While a student in economics at the UW-Madison he began working in 1971 for the UW Department of ADP, which later became DoIT. He started as a computer operator, then advanced to programmer and analyst for the Registrar. His last position was with the UW Mail Team as senior analyst for all email iterations.
A new housing complex near UW-Madison is ready for students to move in later this month.
The Shell, formerly the Camp Randall Memorial Sports Center, has been a part of my life since my freshman year at the UW in 1958. The building was only 2 years old when every Friday we ROTC cadets went through our “drill and ceremonies,” learning how to march in formation, do about-faces, stand at ease and all the other basics of a well-tuned Army platoon, while getting prepared to become second lieutenants four years later.
Madison serves as the innovator — home to UW-Madison, where research is king. The school ranks eighth in the nation for research expenditures among public and private universities. According to the National Science Foundation, UW invests more than $1.5 billion annually. UW also ranks high in patents granted – 12th in the nation in 2023. Additionally, the city’s startup scene is consistently ranked among the top 150 globally.
UW-River Falls Chancellor Maria Gallo will retire from the university in the coming weeks, continuing a trend of turnover in Universities of Wisconsin top leadership.
“The Milwaukee Tuition Promise” will impact incoming students during the Fall 2025 school year. The program ensures that eligible students can meet the full cost of tuition for up to four years.
The Badgers open up their season with an exhibition game vs UW-Stevens Point on Oct 29. The Pointers were 15-10 in the 2023-24 season. UW opens the regular season with two home games at the Kohl Center. First the Badgers will welcome Wright State on Nov 5 before going head-to-head with Georgetown on Nov 10.
“Very often these tools can invent false facts,” said UW-Madison Assistant Professor Annette Zimmermann. “That’s very misleading and very dangerous, particularly in professions that impact a lot of people.”
Zimmermann researches the ethical implications of AI at UW. She says it’s crucial to give workers a seat at the table when making decisions about how to use AI.
There was no given sign Joe Pavelski should retire. The Plover native and former University of Wisconsin standout had just finished his 17th season in the NHL, capped by a second straight Western Conference finals appearance with the Dallas Stars.
An expanded Big Ten Conference led the conference to visit a new city for its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, and University of Wisconsin basketball teams hope to visit as part of a new format.
AJ Blazek and Casey Rabach were conference rivals during their playing days. Now the two are, as Blazek phrased it, tag team partners for the University of Wisconsin football team tasked with revitalizing an offensive line.
In 1996, Congress added language to include the distribution of child pornography over the internet, not just the mail. This section is important to pay attention to, said Howard Schweber, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Let us assume, in the moment that Donald Trump wins reelection … a Trump Justice Department could choose to enforce the law and make it an actual crime to post on the internet any information about abortion,” Schweber said.
In 1895, UW–Madison professor Edward Birge set out to answer a question he had about zooplankton in Lake Mendota after reading a French scientific paper, and his research marked the beginning of limnology in North America. Since then, UW–Madison scientists have arguably made Madison’s lakes the most-studied lakes in the world.
The Ripon Commitment, which was unveiled Wednesday, is a two-part financial aid program for students who are Wisconsin residents.
The vacuum provides cool air to help the chocolate set as creamy layers are added to create the sweet treat, said Rich Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hartel runs the university’s Candy School — also known as the Confectionery Technology Course — which started in 1963 and has become so popular that it has a waitlist of people who want to attend.
On a sunny fall morning, as he strolled to work along the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path near the Memorial Union, Jake Vander Zanden looked into the water and noticed something you don’t typically see in October: the beginnings of an algae bloom. The director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Limnology was both fascinated and concerned.
“That’s really unusual — even for Lake Mendota, which has a lot of algae blooms — to see significant blooms late in the season,” Vander Zanden says. “We’ve been seeing that more lately.”
Devon Osborn is a husband, father and grandfather, and for some time that was put in jeopardy due to his need for a lung transplant. Thanks to UW-Health’s lung transplant program, he’s still able to be here for those he loves.
