Co-authored by Kateri Klingele Pinell is a clinical mental health professional and co-founder of the Wisconsin Student Parents Organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a student one month away from graduating seemingly had her visa revoked for a previous traffic violation. In Florida, a student from Colombia was taken into custody by immigration agents after he was stopped by Gainesville police with an expired registration and driver’s license. He signed his self-deportation and returned home.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health used artificial intelligence to screen the electronic health records of patients admitted to the UW Health University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, between March and October 2023, for any sign that they were at risk of or had an opioid use disorder.
Michael Wagner, who leads the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that universities could make a greater effort to get the work of misinformation researchers into the public’s hands.
Universities must do “a more aggressive job of promoting the work, even when it highlights partisan asymmetries, even when it highlights other kinds of things that might leave universities open to attack from those who don’t like the fact that universities exist,” said Wagner, who noted that his center has been subpoenaed by Congress. “[That] is something they need to do a better job of, to help the researchers who are trying to do this stuff get their work out there to folks so that they can engage with it and decide how they want to incorporate that information into how they live their lives.”
The poverty guidelines are “needed by many people and programs,” said Timothy Smeeding, a professor emeritus of economics at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin. “If you’re thinking of someone you fired who should be rehired, Swenson would be a no-brainer,” he added.
Managed by the Department of Botany, the greenhouse plays a crucial role at the university, assisting with classes and research initiatives. It is now under the leadership of UW’s Living Collections Manager III, Cara Streekstra, who has been with the department for over 12 years.
“We help further botany, education and teaching,” Streekstra said. “That’s the main focus of what we do in the botany greenhouses, teaching support. We grow plants specifically for use in lab courses and for horticulture, agronomy and also art classes and English classes.”
Last Spring, the University of Wisconsin chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine led an encampment protest on Library Mall that lasted from April 29 to May 10, 2024, which UW temporarily disrupted using police force on its third day.
A local district is changing the name of a school. McFarland’s Conrad Elvejehm Primary School will get a new name. Its original namesake, Conrad Elvejehm, was a UW-Madison professor and the university’s thirteenth president. He was born in McFarland.
According to a report given to the McFarland School Board, Elvejehm also signed a petition to keep Black people from living in his neighborhood. He also blocked a film about racial discrimination toward renters from being shown, according to reporting from the Wisconsin State Journal.
The disruption of Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield’s (’75 MPA) talk reveals a growing trend of selective free speech among pro-Palestinian activists.
A Madison man was arrested Friday after allegedly strangling a UW-Madison student in the UW Arboretum earlier in the week.
The recent visa record terminations of six University of Wisconsin students and seven alumni have caused concerns regarding international students.
The Wisconsin Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union Senior Staff Attorney Tim Muth says it is unclear what allowed the federal government to terminate these visas.
UW-Madison has found 13 more international student visas canceled by President Donald Trump’s administration, bringing the total number up to 40 announced across the Universities of Wisconsin this week.
A Madison man has been charged in connection with an aggravated assault at the UW-Madison Arboretum.
The victim reported being strangled and forced to remain in a vehicle on the morning of March 31, according to the UW-Madison Police Department. They were treated at a local hospital.
The undergraduate experience comes with many built-in moments that form the basis for a common understanding of life as Badgers know it. Among these — confronting the perils of the University of Wisconsin all-you-can-eat dining hall buffets daily, doing your part to jump around so enthusiastically on game days that Camp Randall literally moves up and down, and, of course, spending time on Madison’s most famous strip of real-estate — State Street.
UW-Madison Police Department arrested a man after a person reported being strangled last week in the UW Arboretum.
An aggravated assault was reported to UWPD the morning of Monday, March 31, explained UWPD. The victim reported being strangled and forced to wait in a vehicle during the attack.
The University of Wisconsin student organization VOCES, Voices of Courage, held a “Know Your Rights” panel for professors and students Tuesday. The panel focused on how to navigate potential U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement situations on campus.
