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.
The legislation that would bar transgender women from playing University of Wisconsin System school sports received pushback from Democrats and community members.
Gov. Tony Evers announced the 2025-27 Capital Budget, proposing investments of $4.1 billion directed towards renovating aging infrastructure within the University of Wisconsin System.
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 a letter to all students, faculty and staff on Feb. 28, Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin and Provost Charles Isbell Jr. expressed concern about recent executive orders issued by the Trump administration.
Oglála Lakota activist, storytelling discuss cultural preservation, power of Indigenous voices.
‘MENA Heritage Month finally feels like a time where our voices are heard and our identities are really seen,’ MENA chair says.
Trump administration budget cuts could negatively impact science research, TAA co-president says.
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.
The challenge that includes walking, running and biking is held every September to support groundbreaking cancer research and treatment initiatives at the UW Health – Carbone Cancer Center.
‘They’re taking away what can be the most integral part of somebody’s recovery,’ National Alliance on Mental Illness member says.
Despite state, federal pushback against diversity initiatives, students, professors work to maintain inclusive campus environment.
Amid this uncertainty, UW spokesperson John Lucas said the university remains dedicated to its commitment to DEI in an email statement to The Badger Herald. “UW-Madison is committed to a campus environment that values diversity in both background and viewpoint, and fosters inclusion and belonging for all students, faculty and staff,” Lucas said in the email.
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.
Dailey, a junior at UW, has shown his own printmaking pieces at shows affiliated with UW. But, the Midwest Print Showcase allows him to present his works to a larger audience while promoting the artwork of his peers.
University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders’ recommendation to graduate school deans to lower future graduate admissions comes as the university is preparing for the Trump administration’s sweeping changes to federal grant spending.
In a letter to the campus community, University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders said federal decisions have created uncertainty though they reaffirmed the university’s values of diversity.
The event, “Tailoring the Black diaspora: Black Brilliance through the Ages,” featured four design themes: The Harlem Renaissance, Black Icons from the 1980s to early 2000s, a futuristic 31st century category based on Childish Gambino’s song “3005” and a Black Excellence category.
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.
Bryce Dailey is a junior at UW-Madison. His art has been featured several times in the Memorial Union’s annual Student Art Show. However, he and several of his classmates wanted more showcasing experience, so Dailey organized an independent show.
“It’s been impossible to predict and impossible to plan for the future,” Aaron Hoskins said. Hoskins is the Wasson Professor of Biochemistry and a chemistry professor. With his small lab, he works on gene expression, making sense of what we may find senseless and finding solutions.
“For us to be in a situation where NIH funding is threatened,” UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Professor and Associate Dean Jon Audhya said. “It’s an enormous concern. It’s going to really slow down our progress and our ability to address some of those diseases that are most prevalent in our society.”
Following NIH, NSF funding cuts, no central UW directive to decrease new admissions.
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 WIAA and Wisconsin Athletics agreed to an eight-year extension on their contract to keep state tournaments on the UW campus. This gives the WIAA the availability of facilities to host high school state championships through spring of 2033. This includes competitions for boys basketball, football, boys and girls golf, individual and team wrestling and softball.
“We are thrilled to host Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield who has extensive experience in international policy and in modeling respect and compromise in policymaking.” said La Follette School Director Yackee.
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield will share policy insights and evidence-based solutions from her 40-plus years in the Foreign Service at a public presentation for the UW–Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs on Tuesday, April 1 at 7 p.m. at the UW Memorial Union in Madison. She is a UW alumna.
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman and UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin emphasized the mission of the Wisconsin Idea and the value of higher education during the Wisconsin Counties Association Legislative Conference Tuesday.
UW-Madison researchers discovered that in the absence of photoreceptor cry1 Arabidopsis plants grow significantly taller.
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.
Professor Mark Copelovitch discusses Trump’s domestic, foreign policies, says future looks uncertain.
At an event hosted by WUD Society and Politics Monday, UW-Madison political science professor Mark Copelevitch voiced concerns about President Donald Trump’s remaking of the federal government.
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.
Sir Michael Berry’s lecture kicks off three-part series on theoretical physics, his work in field.
The Department of African American Studies hosted its first annual undergraduate symposium Feb. 22 at the Pyle Center. The symposium highlighted research, art and projects from students involved in the African American studies department taking classes, declaring the major or the certificate.
UW-Madison contributes a significant number of Peace Corps volunteers. Proposals of federal cuts to foreign aid pose serious risks to agency funding.
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.
In 1991, Williamson served as one of the lead attorneys in a lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin system’s Board of Regents, which had banned students from using racist or discriminatory language. The court found the hate speech code unconstitutional.
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.
