American universities are facing new questions about their purpose. How are they adjusting to address those questions and what will tomorrow’s university look like? For this final broadcast of University of the Air, we’ll look into the future with Johannes Britz, Senior Vice President for Academic & Student Affairs of the Universities of Wisconsin.
First-year University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Robin Pingeton had a plan for the first week she spent with her team this summer.
Outside the University of Wisconsin’s Educational Sciences building on West Johnson Street, a new food cart, Aha Momo, opened this past August and is already drawing a crowd. Inside the cart, chef and owner Yeshe Gyatso brings decades of culinary experience to each handmade dumpling.
International freshman enrollment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has dropped to its lowest level in at least a decade, according to recently released admissions data for the fall semester.
At the beginning of last week, the Universities of Wisconsin’s travel expense audit team started temporarily assisting UW-Madison to help with more than 6,000 expense reports with processing times that average 30 business days.
Casey Rabach grew accustomed to Bill Ferrario being by his side in life’s biggest moments.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach John Powless was willing to play shorthanded to teach a valuable lesson.
UW-Madison educational policy professor Taylor Odle describes the impacts of the Direct Admit Wisconsin and Wisconsin Guarantee programs on UW system admissions of high school students from the state.
This weekend, the annual fundraiser supporting the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center will take place with a bike, run/walk and community events to honor cancer patients.
An associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is leading a clinical trial on whether over-the-counter hearing aids are actually beneficial to listeners with changings to their memory skills and thinking.
Dr. Kimberly Mueller, an associate professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at UW, referenced a study conducted in 2024 that focused on modifiable risk factors for developing dementia in older adults.
While officially adopted by the IHRA in 2016, the definition has been in use for about 20 years, according to Chad Alan Goldberg, a sociologist and professor of Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said it’s a response to rising antisemitism in recent decades, with an additional increase since the war between Israel and Hamas after Hamas’ attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.
The program evolved from a two-year research project led by Andrew Davey, director of the Goodman Nonprofit Center, and Sharon Lezberg, community and economic development educator with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension in Dane County.
Now a creative writing major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ikard was recently named Madison’s fourth Youth Poet Laureate. The city of Madison will honor them at a reading on Tuesday, Sept. 16.
I was just out walking on the UW campus and I witnessed a girl just about get killed on at the Johnson Street crossing outside Gordon Commons.
The announced attendance of 65,952 for the Aug. 28 opener against Miami (Ohio) was the lowest for a first home game of a season since 1992. After Wisconsin announced a 70,368 figure for the Sept. 6 game against Middle Tennessee State, its average from the first two games was down 10% from the same window of the 2024 season.
The Latine Heritage Month planning committee, Latine Cultural Center and the Program in Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies hosted their annual March Up Bascom event on Friday. Over 100 students came together to celebrate Latine heritage — walking up Bascom Hill and partaking in Mercadito festivities afterward.
In an episode of “The Dan O’Donnell Show” on Saturday, Milwaukee podcaster Dan O’Donnell criticized University of Wisconsin journalism professor Lindsay Palmer’s assignment which asked students to examine their “socio-cultural identities.”
A host of prominent developers in the Madison area have new projects currently underway, including Core Spaces, a Chicago-based development company that previously built The James and Hub Madison, and Steve Brown Apartments, a Madison-based development company that previously built the Lucky apartments and several smaller complexes.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison achieved a Gold rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS), marking a major step forward in the university’s environmental initiatives after receiving Silver rating in 2021.
The Badger Challenge kicks off this week, bringing the community together to support cancer research at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department reported an increase in electric bicycle and scooter thefts across campus, with five thefts since Aug. 13.
With the University of Wisconsin-Madison student body growing each year, excess demand for housing has prompted developers to bring new projects to Madison.
UW-Madison Law School Professor Anuj Desai said while your words might cost you a job, free speech generally shields you from government punishment.
Aniya Warren’s Wisconsin volleyball teammates were in for quite the surprise when they saw an Instagram post from the freshman libero.
When Warren was not preparing for her first year of college volleyball this summer, she was writing a now-published children’s book.
Walsh visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 2022, where attendees at the indoor event outnumbered students protesting his visit. Police got involved to draw counter-protestors away after scuffles with protestors. YAF paid $8,000 for the event, and the student government provided the remaining $2,000 under its “viewpoint neutral” policy.
UW-Madison students are crowning their top “performative male” in a tongue-in-cheek contest at Library Mall at 6 p.m. Friday, building off of a popular internet trend that’s produced viral moments garnering millions of views on TikTok.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating “significant” vandalism around Library Mall, according to a university news release Friday.
Jean was employed by the University of Wisconsin Library from 1971 to 1975. Beginning in 1975, Jean was an academic staff member in the Dean’s Office for Undergraduate Education in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the U.W. She retired in 1995 after 20 years and was granted Emerita Status.
Anew UW-Madison study suggests Wisconsin school districts — including some in Dane County — have moved away from compensation systems that at least partly paid teachers for performance.
UW-Madison police said the Enzyme Research Institute on the west side of campus is all clear less than an hour after reporting a “suspicious package.”
Compass, offered at UW Health’s 1102 S. Park St. clinic, provides walk-in care for substance use disorder. The team includes a doctor, physician assistant, nurse, a peer support specialist, a social worker and a medical assistant.
“We work to make sure that we can get people pretty immediate access to any medications that might be needed related to their substance use disorder,” Salisbury-Afshar said. “We also offer some other medical services that we know people who use drugs often really struggle to be able to access. Specifically, things like Hepatitis C treatment, family planning, wound care, STI (sexually transmitted infection) testing and treatment.”
