Native November, a month-long celebration of Indigenous culture, hosted by the University of Wisconsin Indigenous Student Center Coalition, began Monday. The theme of this year’s celebration, Rooted in Reciprocity: Indigenous Ways of Knowing, acknowledges the influence of generational Indigenous knowledge, according to UW Student Affairs Associate Communications Director Darcy Wittberger in an email statement.
Direct admission and high school dual enrollment programs kept overall enrollment figures from dropping significantly this year across at the state’s four-year public universities, despite a drop in international students.
Overall enrollment totaled 164,579 in fall 2026, according to 10th day enrollment figures, released Friday by the Universities of Wisconsin.
Discussions over creating Madison’s North and Near West area plans are set to launch this month as city leaders try to shape the direction of two different parts of the city.
Two men accused in a hazing incident at a Madison fraternity in September will not be charged, the Dane County District Attorney’s office said on Monday.
Police responding to an anonymous tip found about 30 partially clothed men covered in food, condiments and other liquids in the sweltering basement of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house at 112 Langdon St. on the evening of Sept. 23.
tudent enrollment at half of the Universities of Wisconsin’s remaining two-year branch campuses increased this fall, while three others reported declines.
Overall enrollment across the UW system’s six branch campuses decreased by 5.7%, or 163 students, to a total of 2,719, according to student counts based on the 10th day of school released Friday. Notably, enrollment at UW-Stevens Point’s Wausau campus dropped by nearly 41%.
he UW-Madison campus and public will get the chance to hear from finalists vying to be the university’s new chancellor next week.
On Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings next week, finalists for the top job at UW-Madison will visit campus and give public presentations at Tripp Commons in Memorial Union, located at 800 Langdon St., the university announced Monday.
The two men arrested after a reported hazing incident at an unsanctioned Madison fraternity earlier this year will not be criminally charged.
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne told Channel3000.com that “there was not enough evidence to prove a criminal charge against the two individuals beyond a reasonable doubt.”
If you were hoping to get a photo with the reigning NCAA women’s hockey national champions and their trophy, Sunday is your chance.
Members of the Wisconsin women’s hockey team will be at Mr. Splash Car Wash at 3837 E. Washington Ave. from 10 a.m. to noon on Sunday, with the national championship trophy, taking photos and signing autographs.
Mitchell Berman, a Democrat running for Congress in former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan’s district, says he has killed roughly two dozen deer during his lifetime.
I tried, but I was too small to lift you
Up and out of that bathtub—
Your two arms cut open, your two legs—
You were January, bamboo shooting through darkness
In that village, monsoonal and rude, that you stopped imagining
Coming home to altogether—
For some lawyers, academia is a long-standing ambition. Others discover an interest in research and teaching only after spending time in legal practice or pursuing further studies.
An LL.M. can provide a pathway into academia, allowing students to explore research interests, develop relationships with professors and prepare for doctoral studies. But the qualification itself is not always necessary.
For decades, U.S. farmers have been adopting conservation practices like cover crops and no-till planting using financial help through the federal Environmental Quality Incentives Program, or EQIP.
But a new study shows this may not be the most cost-effective way to stop runoff and improve water quality around working lands.
Against the backdrop of an unpopular war in Iran, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on July 15, 2026, that the Pentagon would begin testing male service members 30 and older for low testosterone. That, the department later said, would include assessing symptoms of low testosterone such as “reduced libido, loss of spontaneous morning erections, erectile dysfunction, diminished energy and physical performance, impaired concentration, reduced muscle mass, and depressed mood.”
Deep in Antarctic ice, thousands of sensors are watching for flashes of blue light. These sensors are part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which monitors particles light years away from our solar system. This fall, that work won a Nobel Prize. Now, Babcock Dairy at UW-Madison wants to celebrate with a scoop.
On a February day two years ago, a parent called Sauk Prairie High School to ask if their child should drop out of an Advanced Placement course.
The UW Board of Regents is expected to select a new leader of the Universities of Wisconsin on Friday.
