The University of Wisconsin–Madison will receive five awards ranging from $500,000 to $750,000 to support projects that seek to address the nation’s most important energy, scientific, and engineering challenges.
The grant awards, aimed at advancing nuclear energy, critical mineral extraction and commercial fusion energy, were announced July 22 by the U.S. Department of Energy during the first annual Genesis Mission Summit in Washington, D.C.
Five top administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are named in a lawsuit involving former Gov. Scott Walker targeting race-based scholarships.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Walker’s organization — Young America’s Foundation — and Citizens Defending Liberty filed the suit Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court.
A conservative legal group celebrated last month when the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled a state grant program aimed at helping students of color attend college was unconstitutional. Now, the group is targeting a similar program for Universities of Wisconsin students.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Waukesha County Circuit Court against five administrators at UW-Madison, including interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots and Provost John Zumbrunnen.
A trip to your local farmers market may be doing more than filling reusable bags with fresh produce. New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison shows those visits are also helping build a stronger, more connected community.
The study, published in Information, Communication & Society, found that people who regularly attend farmers markets report higher levels of community participation. They also have a stronger sense of belonging than those who rarely or never attend.
IV hydration businesses have emerged at the intersection of several consumer trends that have accelerated over the last decade, particularly the growth of the health and wellness industry, said Dan Olszewski, director of UW-Madison’s Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship.
Nuclear fusion startup Realta Fusion will begin construction on their research and development facility and corporate headquarters in OM Station, a former Oscar Mayer plant on Madison’s north side, by the end of this year. The project will receive up to $55 million in financial incentives from the city and state.
Realta plans to create over 600 new jobs and will look to UW-Madison as a major “talent pipeline,” Kieran Furlong, CEO and co-founder of Realta Fusion, told The Daily Cardinal.
UW Health is making radiology treatments easier for kids, using a new imaging machine that’s only available at a few hospitals worldwide.
It’s part of the new pediatric interventional radiology suite at the American Family Children’s Hospital, which began taking patients in June.
Interventional radiology is a growing subspecialty that uses medical imaging, such as MRI, ultrasound, CT scans and fluoroscopy (X-rays), to perform minimally invasive surgeries.
Today, UW Health officially began offering proton therapy at Eastpark Medical Center.
The new treatment gives patients with cancer access to a highly precise form of radiation therapy designed to target tumors while limiting radiation exposure to nearby healthy tissue.
This milestone is meaningful to patients and team members alike at UW Health, according to Dr. Zachary Morris, professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and radiation oncologist at the UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center.
Wisconsin volleyball has unveiled the lineup for its annual Alumni Match, bringing a group of former Badgers back to the UW Field House on Saturday, Aug. 8.
The program says 13 alumni will face the 2026 Wisconsin roster in a best-of-five match scheduled to start at 6 p.m. CT.
Question: Is wildfire season getting longer?
Answer: Wildfires are an important part of many ecosystems and an essential part of forest and rangeland health.
Gardening season is in full bloom in Wisconsin, but while your perennials and their pollinators are peaking, so too are those nasty plant diseases that can filter into your flowers and victimize your vegetables.
Brian Hudelson, the director of the University of Wisconsin Extension’s Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic, recently joined Jill Nadeau on WPR’s “Garden Talk” to discuss what ailments may be plaguing your plants.
