The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement (DDEEA) is coming to an end, UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said in an email Wednesday. However, many of its programs will not.
Native Great Lakes wildlife is at risk of extinction due in part to climate change and pollution. Before species are lost, their DNA could be “banked” for future regeneration. We talk to UW-Madison genetic professor Francisco Pelegri about the effort he’s leading to do just that.
The UW system’s Board of Regents is set to vote on a proposal Thursday to increase tuition across Wisconsin’s 13 public universities next school year. Each school would increase resident undergraduate rates by 4%. All of the universities, except UW-Green Bay, also opted in to an additional 1%.
When Shuntia Lucas told her 14-year-old son she was applying for a promotion — which would make her the first Black woman to hold the rank of sergeant at the Dane County Sheriff’s Office — he replied, “I guess you just break records, Mom.”
He built a successful career in health and safety management at the University of Wisconsin, where his dedication and professionalism left a lasting impact.
The University of Northern Iowa, which is located in Cedar Falls, about 190 miles southwest of Madison, will set in-state tuition rates of $10,201 for incoming students from Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota starting this fall.
UW-Madison entomology professor Susan Paskewitz has a decade of mosquito data. As the director of the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, she studies mosquitoes, ticks and other nuisances and the diseases they may carry.
The Madison area experienced severe drought the last two years. “So the mosquitoes were incredibly low,” Paskewitz said.
Exact Sciences, which is headquartered in the UW Research Park and has labs along the Beltline on Madison’s West Side, has announced that its Oncodetect molecular residual disease test has received approval through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Molecular Diagnostic Services Program.
Mnookin noted that DDEEA “has been the home for a set of scholarship-linked student support activities that serve approximately 5% of our student body.” She said those programs will be moved to the Division for Teaching and Learning. Employee support functions will move to the Office of Human Resources, and data collection activities will move to Data, Academic Planning and Institutional Research.
UW-Madison will sunset its Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced July 9 that the university’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Education Achievement will close.
It may soon cost more to send your student to a Universities of Wisconsin school, as the Board of Regents will vote Thursday on a 5% tuition increase for most of its universities.
DDEEA’s employee support functions will move to the Office of Human Resources, and their staff members focused on institutional data collection will join Data, Academic Planning & Institutional Research. Scholarships and student support and cultural programs will continue to be supported by the university, Mnookin said.
Faculty members at most campuses across the University of Wisconsin system will soon have to teach at least eight courses per academic year.
A new study by the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health has found that the level of regret reported by transgender individuals following gender-affirming surgery is less than 1%, which is significantly lower than the regret associated with having children, getting a tattoo, or undergoing plastic surgery.
It can take up to two-and-a-half hours to drive from Berlin in Green Lake County to the nearest pediatric hospital. That’s according to Evan VandenLangenberg, chief of Berlin Emergency Medical Services. His community is one of the initial participants of Orion Initiative training, a new program offered by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health that aims to expand advanced medical training to rural communities.
At the University of Wisconsin, a stretch of August has long been known as “Hippie Christmas” because so many students deposit their unwanted belongings on front lawns.
“There’s this shifting mentality that the state is the owner of these institutions — it’s not the students, it’s not the alumni,” said Isabel McMullen, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies public university boards.
Kraus-Anderson announced Monday it completed the $2.3 million remodel of the University Book Store, located at 711 State Street. The renovation also included the university’s marketing and communications department offices.
UW-Parkside is gutting its current college structure and will put all programs under a single college as it contends with continued enrollment declines and budget shortfalls.
An op-ed by Joshua Braver, an assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies civil-military relations.
If implemented, the policy change being proposed could impact 30% of the UW system’s offerings, as a third-party audit by Deloitte from late last year found that about 200 of nearly 650 programs analyzed are in the low-enrollment category. UW system spokesperson Mark Pitsch said the percentage of low-enrollment programs is closer to 10%, based on UW system’s calculation that differs from Deloitte’s.
More than 10,000 Wisconsin high school seniors accepted fall 2025 admission to a Universities of Wisconsin campus via the state’s new Direct Admit program, system administrators revealed to the UW Board of Regents.That’s about 43% of the Wisconsin high school seniors who got one of the automatic admissions letters the system sent out last summer.
A new program through the UW School of Medicine and Public Health is aiming to expand health care training access for EMS providers in rural parts of the state. We talk with the head of the Orion Initiative and the head of Berlin EMS about the future of rural health care.
A private donation has allowed the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to launch a new program on Wednesday, attempting to improve health in rural Wisconsin communities.
The Orion Initiative, administered through the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, aims to invest in partnerships between frontline rural providers and the academic medical community.
There I was, this past Saturday afternoon in Camp Randall Stadium, before a verified crowd of 48,263—8,679 of them graduates of varying undergrad and postgrad programs—trying to impart wisdom upon/pollute the minds of America’s future. Yes. Terrifying. Humbling. Disappointing to students, surely.
Professor Jung-Hye Shin, chair of UW’s Design Studies Department, said she heard from older adults and adults with disabilities while researching in the field, “telling me that it’s really hard to get any reliable assessment because there is no one out there who’s actually doing it at a reasonable price.”
The American Association of Universities, a national association that UW-Madison belongs to, finds itself in the midst of multiple legal battles with the administration.
