Two 20-year-olds were arrested after police were called to the scene of an alleged hazing incident where over two dozen young men were partially clothed and covered in liquids. Some of them were injured, police said.
To help keep the blood supply stable this fall, the American Red Cross will partner with the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a Homecoming Blood Drive from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 at the Nicholas Recreation Center, 797 W. Dayton St.
The drive will take place each day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the Red Cross hopes to collect blood from donors of all types.
That difference is especially clear in graduate education. UW–Madison’s Graduate School admitted 23.3% of applicants for fall 2025, but only about 39% of admitted students enrolled. International students accounted for 58% of applicants, 43% of admits, and 33% of new enrollees. Similar patterns appear at the University of Minnesota and in University of California academic master’s programs. A program can reject applicants and still compete hard for the students it admits.
I’ve been given directions to meet him at the hill behind Birge Hall, across the street from the Botany Garden on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. I pause by a concrete ramp that’s stained with black streaks. It leads to a steel door banked by a pile of dead leaves. The area seems deserted. In fact, it looks like the entrance to a fallout shelter.
For many University of Wisconsin-Madison students, state politics can feel distant from everyday life. It’s easy to see all of this as a separate entity from state politics, but it is not.
The Wisconsin State Capitol building is only a few blocks away from campus, but the policies and decisions made inside seem far removed from the classroom, residence hall or student org meeting.
They are not.
Forty iron rectangles, each one blunt as a piano key, rotate into a blurring fury that hides the eight-foot-long shaft at the heart of the flail chopper. I am perched atop several tons of iron, with 80 horsepower at my command.
The beloved pink plastic flamingos will return to Bascom Hill next week for UW-Madison’s 14th annual Fill the Hill fundraiser.
The Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association, which hosts the event, said the event is part of the university’s day-of-giving campaign.
The University of Wisconsin was ranked eighth among public universities and 34th among public and private institutions in the U.S., according to the 2027 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Collegesranking.
This is the highest ranking the university has received by the Best Colleges report in close to two decades, according to UW News.
Annual tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has increased each of the last four years. On August 17, however, the UW system proposed a plan to freeze tuition from 2027 to 2029 if the state agrees to invest $190 million into the universities. Though some students may appreciate this, any sane person will surely empathize with the UW Board of Regents, as this change would bar them from the most self-satisfying part of their jobs: raising tuition.
Researchers at the UW School of Pharmacy and School of Nursing are developing visual communication tools to help Hmong patients and caregivers describe their pain to providers. The pain assessment information visualization (InfoViz) tool looks to address the cultural barriers in descriptions of pain used by Hmong patients.
“Officially, we can declare the honeymoon is over on AI.”
That was one message Evan Osnos, a veteran political reporter for The New Yorker, shared with a packed Shannon Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wednesday evening.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center is using a new grant to help native nations. The center was awarded $116,024 from the Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Grant.
The money is being put toward the creating a handbook to help native nations navigate the processes of acquiring and receiving donated land.
Standardized test scores haven’t been required for admission to Wisconsin universities for years. That change could become permanent under a systemwide test-optional policy now under discussion.
Some universities began suspending ACT and SAT requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 2,000 colleges and universities have since adopted test-optional admissions policies.
University of Wisconsin-Madison saw a sea of bright gold Uber One bags on campus Sept. 17-18 as a part of the company’s effort to promote Uber One to students — but some of Uber’s promises about the subscription may be too good to be true.
Four universities in Wisconsin are listed among the country’s best in the latest rankings from U.S. News and World Report.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was the top-ranked school in the state and tied for 34th nationwide with seven other colleges and universities.
What does the Madison school district need to ensure students, staff, the local workforce and the broader community are all thriving 10 years from now? That was the opening question Marcelle Haddix, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, asked Tuesday at a sponsored Cap Times Idea Fest session about the district’s preparations for the future.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked among the nation’s top 10 public universities for undergraduate education in U.S. News & World Report’s 2027 Best Colleges rankings.
Network cameras filmed the president in the 1950s, when aides to President Dwight D. Eisenhower maintained editorial control of the footage, according to Kathryn McGarr, a media historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Pacemakers, the medical devices that help people maintain a consistent heartbeat, require both batteries for power and surgery if the batteries must be replaced.
But as part of a new study, published in the journal Science Advances, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers developed a pacemaker solely powered by heartbeats, with the goal of reducing surgeries for upkeep.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will launch a clinic next week aimed at supporting unpaid caregivers in Wisconsin.
The Badger Caregiving Clinic will bring together students, faculty and staff from several of UW–Madison’s health and social care programs to provide hands-on support and resources for caregivers, according to a news release. The clinic will be located at the UW Health E Terrace Drive Medical Center.
