The University of Wisconsin football team was falling behind its Big Ten peers. It needed a better place to practice when weather wasn’t cooperating.
The mid-1980s plan to solve that problem initially was to install a translucent dome over the Camp Randall Stadium field for the offseason. The Athletic Board got on board — briefly, anyway.
Question: What is the prediction for the 2026 hurricane season?
Answer: Tropical cyclones are large, whirling storms that obtain their energy from warm ocean waters.
UW-Madison’s new chancellor will be stepping onto campus within the next year.
The search is underway after Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin left UW-Madison in May to lead Columbia University, closing a four-year tenure marked by the growth of the university’s research enterprise, historic enrollment, federal policy changes and several controversial high-profile decisions.
Janet (Huff) Dyer followed her sister to the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team. Now she’s following her into the Badgers’ hall of fame.
Badgers star back leads Wisconsin’s 2026 hall of fame class
“It was definitely surprising,” Dyer said. “I never expected it. But it was a very important moment for me.”
Roughly 20 million Americans live in manufactured houses, which are made in factories.
Though they’re often called mobile homes or trailers, that’s really a misnomer because their owners can’t easily relocate them. Typically, the people who own them rent the land underneath the houses from the owners of parks for manufactured home. Sometimes an owner will rent their home to someone else while paying to rent the land as well.
The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a proposal to increase resident undergraduate tuition by 2 percent for the 2026–27 academic year.
“This 2 percent tuition increase represents a balanced and measured approach to addressing the rising costs our UW universities face,” said Regent President Amy B. Bogost.
The decision, by a vote of 15-1, comes after several years of significant financial restructuring across UW universities, including reductions in structural deficits, operational changes, and campus-level cost containment efforts designed to strengthen long-term financial stability.
In-state students will once again pay a higher tuition rate to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison — but their cost remains lower than at peer schools.
On Thursday, the UW system’s Board of Regents approved a 2% tuition increase for resident undergraduates next school year. Tim Nixon was the only regent to vote against the measure.
“We’ve increased tuition four years in a row. I personally have not been provided with sufficient information to believe it is again necessary. No matter how reasonable the increase, the burden on students, parents and the public is real,” Nixon said at the board’s meeting at UW-Milwaukee.
Several Republican lawmakers are upset with the University of Wisconsin System’s proposal to increase tuition by 2% a year after a 5% increase.
Sen. Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point, went as far as saying that a pair of trustees “lied to all our faces” in committee testimony when they said that tuition would not be raised again this soon.
“Unfortunately, students and their families are the ones who will be paying the price for this dishonesty,” Testin said in a statement. “At least we now know that we can no longer take the UW Board of Regents at their word.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison is investigating whether the student group Animal Advocacy encouraged members to participate in an illegal raid of a puppy mill earlier this spring, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
Wednesday was a bittersweet day for the UW-Madison Police Department.
After nine years, K9 Ritter is retiring.
The furry friend joined UWPD in 2017 alongside officer Justin Zurbuchen as an explosives-detection and human-tracking team.
Ritter has helped keep the UW campus safe through 327 deployments, special events and every Badger football game.
The Joint Committee on Finance approved the $10 million sale of the state’s former Human Services building to Landmark Development Tuesday, bringing Madison one step closer to getting Amtrak service.
A key part of the company’s plan is to bridge gaps between Madison and other Midwestern cities.
“Madison is ideally situated amongst the sort of arc of bigger cities within the Midwest. We really can play a key position economically, culturally, politically, by the location we have,” Jason Ilstrup, the president of Downtown Madison Inc., said.
Students, faculty and staff could learn by fall who will become the next leader of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“We hope to have a new chancellor named … by the end of the calendar year, at the latest,” Jason Beier, who oversees human resources for the broader UW system, recently told a group tasked with finding Jennifer Mnookin’s replacement.
UW Health has delivered prescriptions to their patients’ homes since 2012, but now those deliveries will come much faster.
For patients in Dane County, UW Health can now deliver prescriptions to the patient’s home the day after the order is placed – for free, Aaron Webb, the director of ambulatory care pharmacy services at UW Health said Tuesday.
