Fired UW-La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow will appear on a TMZ documentary special about OnlyFans and its content creators airing on the Fox Network tonight, the first day of classes for the fall term.
Badgers fans love to win. But more important than any championship are the lives and wellbeing of the student athletes in red and white. They face enormous pressure to succeed in their sports, often with scholarships and additional compensation at stake.
That’s what makes the State Journal’s recent investigation into the women’s cross country and basketball teams so troubling. Winning, or trying to, trumped the best interests of students.
More Madison School District students could be eligible for automatic admission to the Universities of Wisconsin under a district policy that avoids having to break ties among top-ranked students.
The district says its approach the new Wisconsin Guarantee program complies with the law that created it, while the primary author of the law said neither her bill nor the law addresses Madison’s approach and it would take a court challenge to determine whether it is legal.
John Lucey, director of the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said there’s no convincing evidence that raw milk offers tangible nutritional or health benefits when compared with the pasteurized product. But even with the best dairy practices and sampling of milk, the risk of illness is far greater, he said.
“A high percentage of the people who get sick are children,” he said. “That’s the thing that really disappoints me. And scares me.”
Johanna Oosterwyk, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s instructional D.C. Smith Greenhouse, says that in general, fall is a great time for planting divided perennials, since the weather is cooler and there is usually plenty of rain to help plants establish. “This applies to digging up and dividing existing plants as well as planting new ones,” she adds.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has studied how best to teach African American students. She told us an encouraging teacher can change a life.
“Many of our young people have their ceilings lowered, that somewhere around fourth or fifth grade, their thoughts are, ‘I’m not going to be anything special.’ What I think is probably happening at St. Mary’s is young women come in as, perhaps, ninth graders and are told, ‘Here’s what we expect to happen. And here’s how we’re going to help you get there.'”
Other voters, such as Will Brown, 20, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, urged the administration to pursue even more ambitious deportation goals.
Brown, who said he “couldn’t be more of a fan of Stephen Miller,” the White House aide credited with designing Trump’s immigration policy, noted that the deportation rate of Trump’s second term so far lagged that of the last two Democratic administrations.“Honestly, I don’t think they’re doing enough,” he said.
This ideological rot is not at all unique to Harvard. It’s the norm in teacher prep programs nationwide. The University of Wisconsin system has discussion circles reading “Anti-Racist Baby” and making Black Lives Matter friendship bracelets. The University of Florida fills its syllabi with such critical race theory icons as Kimberlé Crenshaw and Gloria Ladson-Billings. Columbia has a course on “Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Curriculum Practices.” Some of the most assigned authors, like Paulo Freire and Gloria Watkins, are outright Marxists.
Prices might be going up elsewhere but it costs the same to buy a beer at Camp Randall Stadium this season as it did in 2024.
Cans of Coors Light, Varsity Golden Ale, Modelo and other beers were priced at $11.99 when the University of Wisconsin football team opened the 2025 season Thursday night. Other alcoholic beverages like Blue Moon, Ninja Dust and Nutrl were listed at $12.49.
The University of Wisconsin’s new indoor practice facility has a name: the Kellner Family Athletic Center.
Wisconsin officially unveiled the moniker for the $285 million facility at an event before Thursday’s football season opener against Miami (Ohio) at Camp Randall Stadium.
Downtown Madison turned into a sea of red Thursday as fans celebrated the first Badger game day of the season. From early morning tailgates to downtown bars, thousands filled the streets to mark the return of Wisconsin football.
The sale of UW-Milwaukee’s former Washington County branch campus to a private Christian school is moving forward, despite public outcry.
The Washington County Board Wednesday told the county executive to proceed with the sale of the campus to the Ozaukee Christian School for $3 million — which is $2 million less than the property’s appraised value.