Gov. Tony Evers and an array of state lawmakers, faculty and donors held a ceremony Thursday afternoon to debut Irving and Dorthy Levy Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s newest campus building.
A new home for the College of Letters and Science, the building will house eight different humanities departments: African American Studies, American Indian & Indigenous Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, History, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies.
In mid-July, 63 high school and middle school students attended the four-day Badger Dairy Camp on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, where they learned about the breadth of areas that contribute to Wisconsin’s dairy industry, and the higher education and career opportunities available to them. The programming, for youth ages 12-17, included hands-on workshops and visits to multiple campus labs, the UW School of Veterinary Medicine and a nearby dairy farm – plus college prep sessions and recreational activities.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is celebrating its highest rankings in the Best Colleges report by U.S. News & World Report in about two decades.
UW-Madison ranked among the top 10 public institutions in the country for undergraduate education in the 2027 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings.
For the first time in four years, UW-Madison has cracked the top 10 among public schools in U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of best universities in the country.
UW-Madison ranked eighth, in a six-way tie, among public schools and 34th overall, according to the rankings released Tuesday. Last year, the flagship university placed 12th among public schools and 36th overall.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Blk Pwr Coalition hosted a candlelight vigil on Library Mall Thursday night in remembrance of 13 Black lives, including Corey Ruiz, who Madison police shot in a fatal encounter on Williamson Street this summer.
Around 60 students gathered to light candles, recite poems and anecdotes and grieve with the community. The vigil’s main purpose was to let families of the victims know they will not be forgotten, Blk Pwr Coalition’s chief operating officer Azuri Lawson said.
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadets from the University of Wisconsin-Madison joined local law enforcement at Camp Randall Stadium early morning on Sept. 11 to honor rescue workers who responded in the wake of the terrorist attacks 25 years ago.
Universities of Wisconsin system schools saw a drop in international student enrollment for the first time in three years, reflecting a nationwide trend driven by tighter federal visa policies.
The UW System enrolled an estimated 163,260 students this fall. That number is down 1732 students from last year, 1100 being international students, according to system counts.
Could the key to understanding Alzheimer’s disease be hiding in your gut? In this fascinating conversation, Dr. Barbara Bendlin, PhD — Professor of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a member of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute — breaks down more than a decade of groundbreaking research on the gut-brain connection.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gathered in Library Mall, September 16, for the first protest for a sanctuary campus of the semester. Madison Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) led the protest, joined by the Black Power Coalition (BPC), United Faculty & Academic Staff, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
Wisconsin’s public colleges are expected to gain a new slate of leadership this fall.
The search committees for the Universities of Wisconsin president and UW-Madison chancellor announced plans Thursday to bring the finalists to campuses for visits in October and November, respectively, paving the way for a hiring decision.
Girls ages 12 to 18 got a hands-on look at what it takes to get a plane off the ground Saturday during Girls in Aviation Day at Morey Airplane Company in Middleton.
The Women in Aviation International Four Lakes Chapter hosted the free event, where participants moved through stations focused on weather, flight planning, preflight checks, cockpit decision-making and other aspects of aviation.
The UW Health Transplant Center celebrated 60 years of organ transplants at an event Sunday at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison.
Transplant recipients, living donors, donor families and members of the transplant team gathered to mark six decades of transplant care. The center began performing transplants in 1966.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension is inviting farm families and farm business owners to participate in Cultivating Your Farm’s Future, an interactive virtual program designed to kickstart the vital process of farm succession planning.
UW-Madison police reported that 19 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 10 were arrested during Saturday’s rain-drenched football game between the Badgers and Eastern Michigan.
UW police also issued 11 tickets, 10 to UW students.
Before students can solve a word problem or follow written instructions, they must be able to read.
And for many kids across the country, that’s a challenge.
“Most kids are really not proficient readers. And that’s been true in the United States for many years. It’s gotten a little worse recently,” said Dr. Mark Seidenberg, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.
The Nation’s Report Card shows that only 31% of fourth graders are at or above the proficient level. Professor Dr. Mark Seidenberg says screen time and socioeconomic status contribute to this decline.
Over the past several years, gridlock between the Republican Legislature and Democratic governor’s office means election legislation in Wisconsin has hardly seen the light of day.
Timothy Paustian has tried everything to stop his students from writing essays with AI. When ChatGPT first came out, Paustian, a biology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, tested AI detectors that promised to flag machine-generated prose.
As solar power makes up a bigger piece of our electricity puzzle, there’s a worry about a trade-off, especially in rural areas: If we build more solar farms, are we losing land for crops? But University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are asking the question: Why can’t we have both?
As a pulmonary physician-scientist who studies nicotine addiction and the health consequences of tobacco and nicotine products, I am concerned about claims that nicotine can enhance wellness, productivity and cognitive performance.