Madison will soon welcome a new professional sports league to the community. Wisconsin Athletics and League One Volleyball (LOVB) announced Tuesday that they will play their home games at the UW Field House, starting with their first game following the Olympics.
Madison is one of the most populous areas of the country where the local transit agency is run entirely by a city, according to Chris McCahill, managing director of the State Smart Transportation Initiative housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Madison Metro is not necessarily in a sustainable position, especially as we face population growth,” McCahill said. “But that is true of all major transit agencies across the country.”
Your eyes are drawn to the ceiling when you enter through the doors of Nancy Nicholas Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The number of financial aid applications is down across the Universities of Wisconsin system, an early indication that enrollment may be down this fall as well.
Most leases expire around Aug. 15, and the move-in-move-out period affects communities beyond the downtown area. The city estimates nearly 35,000 UW students live in the neighborhoods on campus. Every year, the moving period generates over 1 million pounds of garbage that crews work to collect, large items requiring the most effort.
The undersigned members of the Board of Visitors of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies are writing concerning a Letter to the Editor of The Daily Cardinal from Jewish UW Faculty and Students published by the Cardinal on May 2, 2024 (“May 2nd Letter”).
The probability of UW Health lung transplant recipients surviving one year post-transplant is about 95%, which is higher than the national average rate of a little more than 88%.
UW-Madison alum Alev Kelter brought home the bronze with her Team USA Women’s Rugby teammates on Tuesday — and she made history.
Federal funds received by the Universities of Wisconsin are not expected to be affected should the constitutional amendments pass.
Letter to the editor: The authors equated political contributions to ideology. They used a lot of modifiers, such as “stunningly,” “remarkable” and “breathtaking” for their findings — in the absence of basic information to justify them.
Acommittee of UW-Milwaukee faculty is endorsing the university’s plan to lay off about three dozen faculty members from its two-year branch campuses next summer.
After 12 years serving as president and 26 years working for Wisconsin technical colleges, Foy is set to retire Sept. 7.
Her time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School was formative, as she and her husband experienced housing discrimination in Madison that would shape her efforts to combat the issue while serving in elected office.
As the summer calendar quickly turns toward August, University of Wisconsin-Madison students are gearing up for the new football season.
Mauriel Rodriguez Curras and UW-Madison ecology professor Jonathan Pauli collected DNA from foxes’ and martens’ scat and hair to investigate spatial, dietary and behavioral habits before wolves were introduced, within the first year of introduction and as packs coalesced on the island.
“Repeated messages tend to be stickier than things you only see once,” Dr. Michael Wagner, director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Daily Cardinal. “Seeing the same kind of misinformation over and over, is more likely to have a sustained effect on somebody’s attitudes.”
When Nikhita Steward-Trivedi searched for academic programs this summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) caught their eye.
As a former campus tour guide, I was often asked what made the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus so special. My answer? For a long time, I would tell incoming students a variety of answers: Lake Mendota, gameday culture or lakeshore in the fall.
But after living on Stanford University’s campus for the last month, that’s changed: what makes UW-Madison’s campus so special is our ability to leave it.
In a news conference Wednesday, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said students should check their high school email addresses for the notifications.
Jeffrey Hadachek, a UW-Madison economist who studies agriculture, called the case a milestone in the state’s oversight of a growing sector in farming. Nationwide, researchers estimate 90% of American livestock is now raised at a CAFO with each having over 1,000 animals.
“This sets a precedent, not only for the DNR, but for the public in general that these are cases which can be brought forward,” Hadachek said. “These regulations, laws and policies are in place for a reason.”
Jerry was a county extension agent and a professor of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for about 30 years. After his retirement in the early 1990s, he pivoted to writing full-time and penned more than 50 fiction and nonfiction books.
Northwestern is building a new stadium to replace the drab Ryan Field, but that move left the program unhoused for this season and next. The solution in Evanston is a hybrid schedule in which the football program will host games at Martin Stadium, its soccer and lacrosse facility on Lake Michigan, and play November games at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Badgers game against Northwestern on Oct. 19 is one of two Big Ten games at Martin Stadium.