Hawkins grew up in the Twin Cities, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a business reporter for the Journal Sentinel from 1997 to 2003. He was a 2022 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for work at the Wall Street Journal about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
“I don’t think that the math adds up, because the tax reductions are very modest for people with low incomes,” said Andrew Reschovsky, professor emeritus of public affairs and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Paul Lambert is an oncology professor and director of the McArdle Lab for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Lambert, who studies human papillomavirus, said the Shope virus was the first tumor virus ever discovered. American physician and animal pathologist Richard E. Shope first identified the virus in the 1930s.
“This is not a bloodborne pathogen,” Lambert said. “This virus, papillomaviruses, is transmitted by exposure on the skin.”
Wisconsin has a record-high number of jobs and median wage, but there are signs that the economy is softening and changes in federal policy could negatively affect workers in the coming years.
That’s according to a new report from the High Road Strategy Center, a labor-focused economic think tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On Friday, the organization released its annual State of Working Wisconsin report, which aims to provide insight into how workers are faring in the economy.
The former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Washington County campus will be sold to a Christian school and land conservation group.
The Washington County Board voted to move forward with the sale after a closed session meeting on Wednesday, despite objections from several community members who have raised questions about the sale price and why the county would sell to buyers who won’t pay taxes.
Hera Salehi’s adjustment to college life wasn’t easy. Salehi grew up in Afghanistan. Although she had been living in the United States for a while, she had trouble finding her place when she enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison two years ago.
But Salehi saw how student groups and organizations helped nurture community at the large Midwestern university. It inspired her to start the Afghan Student Association to help connect other Afghan students and the larger community.
Stanke, a Wausau native with a nuclear engineering degree from UW-Madison, spoke from the stage in Rhode Island and is part of the nuclear fuels team and a spokesperson for Constellation, the nation’s largest producer of nuclear energy. During her tenure as Miss America, she was an outspoken advocate of zero-carbon nuclear energy.
Catalina Toma is a communication professor at UW-Madison and says that preventative measures like this are beneficial.
“By some accounts, amongst American teenagers, about a third have suffered some sort of cyberbullying victimization online. And about 15%, according to the latest reports, have engaged in cyberbullying. So these incidents do happen, and there’s a lot of evidence about how damaging cyberbullying can be,” said Toma.
Wisconsin will host its annual Red-White Scrimmage on Oct. 19 at noon in the Kohl Center, it announced in a release Wednesday afternoon. The intra-squad scrimmage is ticketed, yet free, and fans can redeem their reserved seat tickets online in advance for a first look at this upcoming season’s Badgers team.
Susan Monarez, who noted her Wisconsin roots prior to her confirmation as head of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on July 30, is out at the agency after less than a month on the job.
Monarez had had a long career in the health field but was the first person to assume the position without a medical degree in more than 70 years. She said in her testimony before the U.S. Senate that she grew up the daughter of a dairy farmer in rural Wisconsin. She holds bachelor’s and doctorate degrees in microbiology and immunology from UW-Madison.
New UW–Madison students gathered at Camp Randall Stadium Wednesday evening to learn game day traditions and take the annual “W” photo on the field.
Jason Nolen, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, started the account in 2016 and didn’t expect it to take off. But with the sale of annual cat calendars, the project has become another source of income for him, as well as a resource for cat lovers across the community.
Democrats announced legislation to amend Wisconsin law to prohibit the concealed carry of firearms on college and university campuses in Wisconsin.
The legislation, which has been introduced in previous sessions and failed to advance, would make it a misdemeanor to possess a gun on campus, making the penalty up to nine months in jail and a fine of up to $10,000. The new stipulations would not apply to law enforcement or military personnel, nor anyone who possesses a gun on campus with permission.
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Wisconsin Democrats introduced new gun safety reforms on Wednesday, focusing on colleges and universities. Lawmakers proposed extending gun-free zones, currently in place for K-12 schools, to all college campuses to protect students and staff.
Democratic lawmakers want to align gun laws for Wisconsin colleges and universities with those in place for K-12 schools by prohibiting concealed carry on campuses.
