The effects of the federal government’s cuts to UW-Madison’s research are coming into full view: $27 million lost in the last year from terminated or suspended grants.
On this day, Feb. 5, 1849, the first University of Wisconsin-Madison class met under the direction of professor John Sterling. The event is celebrated as Founder’s Day.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison attempted to strike a reassuring tone in the wake of a student contracting measles. While submitting immunization records to UW-Madison is voluntary, the available records indicated 95% of the campus is vaccinated against measles.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s continued and growing excellence will depend on either more state support or more flexibility, the school’s leader said Thursday.
“Now look, both would be best of all. But we deeply need, at a minimum, one or the other,” Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin told the Board of Regents, which oversees UW-Madison and Wisconsin’s 12 other state universities, at a campus meeting.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison began its three-day Winter Carnival Thursday with outdoor activities on campus.
Outdoor UW hosted a learn-to-skate session on Lake Mendota Thursday afternoon. People of all ages participated in the ice-skating activity.
hile house calls may seem to belong in the past, they’re trending upward at UW-Madison.
Wisconsin-based company Pivotal Health, which UW-Madison alumni Sal Braico and Pete Johnson launched, has, since 2021, brought nurse practitioners to patients’ living rooms — or dorms — to provide primary and urgent health care.
“It is arguably harder today in 2026 than at any other time in American history to sue federal officials for money damages if they violate your constitutional rights,” said Harrison Stark, senior counsel at the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
