The UW Board of Regents expects to select a new UW-Madison chancellor in November, the official leading the search committee said Thursday.
UW-Madison’s new chancellor will succeed Jennifer Mnookin, who left the university in May after nearly four years to lead Columbia University. Eric Wilcots, dean of UW-Madison’s College of Letters and Science, is serving as interim chancellor.
UW-Madison’s new humanities building is a far cry from the one across campus that it is, in part, replacing: The decrepit Mosse Humanities Building, known for leaks, crumbling concrete and unreliable elevators.
Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall, a five-floor, 136,000-square-foot building, is the bright and airy new home to eight humanities departments that were previously spread across multiple campus facilities, including Mosse.
A new academic building officially opened on the UW-Madison campus on Thursday called Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall.
It’s at the corner of North Park and West Johnson Streets.
The building will be the new home for humanities classes such as history, African American studies, gender and women’s studies and religious studies.
The Universities of Wisconsin may permanently eliminate college entrance exams scores as a required part of the first year student admission processes.
Since 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began, the UW system has waived a requirement that students submit either SAT and ACT scores at all 13 UW campuses. Before the waiver, the scores had been a requirement for college applications since 1989 .
The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved the first reading to make test-optional admissions a permanent policy for the university system.
It’s a step in the process before a final vote to make the change.
A new building is open on the UW-Madison campus.
Neil Kodesh moved into his office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s newest building on campus three weeks ago, but “it still does not seem real,” he said.
“Our old building was the Humanities Building, the big concrete monstrosity. It has its charm, but it’s a stark contrast to here,” said Kodesh, who chairs the history department.
The Wisconsin Union will begin selling limited edition mini Terrace chairs as a way to support students who have survived dating violence, officials said Thursday.
A portion of the proceeds from each sale of the purple mini Terrace chair will be donated to University Health Services’ Survivor Empowerment Fund, supporting student survivors of sexual assault and dating violence.
A new academic building officially opened on the UW-Madison campus on Thursday called Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall.
University leaders, donors and state officials gathered Thursday to celebrate the opening of Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall, a new academic building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Prof. David Noyce, director of the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at UW-Madison.
Noyce, the executive associate dean and Arthur F. Hawnn professor of transportation engineering at the university’s College of Engineering, discusses the work being done around self-driving vehicles and other advanced technologies at UW-Madison.
Concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence have escalated after a former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI wrote a viral social media post last week claiming that artificial intelligence could “kill us all by the end of the decade.”
The University of Wisconsin released a report describing three hazing incidents at Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. from February 2025 on Tuesday, specifying multiple Student Organization Code of Conduct violations relating to hazing.
It’s September and that means people all over the country are headed back to college at some really beautiful campuses.
New data compiled by SIXT reveals 10 of the most eye-catching college campuses across America, and some of the answers might surprise you.
