Plus, how to budget for the holidays with Clare Dahl, a financial educator with UW-Madison Division of Extension in Dane County.
DATCP on holiday scams; Budgeting your money this gift-giving season
Wisconsin Public Radio
Author: gbump
Now that Act 10 has been overturned, what’s next for Wisconsin teachers, professors and others?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In response to TAA concerns, UW-Madison said it has increased minimum graduate assistant stipends by 14% this year as part of a four-year planned increase, with some individual programs setting rates even higher to stay competitive.
30% of UW academic programs are considered ‘low-enrolled’ and will face further scrutiny
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Academic programs at Wisconsin’s public universities will face more scrutiny, with a new report classifying 30% of programs as “low-enrolled.”
UW-Madison student sole survivor of Tesla Cybertruck crash in California that killed 3
Wisconsin State Journal
AUW-Madison student was the only survivor in a single-vehicle crash of a Tesla Cybertruck that killed three college students in Northern California last week.
From Pabst to Liberace, Milwaukee exhibit showcases best of Wisconsin pop culture
Wisconsin State Journal
It’s been 50 years since Jerry Ringlien, an Eau Claire native and UW-Madison graduate, wrote what would become one of the best known jingles in advertising history.
The commercial was for Madison-based Oscar Mayer, where Ringlien was the company’s vice president of marketing, and featured 4-year-old Andy Lambros who, while sitting on a boat dock, taught the world how to properly spell B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
New UW video game Mooving Cows improves dairy farm employees’ animal handling skills
Wisconsin State Farmer
Van Os secured funding for the game titled “Mooving Cows”: Version 1.0 through the UW-Madison Research Forward Initiative.
UW-Madison staff worked collaboratively with dairy farm owners, professional bilingual trainers and veterinarians, inviting them to the campus to play the game prototype and provide critical feedback.
UW special education teacher residency now open for 2025 cohort
WISC — CBS Channel 3
The Wisconsin Center For Education Research announced Wednesday its active recruitment for the 2025 cohort of the Special Education Teach Residency Program.The early decision deadline is Dec. 15.
UW-Madison professor explains why people care about the year end music reveal on streaming platforms
WMTV - Channel 15
Jeremy Morris teaches media and culture at UW Madison and explained that people care about their most listened to music because it tells the story of a year in their lives. “It’s a part of your identity, it helps you express who you are and it helps you understand yourself right?” he said. “It’s very personal and it’s an intimate form of media. You spend a lot of time in a year if you’re someone who likes listening to music, it means a lot to you.”
UWPD: 19 arrested after protest at Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting
WMTV - Channel 15
Of the 19 arrested, all were released. No one received a citation. UWPD noted officials will investigate each individual case and citations could be filed.
UW home game police citations down 20% since Camp Randall alcohol sales added
WMTV - Channel 15
There’s a trend that is surprising some UW football fans. Since alcohol sales were added at Camp Randall, police citations at home football games have fallen by nearly 20%, according to statistics from the UW-Madison Police Department.
Pro-Palestine protesters were arrested after demonstration at UW Board of Regents meeting
WISC — CBS Channel 3
After the demonstration started, UW Police Department officers and Student Affairs staff warned the group of protesters to stop, but they refused, according to a UWPD statement.
More than a dozen people arrested following protests inside UW Board of Regents meeting
WKOW – Channel 27
Staff from student affairs and UWPD officers reportedly warned the group to stop their disruptions, but they did not. Officers then removed the group from the room, so the board could continue its meeting.
UW Center for Campus History podcast explores campus police history
Badger Herald
UWPD not consulted in creation of podcast, department communications director says.
UW Agribusiness capstone course bridges classroom learning with workforce development
Badger Herald
Students tackle real-world challenges, gain hands-on experience in dairy industry.
Nineteen arrested, released following pro-Palestine protest at UW Board of Regents meeting
Badger Herald
Demonstrators demand divestment from Israel, accuse Regents of complicity in “genocide.”
