Why UW-Madison students, especially women, are instead choosing to walk home alone at night.
Guest column: SAFEwalk hasn’t helped women feel any safer, just uncomfortable
Daily Cardinal
Author: gbump
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.
John Bryant Wyman
Wisconsin State Journal
Bry left the Marshfield Clinic in 1992 and, after a brief stint as a farm hand in Illinois, he began a faculty position at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He treated patients and taught medical students until his 80th birthday. In his later practice, he focused on irritable bowel syndrome and other chronic functional disorders. Patients who had suffered debilitating symptoms for years remain grateful for the healing he gave them.
Wisconsin leaders weigh in on Trump’s comments about higher ed
The Capital Times
Leaders of Wisconsin’s higher education systems were cautious Tuesday in predicting what could come from President-elect Donald Trump’s call to close the U.S. Department of Education. Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said he spent time in Washington, D.C., last week where he asked Wisconsin’s delegation about this issue.
“I think the general consensus that I was hearing … was that, is it likely that the Department of Education, as it currently exists, is voted out of existence? Not highly likely, in their mind,” Rothman told a crowd in Madison.
UW-Madison is making a new promise to Wisconsin Indigenous students
The Capital Times
The privately funded program, known as the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise, covers the full cost of attendance for in-state students who are enrolled members of one of the 11 federally recognized tribes in Wisconsin.
UW Eastpark Medical Center offering 40+ Specialty Care Programs
WMTV - Channel 15
The director of planning and design for UW Health, Mike McKay, said the center was built with patients in mind.
Behind the scenes of a ‘special tradition’ on a game day with Wisconsin’s marching band
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin marching band already was in game mode despite more than 10 hours remaining before kickoff of the Badgers’ football game against No. 1 Oregon.
Wisconsin officer grabbing Nebraska coach’s arm a ‘misunderstanding,’ police say
Wisconsin State Journal
An on-field interaction between a UW-Madison Police officer and a Nebraska football assistant coach after Saturday’s game was a “misunderstanding” that ended in an apology, a police spokesperson said.
UW-Madison ranks sixth nationally for research
WISC — CBS Channel 3
The University of Wisconsin-Madison now ranks sixth nationally for research ranking, according to the National Science Foundation’s annual rankings. Since 2018, it has ranked 8th out of 920 public and private universities.
New UW-Madison study tests how a federally legal form of THC could impact drivers
WMTV - Channel 15
A pilot study at UW-Madison is set to test how THC variants could affect drivers. Researchers decided to use the UW-Madison driving simulator to discover how Delta-8 THC and Delta-9 THC can impair the brain. Researcher and Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Heather Barkholtz said that the idea for the study came from the rising popularity of Delta-8 THC.
UW Theatre and Drama brings ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to stage
Badger Herald
‘It’s a full body, full mind experience to be in the show and on stage for almost the entire runtime,’ AJ Stoffels says on her role as Elizabeth Bennet
Western Wisconsin summit aims to reframe, humanize immigration
Wisconsin State Journal
An estimated 70% of the workforce on Wisconsin dairy farms is made up of undocumented immigrant workers, according to a UW-Madison study.
New Report Reveals Wisconsin Dairy Industry Up 16%, Contributing $52.8 Billion to State’s Economy
Hoard's Dairyman
The overall economic impact of Wisconsin’s dairy industry is bigger than ever, and dairy remains the leading sector of Wisconsin agriculture. This newly released data is from the Contribution of Agriculture to the Wisconsin Economy: An Update for 2022, conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics.
Wisconsin research team exploring ways to make cheese curds stay squeaky longer
Wisconsin State Farmer
John A. Lucey, professor of food science at UW-Madison and the director of the Center for Dairy Research, reported that national sales numbers for natural cheese curds have steadily increased to around $52 million in 2021. However, fresh cheese curds are still predominantly purchased in the Midwest.
Badgers track supporters raise Title IX concerns over new UW facility
The Capital Times
Track and field supporters are ramping up pressure on the University of Wisconsin-Madison to alter plans for a new indoor football practice facility.
UW-Madison’s record-breaking research spending fuels rise in national ranking
Wisconsin State Journal
The university announced the ranking change Monday alongside an announcement that it had spent a record-breaking $1.7 billion on research for fiscal year 2023, a 13.7% increase over the prior year. UW-Madison’s growth outpaced the national increase of 11.2% spent on university research and development, bringing the national amount spent to $108.8 billion.
Video of postgame encounter between Luke Fickell, Donovan Raiola circulates online
Wisconsin State Journal
An awkward postgame interaction between University of Wisconsin football coach Luke Fickell and Nebraska assistant Donovan Raiola on Saturday included a uniformed officer chasing down Raiola and briefly grabbing his arm.
PFAS cleanup idea for Dane County airport advances despite criticism
The Capital Times
High levels of PFAS have, as a result, plagued Lake Monona, with a University of Wisconsin-Madison study finding the lake’s foam had the highest concentration of PFAS in the state.
Rule of twos: UW faculty dance concert explores duality
The Capital Times
In Lathrop Hall, students pound the earth, float and fly. They bring dancing dualities to life in choreographies by University of Wisconsin-Madison Dance Faculty and guest artist Takehiro Ueyama, onstage this weekend.
Wisconsin star runner Bob Liking wraps career with strong finish at national championship
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin men’s cross country team finished fourth Saturday at the NCAA Division I championship meet, which was held at the program’s Thomas Zimmer Cross Country Course in Southwest Madison.
Wisconsin women’s soccer sees its season come to an end in Sweet 16
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team had reached the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 for the first time in three years, and just the fifth time in program history, but the Badgers couldn’t keep their successful season going one more game Sunday in Irvine, California.
UW-Madison study will inject people with meth to answer a decades-old question
Wisconsin State Journal
But a pair of researchers at UW-Madison hope to close that decades-old knowledge gap through a study in which they’ll inject 17 people with small doses of both kinds of methamphetamine to see how the “D” isomer present in illicit meth metabolizes in the body and whether that changes when the “L” isomer, the kind in nasal sprays, is present.
Limiting Wisconsin football players from speaking about coaching change violates UW-Madison’s principles | Stephen D. Morton
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: This is a violation of freedom of speech and UW-Madison traditions. The university would not permit a history or chemistry professor or others to silence their students and not permit any discussions.
Raison lab studying effects of psilocybin
Badger Herald
The lab is seeking participants to study the effects of psychedelics on the conscious mind.
Moda Magazine celebrates creativity, community with annual fashion show
Badger Herald
Moda brings fresh new designs to Madison’s fashion scene.
UW Track and Field female athletes protest recent demolishing of indoor track facility
Badger Herald
Demolition of the Shell leaves athletes without indoor practice space, sparking Title IX concerns and growing petition.