As artificial intelligence infiltrates nearly all facets of society, an education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is no exception. While professors use AI to provide accessible materials, they want their students to understand how to use AI tools without circumventing learning.
Artificial intelligence is powering breakthroughs in everything from health care to climate science, but each new discovery comes with a cost: significant energy. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are asking a new question — how can this powerful technology be more sustainable?
The University of Wisconsin is implementing a national pluralism grant this year to support staff and faculty in addressing antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus, according to an emailed statement from UW Student Affairs.
The grant will provide support for a project titled “Pluralism Cohort Initiative for Senior Leadership in Student Affairs” over the course of the 2025-2026 school year, using the work of a cohort of 20 senior administrators at UW, according to SA’s statement.
Chris McIntosh is doubling down on the most significant decision of his tenure as the University of Wisconsin’s athletic director.
Luke Fickell will return as the Badgers’ football coach in 2026, McIntosh told BadgerExtra in an interview Thursday morning. BadgerExtra reported after Wisconsin’s loss to Ohio State on Oct. 18 that McIntosh met with the team that week and players’ takeaway from that meeting was that Fickell’s job was safe. McIntosh spoke to the team again Thursday after practice to ensure players knew Fickell was staying put.
Right now, the fall colors are reaching their peak. And it turns out our weather has a lot to do with the foliage we enjoy. The Weather Guys return to talk about the leaves, Great Lakes water temperatures, how weather forecasting has changed over the years and more.
The debate over daylight savings “misses a key ecological perspective,” says UW-Madison lecturer Rachelle Wilson Tollemar. Humans, like the natural world, require brighter and darker times of the year to properly function. “We are beings who also need winter to rest and summer to bloom,” she says.
November 10 marks a tragic chapter in Great Lakes history. The freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a vicious storm on Lake Superior, taking 29 crew members with her.
For many in Wisconsin, the day is more than a passing anniversary; it’s a reminder of how powerful the lakes can be.
There are two types of artificial intelligence, Sendhil Mullainathan argued to a sold-out crowd Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
One kind can do everything that the smartest people can do. That sounds ambitious, he said, until you realize “we already have things that can do what people can do — people.”
The other kind of AI, Mullainathan said, can do what even the smartest people cannot.