UW-Madison’s new humanities building is a far cry from the one across campus that it is, in part, replacing: The decrepit Mosse Humanities Building, known for leaks, crumbling concrete and unreliable elevators.
Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall, a five-floor, 136,000-square-foot building, is the bright and airy new home to eight humanities departments that were previously spread across multiple campus facilities, including Mosse.
A new academic building officially opened on the UW-Madison campus on Thursday called Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall.
It’s at the corner of North Park and West Johnson Streets.
The building will be the new home for humanities classes such as history, African American studies, gender and women’s studies and religious studies.
The Universities of Wisconsin may permanently eliminate college entrance exams scores as a required part of the first year student admission processes.
Since 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began, the UW system has waived a requirement that students submit either SAT and ACT scores at all 13 UW campuses. Before the waiver, the scores had been a requirement for college applications since 1989 .
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Prof. David Noyce, director of the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at UW-Madison.
Noyce, the executive associate dean and Arthur F. Hawnn professor of transportation engineering at the university’s College of Engineering, discusses the work being done around self-driving vehicles and other advanced technologies at UW-Madison.
Concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence have escalated after a former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI wrote a viral social media post last week claiming that artificial intelligence could “kill us all by the end of the decade.”
The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved the first reading to make test-optional admissions a permanent policy for the university system.
It’s a step in the process before a final vote to make the change.
A new building is open on the UW-Madison campus.
Neil Kodesh moved into his office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s newest building on campus three weeks ago, but “it still does not seem real,” he said.
“Our old building was the Humanities Building, the big concrete monstrosity. It has its charm, but it’s a stark contrast to here,” said Kodesh, who chairs the history department.
The University of Wisconsin released a report describing three hazing incidents at Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. from February 2025 on Tuesday, specifying multiple Student Organization Code of Conduct violations relating to hazing.
The UW Board of Regents expects to select a new UW-Madison chancellor in November, the official leading the search committee said Thursday.
UW-Madison’s new chancellor will succeed Jennifer Mnookin, who left the university in May after nearly four years to lead Columbia University. Eric Wilcots, dean of UW-Madison’s College of Letters and Science, is serving as interim chancellor.
The Wisconsin Union will begin selling limited edition mini Terrace chairs as a way to support students who have survived dating violence, officials said Thursday.
A portion of the proceeds from each sale of the purple mini Terrace chair will be donated to University Health Services’ Survivor Empowerment Fund, supporting student survivors of sexual assault and dating violence.
A new academic building officially opened on the UW-Madison campus on Thursday called Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall.
University leaders, donors and state officials gathered Thursday to celebrate the opening of Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall, a new academic building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It’s September and that means people all over the country are headed back to college at some really beautiful campuses.
New data compiled by SIXT reveals 10 of the most eye-catching college campuses across America, and some of the answers might surprise you.
Wisconsin Metallica fans – “The Bell Tolls” for thee.
One of the most influential metal bands of all time is making its way back to Wisconsin to wrap up the “M72 World Tour.” Visiting 26 countries since 2023 that have hosted 99 concerts so far, the tour will wrap up in Salt Lake City June 19, one of 12 final tour stops in North America the band hasn’t visited on this run.
“We’ve long suspected that your living environment affects your brain, but until now it’s not been proven at scale in clinical populations,” John-Paul J. Yu, MD, PhD, associate professor of radiology, psychiatry, biomedical engineering, biostatistics and medical informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s school of medicine, said in an RSNA news release on the findings. “We’ve shown very robust, measurable metrics that our living environment has an outsized impact on the brain at the molecular and cellular level.”
Missionaries to the Preborn, a pro-life Milwaukee based group, held signs featuring bloody photos of allegedly aborted babies on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Library Mall Wednesday while students and Madisonians played instruments and yelled to drown out the pro-life group’s words as a counter-protest.
That’s according to Dr. Jonathan Patz, director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Health, Energy and Environmental Research.
It’s been nearly nine years since heavy metal icons Metallica have played Wisconsin, and that changes next summer.
On Wednesday morning, the band announced that their “M72” world tour will make a stop at Camp Randall Stadium on June 12, 2027, marking their first Wisconsin show since 2018.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Aug. 27 to rename Lake Ontario — which resides on the northern border of New York and Canada — Lake America, as a symbolic jab amidst increasing trade tensions with Canada. The move, framed by Trump as “Making the Great Lakes Even Greater,” is political theater, but its real cost is cultural.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD) opened its doors to the Madison community Wednesday, Sept. 9 for an open house during UW-Madison’s Welcome Week event schedule.
Speciality divisions, guided tours, free food and the opportunity to learn more about UW-Madison’s campus police drew a crowd to the UWPD’s Monroe Street office. The event gave students and community members the chance to interact with officers, ask questions and learn more about the department.
