According to the most recent data, a University of Wisconsin-Madison School for Workers survey found 70% of the labor on Wisconsin dairy farms is performed by people living in the country illegally.
If your impression is that there are more female students than male students at UW-Madison, you’re not wrong.
In 2025, the university enrolled almost 1,000 fewer men (3,800) than women (4,744) as first-year students. Also, according to data from the university’s office of the registrar, male students are less likely to stay at the university and less likely to graduate on time than women.
“Data centers are a new issue that has not taken on a partisan edge in the public mind,” Barry Burden, a political science professor at UW-Madison, said. “This is likely to change because among politicians Democrats are more skeptical about data centers and Republicans are more enthusiastic about them. If this partisan divide continues or even becomes sharper, the public is likely to begin mimicking the positions taken by party leaders. But at least for a while the issue is likely to cut across party lines.”
The Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame has selected William Lunney, Keith McCaffery and Neil Paine as its 2026 induction class.
Payne grew up in Sheboygan County and was the first of his family to graduate from college, earning a bachelor of arts in zoology in 1961 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, master of science from Virginia Tech in 1964 and a doctorate in wildlife science from Utah State University in 1975 (dissertation on beaver).
Children’s Wisconsin and UW Health have stopped providing gender-affirming care treatments to minors, citing recent federal policy changes.
Both are among the state’s largest pediatric hospitals. Advocates fear the lack of access to gender-affirming treatments could lead to negative mental health effects for transgender youth.
Berndt received his MFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969. Since then, he’s traveled and lived in several different places and had several different jobs, including one as a taxidermist at the field museum in Chicago.
Red light therapy, sometimes called photobiomodulation, applies specific wavelengths of light (usually around 630 nanometers) onto your skin. These wavelengths can penetrate two to three millimeters below the skin, and cause positive reactions in the cells just under your skin, says Dr. Apple Bodemer, a board-certified dermatologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
There aren’t a lot of high-quality scientific studies available, and many of the red light therapy studies are funded by companies that make red light products, which should be taken with a grain of salt, says Bodemer. But there seems to be enough evidence that red light therapy may be helpful for some people, she says.
Co-authored by Tony LoSasso, the Robert F. and Sylvia T. Wagner Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her family still in Iran has chosen to join the latest wave of anti-government protests, which are largely focused on the country’s soaring inflation.
“There are very few people in the United States who can wrap their mind around an inflation rate of 42%,” said James Davis, a professor emeritus in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison.
Franciska Coleman, an assistant professor of constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said the First Amendment places firm limits on when speech can be treated as disorderly conduct.
Coleman said courts usually look for evidence of incitement – a call for immediate lawless action – before speech can be punished as disorderly conduct.
“Here, there’s no advocacy of lawless action, period,” Coleman said. “So, it’s hard for it to meet the incitement standard.”
Other categories of unprotected speech, such as threats or “fighting words,” also do not appear to apply here, she said.
Barry Burden, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Elections Research Center, noted, generally, there simply aren’t many districts that Republicans can win and that are “swingable.”
“There aren’t very many competitive districts, whether we’re looking at the period before this latest round of mid-decade redistricting or since some states have put new maps in place,” said Burden. “Either way, there just aren’t very many districts that are truly up for grabs.”
In addition to his day job as a laboratory manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Corbett spends about 40 hours a week talking with other collectors, photographing plates and trying to grow the community on YouTube. His long-term project is writing a coffee-table book with every Wisconsin plate ever made.