Szetela will discuss his book at a talk at the UW Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy on Monday, Sept. 22.
That was the topic of a Cap Times Idea Fest session Wednesday produced by UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center that featured three of their physicians. The discussion drew an audience of hundreds to the UW-Madison Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall.
“Immunotherapy is the concept that our own immune system can not only recognize and fight infections but it can recognize and fight cancer. It just needs a little help,” said Dr. Christian Capitini, who is leading the cancer center as acting director. “We’ve learned over the decades through many discoveries, including here at the University of Wisconsin, that immunotherapy in fact works in people and can translate into therapies that make a difference.”
The event was organized by freshmen Adrea Matulle and Beri Barton. The duo was inspired by other performative male contests across the country. “We were bored, I [had] fun with some graphics and posted it on YikYak,” Matulle said. Her post received 951 upvotes.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is investigating red paint on multiple landmarks across Library Mall found in the early morning hours Friday.
Facility crews discovered red paint on the Hagenah Fountain, the front doors and steps of Bascom Hall and around the Abraham Lincoln statue. Flyers were also affixed to Bascom Hall.
Scientists at UW-Madison are leading national studies on psilocybin, to determine whether the psychedelic compound could offer lasting relief for mental health and substance use disorders.
Lawyers for the University of Miami said the University of Wisconsin and its athletics collective are on an “impermissible fishing expedition” in a request for documents and a deposition of former Badgers football player Xavier Lucas.
The one scenario where you should pick up the leaves in your yard is if your trees have had serious foliar fungal diseases, according to UW-Madison.
“While most leaf spots on leaves are cosmetic and harmless to the overall health of the tree, fallen diseased leaves do serve as a source for spores that can infect next year’s emerging leaves,” the horticulture department said.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced budget reductions June 23 across campus following changes in federal funding. As a result, the university’s libraries have received a 7% budget cut, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library’s website.
At UW, political student organizations are grappling with what Kirk’s shooting means for both campus safety and the political climate, according to College Republicans of UW-Madison and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
More than two weeks after the Madison School District announced that it would not weight grades for the purposes of a new college-entrance program, the results of a survey on the issue show large majorities of district students and parents polled were in favor of weighting grades.
Student enrollment at the Universities of Wisconsin’s branch campuses dropped at four and increased at three this fall, according to preliminary student count projections obtained Wednesday.
These changes are a part of larger university-wide budget cuts, announced earlier in the summer by Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin. All departments were directed to reduce their budgets by 5%, with administrative units reducing their budgets by 7%.
In a joint announcement, the university and technical college said the move will strengthen both institutions and support the regional economy.
Almost exactly a year before being assassinated at Utah Valley University, Charlie Kirk visited Library Mall on UW-Madison’s campus.
University of Wisconsin researchers Sushmita Roy and Erika Da-Inn Lee have developed a new computational tool that maps changes in the genome, ultimately helping researchers see DNA’s 3D organization and link it to phenetic disturbances in disease and normal processes, according to Roy and Lee’s study.
Starting Wednesday and continuing through Thursday, BadgersVote Coalition, an initiative by the University of Wisconsin, is hosting a voter registration event on the first floor of Gordon Dining and Event Center, according to BadgersVote. For students planning to vote in Wisconsin, they can register at this event with an election official trained by the Madison City Clerk’s Office.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are planning to renovate one of the university’s oldest and most historic buildings in 2027. Science Hall — built in 1887 — will undergo a renovation to upgrade its interior and add a rear common space.
Faculty on the university committee discussed challenges to student wellbeing this academic year amidst executive orders and changing student involvement in a meeting at Bascom Hall Monday.
The camps, run through the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Climatic Research, have drawn middle and high school students from more than 35 communities across Wisconsin and Illinois since 2022. With sensory-friendly, nature-based activities ranging from NASA citizen science projects to outdoor exploration, the programs aim to foster neurodiversity and encourage students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
UW-Stevens Point at Wausau is relocating to Northcentral Technical College beginning next fall, the latest Universities of Wisconsin branch campus to face significant changes or closure since 2022.
The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs opened its lottery for veterans and active service members to receive up to two free tickets to the Wisconsin Badgers’ Salute to Veterans football game on Nov. 8 vs. the Washington Huskies.
UW Health explained Wednesday the virtual nursing program was introduced in July of 2024 to help lower the new-to-practice nursing turnover rate.
Before the implementation of the program, UW Health said new-to-practice NICU nurses had a 38% turnover rate between 2021 and 2023.
Kirk visited UW–Madison last year, where he drew both supporters and protesters during a campus speaking event.
In the wake of his death, the university issued a statement emphasizing the importance of open dialogue and security.
Eight of the 13 schools in the Universities of Wisconsin system saw an enrollment increase compared to the fall of 2024, according to preliminary estimates. However, total enrollment decreased slightly across the whole system.
UW-Whitewater said a projected 12,075 students enrolled at the school for the fall semester including 2,459 new freshman, marking the largest freshman class in a decade.
Next year also marks the end of Wisconsin’s 10-year contract with Under Armour. UW has not yet announced a new agreement, and what athletic department officials can say is limited until the next outfitting agreement is finalized.
At the University of Wisconsin, along with numerous other schools across the country, students studying journalism are faced with the consequences of the recent funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding for news outlets like Public Broadcasting Services and National Public Radio.
A new study from UW-Madison gives us some hints as to why the country is so polarized.
The August study from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication examines how using partisan news media affects an individual’s willingness to support lawmakers who reach across the aisle.
Editor’s note: People of UW is a human interest series produced by The Badger Herald staff members. The series aims to highlight a student or student group at the University of Wisconsin making an impact on the campus community.
