Documents obtained by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression show the Universities of Wisconsin paid law firm Husch Blackwell $135,000 to investigate Joe Gow’s conduct while serving as UW-La Crosse’s chancellor.
Athletic director Chris McIntosh said there will be 80 to 100 fewer Badgers athletes as part of roster limits that are due to replace scholarship caps. The number of scholarships awarded also will decrease, he said in an exclusive interview with BadgerExtra.
‘It’s for Badgers and Badgers at heart,’ Homecoming committee member says.
UW Health has been navigating a five-year research effort involving 37 Alzheimer’s disease centers around the country. The first 2,000 participants enrolled this fall.
John Roach needed both his screenwriting and journalist hats when he signed on to direct “A Road at Night,” a new documentary about a tragic 2019 car crash outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Roach — perhaps best known for his decades as a Madison Magazine columnist and for cowriting David Lynch’s acclaimed film, “The Straight Story” — tracked down a witness to the crash who had previously not been identified.
In 2014, Garcia-Rivera entered a new role as a career adviser in UW’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and by then, a new generation of young people were entering a media and public relations industry completely transformed by those platforms and others.
“This study is definitely a trailblazer in the field of Alzheimer’s disease research,” said Ozioma Okonkwo, professor of medicine at the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the UW Department of Medicine.
At 1 p.m. Gravy and a brass band will lead a parade of voters to Memorial Union’s early voting polls.
Democrats saw their biggest gains in the Green Bay area and Dane County, the latter of which is home to Madison and the University of Wisconsin.
And although applications from underrepresented minority students increased by 102 percent after the school went tuition-free, the proportion of Black students declined slightly over the following years, according to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges and provided by Jared Boyce, a medical student at the University of Wisconsin.
Food poisoning is likely to affect more people in the future as humid temperatures—which allows strains of bacteria to form and thrive—become more common due to climate change, microbiologists have warned. “Climate change will increase the risk of foodborne illness from consumption of raw produce,” said Professor Jeri Barak, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who unveiled the results of a study in August.
While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is quietly building at the other end of Eurasia, along an island chain that has served as the front line for America’s national defense for endless decades. (Author: Alfre C. McCoy)
Leading the effort to resuscitate Franklin’s concept for motors big enough to use in industrial applications is C-Motive Technologies in Middleton, Wis. It is a 16-person startup founded by a pair of University of Wisconsin engineers named Justin Reed and Daniel Ludois who spent years tinkering with electrostatic motors to see if they could be improved.
Baldwin received her undergraduate degree from Smith College in Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Hovde received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yes, but not in the same way that perishable items such as eggs, chicken and produce do. When candy goes bad, it’s “almost always a physical (drying out) or chemical (lipid oxidation, flavor change) change and not microbial,” Richard W. Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says.
Hamas attacks and the Israeli response. Colleges and universities around the country are reconsidering their neutrality policies in the wake of such positions adopted by the University of Virginia, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Southern California, Harvard, Stanford, and many others. Schools are balancing, on the one hand, whether they put student rights or voices at risk when they take sides on controversial issues or whether they have a moral obligation to address societal wrongs.
Non-hallucinogenic, consciousness-altering experiences, like those reported to result from tabernanthalog use, sound far away from such mystical experiences, and more akin to how some people might feel after drinking a glass of wine or a strong cup of coffee. “Many of us are just filling our bodies with substances that cause acute alterations in consciousness of various degrees,” says Chuck Raison, a psychiatry professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
For the Democrats, the strategy entails running up the numbers in Milwaukee and Dane County, home to Madison — the state capitol and the University of Wisconsin. Biden won more than 75% of the vote there in 2020. Democrats are also trying to stanch the bleeding in rural swaths that have swung heavily towards Trump.
“It’s the entire case, and that is Mr. Roberson’s case,” Keith Findley, professor emeritus with the University of Wisconsin Law School, testified before the Texas Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence last week. “When you have a prosecution, a conviction that rests entirely upon medical, scientific opinion, and it turns out that medical science is, at best, deeply disputed, you have a recipe for real problems.”
Elizabeth Wright, a UW-Madison professor of biochemistry, said the new images of RSV’s structure will support preventing and slowing infections in the future. Wright runs the research lab that created the new images.
Badgers coaches are earning more than $27.5 million in the 2024-25 school year, according to a BadgerExtra analysis of salaries provided by Wisconsin through a public records request.
UW-Madison’s Homecoming Committee has been preparing for the celebration for months. The jam-packed week of fun features everything from performances, to tailgates, to parties, and parades.
Hands-on science stations lined the street, one belonging to a group working in Song Jin’s Lab at the UW Department of Chemistry.
Six male nurse sharks live in a tank inside a laboratory on the UW-Madison campus. Originally from the Florida Keys, the sharks were moved to Wisconsin to help fight human cancer.
Rebekah Taussig visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison for discussions on disability in classrooms, panels and in her keynote speech as part of the Go Big Read curriculum.
“The Wisconsin Alumni Association is where all Badgers belong, and we’re excited to welcome alumni and friends back to campus for Homecoming,” Sarah Schutt, the chief alumni officer and executive director of WAA, tells Madison365. “We’re especially happy to support events and traditions that, for more than 10 years, have created meaningful spaces for alumni of color communities to connect and celebrate.”
Ateam of UW-Madison current and former biomedical engineering students sliced through the competition at a national collegiate inventors competition to win first-place with their combined forceps-scalpel device.
More than a year after the school’s current president announced his retirement, Madison College is starting over in a search for its next leader.
At UW Health, which took part in the clinical trial for Trikafta, nearly all 350 or so patients with cystic fibrosis are on Trikafta or similar drugs, and four of them are in their 70s.
