Former Wisconsin men’s basketball standout guard Brad Davison is joining Greg Gard’s staff as the Badgers’ special assistant to the head coach, the team announced on Sept. 29 via a press release.
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UW-Madison Police push for homicide charges in Camp Randall attack after victim dies
The man injured in an attack on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus earlier this month has died, and campus police want prosecutors to pursue homicide charges for the suspect.
UW Health partners with Wisconsin Air National Guard to provide clinical training
After years of planning, Wisconsin Air National Guard members from the 115th Fighter Wing have the opportunity to continue clinical training at UW Health in Madison.
UWPD recommends homicide charge after aggravated battery victim dies
The victim of an unprovoked and targeted attack outside of camp Randall stadium on September 20 died in the hospital late last week.
National Weather Service at ‘breaking point’ as storm approaches
It may ultimately be impossible to replace what’s been lost, at least in the short term, said Chris Vagasky, research program manager for Wisconet, a statewide network of weather and soil monitoring stations based at the University of Wisconsin.
Robert Barnett, a consummate Washington dealmaker, dies at 79
Mr. Barnett studied history and English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1968, and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1971.
Robert B. Barnett, Washington Master of the Book World Megadeal, Dies at 79
Robert Bruce Barnett, the older of two siblings, was born on Aug. 26, 1946, in Waukegan, Ill. His mother, Betty (Simon) Barnett, did sales work at a department store, and his father, Bernard Barnett, worked for the Social Security Administration. Robert attended the University of Wisconsin.
A Diminished Social Security Work Force, and Its Customers, Feel the Strain
Professor Savin, with researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Binghamton University, interviewed lawyers and social workers in 31 offices that help Americans enroll in disability and Supplemental Social Security Income, a needs-based program.
Wisconsin DNR steps up monitoring for invasive fish in Lake Winnebago
Once established, the fish could significantly impact sportfishing. Acy noted recreational fishing has a $234 million impact on the local economy, according to a 2006 survey by the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
Talking to agents, negotiating contracts are all part of the job for Wisconsin football general manager Marcus Sedberry
Growing up in Dallas, the general manager of the Wisconsin football program watched his father, Marvin, a former football coach, turn down better jobs in favor of the program that was a project.
As Wisconsin Badgers coach Greg Gard adapts to transient era, he sticks to ‘core values’
College athletics, as Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard sees it, is “slowly moving towards a more stable environment.”
UW-Madison preparing for possible shutdown of federal government
UW officials say a government shutdown could affect research operations on campus, depending on the length of the shutdown and the guidance provided by federal agencies.
UW–Madison unveils Morgridge Hall in $267 million, privately funded project
UW-Madison’s School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences celebrated its new home Friday.
Morgridge Hall is a privately funded $267 million investment, with Tashia and John Morgridge as the building’s principal donors.
Safety remains top priority at UW this fall
As the fall semester begins, UW–Madison remains committed to maintaining a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of the campus community, according to UWPD Chief of Police Brent Plisch.
New UW study highlights struggles of Black men in STEM graduate programs
A University of Wisconsin study brought to light the personal challenges Black men face in engineering graduate programs. The study was conducted by educational leadership and policy analysis professor Brian A. Burt.
Wisconsin Public Radio’s ‘To the Best of Our Knowledge’ and Zorba Paster sign off
“To the Best of Our Knowledge,” which aired for 35 years on public radio, broadcast its last radio show this weekend with an audio montage of longtime listeners commemorating the show and thanking its host and producers.
Local firms can convert Baraboo campus into a trade school | Jack Meegan
Letter to the editor: My question is: Why should Baraboo and Sauk County supply the funds for upkeep and maintenance, which could be hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Why not establish trade courses in the unused portion of this facility.
6th former Wisconsin women’s basketball player joins lawsuit against former coach
A sixth former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball player has joined a lawsuit claiming psychological abuse by former coach Marisa Moseley.
College football NIL is worthy of Badgers fans’ boos | Kathryn Klement
Letter to the editor: Perhaps the UW-Madison athletic department should let the season ticket holders vote for the next coach. Give us three qualified candidates and let the people paying for these outrageous salaries choose the next coach.
ASM Sustainability committee stresses student, faculty climate accountability
At their first meeting of the semester Sept. 19, the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) Sustainability Committee celebrated the GOLD Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) rating the University of Wisconsin-Madison was recently awarded, while calling for increased student and faculty involvement in combating the climate crisis.
Garden Talk: Dividing and transplanting peonies
They may flower in the spring but now is the time to dig up your peony plants. We talk to UW Extension Horticulture Outreach Specialist Lisa Johnson about how to make sure your peonies look great next spring.
Bucky Badger celebrates 85th birthday with downtown Madison bash
University of Wisconsin’s iconic mascot Bucky Badger marked his 85th birthday with an unprecedented celebration that brought thousands of Madisonians together across downtown Madison.
