Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the nation’s top research institutions, are wary of potential cuts to funding under the Trump administration that they warn could slow their work and delay new treatments for cancer and other diseases.
UW-Madison has eyed the demise of the Humanities building for the last decade, when leaders developed the current campus master plan, a wide-ranging road map for new developments and renovations, in 2015.
“We weren’t trying to design the best protein bar ever.” said Audrey Girard, who is an assistant professor in food science at the university. “We were trying to figure out how these protein bars harden so that someone else could take this, and then design the best protein bar ever.”
Arnold Alanen is a professor emeritus of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he researched the history of sauna structures. Alanen told “Wisconsin Today” that as a Finnish American, sauna has been a way of life for him from the beginning. He said he was first brought into a sauna as a very young baby, and then he caught on to the ritual when he was about 8 years old, living on his grandparents’ farm in Minnesota.
“The weekly sauna tradition was something that we did on our farm, just without interruption. We would do it every Saturday evening,” he said. “It became such an integral part of my life, as well as of our family.”
Since last summer, senior managers have hired technicians, and scientists from the University of Wisconsin and Cornell University have completed rotations at the lab, Ontiveros said.
John Rosenow, a fifth-generation farmer in Waumandee, Wisconsin, owns more than 900 acres and over 600 dairy cows. He said about 90% of the work on the farm is done by immigrants.
Those immigrants include Kevin, who was born in central Mexico and crossed the U.S. southern border illegally when he was 18. Now 21, Kevin, who did not provide his last name during an interview with CBS News, is among the 11 million undocumented migrants living in the U.S. More than 10,000 of them work on Wisconsin dairy farms, according to a report by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In a University of Wisconsin study published in September 2017, 1 in 10 registered voters in Milwaukee County and Madison’s Dane County who did not cast a ballot in 2016 cited the voter ID law as a reason why.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers received a $5.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy on Jan. 10 to study methods to reduce synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use in crops.
Financially troubled Northland College will close at the end of the school year.
The college Board of Trustees announced the closing Wednesday. The small liberal arts college in Ashland has been facing a possible shut-down since early 2024. Last March, school leaders said they would need to raise millions of dollars to stay open.
Additionally, the district’s M-Cubed program is helping high school students start teaching degrees. A new partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison pays prospective special education teachers.
Written by Xueli Wang, the Barbara and Glenn Thompson Endowed Professor in Educational Leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With a focus on community colleges and postsecondary STEM education, her research examines educational practices, structures and policies that promote students’ holistic well-being and equitable access, experiences and outcomes.
The future of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s diversity-based scholarships are in doubt after a U.S. Department of Education decision Friday ordered schools to eliminate race-based programs.
Northland College, a private, liberal arts college in Ashland, just miles from Lake Superior, is closing its doors at the end of the school year, its board of trustees announced Wednesday.
With district officials poised to reject the proposal, McKenzie is pursuing a charter agreement with the UW Office of Educational Opportunity. UW will make its decision by May.
For many University of Wisconsin-Madison students, the beginning of September is a time to reacclimate themselves to Madison before classes start and take advantage of the remainder of summer to enjoy campus. But some say the first day of classes, usually the middle of the week after Labor Day, arrives too late.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Shayyah studies how other countries have started over after oppression — how they rebuild the economy, infrastructure and culture. He’d like to start his own humanitarian organization that will help war-torn countries recover, through education for children and young adults.
“ I don’t know if I’m alone in this, but I find it very hard to think about anything else at the moment,” the best-selling author told a packed crowd of students and community members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Shannon Hall on Tuesday.
“We’re right in the midst of it. There’s no glimmer at this point whatsoever that it’s starting to go down,” said Dr. James Conway, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Global Health Institute.
“It’s going to be a blockbuster,” said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a state where a Democrat controls the governor’s mansion and Republicans hold the legislative majority, the state Supreme Court “is the center of the action,” he said. “It’s become a place where a lot of hot-button issues people care about get decided.”
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health began teaching courses on firearm safety in January 2023. The courses were started and are taught by clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Dr. James Bigham.
The last time the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board considered a routine, one-year contract extension for a head football coach who just had a losing season was 23 years ago.
Co-authored by Suzanne Eckes, the Susan S. Engeleiter Professor of Education Law, Policy and Practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Right now she is extremely healthy in comparison to where she was before,” UW Veterinary Care Dr. Vanessa Bruneau said. Dr. Bruneau has been on Poppy’s case from the beginning. “We definitely had some moments where we weren’t sure if she was going to be there for us.”
Across the country, fewer students of all demographics are attending college — in the University of Wisconsin System only UW-Madison and UW-La Crosse did not experience drops in enrollment and end the 2023 fiscal year in a budget deficit. Declining enrollment, years of stagnant tuition and waning state funding has led to system-wide budget cuts and closures of two-year branch campuses.