19 arrested after pro-Palestine protesters interrupt Board of Regents meeting
Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department arrested and detained 19 protesters at Gordon Dining & Event Center at 8:30 a.m. All were released without citations at this time.
UW-Madison opens investigation into SJP, considering sanctions for alleged Expressive Activity Policy violations
Daily Cardinal
Band Engagement Coordinator Aaron Vieth will investigate Students For Justice in Palestine for violating Expressive Activity policy during their Dec. 5 protest at Gordon Dining & Event Center on behalf of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standa
Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt UW Board of Regents meeting
Wisconsin State Journal
A few dozen protesters were forcibly removed from a UW Board of Regents meeting Thursday after disrupting the meeting’s proceedings.
UW Health Kids and Children’s Hospital to join forces for congenital heart diseases patients throughout Wisconsin
WISC — CBS Channel 3
The two hospitals anticipates a full implementation within the first three years and an initial 10-year agreement, the hospitals announced. “This alliance will better help us attract and retain the best pediatric cardiac care providers,” said President of UW American Family Children’s Hospital and system Vice President of UW Health Kids Nikki Stafford.
UW Madison students serve Allied Drive residents facing food insecurity
WMTV - Channel 15
Every week, UW Madison students team up with a local pantry to distribute fresh produce to people facing food insecurity. When the students are not in the classroom, they are serving residents in the Allied Drive neighborhood impacted by food insecurity. Students volunteer through the organization, UW Grow.
UW-Madison biochemists engineer proteins to detect toxins, harmful molecules in minutes
WISC — CBS Channel 3
Approached by the U.S. Army and Air Force to detect chemical threats, toxins, and other environmental hazards for soldiers, UW-Madison biochemistry professor Vatsan Raman “wanted to take proteins that nature normally makes and then redesign these proteins to get them to sense molecules that we care about.”
UW professors encourage action amidst Trump’s anti-trans rights rhetoric
Badger Herald
‘We are seeing many of the things that make our lives possible being taken away,’ UW director of LGBTQ+ studies certificate program says.
Reclaiming Relevance: UW humanities departments combat national narrative
Badger Herald
UW humanities departments experiencing growth, students, faculty must convey humanities’ strengths, professor says.
Sarah Franklin makes Wisconsin volleyball history repeating as Big Ten’s best player
Wisconsin State Journal
Franklin became the first Wisconsin player to be named Big Ten Conference Player of the Year twice as she received that honor for the second consecutive year, the conference announced Wednesday.
Guest column: SAFEwalk hasn’t helped women feel any safer, just uncomfortable
Daily Cardinal
Why UW-Madison students, especially women, are instead choosing to walk home alone at night.
Instructors from conservative law firm will teach UW law course, drawing student criticism
Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School hired Skylar Croy and Daniel Lennington to teach a constitutional law course this upcoming spring semester. Some students, who attended clerkship programs WILL sued to alter diversity requirements, disagree
UW Health in Madison, Children’s Wisconsin near Milwaukee merge pediatric heart care
Wisconsin State Journal
The collaboration, called Forward Pediatric Alliance, brings together pediatric heart care at Wisconsin’s two academic medical centers: UW’s American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison and Children’s Wisconsin hospital near Milwaukee.
Guest column: Computer science student enrollment woes help department pull off miracle
Badger Herald
UW’s CS department is packed — there’s no doubt about it. The department has had to adjust to a meteoric rise in popularity among undergraduates, and yet, unlike many of their peers, they have not instituted a limited-access model.
Sawyer Getschman to be 2024 Winter Commencement student speaker
Badger Herald
‘It wasn’t always easy, but I have another home at Madison and I want to try to give back,’ Getschman says.
UW System’s 2024 review proposes major changes amid financial debate
Daily Cardinal
As the University of Wisconsin System navigates its 2024 review, sweeping proposals and financial debates bring the system’s future into focus.
