have cut ties with Flock Safety, privacy advocates and others on campus say the community needs to be more involved in deciding which automated license plate readers, if any, the department uses in the future.
When eight of the company’s cameras first appeared on campus in July 2025, many people were taken by surprise, said Annette Zimmermann, a UW-Madison data science professor.