The Regents will convene in a closed-door meeting at 1 p.m. to consider a search committee’s recommendation for the next president, who will lead the 165,000-student, 13-university UW system, according to a notice published Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin students should keep in mind the variety of campus resources available when going out this Halloween weekend, especially with the added excitement of the Brewers first World Series win, according to UW Student Affairs.
Dane County prosecutors declined to file charges following a reported hazing incident at a Madison fraternity last month that received widespread attention.
Four young people were arrested Tuesday for trying to rob a homeless person with fake gun, Madison Police said.
The victim told police that four juveniles pointed a gun at them and tried to rob them at about 3:45 p.m. in the 300 block of North Henry Street before hitting them on the head and fleeing.
Part of Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley’s plan for data centers addresses climate change. I can tell you with authority that it would deliver on that promise.
I was so confused when my Spotify Wrapped dropped this year, and my top artist was Piero Piccioni, an Italian composer of jazz and film scores. Where was Frank Ocean? Steve Lacy? Even Olivia Rodrigo was absent from the rankings. Then I thought about what I listen to while I study and write for hours every day, and it all clicked.
In the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the Wisconsin Badgers football team experienced their first consecutive season-losing record since 1992, coming on the heels of consistently ranking in the top five in the Big Ten from 2017-2019 and ranking ninth in program spending.
Three constitutional amendments are on the Nov. 3 ballot. They include reforming the Wisconsin governor’s partial veto, prohibiting closing places of worship during emergencies and prohibiting governmental programs from discriminating or giving preferential treatment based on demographics.
Cheers erupted at Union South on the UW-Madison campus Wednesday night as hundreds of Brewers fans watched Milwaukee win the World Series.
The watch party was originally scheduled for Memorial Union but moved to Union South, where fans filled nearly every seat, watching every play and cheering on the Brewers as they closed out the championship.
UW-Madison students pressed the finalists for Universities of Wisconsin president on immigration enforcement on campuses and divesting from companies with ties to the Israeli military at a public forum Tuesday.
The three finalists addressed both issues during separate, hourlong appearances to pitch their visions for the top job overseeing the 13-university system with about 165,000 students.
The search for a new Universities of Wisconsin president “could not be happening at a worse time” and should be delayed until a new governor and lawmakers take office in January, former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson said in a letter to the UW Board of Regents.
University of Wisconsin-Madison campus heard from the three finalists in the race for Universities of Wisconsin System President Tuesday morning. The finalists spoke on ideas ranging from Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to Artificial Intelligence to Immigration, Customs and Enforcement on campus.
Four teenagers flashed fake guns during a robbery attempt of a homeless person, according to the Madison Police Department.
The attempted armed robbery occurred around 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday along the 300 block of N. Henry Street, according to the police department.
One teen was located outside on Langdon Street. The other three were found barricaded inside a building along the 100 block of Langdon Street.
Madison Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and community members marched to Madison Municipal Building Oct. 20 to protest the proposed firing of Interim Independent Police Monitor (IIM) Aeriamique Glass and demand accountability for Kiel Baitinger-Peterson, the Madison police officer who shot Corey Ruiz in July. The march preceded a 12-hour Common Council meeting that ended with Glass’s termination.
As the Nov. 3 midterm election approaches, news has been dominated by political coverage of candidates running for political offices and positions across Wisconsin.
With combined advertising and campaign spending totaling over $80 million, Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany spent substantial amounts criticizing each other to reach voters statewide, according to WisPolitics.
For 26 years, Wisconsin’s Driftless Area was represented in Congress by a moderate Democrat. Through multiple presidencies, including President Donald Trump’s first administration, Ron Kind was considered to be one of the most bipartisan House members and was easily reelected.
Now the 3rd Congressional District is one of the biggest battlegrounds in the nation.
A Nobel Prize-themed ice cream will make its way into Babcock Dairy’s library of flavors this spring, and UW-Madison is asking the public to pick it.
