Republican proposals to overhaul how families pay for college could affect nearly half of the students attending the Universities of Wisconsin and about 40 percent of students at the state’s private schools.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ($5.5 million) would work on improving the ability of certain bacteria to deliver nitrogen to crops – and on introducing nitrogen-fixing traits into corn and sorghum.
In a demonstration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, weather researchers showed WISN 12 News how it works.
“The balloon is launched from the ground and rises up into the atmosphere, can rise up to 50,000, sometimes 60,000 feet or so, and gathers temperature, moisture and wind data as it rises through that column of the atmosphere,” Derrick Herndon said.
The United States had a taste of such a gap during the Vietnam War. At the time, academic scientists found themselves caught in the crosshairs of zealous anti-war activists who, despite scant evidence, accused them broadly of collaborating on weapons research in support of the war. In 1970, the situation reached a violent crescendo with the death of Robert Fassnacht, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was working in a building that was bombed by anti-war protesters.
Daniel Smith with UW Extension’s integrated pest and crop management says that since February, the temperatures have warmed up and had more precipitation.
Kristin Litzelman deals with data sets and research studies in her work studying caregiving as an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
But she wanted to contribute something artistic for “In Care Of: Postcard-Sized Portrayals of Caregiving in Wisconsin,” a new exhibit she helped put together at UW-Madison’s Nancy Nicholas Hall, 1300 Linden Drive.
The University of Wisconsin has potentially violated all three pillars of Title IX, which was signed into law in 1972 seeking to prevent the discrimination of individuals under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance on the basis of sex. The three pillars include accommodating student interests, proportional financial assistance and equal benefits and opportunities.
The administration for Mental Health Services at University Health Services is working to connect with the student body at the University of Wisconsin to shut down rumors of inaccessible mental health services that may prevent students from seeking mental health support.
Learn how Black communities in the Midwest formed before the Great Migration with University of Wisconsin-Madison historian and professor Christy Clark-Pujara.
This month, Wisconsin Athletics plans to spend about $1.6 million to replace outdoor lights at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s football stadium, according to Nate Jelinek, a department spokesperson.
Madison attorney Shabnam Lotfi says her client, Krish Lal Isserdasani, was exceptionally responsible in the way he handled the news that the Trump administration had suddenly taken away his student visa.
In March, the University of Southern California and the University of Wisconsin-Madison both revealed plans to trim their spending, and they called upon department heads to begin planning for budget reductions going forward. The University of Washington, Northwestern University and the University of Nebraska have also taken significant steps in the past two months to control spending.
Written by meteorologist and research program manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Democrats in Congress are trying to find a unified message in opposition to President Donald Trump’s agenda, and U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan said the focus should be on the economy. Howard Schweber, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of political science, said the arrest of a Milwaukee County judge was a political message to judges around the nation.
Jama, 22, is a business and economics student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and will start an analyst job after graduating in May.
WPR and PBS Wisconsin are part of the Division of Public Media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Leaders at Wisconsin Public Media plan to bring the two entities together under one organizational structure, according to another email obtained by the Cap Times that was sent to WPR staff in April.
The Governor’s Fishing Opener was initiated by Knowles, a Wisconsin native, graduate of the University of Wisconsin’s law school, World War II veteran and avid angler.
The National Institutes of Health director faced a flurry of questions from Medical College of Wisconsin researchers about the Trump administration’s funding cuts that have caused financial uncertainty across higher education.
Written by Anthony Hernandez, a faculty member in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Madison (UW-Madison), who received a research award from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation for his study on leadership in higher education. He has been recognized with four teaching awards at UW-Madison. He led the evaluation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) in Dane County, Wisconsin for two years.
Niemeyer has described the instinct to blame livestock deaths on coyotes and wolves as “hysteria.” The roots of such hysteria trace back to America’s early European settlers, who believed (wrongly) that the eradication of wolves was necessary for livestock production, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental science professor Adrian Treves.
Benjamin Rothove, a 20-year-old who chairs the College Republicans chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, called Trump’s initial tariff roll-out “shockingly high” and “kind of crazy.”
