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April 10, 2026

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Higher Education/System

UW Regents reveal rifts behind UW system president’s firing

Wisconsin State Journal

UW Board of Regents leaders on Thursday defended their decision to oust the Universities of Wisconsin president, describing a man who had successes, but who also had a top-down management style and clashed with the Regents on several occasions.

The Regents on Tuesday night unanimously voted to fire Jay Rothman, without any public discussion, drawing criticism from legislative Republicans that the board wasn’t being transparent.

Health

Ukrainian surgeons learn limb-saving microsurgery at UW-Madison to treat war injuries

NBC 15

Ukrainian surgeons are in Madison this week, training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to learn specialized techniques they can take back home to treat patients injured in the war.

Six surgeons are taking part in a two-week intensive training at UW’s Microsurgery Regenerative Medicine Lab, working under microscopes to practice reconnecting tiny blood vessels and nerves.

Athletics

Wisconsin stuns North Dakota, will play for men’s hockey national title

Wisconsin State Jounral

This season has provided moments where the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team showed it could be a Frozen Four team and others where it appeared the Badgers could miss the NCAA Tournament altogether.

The detailed, energetic Badgers team that took the ice Thursday carried it into the national championship game.