1 Wisconsin football player makes an All-Big Ten team
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers had six players earn All-Big Ten honors, but just one make the first, second or third teams. Senior guard Joe Huber, who moved from left guard to right guard this year, made the coaches third-team list. Punter Atticus Bertrams, cornerback Ricardo Hallman, left tackle Jack Nelson, running back Tawee Walker and safety Hunter Wohler received unanimous honorable mentions.
Big changes are coming to West Mifflin Street, Madison’s best-known student neighborhood
Wisconsin State Journal
Miffland, as the neighborhood around West Mifflin Street is known, doesn’t look all that different from a half-century ago. Many of the single-family and multifamily houses with distinctive porches, balconies and yards that were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s are still there — and are still sought after by students. But now the way the neighborhood looks is changing, too.
$12M bridge project will finally connect Dane County with Devil’s Lake via state trail
Wisconsin State Journal
A 2021 study done by UW-Extension researchers found the proposed trail connection could attract hundreds of thousands of cyclists and snowmobilers from across the region, generating more than $6 million a year in direct economic impact.
Ag Briefs: UW expert says federal officials expected to require H5N1 milk testing
Wisconsin State Farmer
Dr. Keith Poulsen from UW-Madison’s Diagnostic Laboratory told Brownfield Ag News that a nationwide bulk tank or milk silo milk testing requirement is likely to be enacted this month. Poulsen says the new federal order should have more specific guidance about how officials can effectively perform a national surveillance. He said the Colorado model is likely to be adopted nationwide.
Universities of Wisconsin budget projections improve, aided by UW-Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
The Universities of Wisconsin are set to fare better financially than earlier projected, largely due to sizeable increases in tuition at a handful of schools and unaccounted-for donation dollars for UW-Madison, the system said Monday.
UW art history alumni named 2026 Whitney Biennial Curators
Badger Herald
UW visual studies professor Jill Casid discusses art exhibition’s importance.
UW rises to sixth in national research expenditures, topping $1.7 billion
Badger Herald
Grants help researchers promote Wisconsin idea, UW Dairy Research Program Manager says.
UW-Madison reinstates, alters sex education module after link to adult film award site prompted removal
Daily Cardinal
The university removed the SexWise module after an October inquiry from conservative student newspaper The Madison Federalist revealed the module contained a link to an adult film award site.
UW-Madison student lone survivor of deadly California crash, family confirms
WMTV - Channel 15
Jordan Miller, 20, is a business student at the university. Three other people in the vehicle were killed when the Cybertruck crashed early Wednesday morning.
‘My Wisconsin experience changed my perspective’: How Badgers volleyball changed Julia Orzol’s life
Wisconsin State Journal
It’s like it was meant to be. That’s the only way Julia Orzol can explain how a chance meeting on a hillside in Slovenia more than five years ago would come to change her life.
Kristine Lea Winneke
Wisconsin State Journal
After three years, they returned to Madison, Wis., and Kristine obtained a position in the Secretary of State Office. Uncomfortable with elections changing office conditions, Kristine resigned and took a position at the University of Wisconsin Department of Engineering in the continuing education office.
Julie Schneider
Wisconsin State Journal
Her professional life was equally commendable, serving as the Director of the Medical Library at Mercy Hospital in Janesville followed by a career at the UW Madison School of Medicine.
29 ejected, 19 arrested during frigid Badgers game against Minnesota
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison police reported that 29 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 19 people were arrested during Friday’s frigid football game between the Badgers and Minnesota.
What Wisconsin football fans want to see at Camp Randall for the 2025 season
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin football fans at Friday’s final home game were ready to turn the page on the 2024 season and look ahead to 2025.