Events of all kinds have taken place under the arch of the 1,600-ton concrete roof in the Camp Randall Sports Center over the last 68 years.
Starting next week, tens of thousands of high school students across Wisconsin will be offered admission to a Universities of Wisconsin campus for the 2025-2026 school year — without applying.
Most of the UW schools are participating in the program with the exception of some of the largest campuses in the system- UW-Madison, UW-Eau Claire and UW-La Crosse.
The City said students can provide a certified housing list from UW-Madison or Edgewood College, but must also show college ID. Staff at the City Clerk’s office will assist with any voter needs.
Jaime Goldberg, a clinical assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has observed the growth of green burials throughout her decades of hospice social work. Green burials were slowly added to pamphlets she shared with patients.
Luke Fickell doesn’t give much time or thought to hypotheticals.
Kelsey Card hasn’t touched a discus since the Olympic Games in Tokyo, but she’s taken on a new role with Team USA: Team mom.
The Badgers had a goal of more than $1 million in donations to the Sixth Man Society, the membership program run through The Varsity Collective to raise money for NIL payments to players. That’s according to a document that showed benefit opportunities for 22 top donors. The flyer was obtained by BadgerExtra through a public records request.
Phillips broke a long list of barriers as the first Black woman to graduate from the UW-Madison Law School, to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council and to become a judge in Wisconsin. Then she became the first woman and Black person elected to statewide office in Wisconsin, serving as secretary of state from 1979 to 1983. She died in 2018 at age 95.
Allison Prasch, a UW-Madison associate professor of rhetoric, politics and culture, said Harris will likely seek to highlight the contrast with Trump in coming days.
“More than anything I think she is going to really lean into the broad concerns about what another four years of a Trump presidency would do to institutions of U.S. democracy, and make a case that we can be concerned about issues and policy, but also now is the time for unity amongst the Democratic Party to fight together to defeat Trump.”
The project involves community partners, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison and several multicultural groups. According to Gabriel Siaz, the city of Madison sustainability programs coordinator, the sensors will be part of one of the nation’s most significant metropolitan air quality data collection projects.
In the past decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of immigrants entering Wisconsin which has greatly increased the state’s Latino population — from 93,000 to 447,290, according to a Dairy Workers Study conducted by the School for Workers at UW-Madison.
UW student athletes at the event include: Riley Mahlman, recently ranked as one of the best tackles in college football and teammate Kerry Kodanko; Brooke Kuffel, a primary outfielder for the Badgers with four home runs in a three game span this year, the women’s softball team; and, Drew Stover, goalkeeper, with the women’s soccer program.
Penny was a homemaker while her children were young, then worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library, for 24 years, until her retirement in 2011.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department cracked the top on the sale of alcoholic beverages to all fans of legal drinking age last season.
“When I was five, my family moved to Madison, where my father got a job teaching economics at the University of Wisconsin and my mother worked as a breast cancer researcher,” Harris wrote in a 2020 Wisconsin State Journal op-ed. “It was a brief moment — but for a little while, we called Wisconsin home.”
UW-Madison researchers have teamed up with a group of the university’s tribal partners for a new project to support and expand Indigenous food traditions and practices of Great Lakes tribal nations.
Badger fans will now get to enjoy Wisconsin football with a brew. UW Athletics announced Monday alcoholic beverages will be sold in the general seating area at Camp Randall at the start of the 2024 season.
Badgers football fans will now be able to buy alcoholic beverages at Camp Randall.
The Lakeshore Path along Lake Mendota may receive some safety touch-ups as UW-Madison conducts surveys to see how the public responds to future lighting on the path.
That heated debate drew University of Wisconsin-Madison officials to select the memoir as the university’s 2017-18 Go Big Read book. A shared reading program, Go Big Read distributes free copies of a recommended book to first-year students and encourages professors to incorporate the book into coursework.
