The University Committee met Monday with the Dean of the Graduate School Bill Karpus, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and other University of Wisconsin leaders to discuss graduate admissions and federal funding cuts.
Women at the University of Wisconsin conduct groundbreaking research every day to advance their fields of study and contribute to a better understanding of the world.
UW ranks sixth in the nation for research universities among private and public universities, according to the National Science Foundation’s annual ranking. Women in research, specifically in STEM areas, are still underrepresented in research funding, according to a study by JAMA.
The University of Wisconsin was one of 60 schools that the U.S. Department of Education warned last Monday about a potential loss of federal funding if they fail to protect Jewish students.
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate judge Susan Crawford visited the University of Wisconsin campus to host a rally in Grainger Hall on March 18.
UW-Madison Professor Sterling Johnson leads one of the world’s largest and longest-running studies of people at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. His team aims to diagnose the disease years before people develop symptoms and then identify ways to slow its progression.
“A key problem we are trying to solve is how we can diagnose the disease earlier, before people even develop symptoms,” Johnson said during a campus news conference. “Early diagnosis allows time for individuals and their families to take control of their situation, maintain good quality of life, take steps to protect brain health and learn about treatments.”
Graduate guard John Tonje was named a second-team All-American by the Associated Press on Tuesday. It’s the first AP All-American selection for a Badgers’ player since Johnny Davis was named a consensus All-American in 2021-22.
A study by UW-Madison sociology professor Michael Light and two others of crimes committed between 2012 and 2018 found U.S.-born citizens were more than two times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes than immigrants, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and more than four times more likely to be arrested for property crimes.
The 62-mile Yahara River is fed by a 536-square-mile watershed that covers about a quarter of Dane County. It includes a mix of urban and agricultural land and is populated by more than 370,000 people, according to the Center for Limnology at UW-Madison.
After nearly 20 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brent Plisch officially became the new leader of campus police Sunday.
Plisch temporarily led the department after Kristen Roman resigned last year amid an investigation into her conduct as chief. Plisch then competed against a handful of outside candidates to fill the permanent position.
“This order is fairly vague and attempts to touch on multiple areas that an administration could potentially oppose,” said Taylor Odle, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies federal education policy.
UW-Madison is among 60 universities nationwide that received letters this week from President Donald Trump’s Department of Education warning of unspecified “potential enforcement action” if the administration determines they are not sufficiently combatting antisemitism on their campuses.
Treating college athletes as employees would put athletic departments in impractical situations, University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh told members of Congress on Tuesday.
“I’m trying to envision our HR department posting 800 positions, posting a position for a wide receiver on our football team,” he said.
After a brief stint working for the State of Kentucky in Frankfurt, he returned to Madison, Wis. and worked the rest of his career as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Agricultural Economics. He worked for the UW extension outreach service primarily advising state and local governments on legal aspects of natural resource management issues such as the conservation of wetlands, shorelines, and farmland.
Most of the lights were off at LaBahn Arena. The stickers on the boards, affixed earlier in the week, labeled the game that never happened.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball graduate guard John Tonje is officially one of the best players in the Big Ten.
The contract extension keeping WIAA state championship events at University of Wisconsin facilities through 2033 changed the rental fee structure and added a chance for the university to propose new costs halfway through the deal.
“The police are not equipped to deal with a situation like this,” said Ion Meyn, an associate professor at the UW Law School who studies police use of force. “We’re dealing with an endemic kind of approach to people who are in serious emotional distress.”
In announcing the committee, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, told the Cap Times he wanted to better tailor the work of government to a 21st century context.
“We need to deliver services in a different way than we have,” Vos said. “You know, how many (Universities of Wisconsin) campuses do we need? How many school districts do we need? How many townships do we need? All the things that we’ve never really thought about.”
The Badgers had four players on the All-WCHA first team for the first time when the selections were announced Monday.
Tariffs will cause lumber and other construction staples to become more expensive, and home prices and rents will follow, said Kurt Paulsen, a professor of urban planning at UW-Madison.
“If you increase the costs of construction, you will increase the cost of housing, even existing housing,” Paulsen said.