Ordinarily, Ferda and Ali Guctekin watch their daughter’s University of Wisconsin volleyball matches on replay. That’s because most of the Badgers’ matches are played around 3 a.m. local time in Istanbul, Turkey.
Ricardo Hallman can laugh about it now, but two years ago this week was a low point in his football career.
As more students choose MATC for affordability, UW should streamline transfer processes and expand financial aid.
The educational, nonpartisan event was one of many celebrating Latine Heritage Month. This year’s theme, “Illuminating Our Voices,” aimed to showcase how Latine people share personal passions and culture through art.
“This moment gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza,” Harris said during a campaign speech the University of Wisconsin.
“If the monarch migration to this part of the world is to continue, both the trees and the monarchs will need to move,” says Karen Oberhauser, a biologist at University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the study. According to Oberhauser, who studies monarch butterfly ecology, assisted migration could be a possible solution; however, whether it will work remains to be seen.
The brutal attack and sexual assault of a woman happened early the morning of Sept. 3, 2023, and left her fighting for her life. In the criminal complaint filed against Thompson, a Madison Police Department sergeant who was one of the first officers on the scene of the downtown assault described the victim’s injuries as “one of the most horrifying things I’ve seen.”
According to a Dane County court filing obtained by 27 News, a lawyer for Brandon Thompson wrote to the judge “Defendant Brandon Thompson wishes to waive the upcoming motion hearing in his case, and wishes to instead enter a guilty plea.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison removed a sex education module from University Health Services after an inquiry from The Madison Federalist indicated the module had a link to a pornographic website.
“It literally feels like [the] Hunger Games,” the student said of the housing process. “You got to be quick, or you’re going to be lost.”
Conservative students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched a new student newspaper, The Madison Federalist, Wednesday evening. They first covered a sex education program that ‘promotes pornography.’
In 2007, he (Errol Morris) was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a graduate student at Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley. He has received the Columbia Journalism Award and honorary degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brandeis University, and Middlebury College.
In their letter to the attorney general, Merrick Garland, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin and the non-profit organization Free Speech for People claimed that the text message had “targeted young voters aged 18-25” and “reached many voters who are part of the University of Wisconsin system”. Now, the letter alleges, “many students and other young voters are fearful that they will face criminal prosecution if they register and exercise their right to vote – because of a malicious, inaccurate text sent by an anonymous party.”
said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “When the elections are this close, it’ (paywall)
Meanwhile, college students in Wisconsin, another swing state, allegedly received mass texts last week that advocates say could dissuade them from voting. The claim came in a Tuesday letter from a free-speech-advocacy group writing on behalf of Wisconsin’s chapter of the League of Women Voters, which supports expanding voting access but does not endorse specific candidates.
Some art projects are still in the works, Wolf said, like a collaboration with UW-Madison Design Studies teaching professor Monika Thadhani and her class to make an engaging “food culture” wall of historic images.
UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt will step down at the end of the school year and return to the faculty after a turbulent 12 months during which 20% of employees were eliminated, two branch campuses were slated for closure and faculty rebuked his leadership.
Less than two weeks after he signaled he would pursue an insanity defense, a man accused of a violent rape of a UW-Madison student last year in the city’s Downtown says he will plead guilty.
University Health Services, PAVE-UW share resources for survivors, allies.
‘In order to be successful, we strive to make this organization a place that provides resources, space and a support group for all Latine students,’ LSU president says.
‘We’re still here, we’re not just in the past,’ Wunk Sheek marketing chair says.
“Cripescast” podcast host Charlie Berens will team up with University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor Mike Wagner in a sold-out event to highlight the importance of voting this November and break down key ballot issues.
University of Wisconsin-Madison indigenous student organization Wunk Sheek, celebrated Indigenous People’s day with a Powwow at Dejope Residence Hall. Over 150 people attended the celebration of campus Indigenous life.
According to the University of Wisconsin, almost one-third of US land is in the so-called wildland-urban interface and thus susceptible to forest fires, up from 29.5% in 1990. Meanwhile, people are spreading out; some 44 million US homes are now under threat from fire, up from 30 million in 1990, the data shows. Climate change is making those 72,000 communities more tenuous.
To test this idea, Keys and Philip Mulder, now on faculty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s business school, searched for the prelude to a housing crash: a distinctive “lead-lag” pattern of a spike in unsold homes (“the lead”), followed by falling prices (“the lag”).
Some say the federal government should be allowed to appropriate products patented by universities and developed with private money if the underlying research received any federal funding and if the products are deemed unreasonably priced. In patent law-speak, that’s called “march-in” rights. It would be a major departure from the bipartisan 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, which was silent on what constitutes “reasonable” price and which has been credited with spurring innovation at major universities nationwide, including the UW-Madison. Erik Iverson, who leads the independent Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, has said the proposal “ignores years of input from experts” who have found “there is no legal justification to redefine march-in rights as a price-control tool.”
The removal of the Memorial Union’s colorful orange, yellow and green terrace chairs — that bellwether of impending winter — will start the last week of October.
In a survey sent out last spring, the College for Rural Wisconsin found that 82% of rural-identifying UW-Madison students felt somewhat or unprepared for college, director Jennifer Blazek said.
Festivities begin with the “Badger Games,” which is a bracket-style student intramural volleyball tournament. That goes from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Nicholas Recreation Center.
The Union will continue to host concerts, art events and other activities inside once the outdoor area closes.
Wisconsin Union announced the move on Monday. The removal date is subject to change based on factors including staffing. Crews will remove 2,000 chairs and 431 tables from the Terrace.