“We are trying to make this as convenient as possible for patients, by meeting them where they are,” Webb explained.
Prescription home delivery through UW Health used to take several days, using outside vendors such as USPS and UPS.
Brian Posick hasn’t forgotten his first Madison Sports Hall of Fame banquet. It was 30 years ago, and the memory is still fresh.
Former University of Wisconsin sports information director Jim Mott was among the four inductees in 1996, and Posick was drawn to the event because “I admired him.”
Posick was subsequently hooked. “I wanted to see what it was all about,” he said, “and I’ve been there ever since handing out individual awards, whatever they may be.”
This topic, admittedly, is well down the list of ways the transfer portal complicates college sports.
But it’s on there somewhere and entered my mind last week when the UW Athletic Hall of Fame class of 2026 was unveiled.
Roughly 20 million Americans live in manufactured houses, which are homes made in factories.
Although they’re often called mobile homes or trailers, that’s really a misnomer because their owners can’t easily relocate them. Typically, the people who own them rent the land underneath the houses from the owners of manufactured home parks. Sometimes, an owner will rent their home to someone else while paying to rent the land as well.
Civic engagement is all the buzz at UW-Madison.
Just look at any commencement or convocation speech from Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin over the past few years, each of which have mentioned the words pluralism or polarization at least once.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is investigating a student group’s alleged involvement in the raid of a Madison-area beagle breeding facility.
The Office of Student Conduct is determining whether Animal Advocacy encouraged other students to participate in criminal activity. The student group protested animal abuse on a flyer and in a social media post about Ridglan Farms, a Blue Mounds beagle breeding facility that has faced years of accusations of mistreating dogs. Ridglan Farms has long denied mistreating the animals in its care.
Almost 20 years ago, a green, shiny beetle arrived in southern Wisconsin and started eating ash trees to death.
Originally from Asia and known as the emerald ash borer, the bug is smaller than a dime and quickly spread like wildfire, largely fueled by firewood and tree nursery transports.
Summer is here and with children already or about to be on summer break, many parents are looking for productive ways for their children to spend their break.
UW Health Dr. Shilagh Mirgain shares some budget friendly summer activities for children.
While students may be done with homework for the summer, that doesn’t mean they have to stop reading.
Dr. Mirgain suggests visiting a library for books and fun.
Dr. Gregory DeMuri, pediatric infectious disease doctor at UW Health Kids and professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said Lyme disease can cause the rash, and then it can cause arthritis, heart problems and sometimes central nervous system issues.
Question: How important was the weather forecast on D-Day?
Answer: D-Day was the name given to the June 6, 1944, invasion of the beaches at Normandy in northern France by troops of the Allied Forces during World War II. The goal was to cross the narrow, often stormy, English Channel into Nazi-occupied France.
Tuition for in-state students on Universities of Wisconsin campuses may increase again this fall.
The UW Board of Regents will vote Thursday on whether to raise tuition for in-state undergraduate students by 2% for the 2026-27 academic year.
If the plan is approved, in-state students at UW-Madison will pay $210 more next fall, or $10,716 total, and out-of-state students will see a 4% tuition increase, or about $1,701, raising the total to $44,232.
Former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball forward Sam Dekker decided to enter coaching after an 11-year professional basketball career, joining the South Carolina men’s basketball staff in May.
Last week, he discussed the excitement of joining his former assistant coach at Wisconsin, Lamont Paris, and the difficulty of leaving the playing chapter of his career behind him.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to debut public, free-of-charge metals casting and CNC machining Wisconsin Hubs this summer in partnership with the U.S. Department of War (DOW).
Metallurgical Engineering Trades Apprenticeships & Learning (METAL) and America’s Cutting Edge (ACE) are Department of War-sponsored hubs offering free, hands-on workforce development courses. ACE’s bootcamps focus on introductory CNC machining, a process involving a computer-controlled machine that carves material into a user-designed part. METAL’s offerings focus on introductory metals casting and forging.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison altered their general education requirements in May for incoming students first enrolling for or after Summer 2026, completely removing the current ethnic studies requirement but retaining the courses under a new category.
