In a new study from Emory University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and UC Berkeley, researchers set out to investigate the potential demand for psilocybin-assisted therapy for depression in the United States.
University of Wisconsin, Madison: Updated its policy on “expressive activity” August 28. “Expressive activity,” defined as activities protected by the First Amendment including “speech, lawful assembly, protesting, distributing literature and chalking,” is now prohibited within 25 feet of university buildings.
Lawmakers must move to support increased state funding for UW system schools, steady tuition, enable scholarships.
The numbers of citations, detox transfers, and police contact with people at a blood alcohol content of 0.20 or higher haven’t changed much between the first two games of the 2023 season and this year.
‘The moment they heard my Latino name they decided to cuff me,’ student says.
A UW-Madison Athletics Department employee is accused of spending thousands of dollars using per diem cards meant for student athletes, according to a criminal complaint obtained by WMTV 15 News on Thursday. Marcel Dubois, 51, is accused of several felony counts. He faces 12 counts of misappropriating ID information to obtain money and one misdemeanor charge of computer crime- access data.
The $75 million gift places the college halfway to its goal of $175 million. An additional $197 million in funding for the building will come from the state of Wisconsin, totaling $347 million.
When No. 4 Alabama visits Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday, it will be a rare chance for the University of Wisconsin football program and its fans to welcome a powerhouse from outside the Big Ten Conference.
It beat all of the other Big Ten schools that year for the highest voting rate.
The Levy surname will grace a second UW-Madison building, as prolific Madison-area philanthropists Marv and Jeff Levy have pledged $75 million in support of the College of Engineering’s new building.
Following the opening of the John C. Kuetemeyer Instructional Laboratories, students in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison brewed the department’s first-ever beers this summer.
Six UW-Madison students are without a home and most of their belongings after a fire ripped through their home early Wednesday morning. Ring Doorbell video footage shows the moments Lolly Walsh made a lifesaving knock on her neighbors’ door after noticing flames behind their home.
UW-Madison officials said the new building will be named the Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center. It will be an eight-story, 395,000 square-foot building that gives the College of Engineering a chance to expand its enrollment.
Brothers Marvin and Jeffrey Levy, both UW-Madison alumni, are donating $75 million to help build the university’s new engineering building. On Wednesday, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said this is the largest single gift in college history.
Expanded league will lead to new rivalries, stronger recruiting, higher revenues.
Memorial acts as unifying event, emphasizes importance of students remembering 9/11.
Residents create GoFundMe to raise funds, awareness.
After a lack of communication from UW System officials, many communities and students face uncertainty and isolation with higher education after a myriad of branch campuses closed.
Each year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison features one book through the Go Big Read program. This year’s book explores the politics of growing up in a disabled body through essays by Rebekah Taussig in her memoir “Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.”
For years, Lily’s Classic has been held on a frozen solid Lake Mendota. Now, the lake can barely freeze over. Will the yearly tradition be lost to climate change?
The Washington Monthly ranked the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the number one public university in the country in a study released this past August.
Rick Lindroth at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that spongy moth caterpillars strip aspen tree foliage, increasing tree defenses and causing harm to a native species.
University of Wisconsin-Madison math professor Jordan Ellenberg sits down with The Daily Cardinal to discuss his latest AI research and writing and student work.
At a filled to capacity watch party at Union South, University of Wisconsin-Madison students watched the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Witnessing a nonconference game against a top 10 opponent at Camp Randall Stadium has become a once-in-a-generation experience, and University of Wisconsin football fans are paying a premium for the one coming Saturday.
NBC News Correspondent Shaquille Brewster reports from Madison, Wisconsin on the rapidly growing population of Dane County and how both Democrats and Republicans are trying to increase their vote share. (Barry Burden)
The parts of the economy where inflation is taking a while to come down are in the services sector. For instance, inflation actually picked up last month in the food away from home category.“Which reflects what? Well, that’s, like, restaurants. And what’s a big component of restaurant costs is labor costs,” said Menzie Chinn, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Officials with UW-Madison reported Tuesday that the memorial bricks around Camp Randall could take years to relocate, possibly until 2027.
“It’s hard to say,” said UW-Madison Journalism Professor Michael Wagner. “Most of the literature in political science has suggested that debates don’t tend to matter in terms of who people vote for.”
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor hosted a media roundtable with student journalists Tuesday. Updates on campus initiatives, financial and housing needs and free expression were prominent in the discussion.
For University of Wisconsin computer science major Tanvi Wadhawan, envisioning a future where artificial intelligence is not only present but omnipresent has been a no-brainer. Growing up in the Silicon Valley area, Wadhawan has long understood the potential of AI, so much so that it caused her to switch career paths.
“It’s [AI] why I switched gears from straight software engineering to security… it 100% has made me rethink my entire career,” Wadhawan said. “If ChatGPT or cloud AI can do my homework, it can do my job.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison StudentPrint laid off all 23 employees and transitioned into a self-service shop called the Registered Student Organization (RSO) Print and Resource Center on Sept. 1 after 25 years of student-run printing services.
A lot has been on University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s plate since the spring.
Between a 12-day pro-Palestine encampment and juggling the university budget process, she’s had to carefully tread an upcoming election with a student body that has divided perspectives. Mnookin and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor sat down with campus media Tuesday to discuss free speech efforts, the affordable housing shortage and protest culture.