AAUW Sheboygan Foundation STEM event returns Nov. 8 with chance to empower young minds
The event, which started in 2017 and has gained popularity and significant local business support over the years, will feature inspiring UW Badger Talks guest speaker Zain Abhari, interactive workshops and engaging hands-on activities designed to spark interest in STEM subjects.
The Future of Higher Education
American universities are facing new questions about their purpose. How are they adjusting to address those questions and what will tomorrow’s university look like? For this final broadcast of University of the Air, we’ll look into the future with Johannes Britz, Senior Vice President for Academic & Student Affairs of the Universities of Wisconsin.
New Badgers women’s basketball coach invites fans to witness ‘energy’
First-year University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Robin Pingeton had a plan for the first week she spent with her team this summer.
New Aha Momo food cart makes dumplings for UW-Madison
Outside the University of Wisconsin’s Educational Sciences building on West Johnson Street, a new food cart, Aha Momo, opened this past August and is already drawing a crowd. Inside the cart, chef and owner Yeshe Gyatso brings decades of culinary experience to each handmade dumpling.
Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison
International freshman enrollment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has dropped to its lowest level in at least a decade, according to recently released admissions data for the fall semester.
UW-Madison tackling backlog of thousands of expense reports
At the beginning of last week, the Universities of Wisconsin’s travel expense audit team started temporarily assisting UW-Madison to help with more than 6,000 expense reports with processing times that average 30 business days.
Former Wisconsin football teammates reflect on troubled ‘entertainer’ Bill Ferrario, who died at 47
Casey Rabach grew accustomed to Bill Ferrario being by his side in life’s biggest moments.
Memory of this prolific Wisconsin scorer fades with time. Teammates want to change that
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach John Powless was willing to play shorthanded to teach a valuable lesson.
Taylor Odle on UW’s direct admission programs for students
UW-Madison educational policy professor Taylor Odle describes the impacts of the Direct Admit Wisconsin and Wisconsin Guarantee programs on UW system admissions of high school students from the state.
UW Carbone Cancer Center to honor cancer patients at Badger Challenge fundraiser
This weekend, the annual fundraiser supporting the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center will take place with a bike, run/walk and community events to honor cancer patients.
UW-Madison, Northwestern collaborative study explores benefits of hearing aids on cognitive function
An associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is leading a clinical trial on whether over-the-counter hearing aids are actually beneficial to listeners with changings to their memory skills and thinking.
Dr. Kimberly Mueller, an associate professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at UW, referenced a study conducted in 2024 that focused on modifiable risk factors for developing dementia in older adults.
Wisconsin lawmakers weigh adopting controversial definition of antisemitism
While officially adopted by the IHRA in 2016, the definition has been in use for about 20 years, according to Chad Alan Goldberg, a sociologist and professor of Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said it’s a response to rising antisemitism in recent decades, with an additional increase since the war between Israel and Hamas after Hamas’ attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.
New Madison program aims to fill training gaps for nonprofit leaders
The program evolved from a two-year research project led by Andrew Davey, director of the Goodman Nonprofit Center, and Sharon Lezberg, community and economic development educator with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension in Dane County.
Octavia Ikard, new Madison youth poet laureate, writes from memory
Now a creative writing major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ikard was recently named Madison’s fourth Youth Poet Laureate. The city of Madison will honor them at a reading on Tuesday, Sept. 16.
Letter | UW needs to address reckless pedestrians
I was just out walking on the UW campus and I witnessed a girl just about get killed on at the Johnson Street crossing outside Gordon Commons.
Inside falling Wisconsin football attendance early in the 2025 season
The announced attendance of 65,952 for the Aug. 28 opener against Miami (Ohio) was the lowest for a first home game of a season since 1992. After Wisconsin announced a 70,368 figure for the Sept. 6 game against Middle Tennessee State, its average from the first two games was down 10% from the same window of the 2024 season.
UW celebrates Latine heritage with Annual March up Bascom
The Latine Heritage Month planning committee, Latine Cultural Center and the Program in Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies hosted their annual March Up Bascom event on Friday. Over 100 students came together to celebrate Latine heritage — walking up Bascom Hill and partaking in Mercadito festivities afterward.
UW professor receives criticism on course assignment from conservative talk show host Dan O’Donnell
In an episode of “The Dan O’Donnell Show” on Saturday, Milwaukee podcaster Dan O’Donnell criticized University of Wisconsin journalism professor Lindsay Palmer’s assignment which asked students to examine their “socio-cultural identities.”
5 UW-Madison student housing projects aim to alleviate housing shortage
A host of prominent developers in the Madison area have new projects currently underway, including Core Spaces, a Chicago-based development company that previously built The James and Hub Madison, and Steve Brown Apartments, a Madison-based development company that previously built the Lucky apartments and several smaller complexes.
UW-Madison earns gold-rating for sustainability progress
The University of Wisconsin-Madison achieved a Gold rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS), marking a major step forward in the university’s environmental initiatives after receiving Silver rating in 2021.
