UW-Madison is building a new cyclotron particle accelerator, aimed at making the university a leader in the exploding field of theranostics and nuclear medicine, expanding research into and treatment of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students explored Science Hall’s rumored hauntings in an interactive haunted house experience Wednesday hosted by the Nelson Institute Ambassadors in collaboration with Japanese Student Association (JSA) and Intermission Theater.
Starting in 2013, the annual Fright Night gives Science Hall a frightening makeover, decorating the building with cobwebs, skeletons, candles and spiders while giving visitors a spooky self-guided tour of the building to celebrate Halloween and the building’s history.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host many free Halloween events around campus leading up to Oct. 31.
Starship delivery bots are already celebrating. Customized spooky robot themes are available now until Oct. 31, with personas of Count Snackula, Witchy Wheels, FrankenFeast, Hungry Haunter and Pumpkinbot available to choose. Robots will deliver speaking in-character.
A conference at the Monona Terrace in Madison focused on how to support caregivers for cancer patients.
Speakers at the annual Fall Cancer Conference touched on how families are impacted by cancer.
Kristin Litzelman, an associate professor at the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology, said family members of cancer patients may not recognize themselves as caregivers, so they may not realize they have access to resources to support them.
Dane County’s detoxification center has been a resource for police officers and sheriff’s deputies for nearly four decades. But at the end of 2025, without renewed talks between county officials and the company that runs it, that tool to handle the region’s intoxicated will be gone.
On Oct. 17, four police chiefs representing the Madison, Sun Prairie, Middleton and UW-Madison departments sent a letter to Dane County Executive Melissa Agard imploring her and county government to work out a deal to keep Tellurian Behavioral Health’s detox center open.
Charles Daniel (“Dan”) Cornwell was born in Williamsport, PA, on Dec. 27, 1924, son of John Gibson Cornwell, Jr., and Anna Moul Cornwell, the latter of Hanover, PA. Dan joined the Chemistry faculty of UW-Madison in 1952. His best-known research was a study of the iodine and chlorine resonances in the nuclear quadrupole resonance spectrum of crystalline alkali chloroiodides.
UW-Madison leaders want to hear a variety of viewpoints on campus.