UW-Madison’s Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics on Oct. 6 for his work as principal investigator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a university-operated international research collaboration in the South Pole near the Amundsen-Scott Station.
The economics of UW-Madison needing more dorm space to meet demand for on-campus housing and the financial reality of prime campus real estate “wasted” on a 70-bed, 40-year-old dorm seem obvious. But I will mourn the loss of a cherished place when the wrecking ball comes for Merit Hall
he Universities of Wisconsin’s search for a new president kicked into high gear Monday, with the three finalists making their cases at the first of two campus forums.
Speaking at UW-Parkside, the finalists pledged to bring greater transparency to the UW system, offered suggestions for tackling declining enrollment, and explained their approach to working with the Legislature and campus governing bodies
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking to expand its dorm capacity through a privately owned dorm on state land on campus that would require nearly $30 million in annual rent.
The costs will be part of comparable housing costs for new students to add nearly 1,700 student beds to campus starting in fall 2029.
Dr. Francis Halzen, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, sheds some light on the mysterious, subatomic particles that whiz through us everyday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is spending over $62million to expand its radionuclide research and production facilities, including the nation’s first cyclotron dedicated to producing alpha-particle-emitting radionuclides.
The expansion has received $48.5 million in initial funding and had an additional $13.5 million approved by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents in 2025. The National Institutes of Health also awarded the university a $10 million grant for the project.
Bryan Jackson II had some confusion as he looked up at the Camp Randall Stadium crowd with about two minutes remaining in Wisconsin’s upset win over No. 15 USC.
“I’m like, ‘Man, people are leaving? Why is the student section kind of getting empty?’” the Wisconsin running back said. “And they’re like, ‘Nah, bro, just look a little lower.’”
A new research tool being developed through the Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub is expected to go live by next summer, offering a “catalyst for all the innovators” by unifying fragmented health data.
That’s according to Jomol Mathew, associate dean for informatics with the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Speaking last week during BioForward Wisconsin’s Biohealth Summit in Milwaukee, she provided an update on one of five projects being funded through the state’s tech hub effort.
Question: Why do jet aircraft wings bend upward at the end?
Answer: When a jet flies, the air flow over the wings generates air pressure beneath the wings that is higher than on the top of the wings. This pressure difference provides lift that allows the aircraft to fly.
UW-Madison police reported 19 ejections and 12 arrests during Saturday night’s football game between the Badgers and USC at Camp Randall Stadium.
That was fewer than half the 45 ejections reported at the Badgers’ previous home game, an Oct. 3 matchup against Michigan State. Police also reported 23 arrests at that game.
Actor and comedian Will Ferrell made an appearance as the DJ at an outdoor fraternity party Saturday, before the Badgers took on USC at Camp Randall, according to social media posts.
The colorful chairs overlooking Lake Mendota are saying goodbye for another season, marking the end of one of Madison’s most recognizable traditions.
The Wisconsin Union will begin removing approximately 2,000 yellow, green and orange sunburst chairs from the Memorial Union Terrace on Monday, October 26, bringing the 2026 Terrace season to a close.
A recent University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate aiming to close a university meat research laboratory’s gas chamber for pigs said he misrepresented publicly available footage from an Australian gas chamber as his own footage of UW-Madison’s gas chamber in a statement to The Daily Cardinal on Oct. 25.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police say a video an animal rights activist claimed he secretly recorded inside the university’s Meat Science facility appears to have been fabricated using publicly available footage.
Ryan Blum, a recent UW–Madison graduate, told WMTV in September that he secretly entered the Meat Science & Animal Biologics Discovery Building after months of planning and recorded pigs undergoing carbon dioxide stunning.
As employees and students grapple with questions around artificial intelligence, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has decided to work with a Milwaukee company for some of its data center needs.
he public will be able to hear from UW-Madison’s Francis Halzen, who won the Nobel Prize in physics this month, at a campus event this week.
On Friday, the university is hosting a “fireside chat” at the Great Hall in the Memorial Union featuring Halzen, who received the Nobel Prize Oct. 6 for his groundbreaking work detecting neutrinos, high-energy particles from deep space, under more than a mile of ice in Antarctica.