Sen. Kelda Roys (D-Madison) and Rep. Brienne Brown (D-Whitewater) said during a press conference Wednesday that the bill would help protect students at a time when schools continue to be targets of gun violence.
As students are returning to campus, authorities are investigating false reports of active shooters at more than a dozen universities across the country, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Inside Higher Ed counted 19 confirmed swatting calls since Aug. 19, including at Mercer University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Utah and the University of New Hampshire.
Sure, there are other marching band houses on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus: Tuba Haus, Clarinest, Pi Palace (for the saxophones), Bone Zone (trombones). Nine in all. But only Trumpet Haus — Thaus, for short — lays claim to being the unofficial game day hype committee. This is where a lucky few trumpet players in the UW Marching Band call home.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s scholarship program, First Wave, brings hip-hop pedagogy into the community by encouraging their scholars to engage with Madison’s youth. Meanwhile, an artist-led youth movement seeks to cultivate an underground hip-hop scene that directly engages with Madison’s unofficial “hip-hop ban” during the 2010s.
Leaders with Cardiac on Campus, a student-run organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Madison Fire Department and the City of Madison gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the two AEDs on Tuesday.
“So far, Wisconsin’s summer has been warmer than average and also wetter than average,” said Amanda Schwabe, a climate outreach specialist with the Wisconsin State Climatology Office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Across the state, we’ve been about two degrees warmer than the average and the state has also been about 25% wetter than average.”
A Catholic priest in the Diocese of Madison who was once a leader at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Catholic student center has been restricted from public ministry after he was arrested on suspicion of child sex crimes in Waupaca County.
Andrew J. Showers, 37, is accused by the Clintonville Police Department of arranging to meet with a 14-year-old girl to have sex with her. Clintonville police arrested him Aug. 24 on suspicion of attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child, using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, and child enticement, Police Chief Craig Freitag said in a statement.
Clarence Sherrod, one of the top scorers in University of Wisconsin men’s basketball history, died Aug. 18. He was 75.
Sherrod was a three-year starter at guard for Wisconsin from 1969 to 1971. He was the leading scorer for the program’s 1970-71 team, a squad that averaged the most points per game in a single season in team history at 86.3 points per game.
Camp Randall Stadium will be aglow in red in a way never seen before for a University of Wisconsin football home game Thursday night.
Wisconsin on Tuesday gave a sneak peek at the stadium’s new LED lights and how they can be programmed to fill the venue with colors and not just light up the field.
Although you might not know exactly what some of Gen Z’s words mean, chances are they aren’t using them to make fun of you, Kelly Wright, an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Business Insider.
“Just look up ‘cringe’ and try not to be that,” Wright said.
Researchers from the UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology co-authored a study finding that cold plunge elicits a natural rush of dopamine, similar to what people experience using social media.
Badger Bash begins 2-and-a-half hours before every home football game at Union South.
With the game against Miami of Ohio kicking off at 8 p.m. Thursday, this week’s Badger Bash will start at 5:30 p.m.
UW-Madison students and researchers find automation apps ripe for hacking and abuse. Then, we talk about the drop off in drinking by Americans. Then, we talk about the recent flooding in Milwaukee with the Weather Guys.
While the fall semester of classes at UW-Madison officially commences on Sept. 3, this week offers the chance for nearly 9,000 students to transition into the campus’ 21 residence halls, explore their new surroundings and begin to enjoy university life.
Like so many campuses in the past week, UW-Madison police had a call about an active shooter threat on campus and thanks to preparation, they were able to determine it was false, before panic spread throughout campus.
In a statement, a spokesperson for UW-Madison said the university “does not yet have clarity on the full impacts of” the ruling, but that it “puts at risk” more than $14 million for biomedical research.
“This figure represents the remaining money on 22 grants that were already approved and underway, which also means the time and money already spent on these projects will potentially go to waste, in addition to the money that will not be recovered,” said UW-Madison spokesperson Victoria Comella.