The two-year program has two named options. Students can get their Dance MFA in screendance or in creative research, culture, and practice. Applications for the inaugural class open this fall.
The university said visa revocations for some students and recent alumni, like senior Krish Lal Isserdasani, are also on pause because of a court order.
It’s the last Saturday of April, so that means it’s time for the Crazylegs Classic! One of Madison’s finest traditions raises money for UW athletics and 2025 marks the 43rd year of the 8K race through Madison.
It is unclear why the statuses were changed, and there are still 15 students and recent alumni who are recorded as having their visas terminated. That’s a sharp decline from the 27 people whose status was listed as terminated on April 10.
Thousands of UW-Madison students packed the streets for the annual Mifflin Street Block Party on Saturday. While the focus was on fun, safety was also top of mind for both students and police.
Multiple UW-Madison students and recent alumni had their visa terminations reversed as of 2:30 p.m. Friday, university officials confirmed. Nine reversals had occurred since Thursday evening, officials said, though they had no information on why the changes were made.
While the documentary takes a nationwide view, there’s a lot of Wisconsin in it. Among the interview subjects is Ethelene Whitmire, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who talks about Regina Anderson Andrews, the first African American to lead a branch of the New York Public Library and a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Joint Legislative Audit Committee examines effectiveness, transparency, outcomes tied to Executive Order 59.
The case dates back to 2021, when the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, a conservative legal group, filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County Circuit Court challenging the state’s Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant program.
After specialty training in radiation oncology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Richard and family moved to Madison in 1980. Richard joined the faculty of Human Oncology at the University of Wisconsin and remained as emeritus professor.
While working full-time and raising four children as a young widow she returned to school, earned an undergraduate degree in Art Education, and started a career as a network administrator in 1984 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin System leadership defended diversity, equity and inclusion policies in a tense hearing after a state audit revealed the system and 15 state agencies failed to track DEI spending.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison spokesman said nine out of 27 initially terminated visas of students and recent alumni were reversed, while 15 still have terminated records.
The University of Wisconsin announced Camp Randall Stadium will be home to a golf event Aug. 1 and 2. Tee times will be available from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The university has teamed with Upper Deck Golf to offer the opportunity to play a round of golf in the Badgers’ football stadium. Greens will be set up on the field turf and golfers will tee off from elevated tee boxes around the stadium.
Marvin became a professor of Educational Administration and eventually served as Department Chair until his retirement. He leaves a legacy as Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin.
Fans purchased more than $1.24 million of beer and other alcoholic drinks at Badgers basketball and hockey home games this school year. That was an average of $17,576 over 71 events.
A conservative nonprofit has filed a complaint against UW-Madison over a minority grant program restricting eligibility based on race or ancestry, but the federal Department of Education does not appear to have opened a formal investigation into it, despite it being filed more than two weeks ago.
By the end of the day Saturday, 42 people were cited for offenses ranging from having open intoxicants to carrying glass in a glass-free zone to depositing human waste. Other arrests are still possible, police said.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students and out-of-town visitors flocked to Mifflin Street on Saturday for the event.
The Trump administration has terminated at least $12.6 million in grant funding for research at UW-Madison. Wagner had received a $5 million grant to research the accuracy of information about vaccines, but it was defunded by the National Science Foundation, because per presidential action the organization states it does not support research with the goal of combating misinformation or disinformation
With the 100th day of President Donald Trump’s second term in office approaching, University of Wisconsin-Madison professors and staff met Thursday to take stock of the growing threats to higher education and U.S. democracy and to discuss collective action to push back.
Asecond UW-Madison international student has been granted protection from deportation just weeks before graduating, and a judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to restore her visa after the administration deleted her record earlier this month.
Millions of Americans who hold federal student loan debt are facing uncertainty after President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week in an effort to dismantle the Department of Education, which currently manages $1.6 trillion in student loans.
Louise Robbins, a retired professor of library studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the money might be the only source of funding for some tribal libraries.
“It’s very heavily used by people of all ages, income levels, needs, abilities, and [the order] would really severely damage services and have a huge impact, a multiplying impact, because people often use the funding from ILMS to match other funding,” Robbins said.
March 30 honors physicians who care for the health and wellness of their patients. UW Health is looking to celebrate their 1,800 physicians with notes of gratitude.
Showings will be at the UW Cinematheque, Music Hall, Chazen Museum of Art, The Marquee, Barrymore Theater, Bartell Theater and Flix Brewhouse.
UW-Madison continues to make adjustments to its financial plans with ongoing uncertainty about federal funding cuts, stop work orders and inflationary impacts from tariffs.
Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said while there are potential conflicts of interest with the volume of money in court races, funding that is less traceable presents a different challenge.
Long before John Tonje’s baseline jumper fell short against BYU, his final shot as a collegian, University of Wisconsin coach Greg Gard was taking questions on the future.
College basketball’s future.
He graduated from UW-L in 1969 with a degree in art education. In 1973, he completed his Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture at UW-Madison through the Ford Foundation Fellowship.
After a brief time at Emporia State University in Kansas, Lowe returned to teach at UW-Madison in 1974. He became a full professor of sculpture in 1989 and served as chairman of the art department from 1992 to 1995.
UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt, one of the Universities of Wisconsin’s longest-tenured leaders, will leave the university this summer to take a new role as the president of James Madison University in Virginia.