The Ho-Am Foundation, a public interest organization sponsored by Samsung Group, granted the 2026 Samsung Ho-Am Prize to six leaders in the fields of science, engineering, medicine, art and social contribution.
Here’s what guests on the May 29, 2026 episode said about broad voter support for a failed state surplus deal, prospects for job seekers, and a lawsuit over ICE holds by sheriffs.
Dairy producers across Wisconsin now have a new tool to help manage one of summer’s biggest challenges: heat stress. It costs the U.S. dairy industry significantly each year through reduced milk production, lower fertility, and added health expenses. At the same time, the cost of running the fans and ventilation systems that prevent those losses keeps rising, making smart decisions on the farm matter more than ever.
Instead, the former judges, representatives of Law Forward, the Wisconsin Association for Justice and directors of the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggest the Wisconsin Supreme Court should establish an advisory committee to study what process would work best in Wisconsin.
Inside the Black Business Hub, members of the chapter gathered to prepare for their upcoming Golden Anniversary Homecoming Weekend — while reflecting on decades of mentorship, leadership and community impact.
The chapter’s youngest Madison member, Natalie McDonald, snapped photos of older sorority sisters on her iPhone for an upcoming article in Umoja Magazine.
McDonald said documenting the women who helped shape the chapter — and Madison itself — felt deeply meaningful.
In their latest attempt to get the program back on track, the Wisconsin Badgersannounced the football program’s next general manager.
According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, Wisconsin hired longtime NFL personnel executive Morocco Brown.
Within just the past two years, two-thirds of the universities in the Big Ten Conference have had a change in presidential leadership. Counting system heads and the leaders of flagship campuses, 12 of the 18 member institutions have seen turnover at the top since the start of 2025.
The article “Student group probe begins” in Wednesday’s Wisconsin State Journal raises a series of questions and concerns. It was about UW-Madison investigating Animal Advocacy (AA), a student organization focused on animal rights.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association hosted a webinar on May 19, “From War to AI: Forces Shaping Today’s Economy,” examining how conflict, global trade disruptions and artificial intelligence are influencing the United States and global economy.
The two are also concerned that the district could ignore some of the equity and teacher well-being issues raised in a report led by a group of students from UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, which found that teachers felt burnt out by monitoring phone use and want more district support, and that low-income Black and Latino students in the Madison School District face disproportionate levels of device-related discipline.
When Julian Walters was playing professional basketball in Europe, he thought he had the next decade of his life planned out. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and his career abruptly came to a halt.
“You have this idea in your head of how your life is going to go,” he said. “I wasn’t quite ready to not play basketball yet.”
University of Wisconsin Interim Director of Athletics Marcus Sedberry announced Thursday that 12 standout athletes and staff members will be inducted into the UW Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2026.
Sedberry revealed the class inside Victory Hall at Camp Randall Stadium. The group will be inducted during Hall of Fame weekend on Sept. 18-19, and will be honored at Camp Randall during Wisconsin football’s game vs. Eastern Michigan on Sept. 19 (11:30 a.m. CT).
Earlier this week the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department witnessed someone driving 93 mph on Campus Drive – where the speed limit is 35 mph.
This comes after an officer took it upon themself to keep track of different speeds witnessed on the road, that has been a known problem in the past.
“For us it’s all about safety, it’s not about finding an opportunity to give somebody a citation” said UW Police Department Executive Director of Communications, Marc Lovicott.
Requests to remove or restrict access to books in schools have hit record highs both across the country and in Wisconsin.
In May, Wisconsin upheld the Menomonee Falls School District’s finding that the 2024 removal of a children’s book that depicted multiple family structures, including ones with LGBTQ+ couples, did not count as discrimination.
Speaking Thursday morning to a meeting of downtown business leaders, UW-Madison interim athletic director Marcus Sedberry said he anticipates the new director will be named before the Badgers football season begins in September.
“My estimation is before football season, there will be some type of announcement of who the next athletic director will be,” Sedberry said at a Downtown Madison Inc. breakfast event held at the Edgewater Hotel.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is asking for the public’s help in solving the 58-year-old murder of freshman Christine “Chris” Rothschild, who was found stabbed to death on campus next to Sterling Hall on May 26, 1968. She was only 18.
