Author: Nathan Steagall

The third annual Abbott and Big Ten “We Give Blood’ drive competition is underway, with Wisconsin entering this year as the defending champion.

Last year, UW Madison won a $1 million grant from Abbott after bringing in 15,476 donations.

Customers who use a credit or debit card to buy food at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union are prompted to leave a tip. They can select a specific amount or skip adding extra money.

The dog days of summer are over and many University of Wisconsin-Madison professors spent them reading books that provided both temporary escapes and insights into their lives.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Deliberation Dinners returns for its fourth consecutive year, giving 375 undergraduates with diverse perspectives the opportunity to deliberate on controversial political issues over six moderated meals throughout the academic year.

The discussions aim to maintain a respectful and collaborative environment and promote civil dialogue among undergraduates.

Madison blends student life at the flagship university with a state capital setting, offering students lake views, bike paths, farmers markets, and a lively downtown lined with bars and eateries.

he American Family Insurance Championship will stay in Madison through 2030 and return to University Ridge Golf Course next year.

American Family Insurance and PGA TOUR Champions agreed to extend the tournament, which has raised nearly $22 million for charity since 2016, according to a press release. The 2027 competition is scheduled for June 11-13 at University Ridge, where the championship first started.

All 18 Big Ten schools are competing to collect the most blood donations through a competition called “We Give Blood.” Wisconsin collected more than 15,000 donations last year to finish first

There was a hint of autumn in Madison, Wisconsin before sun-up on Monday Aug. 24, 1970.

The temperature was only 49 degrees, and for those who happened to be awake at 3:30 a.m., there was unexpected cool relief from the dog days of summer.

But it was about to get hot on the University of Wisconsin campus. Searing hot.

The flame on a fuse was quietly burning down to one ton of explosive ANFO, hidden in the back of a Ford Econoline van that had been carefully parked right outside of Sterling Hall, a large university classroom building.

The American Family Insurance Championship is returning to its original home next year.

The 2027 iteration of the tournament will be played at University Ridge Golf Course from June 11-13, tournament organizers announced Wednesday. The unique scramble format will also return.

Organizers also announced that the tournament agreed to terms with PGA TOUR Champions to keep the event in Madison through 2030. Steve Stricker will continue as player-host.

My favorite tomato is the Wisconsin 55, as much for the memories they stir as the taste they imbue. They’re a hybrid developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1940s, and are said to thrive in Wisconsin’s sometimes moist summers, which I’ve found to be sort of true.

The UW Cinematheque returns with regular free showings for its fall series starting Thursday, Aug. 27, after its summer screenings were canceled due to campus cooling problems.

Have you ever wondered which Wisconsin high school has the highest success rate at getting into the state flagship? Or how many students from your alma mater apply to the University of Wisconsin-Madison?

In an effort to be more transparent, UW-Madison has published this data. Covering the state’s high school graduating class in 2024-25, the dashboard shows how many public high school students graduated from each school, how many of the graduates applied to UW-Madison, how many were admitted and how many enrolled.

Interim chancellor Eric Wilcots and founding dean of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence (CAI) Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau presented a measured view of artificial intelligence in higher education at a Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association (WFAA) virtual panel on August 18.

Wilcots and Arpaci-Dusseau both said students should be AI competent when they graduate, but that UW-Madison needs to handle AI’s pervasiveness in college life: cracking down on take-home assessments while navigating emptier classrooms and a “silent spring” on Piazza, a popular classroom forum and social networking tool, as students increasingly turn to chatbots.

I first arrived at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2022 to help my sister move into her dorm room on the fifth floor of Witte Hall. It wasn’t until a couple years later that I finally got to experience UW–Madison as a student myself.

Even after what felt like hundreds of orientations, somehow, almost everyone I knew remained, completely and utterly — disoriented. But I was luckier than the rest, because I had my sister around to show me the ropes. Without her I’d likely still be lost on the fourth floor of the humanities building.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the country’s top party schools, according to a new USA TODAY ranking.

With college football season about to begin, USA TODAY ranked the top party schools across the United States by averaging the results of seven different online lists, including Niche.com and The Wall Street Journal.

UW-Madison ranked fifth, just ahead of West Virginia and just behind Georgia.

There’s only one training program in the state: the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine, where roughly 2,500 students vie for 100 open seats yearly. About half of the graduates will stay and practice in Wisconsin.

The school isn’t churning out enough graduates to make a serious dent in the state’s shortage.  And its lecture halls and laboratories don’t have enough physical space to expand enrollment.

“We are capped out at the number of students we can admit because … the facilities just literally cannot fit any additional folks,” said Dr. Jonathan Levine, dean of the vet school.