‘Monkey noises’ harassment case shakes UW’s communities of color
The Capital Times
On the crisp afternoon of Oct. 22, Shanglin Yang walked down State Street, a route he had taken countless times since beginning his computer science studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Marshall Brickman, UW alum who co-wrote ‘Annie Hall’ with Woody Allen, dies at 85
Associated Press
The Oscar-winning screenwriter Marshall Brickman, whose wide-ranging career spanned some of Woody Allen’s best films, the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” and a number of Johnny Carson’s most beloved sketches, has died
UWPD: 29 ejected in Wisconsin’s Black Friday loss to Minnesota
WISC — CBS Channel 3
According to statistics released by the UW-Madison Police Department Saturday, 29 people in total were ejected from the stadium against Minnesota. The total included eight that were UW students.
12 women with cancer model in custom calendar to raise funds for UW Carbone Cancer Center
WMTV - Channel 15
Each of the 12 woman are featured on a different month of the 2025 Beautiful Journey Calendar, with each month corresponding to the type of cancer the model is facing.
UW System updates information security policy
Daily Cardinal
The updated University of Wisconsin System policy framework, which went into effect Sunday, establishes categories assessing the importance and risk of UW System data to system schools.
Column: Is it time for the Badgers to move on from Fickell?
Daily Cardinal
The Badgers are inconsistent and underperforming, does the problem run deeper than Luke Fickell?
Wisconsin farmers push for Farm Bill to be passed
NBC-15
“Passing a farm bill or extending the current Farm Bill is really seen as a necessity,” Andrew Stevens, an assistant professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at UW-Madison said.
Cost of Thanksgiving dinner in Wisconsin is down 2% from last year
NBC-15
“Food prices are not where they were before the pandemic, and I don’t expect they ever will be,” Andrew Stevens, an assistant professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at UW-Madison said.
UW Health to be the official medical provider for LOVB Madison
Channel 3000
UW Health will be the official medical provider for LOVB Madison, a new Madison professional volleyball team.
UW needs to invest in students’ mental health
The Badger Herald
UW-Madison would greatly benefit from a program similar to Carroll’s Wellness Advocate initiative. 43% of UW students were positive for significant symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to the university’s 2022 Healthy Minds survey.
10-story student apartment building would go between 2 Downtown landmarks
Wisconsin State Journal
The 10-story apartment building that Trinitas Ventures of Lafayette, Indiana, plans to build at 619 and 699 W. Mifflin St. would add hundreds of student beds near the UW-Madison campus, where housing is in high demand.
What does Donald Trump mean for housing in Madison, and Wisconsin?
The Capital Times
“Regardless of who got elected, we would have said that there’s these deep structural crises in the housing system. And there are some really thorny trade-offs involved,” said Kurt Paulsen, a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And you cannot just cut your way to housing affordability.”
Med Flight, some ambulances, now giving trauma patients whole blood
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Health Med Flight and some Milwaukee County fire departments are giving critically injured patients whole blood, not just blood products or saline solution, in the field to try to save lives.
It’s almost time to predict when Lake Mendota will freeze over
Wisconsin State Journal
To be considered frozen over, lakes Wingra and Monona must have at least half ice cover. Mendota, the largest of Madison’s lakes, is subject to another rule developed by limnologists Edward Birge and Chancey Juday in the early 1900s because of its odd shape: The lake is considered frozen when you can’t row a boat between Picnic Point on UW-Madison’s northeast side to Maple Bluff.
Friday could be Camp Randall’s coldest game in 60 years. Experts give fans tips
Wisconsin State Journal
“If you are protected and layered appropriately, you should be safe even in the temperatures that we’re expecting,” said Patrick Shahan, an assistant professor with the Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and an acute care surgeon. “You just have to be mindful of being too cold.”
Universities of Wisconsin unions want to talk directly with chancellors. So far, the answer is no
Wisconsin State Journal
Unions representing Universities of Wisconsin faculty and graduate workers are lobbying to meet directly with chancellors to discuss workplace conditions, saying the government councils representing them are no longer effective.