The Center for Black Excellence and Culture (The Center) announced Thursday that it has been awarded a two-year, $247,000 grant from the New York-based Dana Foundation to launch a groundbreaking civic science research initiative.
The median home cost in Wisconsin’s two biggest metro areas is at least five times the median household income in those communities, among the highest in the Midwest.
It’s one thing that a national college football preseason magazine has University of Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell on its “hot seat” list.
It’s another thing for Fickell’s fourth-year program to be the target of a “hot take” from an anonymous opposing Big Ten assistant coach in the same magazine.
The search for the next University of Wisconsin athletic director has a focus on candidates with experience of what they could be stepping into.
The two-week application period for the position opened Wednesday after a series of listening sessions and the start of meetings by a nine-member search committee, the school said. Applications are due by June 10.
In many regions of the country, dairy farmers experience all four seasons, and that includes hot, humid summers that can leave dairy cattle — and the farm’s profits — struggling to cope.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension has a one-stop website with science-based resources for dealing with heat stress.
A UW-Madison student animal advocacy organization is under investigation for potential ties to an attempted raid at Ridglan Farms.
In April, animal activists attempted to break into the facility and take beagles held there. The effort was unsuccessful, and law enforcement drove the activists away using tear gas and rubber bullets.
UW-Madison is now investigating whether Animal Advocacy UW-Madison violated state laws or campus policies by encouraging people to attend the planned break-in.
It took something as small as the width of a motorcycle tire to change Jack Brucks’ life forever.
Brucks, then 10 years old, was riding a single-piston motorcycle in a flat-track training session — his specialty — in Texas when his front wheel struck a tire that was on the track as a marker, sending him flying in the air. When he landed, his right hip was virtually shattered.
“I hit a tire, did a front flip, landed, screamed, and I don’t remember much after that,” he said.
Rescue officials are responding to a boat rescue on Lake Mendota on Tuesday.
Dane County Dispatch explained that people were on top of a flipped boat out on Lake Mendota near the Warner Park Beach.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department and Middleton Fire were responding to the scene.
UW-Madison is investigating an animal advocacy student organization’s tie to an attempted raid of a town of Blue Mounds breeding and research facility last month.
The university is examining whether Animal Advocacy UW-Madison violated campus policies by soliciting others to attend activists’ illegal attempt to seize Ridglan Farms’ nearly 2,000 beagles and improperly posted a flyer for an event, according to a letter obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.
Resistant and emerging pests are on the rise, leaving farmers scrambling for information on control options.
Corn earworm flexed its might last year in Wisconsin fields.
A resident of Mansfield Hall, a private dorm for college students that offers support and community for diverse learners, provides a tour of the building located on fraternity row near UW-Madison.
UW-Madison Athletics announced Tuesday that six Badger programs earned perfect multi-year scores in the NCAA’s most recent Academic Progress Rate report.
The teams that achieved flawless multi-year APR scores of 1,000 were men’s golf, women’s golf, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s track & field and men’s wrestling.
Maks Makarenkov couldn’t help but smile on car rides through the capital city. He saw homes with blue and yellow flags pinned in their windows or dangling from flagpoles.
“Seeing the Ukrainian flags here, it touches my heart,” Makarenkov said. “In this war, we feel the American support.”
Despite federal and state restrictions, University of Wisconsin-Madison students can still access multiple forms of abortion care, the Bissell Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UW-Madison, Jenny Higgins, told The Daily Cardinal in an interview about Wisconsin’s changing reproductive health landscape.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison opened a formal investigation into registered student organization (RSO) Animal Advocacy over its promotion of the April 18 Ridglan Farms raid, examining whether the group violated campus posting policies and Wisconsin laws related to soliciting criminal activity.
Runners from all parts of the state gathered at the UW-Madison Library Mall for the annual Run Madtown half marathon and 10k run. Runners took off at 7 a.m. and ran through several parts of the city, including the State Capitol, Arboretum and Camp Randall.
The search to replace Chris McIntosh as the new University of Wisconsin athletic director commenced nearly two weeks ago. The university recently gave some answers as to the process, but there’s still plenty to wonder about what’s ahead and who could fill this prominent role.
