In 2023, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Michigan researchers published a study that found that when people felt positively about “doing their own research,” they were more likely to believe misinformation about the pandemic and to mistrust scientific institutions in general.
May 2, 2025
Research
Higher Education/System
What to know about ‘involuntary collections’ if you’re a student loan borrower
Experts’ main advice is to be proactive and act now. “All of the responsibility is on the borrower,” says Nicholas Hillman, professor in the school of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But there are options out there for borrowers.
Campus life
Protesters in Milwaukee and Madison rally for worker and immigrant rights
“There are crackdowns on our livelihoods, our communities, our families,” said a speaker who identified himself as a University of Wisconsin-Madison student whose family is from Nicaragua. “These are echoes of the past.
Three assembly members form Wisconsin’s first Legislative Asian Caucus
Maydev is the first South Asian elected to the Assembly and represents the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and other parts of the state’s capital city. She noted that her district is about 17% Asian American and she represents the highest concentration of Asian Americans in the state.
Wisconsin Union selling limited-edition mini terrace chairs to support UW-Madison food pantry
A new, limited-edition mini terrace chair will be sold to support the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s The Open Seat Food Pantry, the Wisconsin Union team announced on Thursday.
State news
FDA suspends milk quality testing
Leonard Polzin, a Dairy Markets and Policy Outreach specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joined on News 3 Now Live at Four on Thursday about whether you should be concerned.
Community
Local News Netflix documentary inspires visitation changes for inmates in Denver Jail
Julie Poehlmann with the University of Wisconsin-Madison said, “Positive parent–caregiver relationships are associated with more stability in children’s living arrangements when mothers are in prison, and relationship quality is related to parent–child contact as well.”
Arts & Humanities
Trump and many GOP lawmakers want to end all funding for NPR and PBS − unraveling a US public media system that took a century to build
Some of those professors believed so strongly in democratic access to media that they built radio stations with their own hands, including one at the University of Wisconsin. In other cases, professors experimented with performing live drama. Ohio State University broadcast the first educational radio Shakespeare performances in the late 1920s.
UW Experts in the News
The US government killed nearly 2 million wild animals last year. Why?
Niemeyer has described the instinct to blame livestock deaths on coyotes and wolves as “hysteria.” The roots of such hysteria trace back to America’s early European settlers, who believed (wrongly) that the eradication of wolves was necessary for livestock production, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental science professor Adrian Treves.
UW-Madison Related
One year later: UW-Madison’s pro-Palestine encampment in photos
One year ago today, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin authorized campus and local police to raid University of Wisconsin Madison’s pro-Palestine encampment on the third day.
‘Lost’ fumbling these 2 controversial characters still makes zero sense 18 years later
Audiences saw Ethan showing up on day one of the plane crash, wearing a T-shirt from the University of Wisconsin. He offered clothes to anyone who had lost their luggage and was just being a nice guy.