Dr. Gee has an in-depth conversation with University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin on what the university is doing to improve the sense of belonging for students of color. Their discussion covers Dr. Gee’s participation in a committee working to recognize the universities history with students of color and what can be done moving forward. The committee will be releasing a report soon with their findings and recommendations. Chancellor Mnookin shares about her plans and initiatives in this role at the university and how she sees that they are developing so far.Jennifer L. Mnookin is the 30th leader in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s 175-year history, and one of the nation’s top legal scholars.
Two student housing developers — Core Spaces of Chicago and Mortenson Development of Minneapolis — have made agreements with the city and UW-Madison that let them offer lower rents to qualifying students at certain projects in exchange for added stories, Verveer said.
In 2020, UW-Madison and the Madison Metropolitan School District created a task force to study effective ways to teach literacy. Around that time, test scores showed about 80% of the school district’s students were failing to read proficiently.
Beverly Trezek, a UW-Madison professor who specializes in reading, said university administrators used the research to adjust courses. They added more instruction on topics like spelling and writing, and added opportunities for prospective special education teachers to teach reading in schools, she said.
Donald Harris, Kamala Harris’ father, is a post-keynesian economist who has written on Marxist theory. He is a retired Stanford University professor who has served as an economic advisor to his home country of Jamaica. He also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
‘There’s so much uncertainty in those predictions that I would hesitate to really read too much into any small variation from year to year, outside of demonstrable changes and practices out on the landscape,” said Steven Hall, a professor in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The emissions inventories published by EPA are subject to substantial uncertainty.”
Samira Ali, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, entered the debate unsure whether she would vote at all. She left a raucous viewing party on campus still unsure. “She still has to impress me,” said Ms. Ali, 19. As someone who recently moved into her own place off-campus and has had to buy groceries for the first time, Ms. Ali said she wanted to hear Ms. Harris speak more about housing costs and inflation. “I’m still deciding,” she said as the debate neared its end.
In 1999, Wisconsin Badgers running back Ron Dayne had an incredible season breaking the NCAA Division I rushing record and winning the Heisman Trophy.
On Monday many people headed to Camp Randall not for Monday night football, but to retrieve memorial bricks that are being moved.
One of the greatest running back in Wisconsin football history will be honored Saturday.
While Rep. Lisa Subeck, D-Madison, told the Cardinal she acknowledges protest is a tool for change, law and regulations remain an important principle for protesters to follow. “You can certainly exercise your right to free speech and right to assemble without tents in a camp… there is protest and then there’s civil disobedience,” Subeck said. “Actions have consequences, so whatever it is the protest is about when they choose to set up an encampment such as these students did, there are consequences that can come with that.”
Attendees removed for unlawful behavior like underage drinking, fake IDs, possession of unauthorized alcohol, UWPD says.
Public service organization holding voter registration events Sep. 9 through 13.
Latine Heritage Month at the University of Wisconsin will run from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 and offers a moment to reflect on and celebrate the cultural contributions of Latinx communities, according to the UW Student Affairs website.
Even when they’re leaving a University of Wisconsin football game early, fans generally give Camp Randall Stadium high marks for the experience.
The commission signed off on additions to UW Health’s East Madison Hospital and the Rohr Chabad House at the University of Wisconsin, as well as new housing aimed at youth at risk of homelessness.
“It’s really pushing back against this idea that you need to constantly be buying things to have a happy and fulfilling life,” said Megan Doherty Bea, assistant professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It’s also probably the case that viewership trended upward since 1996 in part because of increased partisan identification. The University of Wisconsin’s Barry Burden made this point before that Biden-Trump debate and it tracks: Higher investment in partisan success would suggest more interest in seeing how well each candidate does.
In 1966, they moved to Madison, where David served as a physician for 35 years at the University of Wisconsin Student Health Service and the VA Hospital, where he compassionately provided care for generations of students and veterans. He was Associate Professor at UW Medical School.
That’s a new part of the entry process this season. Wisconsin has had similar checks at the Kohl Center since 2016 and added them at Camp Randall Stadium in 2023. Volleyball fans now also are subject to the security measures and an earlier time for gates opening — 90 minutes before the match instead of an hour.
Long lines inside an already busy Union South were a major factor in the decision to move locations, Transportation Services marketing specialist Lauren Hawley said in an email to The Daily Cardinal. “Transportation Services decided to relocate the student bus pass pickup location to Ogg Hall, a larger location to help facilitate pickup in a more efficient manner,” Hawley said.
By mimicking bat hibernation in a lab dish, UW-Madison researchers showed how the fungus that causes deadly white-nose syndrome spreads and how a lung cancer drug might stop it.
Column by Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison.
The banner will be attached to a plane that will circle campus and then fly over Camp Randall Stadium. The banner will read “Jump around! Beat Trump + Project 2025.”
UW ranked first by Washington Monthly’s 2024 College Guide and Rankings according to three categories.
Community Pediatrics in Beaver Dam has been acquired by UW Health and will be renamed UW Health Kids Beaver Dam Clinic in November.
The 30-second video premiered during the Badger football team’s season opener Aug. 30 at Camp Randall Stadium. University officials said the UW Marching Band-themed ad will play during sporting events throughout the year.
Of the 47 people ejected, 37 were UW students, and all 18 who were arrested were UW students, police said in a statement detailing the numbers.
