Palestine Legal, a civil rights and advocacy group, argued that university disciplinary proceedings against pro-Palestine activists violate First Amendment rights and called on the university to drop two cases they called “discriminatory.”
UW System President Jay Rothman addressed freedom of expression leaders about the UW System’s plans to promote a marketplace of ideas.
The number of underrepresented students of color in the University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman class dropped from 18% to 14.3% this year following the U.S. Supreme Court’s race-conscious affirmative action ban last June.
SJP UW leaders voiced frustration regarding divestment negotiations, disciplinary hearings.
Students motivated to bring unique personal identity, background to study abroad experience.
Of course, you don’t have to be wading through piles of leaves before your yard sees results. Experts suggest leaving anywhere from 20 percent to 50 percent of leaf accumulation alone. Diana Alfuth, an extension educator for the University of Wisconsin’s horticulture department, explains that small amounts of leaves will redistribute themselves with the wind while larger collections need a quick run-through with a lawnmower to become fertilizer. But if you can barely see the green beneath the red and brown, it’s time to take action.
The Crossroads team compiled a panel of experts to attend the town hall and join the discussion alongside Woodruff and the participants: conservative commentator and Wisconsin resident Charlie Sykes, University of Wisconsin political science professor Katherine Cramer, and retired U.S. Navy Commander and writer Theodore Johnson.
“It really did suggest that in humans, these drugs, mTOR inhibitors, can improve something that becomes impaired with older adults,” said Adam Konopka, an assistant professor of geriatrics and gerontology at the University of Wisconsin, who was not involved in the research.
After the Constitutional Convention came to a close and the complete draft of the Constitution was finalized in 1787, the founders’ last step was to have the document ratified by at least nine of the original 13 colonies, making it binding to the government of the new nation. As part of that process, Congress printed out 100 copies and sent them around the country, John Kaminski, an expert in the document’s history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an email.
Elsdon started working in this space while serving as the executive director of a campus ministry center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he helped oversee the construction of student housing. Since he helped launch RootedGood in January 2020, he’s talked to faith-based groups across the country.“It’s just in the air,” said Elsdon. “Even churches that are doing well should be thinking about using their resources better.”
Budgeting for postseason competition at the University of Wisconsin is usually a line where officials expect more expenses than revenue.
The percentage of Black, Latino and Indigenous students in UW-Madison’s Class of 2028 has dropped, despite a record number of applications, following last year’s Supreme Court ruling that barred consideration of race in college applications.
The doors didn’t always work as they should. There were delays, some riders struggled to understand the new fare system, and more than one bus ended up being towed.
Dear Editor: In this new academic year, UW-Madison administration is beginning to enforce a crackdown on its own students and faculty who participated in the anti-war and anti-genocide protests at downtown Library Mall last spring, organized by Students for Justice in Palestine.
A Madison physician and researcher who has dedicated his entire 36-year career to fighting cancer is stepping down from his role at UW Carbone Cancer Center. Dr. Howard Bailey says has seen the ugly side of the disease, but he’s forged some beautiful relationships along the way.
Watching for warning signs, check-ins important for prevention.
Discovery to Product facilitates funding from SEED, $250,000 matching fund from WECD to assist startups.
UW-Madison dropped slightly in the latest edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings for 2025, going down one place to tie for 13th in the national public colleges category.
Column by Dr. Nathaniel Chin, a geriatrician, memory care specialist and medical director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at UW-Madison, and Darby Peter, a research assistant in geriatrics and gerontology at UW-Madison.
In the same year, Pete received a fellowship in physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he earned a master’s degree in physics and a doctorate in physics. The University became home to him. He worked in Environmental Sciences and throughout his career, received many honors.
Fall enrollment at UW-Stevens Point’s campuses in Marshfield and Wausau is expected to be down by 44.2% and 21.4%, respectively, with Marshfield enrollment standing at 158 students, versus 283 last year, and Wausau enrolling 286 students, down from 364 last year.
Expect the leaves to really start showing off their radiant yellow, orange and red hues in mid-October, says an expert at UW-Madison.
“It’s really early October when we start seeing the peak colors across the state — particularly in parts of northern Wisconsin,” said Steven Ackerman, emeritus professor with the UW-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
In 1968 he moved to Wisconsin and began working at the UW Internal Audit Department and advanced to heading the department until his retirement.
Using tariffs as geopolitical influencers and industry protections sounds like a great idea. But a recent study out of the University of Wisconsin found that the US tariff codes are regressive and favor the luxury market over the mundane—a handbag made of reptile leather has a tariff rate of 5.3%, while a plastic-sided handbag has a tariff rate of 16%.
Dr. Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, an addiction physician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has trained doctors in prescribing buprenorphine, said that the buprenorphine reforms had changed the culture around offering the drug, allowing it to be prescribed by phone or through a telehealth appointment. “We’re going to treat it like other medicines,” she said.
Matthews, 66, was a Democratic voter for nearly all his adult life, motivated by antiwar positions he embraced as a student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the early 1980s.
While those cases exist, I’ve also worked with enough families to know that an adult child’s marriage may disrupt once-close family relationships. For example, in my survey of 1,632 estranged parents conducted through the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, I found that 70 percent of parents didn’t become estranged from their adult child until after their child married.
Sharing your bed with your cat increases the risk of transmitting zoonotic diseases, which are ones that are transmissible from animals to humans. According to Calico Schmidt, a veterinarian and clinical instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, this is especially true if you have an outdoor cat.