The fall semester for the Universities of Wisconsin campuses starts next week. But at least 50 students at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee still don’t know if they’ll be able to attend class.
University of Wisconsin football player Nyzier Fourqurean scored a small win in court Aug. 25.
Wisconsin district judge William Conley denied part of the NCAA’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit Fourqurean filed against it in July that seeks declaratory, injunctive and monetary relief against the NCAA for its rules related to how many years a student-athlete is eligible to play NCAA Division I football.
As more companies realize that they can’t keep absorbing the cost of import taxes, the impact on inflation could eventually start to snowball, said Menzie Chinn, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“If everybody’s facing the same game, they know they all can’t keep prices low forever and take a hit to their profit margins, they’re going to start raising them more rapidly,” Chinn said.
“It’s an absolutely gorgeous church (with) great historic distinction,” said Barbara Copeland Buenger, a member of the church’s roof committee and a professor of art history emerita at UW-Madison. “To have something of such beauty and historical value is really magnificent given the modern character of the city.”
Early in the morning of Aug. 24, 1970, four anti-Vietnam War radicals — Karleton Armstrong, his brother Dwight Armstrong, David Fine and Leo Burt — used a van filled with almost a ton of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil to bomb UW-Madison’s Sterling Hall, killing researcher Robert Fassnacht and injuring three others.
The district announced Friday evening that it would not use weighted grading as part of its response to the Wisconsin Guarantee program. Approved by the state Legislature, the program guarantees admission to UW-Madison for students who rank in the top 5% of their class and guarantees admission to the 12 other four-year Universities of Wisconsin campuses for students who rank in the top 10%.
Gibson, 51, emerged as the top pick among 73 applicants to lead Milwaukee’s largest university. He succeeds Mark Mone, who led UWM for 11 years and is now on a yearlong sabbatical before returning to teach.
Gibson faces an array of challenges, including declining student enrollment, budget pressures and a presidential administration that’s put colleges in its crosshairs.
Professor Kevin Renken was in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s mechanical engineering department for nearly 40 years. But he may be remembered most for what UWM claimed he didn’t do: his job.
A UWM investigation last year alleged Renken wasn’t pulling his weight as professor in the last half of his career despite what the school admits was a “commendable” record of classroom teaching
Also installing his art that day was Victor Hugo Jimenez, 22, a recent University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate. He will be displaying his pieces in a new merchandise area near the Generac Stage, where people can buy T-shirts and baseball caps to commemorate the festival with motifs such as Our Lady of Guadalupe, retro cars and cowboy boots.
“The reason why it resonated with students … is because it felt like an opportunity for them to be met on their own ground and to have a kind of shared ground with which to meet instructors or meet ideas,” says Nate Marshall, award-winning poet and assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Ultimately, like, the role of an educator is to connect the students in order to serve the students. So, if that’s not your way to connect with them, that’s cool. You find other ways.”
Move-in day at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is underway Monday and will continue through Wednesday.
Each student has a designated move-in date and time, which can be found in their “My UW Housing” account.
UW-Madison School of Education professor Nick Hillman explains how provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act set lower borrowing limits for medical and law students while changing other loan rules.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently discovered a flaw in how NASA and other space agencies design and test rovers for exploring the moon and beyond.
UW–Madison has eliminated a decades-old tutoring program, a move that some campus staff say will leave students without critical academic support.
The Academic Coaching to Thrive and Succeed (ACTS) program had operated for about 30 years, providing personalized tutoring to hundreds of students each year.
On the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, the keffiyeh — a checkered scarf with deep cultural significance for Palestinians — has become a focal point in the debate over free speech and overall student activism.
UW-Madison professor at the School of Pharmacy Mary Hayney praised the vaccine and said it is very safe.
“We have a long history of using it,” said Hayney. “It will be great to have that convenience to be able to administer the vaccine to yourself in the comfort of your own home
