Earlier this year, Dr. Avtar Roopra, a professor of neuroscience at UW-Madison, published research that shows a drug typically used to treat arthritis halts brain-damaging seizures in mice that have a condition similar to epilepsy. The treatment could be used to provide relief for a subset of people with epilepsy who don’t get relief from other current treatments.
A new independent study by the University of Wisconsin found that preschool-aged children who used the Toniebox showed 32% higher emergent literacy scores compared to those who didn’t. The randomized control study focused on kids ages 3–5 and measured literacy gains over time.
In Wisconsin, Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined more than a dozen multistate lawsuits seeking to push back against the Trump administration. The American Association of Universities, a national association that UW-Madison belongs to, also finds itself in the midst of multiple legal battles with the administration.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professors have joined their colleagues at Big Ten schools to formally say they’re frustrated by the Trump administration’s cuts to research funding and efforts to dictate policy on campus.
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The award-winning UW-Madison Odyssey Project is graduating its 22nd cohort tonight during a ceremony from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Great Hall in the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus.
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) this April, five University of Wisconsin-Madison students partnered with University Health Services (UHS) to organize a ‘What Were You Wearing?’ art installation, an effort to challenge victim-blaming toward sexual assault survivors.
Millions around the world have grieved Pope Francis’ passing, but for the many University of Wisconsin-Madison students studying abroad in Rome — and throughout Italy — his death has hit closer to home.
The 22nd class of UW Madison’s Odyssey Project walked the stage in Great Hall at UW-Memorial Union for graduation Wednesday afternoon.
A first-generation student will earn his law degree at UW–Madison, writing a new chapter not just for himself but for generations to come.
“Being a first-generation law student is just, you know, being the foundation for your family, being the foundation for my future kids, hopefully,” said UW–Madison law student Thomas Kozlovsky.
North Randall Avenue between Campus Drive and West Dayton Street will close starting Monday, the City of Madison said in a statement Wednesday.
Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney Wednesday, signaling that cardinals failed to elect a new pope in their first round of voting — perhaps reflecting the diverse opinions about who should lead the Catholic Church next.
Dr. Ryan Spencer is an OB/GYN at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He says the state is in a maternal health care crisis, in part due to years without Medicaid expansion.
“I think we’re actually in the long-term impacts of having not addressed those for decades,” he said. “Any expansion to Medicaid is highly likely in any given area or state to improve access that women have to prenatal care, intrapartum care, and postpartum care.”
In an Instagram story, Li Chiao-Ping Dance noted that its production of “Dirty Laundry” — a “multimedia dance theater work that explores Asian American identity, culture and historical events including the Stop Asian Hate movement” — no longer qualifies either. Produced by University of Wisconsin-Madison dance professor Li Chiao-Ping’s company, which is a resident of Overture Center, “Dirty Laundry” had been granted $15,000 over two years.
“This is a major setback to us all,” the company wrote, “but it won’t keep us down. I know we will all create the work anyway.”
The best season of University of Wisconsin women’s hockey had one of the best averages for crowd size at LaBahn Arena.
The Badgers averaged 1,656 ticket scans for home games en route to the 2025 NCAA championship. That was the third-best average for games at LaBahn since it opened in 2012.
Birders, hikers, anglers and hunters are out and about enjoying nature this spring. Retired wildlife ecologist Scott Craven tells us what they’re encountering. Then, we talk to two UW-Madison Extension geologists about a new map of Wisconsin.
In the woman’s case, a contingent of supporters just want to fight cancel culture, said Franciska Coleman, an assistant professor of law at University of Wisconsin Law School, who has written about cancel culture and social regulation of speech. For some it can include donating “to everyone who they in quotes try to ‘cancel.’”
Some people are focused on how “it just seems too much that this mother of two young kids is getting death threats and rape threats,” Coleman said.
The ornate Royal Thai Pavilion & Garden was a gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the Thai government. Along with the pavilion, the Thai garden features large leafed shrubs and bamboos, all giving the area a tropical look.
Now, she says, the two boys could not be more different: One is the social chair of his fraternity at the huge University of Wisconsin, while his other attends a school of 400 where “they basically study ancient Greek and read Aristotle.” And, she adds, “we’ll never know: Were they reacting to each other, or did they just come out that way, and all the parenting in the world wasn’t going to make them more similar?”