In 1970, he became a Professor at the University of Wisconsin, serving joint appointments in Medicine and Human Oncology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. He was a clinical staff member of the University Health Service until 1987.
UW-Madison deans should admit fewer graduate students, given the uncertainty of federal research funding going forward, leaders say.
But graduate school Dean William Karpus also this week reiterated his commitment to current grad students.
“What we have in Wisconsin Supreme Court races are teams without uniforms,” said UW-Madison journalism and mass communications professor Michael Wagner. “The donation networks are partisan, the political elites who endorse are really just from one side or the other, and the issues they talk about are really about core concerns of one party or the other.”
Essentially, the University of Wisconsin-Madison wants the authority to borrow money for construction projects that are funded by the university and don’t involve state tax dollars. Currently, that authority rests with the state.
UW Health’s contract with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Wisconsin will end April 15 if the parties don’t agree to terms before then, potentially leaving patients with Anthem insurance unable to go to UW Health or facing higher bills there, UW Health said Friday.
Meshing introspection with reflection, University of Wisconsin graduate senior Phoebe Bacon brought some context to her evolution as a nine-time Big Ten swimming champion.
Letter to the editor: It was interesting to read that our state GOP lawmakers are demanding that UW-Madison establish an endowed professorship focusing on conservative politics and thought.
Ann was a professor of virology and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Emeritus 2023-present of Biochemistry and Institute for Molecular Virology. Her journey started in Zurich, Switzerland for her post-doctoral work and she continued her work at the University of Wisconsin often traveling the world in support of her research. She has been recipient of multiple global and national awards in the field of virology. Ann was also very involved with both women’s and men’s sports teams at University of Wisconsin serving on the Athletic Board.
City planners recommend adding a fire hydrant, lighting upgrades and raised pedestrian crossings on State Street, which stretches from the state Capitol to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. They also favor adopting one-way traffic, automatic retractable bollards and bike lanes.
Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo promised his wife, child and therapist he’d leave his laptop at home.
But when Bad Bunny’s team DMed him on Christmas Eve while Meléndez-Badillo was on vacation in Europe, he had to take the call. The singer’s team wanted this University of Wisconsin-Madison historian and professor of Latin American and Caribbean history to contribute historical narratives to pair with his new album, “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” (translated to “I should have taken more pictures”).
The Badgers open the spring with a road date with Hawaii at 11 p.m. March 25, the first of two matches against the Rainbow Warriors spanning back-to-back days in Manoa, Hawaii. A time for the pair’s second contest — on March 26 — has yet to be released.
University of Wisconsin athletics and WIAA officials emphasized their strong relationship in announcing Tuesday that Badgers facilities will continue to host seven high school state championships through the spring of 2033.
UW-Madison researchers found that guardian caps had no impact on sports-related concussion rates after evaluating nearly 3,000 high school football players in their study.
Greg moved to Madison, Wisconsin and worked at the University of Wisconsin for 34 years, first as a custodian and then as a custodial supervisor.
UW-Madison has funded efforts to prevent farmer suicides, expand access to health services for Black men through barbershops and improve Alzheimer’s disease detection among Latinos. The school has trained medical students to work in rural communities and sought to increase Indigenous representation in medicine. Researchers have studied new ways to treat melanoma and prevent opioid misuse.
Letter to the editor: From disrupting the day-to-day work of UW-Madison researchers who are working to find cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes, to harming the livelihoods of real people across Wisconsin and the country, these caps will affect all of us.
The play, written by one of the giants of 20th-century theater, August Wilson, opens on the UW-Madison campus with a preview Thursday. Hicks plays Seth Holly, the owner of a Black boarding house in Pittsburgh where many different lives intersect in a search for identity and wholeness.
Deer, who died nearly two years ago, was a member of the state’s Menominee Tribe. She taught classes in social work at UW-Madison and led the American Indian Studies program. Deer also headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Clinton administration.
On Feb. 13, Arther opened an email from human resources telling her she was out of a job, alongside other workers still in their probationary period, which at the Dairy Forage Research Center is three years.
A major cut in federal funding for medical research, announced by the Trump administration this month, would harm efforts at UW-Madison to better treat cancer, diabetes and heart disease, university officials said.