In March 2025, the University of Wisconsin announced that over the summer it would work to move individuals who work in human resources, finance and research administration out of their individual departments. These individuals will be moved into new administrative regional teams which will serve all units within the College of Letters & Science, according to The Cap Times.
The University of Wisconsin’s School of Education graduate program has been ranked No. 1 for the second year in a row, according to the U.S. News & World Report.
A new recycling sorting system at UW-Madison is using artificial intelligence to help reduce waste on campus. “Oscar Sort” systems was introduced in four campus buildings a few weeks ago.
Intellectually restless, he then enrolled in graduate school at the University of Washington, earning a Ph.D. in communications in 1989. For a decade, he taught in the journalism and mass communication department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Among wards containing University of Wisconsin-Madison residence halls, Crawford received roughly 92.3% of the vote, outperforming Harris in wards containing university residence halls by nearly 15 percentage points, according to an independent analysis from The Daily Cardinal.
“Wisconsin has a lot of small companies that rely on imports,” said Chris Wojtowicz of the Small Business Development Center at the Universities of Wisconsin.
Wojtowicz spoke with WPR’s Robin Washington on “Morning Edition” about the local effects of tariffs.
The University of Wisconsin Office of Human Resources (OHR) will no longer host gatherings and events intended to aid retention of people of color on staff and faculty through community building, according to an email obtained by Madison365.
This is especially challenging when “there are a number of cases around the country which people are being deported who profess to have no idea why,” Howard Schweber said.
Schweber, a constitutional law expert and professor emeritus from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said, “The Trump administration is using laws in ways they’ve never been used before, for purposes which they’ve never been used before.”
The Trump administration is revoking visas for international university and college students across the country. Now, some international students at the Universities of Wisconsin have gotten their visas revoked.
A report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates immigrants without legal status perform about 70 percent of the labor on Wisconsin dairy farms.
There are now more than two dozen current and former University of Wisconsin students on the list of students who’ve seen their visas revoked by President Donald Trump’s Administration.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health have shown a new AI tool was successful at flagging patients at risk of opioid addiction and at reducing hospital readmissions.
Over a dozen current and former international students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration.
Members of the UW-Madison community gathered Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C. ahead of their lobbying day on Capitol Hill.
“The reality is we’re certainly facing some interesting, challenging times here at the federal level,” said Craig Thompson, vice chancellor of university relations at UW-Madison. “There’s obviously potential cuts to research and other programs, and there’s just a great deal of uncertainty on campus.”
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health have developed an artificial intelligence-driven tool to identify hospital patients at risk of opioid use disorder.
Mark is now an assistant professor of geography at the University of Oregon. He spent spring break this year in Wisconsin, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Robinson Map Library. For a week, he covered the library in fantasy maps as he worked to scan and digitize the collection.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials report that more than $1.7 million was raised to address key needs on campus during the sixth edition of the “Day of the Badger.”
Growing up, University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Sciences Instructor Rebecca Shields was always curious about her Irish heritage.
In 2021, inspired by her heritage and extensive study of linguistics, Shields embarked on a journey to teach Irish Gaelic at UW-Madison.
Whether or not you plan on heading to law school or end up with an “incarceration, conviction or arrest record” like one in every three American adults, you interact with the law every day. You deserve to have a basic understanding of it.
Students and alumni from the University of Wisconsin-Madison gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to lobby amid growing uncertainty over federal funding for the university.
The Day of the Badger returned for the sixth year to fundraise for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The fundraiser is a two-day online giving event raising funds for UW, according to the UW Director of Annual Giving, Betsy Massnick.
He is completing a doctorate in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from Cardinal Stritch University, and a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The Trump administration revoked the visas of more than two dozen current or former University of Wisconsin System students, UW officials have announced.
Overall, it may look like Schimel and his conservative allies aired more crime-related TV ads than did Crawford, said University of Wisconsin political science professor Barry Burden. But Burden noted that most of the spending on the left went through Crawford’s campaign. On the right, many conservative groups spent their own cash instead of funneling it through the state Republican Party to Schimel.
