University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear fusion startup Realta Fusion raised $36 million dollars with the hope of building the world’s first commercially viable and operating nuclear fusion device prototype by 2028.
We also found something we did not expect: a gender gap in how students respond to rising housing prices. University enrollment among male students drops sharply as housing costs rise. For female students, the pattern is different. In some cases, female enrollment actually increases, perhaps because women see education as a long-term investment worth making, even in tough times. But when tuition and housing costs rise together, even that resilience begins to falter.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is responding after the Trump administration announced plans on Wednesday to revoke visas from some Chinese international students.
This bill would require the University of Wisconsin System to contract with a vendor to provide virtual mental health services for students, beyond traditional business hours. Campuses have already utilized telehealth, lawmakers note.
“Telehealth services have proven to be effective in shortening waiting times to see a provider, and allow patients to receive care at their convenience,” bill authors wrote.
The College Possible coaches working in Wisconsin were among more than 34,000 people affected by billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, which made sweeping cuts to AmeriCorps in late April. AmeriCorps is a federal agency with bipartisan support for deploying young people across the U.S. to work on community service projects.
The University of Wisconsin System alone is seeking $855 million from the state Legislature in an effort to make branch campuses more viable and avoid tuition increases for in-state undergraduate students for the next two school years.
“I do not feel welcome anymore,” said Cao, a student of cognitive psychology at the University of Wisconsin, who was waiting at Seattle’s airport Thursday to board a flight home to China.
Cao spent eight years in the U.S. and once dreamed of staying as a professor. “Now it seems like that dream is falling apart,” he said. “It’s a good time to jump ship and think about what I can give back to my own country.”
University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh announced 12 inductees to the UW Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2025.
Among the more than 2,200 volunteers working behind the scenes is De Pere native Mia Fairbairn, now a college student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Though she’s not a golfer herself, Fairbairn said she jumped at the opportunity to be part of a major sporting event in her home state.
Czeslawski is on a gap year after graduating from the University of Wisconsin. “I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life so I came to San Francisco for the first time, for inspiration,” she said. “Anyone who comes here needs to set aside at least an hour or two,” added Czeslawki. “I’m really excited to look through the book collection. I’m looking for some Joan Didion.”
Carter will likely begin a rehab assignment Friday for his quadriceps injury. During his most recent IL stint, Seager, who was activated Wednesday, spent a day at the University of Wisconsin, which is a leader in hamstring injury research, consulting on changes he could make to his training.
“It’s a really exciting area of research,” says John Orrock, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was not involved in the study. “What’s key here is that it’s not whether you’ve got a deer in the headlights—and not so much even which headlights—but which deer you have in the headlights.”