UW-Madison will celebrate physics professor Francis Halzen, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics earlier this month, during a public event Friday afternoon.
Halzen is the principal investigator for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. His research focuses on neutrinos, nearly massless, electrically neutral particles that travel at nearly the speed of light.
What Are Food Allergies in Dogs?
Food allergies can be a source of irritation in dogs. They can cause severe itching and other skin complications, as well as stomach upset.
To better understand food allergies in dogs, we reached out to Dr. Katie Anderson, a board-certified small animal veterinary internist and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
Could your gut influence your risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease? University of Wisconsin researchers say the answer may be yes.
Barbara Bendlin, a professor of medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, joined Spectrum News 1 to share about a study published in Nature Communications showing the link between food and cognitive decline as we age.
There are less than two weeks until the Nov. 3 election, when Wisconsin voters will make their decisions in a slate of consequential races that will decide who controls state government and represents constituents in Congress.
This week host Amellia Fowler speaks with Daily Cardinal Arts Editor, Ryan Kim, about his story “UW–Madison biology merger raises staff concerns over layoffs, botany’s future,” in a discussion of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s decision to combine the botany and integrative biology departments into a new Department of Biology.
Milwaukee County Executive and Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus with U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin Oct. 20 to rally the student vote ahead of Nov. 3 midterm elections.
The accomplishments of Nobel Prize winner and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Francis Halzen will be celebrated during a fireside chat on Friday afternoon, Oct. 23, in the Great Hall at the Memorial Union.
Halzen was recently named the recipient of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work detecting high-energy particles from deep space from a telescope in Antarctica.
The fireside chat, which will also feature interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots, will be followed by a panel discussion with experts from the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center.
The U.S. dairy industry is exploring ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through improved farm management, emerging technologies, and carbon market opportunities.
Leonard Polzin, Dairy Markets and Policy Outreach Specialist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, highlights how advances in dairy production have reduced emissions intensity while raising questions about measuring and managing the sector’s overall environmental impact.
Programs that could be affected if the amendment passes include University of Wisconsin-Madison scholarships that consider race, Milwaukee’s Office of African American Affairs and Wisconsin’s Supplier Diversity Program, which carries out the state’s goals to contract with a certain percentage of minority-owned businesses. Legal experts believe passage of the amendment could spark lawsuits to test the bounds of the language.
UW Health announced the East Madison Hospital will open a $140 million expansion on Nov. 2.
The expansion will help the hospital go from 14 to 20 operating rooms, increase the surgical prep and recovery bay capacity from 23 to 60 and expand inpatient bed capacity from 84 to 98, UW Health explained.
The project will add 120,000 square feet to the hospital.
UW Health explained the expansion is to help meet growing demand.
The Memorial Union Terrace at UW-Madison’s vibrant sunburst chairs are soon getting packed away for the winter season.
Wisconsin Union team members will begin removing the Union Terrace’s 2,000 yellow, green and orange sunburst chairs on Monday. This year, the chairs were out for about six months, starting April 15.
With college costs continuing to climb, new data is highlighting the U.S. cities that offer students the strongest combination of affordability, academic excellence, career opportunities and a vibrant social scene.
To help students make informed decisions, WalletHub compared more than 400 U.S. cities using 31 key indicators. The study assessed three main categories: wallet friendliness, social environment, and academic and economic opportunities. Factors included the cost of living, crime rates, higher education quality, employment prospects and recreational activities.
Around 100 University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty and staff gathered at Nancy Nicholas Hall to participate in social justice nonprofit JustDane’s prison reentry simulation and hear from formerly incarcerated people Oct 9.
JustDane is a Madison-based nonprofit providing social services for “justice-impacted individuals,” including prison reentry programs for recently released individuals, outreach for children of incarcerated parents and community prison re-entry simulations to raise awareness. They have operated across the Madison area for over 51 years.