UW-Madison is balking at a key lawmaker’s claim that the university has broken its promise to establish an endowed professorship focusing on conservative politics or thought.
Jay Rothman interview with WISC-TV on the state budget bill introduced this week by Gov. Evers.
Six months ago, UW Health started conducting a diaper needs assessment survey at postpartum appointments at OB-GYN clinics in Madison.
The Buttses, who lived in the house at 633 E. Johnson St. between 1892 and 1907, used the residence to host Black students at UW-Madison and other Black newcomers to the city, where the Black population numbered about 19 households at the time.
“A Little Night Music,” featuring a vocal quintet, is University Opera’s choice, running March 14-16 in Shannon Hall. With a story by Hugh Wheeler, the 1973 “Little Night Music” was inspired by an Ingmar Bergman film about an aging actress, Desiree (Madison Barrett), and what happens when her married lovers converge at her mother’s estate for a very dramatic “weekend in the country.”
For years, the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Mechanical Engineering foundry has served as a learning environment for students eager to gain hands-on manufacturing skills. But, the early months of 2024 saw the foundry’s permanent closure so the space could be used as a research lab.
At UW, Stan was appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology and Assistant Director of the WSLH in 1960. He became Director of the WSLH in 1966, a position he held until 1979, when he was asked by the UW Medical School to create a Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. During his long career at WSLH, Stan pursued many different lines of medical research and public health intervention.
Some background: The city of Madison, specifically the University of Wisconsin, is a long-established hotbed for Peace Corps recruitment. The campus produced more volunteers than any other American university in 2023, and Dane County has a huge concentration of returned Peace Corps volunteers, second only to Washington, D.C. among U.S. cities. Since the Peace Corps was founded 64 years ago, UW-Madison has produced 2,766 volunteers, second-most nationally.
UW Madison’s rowing team hosted its tenth annual erg challenge on Thursday at the Porter Boathouse to raise money for pediatric brain cancer research. Teams raised funds by completing a 100,000-meter rowing relay in partnership with the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison — the sixth largest research university in the country — this cap would translate into an annual loss of approximately $65 million in research funding. The nationwide impact is even more staggering, amounting to billions of dollars in cuts for institutions that rely on NIH grants to support their research infrastructure. The hardest hit area would be indirect costs, or Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs, funds that cover essential expenses like laboratory equipment, research facilities and staff salaries.
“Right now she is extremely healthy in comparison to where she was before,” UW Veterinary Care Dr. Vanessa Bruneau said. Dr. Bruneau has been on Poppy’s case from the beginning. “We definitely had some moments where we weren’t sure if she was going to be there for us.”
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health began teaching courses on firearm safety in January 2023. The courses were started and are taught by clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Dr. James Bigham.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers received a $5.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy on Jan. 10 to study methods to reduce synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use in crops.
The future of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s diversity-based scholarships are in doubt after a U.S. Department of Education decision Friday ordered schools to eliminate race-based programs.
Across the country, fewer students of all demographics are attending college — in the University of Wisconsin System only UW-Madison and UW-La Crosse did not experience drops in enrollment and end the 2023 fiscal year in a budget deficit. Declining enrollment, years of stagnant tuition and waning state funding has led to system-wide budget cuts and closures of two-year branch campuses.
“ I don’t know if I’m alone in this, but I find it very hard to think about anything else at the moment,” the best-selling author told a packed crowd of students and community members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Shannon Hall on Tuesday.
The last time the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board considered a routine, one-year contract extension for a head football coach who just had a losing season was 23 years ago.
Northland College, a private, liberal arts college in Ashland, just miles from Lake Superior, is closing its doors at the end of the school year, its board of trustees announced Wednesday.
With district officials poised to reject the proposal, McKenzie is pursuing a charter agreement with the UW Office of Educational Opportunity. UW will make its decision by May.
For many University of Wisconsin-Madison students, the beginning of September is a time to reacclimate themselves to Madison before classes start and take advantage of the remainder of summer to enjoy campus. But some say the first day of classes, usually the middle of the week after Labor Day, arrives too late.