During his childhood, Wong was once bound up and held at knife-point when his home was ransacked by thieves — a story he later recounted as education minister. Years later, he obtained Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan, respectively. He also received a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Trump’s base, in particular, feels slighted by institutions. Katherine Cramer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and the author of “The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker,” sums up the prevailing attitude: “It’s this sense that, ‘Hey, wait a minute, things aren’t working out for me the way they should, and it seems like the way everything is set up is not set up for people like me.'” By taking aim at those seen as “elites,” Trump is able to create a clear target for voters angry about what they view as a rigged system.
Some of those professors believed so strongly in democratic access to media that they built radio stations with their own hands, including one at the University of Wisconsin. In other cases, professors experimented with performing live drama. Ohio State University broadcast the first educational radio Shakespeare performances in the late 1920s.
In 2023, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Michigan researchers published a study that found that when people felt positively about “doing their own research,” they were more likely to believe misinformation about the pandemic and to mistrust scientific institutions in general.
Niemeyer has described the instinct to blame livestock deaths on coyotes and wolves as “hysteria.” The roots of such hysteria trace back to America’s early European settlers, who believed (wrongly) that the eradication of wolves was necessary for livestock production, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental science professor Adrian Treves.
“There are crackdowns on our livelihoods, our communities, our families,” said a speaker who identified himself as a University of Wisconsin-Madison student whose family is from Nicaragua. “These are echoes of the past.
Leonard Polzin, a Dairy Markets and Policy Outreach specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joined on News 3 Now Live at Four on Thursday about whether you should be concerned.
Maydev is the first South Asian elected to the Assembly and represents the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and other parts of the state’s capital city. She noted that her district is about 17% Asian American and she represents the highest concentration of Asian Americans in the state.
A new, limited-edition mini terrace chair will be sold to support the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s The Open Seat Food Pantry, the Wisconsin Union team announced on Thursday.
One year ago today, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin authorized campus and local police to raid University of Wisconsin Madison’s pro-Palestine encampment on the third day.
Audiences saw Ethan showing up on day one of the plane crash, wearing a T-shirt from the University of Wisconsin. He offered clothes to anyone who had lost their luggage and was just being a nice guy.
Experts’ main advice is to be proactive and act now. “All of the responsibility is on the borrower,” says Nicholas Hillman, professor in the school of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But there are options out there for borrowers.
Julie Poehlmann with the University of Wisconsin-Madison said, “Positive parent–caregiver relationships are associated with more stability in children’s living arrangements when mothers are in prison, and relationship quality is related to parent–child contact as well.”
Charleston has been the subject of conservative criticism in the past, facing allegations that much of her academic writing was plagiarized from her husband, LaVar Charleston. Earlier this year, he was removed from his position as the head of the Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Exact Sciences and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dane County teamed up on Wednesday to host a basketball camp for club members.
Kids participated in basketball drills, which were led UW-Madison athletes. UW-Madison men’s basketball player Carter Gilmore was among those athletes who spent time with the kids by taking photos and signing autographs.
Like much of her work, a new project by University of Wisconsin-Madison genetics professor Ahna Skop includes research, experimentation and inspiration from other scientists.
Researchers, students and advocates gathered at UW-Memorial Union on Wednesday as the 2025 Midwest Climate Summit kicked off.
Republican-ordered audits found April 11 determined Wisconsin state agencies and the University of Wisconsin System failed to track millions of dollars spent on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts during the 2023-24 fiscal year — making it difficult to fully assess the efforts which have been under review due to recent federal orders.
The general public wants clean rivers and streams. Less clear is how much people are willing to pay to ensure waterways are unpolluted. UW-Madison environmental economist Daniel Phaneuf shares the data.
Led by Dr. Abigail Cutler, a practicing OB-GYN at UW Health, the new study intended to document changes in clinical practice among Wisconsin doctors as a result of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.
New research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that 1 in 31 American 8-year-old children were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder — raising renewed focus on arguments why autism diagnosis rates have increased for the last 25 years.