“Campaigns who spend directly are guaranteed by law to get lower ad rates, so even equal spending by the two sides means that Schimel was able to purchase less because more of his support came from outside groups,” Burden said.
More international students studying at Wisconsin colleges and universities have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration, scrambling their plans to study and work in the U.S.
The study, led by researchers from Penn State’s College of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducted a clinical trial to see if improved thinking can treat physical pain over time—and the benefits lasted up to a year.
It’s also easy to deconstruct and recycle. But for all its advantages, wood has one real disadvantage: it burns. That’s why Ascent beams were sent to the U.S. Forest Services’ forest products laboratory at the University of Wisconsin.
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and UW’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications hosted the 2025 ceremony for the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics at the National Press Club last night. This year’s award went to The Seattle Times’ Hannah Furfaro, Lauren Frohne and Ivy Ceballo for their work exposing how medical and social service systems are failing teens in Washington.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has lost at least $12.6 million in anticipated research dollars after President Donald Trump’s administration recently canceled four of its research grants, part of a national crackdown on funding for transgender issues, COVID-19 and diversity.
A spokesperson for the University of Wisconsin System said the U.S. government has terminated visas for international students at universities across the state, including 13 at UW-Madison.
The Trump administration revoked the visas of more than two dozen current or former University of Wisconsin System students, UW officials have announced.
Visas for current or former students have been terminated at other Universities of Wisconsin schools, in addition to those that have been reported at UW-Madison.
The Trump administration terminated six University of Wisconsin-Madison student visas and seven alumni visa employment extensions, the university announced Monday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union has debuted Ray Laken ahead of the terrace chairs making their seasonal comeback. It’s the second plushie made to look like Chairlings, characters inspired by the yellow, “Allis Chalmers” orange and “John Deere” green terrace chairs.
April is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month. Dr. Laura Buyan-Dent, a UW Health neurologist, talks about this neurodegenerative disorder.
Wisconsin author Dean Robbins’ new book “Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed the State, the World, and Me” is a collection of essays about notable people who have a connection to Wisconsin, either because they lived in Wisconsin or had a significant experience while passing through.
A new federal law is changing how Wisconsin college campuses review hazing and hazing policy. The Stop Campus Hazing Act, signed into law late last year by former President Joe Biden, aims to reduce hazing at universities through stricter reporting rules, penalties and more accessible university reports.
Former Republican Gov. Scott Walker visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison Monday to discuss the economy and government spending, despite saying he made no attempt to read Gov. Tony Evers’ 2025-27 Capital Budget.
The annual Day of the Badger returns to the University of Wisconsin Madison’s campus on April 8 and 9. Day of the Badger serves as the university’s annual online day of giving and a chance for the Badgers community to support UW.
President Donald Trump’s administration canceled the visas of six current University of Wisconsin-Madison students and seven alumni who had employment extensions, the university announced. Universities of Wisconsin spokesperson Mark Pitsch said in an email that there have also been cancellations at other UW campuses and the system is working on gathering more information.
The way these protests affected and defined Madison proves yet again that the University of Wisconsin–Madison is the most important thing about the city. Of the demonstrations listed in this article, only two — against Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10 assault on public employees in 2011 and for Black lives in 2020 — weren’t driven by UW–Madison students.
Former Gov. Scott Walker says he’s no fan of tariffs but he’s willing to give President Donald Trump’s gamble on taxing foreign imports a chance.
Walker spoke Monday night to about 100 students and members of the public gathered at UW’s Grainger Hall for an event hosted by Young America’s Foundation, of which Walker is the president.
In his new biography “Saving Hearts and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin” (HenschelHAUS Publishing), veteran Madison journalist and author Doug Moe recounts the steps from hay to medicine while also building up a portrait of Link, a University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist with a propensity for battling authority.
“I was blessed with 50 years of having fun — not everyone has,” enthused the 88-year-old Leckrone, who retired in 2019. “I’m still a ham at heart.”
