Pink flamingos blanketed the front lawn of UW-Madison’s Bascom Hill on Friday, each ornament in the grass representing a donation toward the record-breaking total of $737,849 brought in by the annual fundraiser.
October 13, 2025
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Research
UW-Madison pioneers cancer detection research
According to University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Zachary Morris, the university has experts in nearly every area of a rising field of cancer research called theranostics.
Morris, a faculty member at the School of Medicine and Public Health and Chair of the Department of Oncology, leads the UW-Madison Initiative for Theranostics and Particle Therapy. He told The Daily Cardinal the theranostics field has quickly been gaining traction over the past decade, and UW-Madison is poised to be at the forefront.
Most Wisconsin schools protect students from discrimination against everything but this.
A study of Wisconsin school board policies has found that nearly all districts have policies protecting students from discrimination based on sexual orientation and the vast majority protect students from discrimination based on gender identity.
“I don’t think there’s enough work that describes the environment that we’re in. But then the project gained some urgency when we started hearing from educators across the state about the need for some sort of description of the state of guidance affecting teachers and students,” said Mollie McQuillan, lead author of the school board policy research and an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at UW-Madison.
Wisconsin joins clinical trial to see if AI can catch more breast cancer cases
The trial, led by the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Davis will look at hundreds of thousands of mammograms at UW Health and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s medical school, as well as academic medical centers in four other states. Wisconsin researchers say it’s an important foray into better understanding both the potential benefits and drawbacks of using AI in cancer screenings.
Campus life
UW-Madison hosts annual Homecoming Parade
University of Wisconsin-Madison community members, student organizations, alumni and local companies joined together for an evening of celebration and togetherness at Friday’s annual Homecoming Parade.
28 ejected, 16 arrested during Iowa’s rout of Badgers, police say
UW-Madison police reported that 28 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 16 were arrested during Saturday’s Badgers game against Iowa.
A sellout crowd quietly watched as Iowa routed Wisconsin 37-0.
Effigy mounds on UW-Madison campus get national historic nod
Dugout canoes discovered in Lake Mendota have been getting much attention in recent years, but a series of burial mounds on the lake’s shoreline are now getting their turn.
The Wisconsin Historical Society has announced that a grouping of burial mounds on the UW-Madison campus has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Arts & Humanities
This geologist gives new life to animal bones
Woznick traces his love of nature back to middle school, when he joined an after-school nature club. On Wednesday afternoons, the group would walk to Warner Park and learn about the plants and animals living there. That nascent fascination would inform Woznick’s career path: He double-majored in geology and environmental studies as an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before completing a master’s degree in geoscience at Utah State University.
Health
WHYsconsin: Where can kids get the 2025 COVID vaccine?
Dr. Jim Conway, the medical director at UW Health’s immunization program, said some pharmacies may be concerned about a state law which generally requires a prescription before a pharmacist administers a vaccine to someone under 6 years old. Even so, Conway said the state directive was intended to clear that up, by specifying that prescriptions aren’t required for the COVID vaccine.
“It’s not just flipping a switch,” Conway said. “We had to get vaccine ordered and get it shipped in and then get it distributed to the clinics. So that was happening … and then everything was finally in place and we were ready to go. We’re very excited.”
Athletics
Time to end enormous buyouts for UW coaches
Remember when the Badgers football team competed for the Big Ten championship and a trip to the Rose Bowl? If so, your memory would have to go back a few years. Remember when the Badgers lost to a so-so, 20th ranked Michigan team by 14 points and that was considered a moral victory? You’d have to think all the way back to last Saturday for that one. It might be fresher in your mind.
Obituaries
Dr. Ralph Andreano
Ralph’s professional career began in Cambridge, Mass. as assistant-professor at the Harvard School of Business. He then went on to Earlham College in Richmond, IN, for a professorship, and finally to UW-Madison as professor of economics from 1965-1997.