For decades, astronomers were certain that half of the ordinary matter in the universe — protons and neutrons, the building blocks of everything we see — had simply gone unaccounted for.
A suspect attempted an aggravated assault with a weapon early Sunday morning in the pedestrian tunnel on East Campus Mall, prompting an ongoing investigation by the City of Madison Police Department.
April 30th is known as Demin Day which is a day dedicated to raising awareness about sexual violence and supporting victims by wearing denim.
About 48% of surveyed state residents opposed crane hunting while 35% were neutral and 17.6% supported it, when asked by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center for a 2023 study.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professors may join others across the Big Ten in calling for an alliance to counter the Trump administration’s hostility toward higher education.
To investigate this phenomenon, psychologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used mathematical and computational tools (including ChatGPT) to study word embeddings, which are mathematical models that capture how words are used together in large collections of words, like books, news articles, and transcripts of speech.
Wisconsin joined over 20 states in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s $400 million cuts for AmeriCorps, a federal volunteer program that assists communities with literacy, conservation, homelessness and health care, Gov. Tony Evers announced Tuesday.
Three of the country’s 25 nuclear fusion companies are located in Wisconsin, with ties to the top-ranked nuclear engineering program at UW-Madison. A package of bills in the state Legislature would pave the way for these companies and others to eventually build fusion reactors in the state.
Two UW System regents are reaching the end of their terms next month. Governor Tony Evers is tasked with appointing their replacements.
The American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin is waging a public campaign to urge Gov. Tony Evers to appoint two pro-labor representatives to the UW Board of Regents. It’s a first for the teachers’ union, but a necessary move given the danger President Donald Trump poses to higher education, says one union official.
Skala, who is attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison and plans to study kinesiology, says things worked out in the end.
“Sometimes admission processes are just a gamble, and your self worth shouldn’t be defined by a school or a decision,” Skala says. “Having other people relate to it makes it easier.”
Steve Deller, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the seasonality of Wisconsin’s housing market helped insulate the state from similar month-to-month declines.
“I’m not going to rush my purchasing of a house because I think tariffs are going to hit,” Deller said. “I’m going to rush my purchasing of, say, a washer and dryer or refrigerator or a car because I think tariffs are going to cause prices to go up and I want to get them now. The housing market isn’t going to be hit by tariffs the same way.”
UW-Madison has one of the few artistic woodworking programs in the country. The program’s leader, Katie Hudnall uses reclaimed wood to craft pieces that tell a story. Hudnall talks about the program and the “language of woodworking.”
“I was completely blindsided,” Parker Kuehni told the Wisconsin Examiner on Tuesday. The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate with a degree in global health was in his second year with AmeriCorps, working at a Madison free health clinic and preparing to start medical school in June when he learned Monday morning that the program was canceled.
“You could have sent a letter to all these universities and said, ‘Those people have come up on a hit, you may want to check them out,’” the judge said. Even after the hearing, it remained unclear how deeply DHS officials examined the reasons students had “hits” in the federal criminal justice database run by the National Crime Information Center, or NCIC. The University of Wisconsin student who brought the suit that led to Tuesday’s hearing, Akshar Patel, had faced a reckless driving charge but it was ultimately dismissed.
The arrival of drug treatment has made people living with Alzheimer’s more optimistic, says Dr. Nathaniel Chin, a geriatrician at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the survey.
“Even if it doesn’t stop the disease in its tracks, it tells people that we’re making progress,” he says. “They want to know if they potentially could have this therapy or maybe the next therapy or two therapies down the road.”
“There are many kids with autism that have IQ scores that would define them as having intellectual disability, but their adaptive scores are higher,” said a co-author of the research, Maureen Durkin, a professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Richard Frohling, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, oversees the federal team. He has spent much of his career as a prosecutor. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School and working as a law clerk and in private practice, Frohling joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Milwaukee in 2000. He was named first assistant in 2015. He has twice been the Acting U.S. Attorney and briefly served as U.S. attorney in 2022.