Family celebrates 10 years of remission as Badger Challenge enters 10th year
The Badger Challenge kicks off this week, bringing the community together to support cancer research at UW-Madison.
Campus police report spike in e-bike, scooter thefts
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department reported an increase in electric bicycle and scooter thefts across campus, with five thefts since Aug. 13.
UW-Madison student housing supply expected to increase next year with five highly-anticipated housing developments
With the University of Wisconsin-Madison student body growing each year, excess demand for housing has prompted developers to bring new projects to Madison.
UW-Madison experts weigh in on free speech rights as people lose jobs over Charlie Kirk posts
UW-Madison Law School Professor Anuj Desai said while your words might cost you a job, free speech generally shields you from government punishment.
Wisconsin’s Aniya Warren became a children’s book author ahead of her first season with the Badgers
Aniya Warren’s Wisconsin volleyball teammates were in for quite the surprise when they saw an Instagram post from the freshman libero.
When Warren was not preparing for her first year of college volleyball this summer, she was writing a now-published children’s book.
After Kirk assassination, Scott Walker says Young America’s Foundation to review security at events
Walsh visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 2022, where attendees at the indoor event outnumbered students protesting his visit. Police got involved to draw counter-protestors away after scuffles with protestors. YAF paid $8,000 for the event, and the student government provided the remaining $2,000 under its “viewpoint neutral” policy.
Competition to crown the most ‘performative male’ at UW-Madison
UW-Madison students are crowning their top “performative male” in a tongue-in-cheek contest at Library Mall at 6 p.m. Friday, building off of a popular internet trend that’s produced viral moments garnering millions of views on TikTok.
UW-Madison police investigating vandalism around Library Mall
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating “significant” vandalism around Library Mall, according to a university news release Friday.
Jean Roark
Jean was employed by the University of Wisconsin Library from 1971 to 1975. Beginning in 1975, Jean was an academic staff member in the Dean’s Office for Undergraduate Education in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the U.W. She retired in 1995 after 20 years and was granted Emerita Status.
UW study: Wisconsin school districts abandoning performance pay for teachers
Anew UW-Madison study suggests Wisconsin school districts — including some in Dane County — have moved away from compensation systems that at least partly paid teachers for performance.
Update: Police give all-clear after report of ‘Suspicious package’ at Enzyme Institute
UW-Madison police said the Enzyme Research Institute on the west side of campus is all clear less than an hour after reporting a “suspicious package.”
Madison health centers see growing demand for addiction treatment
Compass, offered at UW Health’s 1102 S. Park St. clinic, provides walk-in care for substance use disorder. The team includes a doctor, physician assistant, nurse, a peer support specialist, a social worker and a medical assistant.
“We work to make sure that we can get people pretty immediate access to any medications that might be needed related to their substance use disorder,” Salisbury-Afshar said. “We also offer some other medical services that we know people who use drugs often really struggle to be able to access. Specifically, things like Hepatitis C treatment, family planning, wound care, STI (sexually transmitted infection) testing and treatment.”
‘That Book is Dangerous’ takes on left-leaning censorship
Szetela will discuss his book at a talk at the UW Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy on Monday, Sept. 22.
How Madison doctors are using cancer patients’ own bodies to cure them
That was the topic of a Cap Times Idea Fest session Wednesday produced by UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center that featured three of their physicians. The discussion drew an audience of hundreds to the UW-Madison Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall.
“Immunotherapy is the concept that our own immune system can not only recognize and fight infections but it can recognize and fight cancer. It just needs a little help,” said Dr. Christian Capitini, who is leading the cancer center as acting director. “We’ve learned over the decades through many discoveries, including here at the University of Wisconsin, that immunotherapy in fact works in people and can translate into therapies that make a difference.”
‘Performative Men Wanted’: UW students face off in ‘Performative Male Contest’
The event was organized by freshmen Adrea Matulle and Beri Barton. The duo was inspired by other performative male contests across the country. “We were bored, I [had] fun with some graphics and posted it on YikYak,” Matulle said. Her post received 951 upvotes.
UWPD investigating red paint on Library Mall and Bascom Hill
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is investigating red paint on multiple landmarks across Library Mall found in the early morning hours Friday.
Facility crews discovered red paint on the Hagenah Fountain, the front doors and steps of Bascom Hall and around the Abraham Lincoln statue. Flyers were also affixed to Bascom Hall.
UW–Madison researchers test psilocybin, the compound in “magic mushrooms,” as new tool in mental health care
Scientists at UW-Madison are leading national studies on psilocybin, to determine whether the psychedelic compound could offer lasting relief for mental health and substance use disorders.
Miami accuses Wisconsin of ‘fishing expedition’ in tampering lawsuit document request
Lawyers for the University of Miami said the University of Wisconsin and its athletics collective are on an “impermissible fishing expedition” in a request for documents and a deposition of former Badgers football player Xavier Lucas.