That seeming-lack of interest in joining the growing green energy market is the focus of a recent economic study coming out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison details barriers – like federal red tape – that tribes face when starting green energy projects. If these prohibitive barriers are not addressed, researchers tribes across the United States will lose out on 19 billion dollars of revenue by 2050.
Dahlia Saba, a PhD student at University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked with Students for Justice in Palestine, believes the Uncommitted Movement has made their demands for an arms embargo and permanent ceasefire clear and now is the time for action from Harris.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents heard arguments concerning the tenured faculty status of former UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow.
In a talk sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the CNN politics anchor and UW-Madison alum reflected on politics reporting and his journey to congressional reporting.
The Committee on Student Organizations heard arguments from a school investigator and Students for Justice in Palestine Friday on possible policy violations during the May pro-Palestine encampment.
“President Trump is making inroads with young voters on campuses like the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his message of making American wealthy, safe, and strong again is resonating with Wisconsinites of all backgrounds,” Kelly said. “The momentum is on our side.”
Dane County, where Ms. Harris is holding a rally on Friday night, is home to the state government, the sprawling flagship University of Wisconsin campus and, particularly in the last decade, a flourishing health care and technology industry.
Authors: Alvin Thomas, Associate Professor, Phyllis Northway Faculty Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Quinn Kinzer, Graduate student and PhD Candidate, Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Aformer University of Wisconsin athletic department employee has been ordered to repay more than $7,000 he stole from accounts belonging to former Badgers players.
In the child care sector specifically, unions are an anomaly, said Laura Dresser, a labor economist and associate director of the UW-Madison think tank High Road Strategy Center.
“Child care unions are really rare in Wisconsin … and unions are rare in child care nationally as well,” Dresser said.
Movies and books speculate whether humans are alone in the universe. A new group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is working to find answers.
Thomas Beatty, an assistant astronomy professor, compared the creation of the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research to Marvel Comics.
The Universities of Wisconsin employed about 6,000 more employees during the 2022-23 academic year than in the 1992-93 school year, despite serving a similar number of students, according to a recent analysis by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, a nonpartisan arm of the Legislature.
Another long-standing component of the festival set to make its return is the “Discovery Expo,” presented by the Morgridge Institute for Research.
ASM also tabled a proposal that would make segregated fee spending and requests publicly available in a spreadsheet on the ASM website for next meeting after confusion on which committee or ASM member would update the spreadsheet.
Gov. Tony Evers’ University of Wisconsin System $800 million budget increase proposal would be the largest increase in the system’s history if approved.
Recent appearances from Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles and Charlie Kirk have sparked campus controversy, offering lessons in free speech.
New chief of police will address complex campus safety challenges, aiming for spring 2025 hire.
UW-Madison police said two of the bikes were stolen from outside Ogg Hall, Sellery Hall and the Zoology Research Building.
The group invited the UW System president to see ‘where he’s going to go’ on free speech issues.
Resource center aims to leverage pharmacy expertise and community education to combat Wisconsin’s opioid crisis
The new policy, which takes effect immediately, is drawing praise, criticism and confusion.“I’m not at all surprised to see it,” Kathleen Bartzen Culver, the director of UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said. “I don’t think it’s going to have much effect, especially when it comes to academic freedom for faculty, staff and students.”
Seven friends were gathered around a table inside a private room at a Madison restaurant on a summer night. They may well have been seated on wooden benches in a locker room, drenched in sweat.
Gov. Evers toured one of the campus dining halls before hosting a roundtable discussion with students to learn more about their concerns and how they thought that extra funding could be spent.
UW Center for Limnology’s Trout Lake Station celebrates 100 years of research, education.
For the benefit of students and faculty, the university should start classes a week earlier.
When looking at sexual violence on campus, the need for this space becomes particularly clear.
Co-authored by Richard L. Lindroth, Vilas Distinguished Achievement & Sorenson Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Public Investigator consulted Suzanne Eckes, education law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the school board’s decision. A former lawyer and public high school teacher, Eckes researches how civil rights laws impact education policies in public schools.Although some Muskego-Norway schools are included on Moms for Liberty’s growing list, Eckes said the district cannot exclude transgender students from protections. “Whether they kick it out of their policy or not, they still need to follow the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision,” said Eckes, who clarified that she is speaking on her own behalf, not the university’s.
I consider this to be the most underrated capital in the U.S. Every time I cross the country, I make a point of spending a day here. Home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it has a big city feel in a small package. It’s a town filled with arts, great food, and, as it’s surrounded by nature, lots of outdoor activities.
“It was long overdue,” said Dr. Terri Young, committee co-chair and professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Theranostics is gaining widespread attention in the medical research field and has become a rapidly growing industry, added UW-Madison Professor Zachary Morris, who specializes in oncology. Morris said the state’s research of theranostics has raked in millions of dollars in federal grants. Wisconsin’s promise in theranostics research in part secured the state’s status as a “regional tech hub” this year, unlocking $49 million in federal funds.
“This is an area on the industry side where we’re seeing enormous investment, and the hope is that investment is going to translate into improvements in care for cancer patients in the years to come,” Morris said. “In the state of Wisconsin, it’s a strength for our state as a whole, not only on the academic side but also on the industry side.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine protested student disciplinary investigations and criticized updates to university protest policy outside Gordon dining hall on Sept. 11.
