A new report from the CROWE Center at UW–Madison reveals growing hospital market concentration across Wisconsin, pointing to an intensifying healthcare affordability crisis. Analyzing inpatient hospital discharges between 2018 and 2025, researchers found that seven of Wisconsin’s eight hospital referral regions are now highly concentrated.
As winter approaches, Wisconsin homeowners should prioritize yard cleanup, composting, bulb care, watering and proper pruning to protect their landscapes from cold weather.
Although mild fall temperatures may make winter seem distant, time is running short, especially in northern Wisconsin.
Bruce Spangenberg, horticulture outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, recommends focusing on cleaning up garden spaces and preparing plants for the colder months ahead.
Mapping tells stories—stories that share, challenge, and recover knowledge and narratives. The story of this map began in the fall of 2023, when I (Keeler), a scholar of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS), approached Gareth Baldrica-Franklin, a Ph.D. candidate in Geography with expertise in cartography, to make an interactive map (featured below) to supplement my book project on American Indians and the Homestead Act.
The Associated Students of Madison called a special order in their Wednesday meeting where University Health Services announced two surveys running in the spring that will cover topics including sexual violence, campus climate and students’ mental heath.
These surveys will need a large response rate in order for the results to be reliable and representative of the University of Wisconsin campus, Assistant Director of Violence Prevention at UHS Sam Bowen said.
W-Madison is reminding students and employees of its mental health resources after a man died Tuesday afternoon at an off-campus building at the corner of North Park and Regent streets.
The university wrote in a statement that officials are aware some members of the campus community “may have witnessed or been affected by a loss of life” near campus on Tuesday.
An upcoming rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison aims to support survivors of sexual assault and demand changes as the campus reckons with the fallout of reports of sexual assault on its campus and that of Cornell University.
Sophie Harrison is a senior at UW-Madison and is organizing Friday’s “Badgers Against Sexual Assault” rally. She told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” the rally is a space to provide resources and share stories with others.
Current and former staff shared concerns about the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s merger of botany and integrative biology departments into a new Department of Biology on July 1 — including layoffs, mistrust of a botany department administrator and worries the merged department would lower the focus on botany.
The department merge started from “an extensive shared governance process that began in Fall 2021,” according to an article by UW-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community members gathered at Library Mall to celebrate National Coming Out Day Oct. 9.
National Coming Out Day, which is celebrated Oct. 11, marked the 39th anniversary of the LGBTQ+ March on Washington, a protest that condemned the U.S. government’s lack of response to the AIDS epidemic. The Gender & Sexuality Campus Center (GSCC) commemorated the event with a “Coming Out” Door, a rainbow-colored door for attendees to sign. The door received over 145 signatures this year, according to Tiffany Lee, GSCC’s assistant director of Student Success.
