A study conducted by Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison revealed vast amounts of undocumented uranium has been exported from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past 20 years.
After hackers successfully targeted dozens of water systems in neighboring Minnesota, utilities throughout Wisconsin have been double-checking their security systems ahead of any potential future attack here. “The reason to target a water system is that it’s so fundamental to our day-to-day lives,” said Dorothea Salo, a cybersecurity expert and teaching faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s a critical system and unfortunately, it turns out that they’re often easy targets. Like many of us during the pandemic lockdown, we put a lot of things on the internet, and that includes the infrastructure for our water supply.”
Wisconsin is in need of statewide legislation that ensures large-scale AI data centers in the state all have to follow the same rules and pay for their energy infrastructure, according to a new report.
“America will not outbuild China by copying its model,” the report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy concludes. “It can compete through private capital, abundant energy, enforceable contracts, and faster construction. Wisconsin has the manufacturers, workforce, land, and industrial experience to compete on those terms.”
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, has launched the 2026-2027 Parasite Patrol Tour, a multi-state educational program designed to help sheep and goat producers improve parasite management.
The tour began on August 4 and will stop in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, on Friday, September 25.
The workshop addresses one of the biggest challenges facing small ruminant producers parasite resistance to traditional deworming treatments.
The national wave of democratic socialism has made its way to swing states, wreaking havoc for established Democrats in Wisconsin’s primary and raising questions about electability.
But young voters, whom democratic socialist gubernatorial frontrunner Francesca Hong has polled highest among in the Democratic primary, seem to be leaning into it.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison investigation into Registered Student Organization (RSO) Animal Advocacy concluded July 7, finding the organization not responsible for soliciting burglary at Ridglan Farms but responsible for improper postings promoting a speaking event.
A not guilty plea was entered Thursday for a UW-Madison lab worker accused of trying to poison a co-worker.
Makoto Kuroda, 42, was arraigned on charges of second-degree recklessly endangering safety and tampering with household products. He appeared in court while a translator appeared for him by phone.
College football offseason is a misnomer.
Between weight and speed training, spring practices and more coach contact than ever before, summers have become scattered down weeks rather than months-long breaks.
State and federal authorities continue to investigate a recent coordinated cyberattack on Minnesota municipal water systems.
Hackers disrupted technology controls at water towers and treatment plants in more than 30 Minnesota communities last week. And the FBI says water and wastewater companies in at least six other states have reported incidents.
MPR News guest host Catharine Richert talks with her guests about what we can do to protect the water systems, power grids and other public services we rely on.
Inflation hit a three-year high in May, leaving a growing number of Americans struggling to afford necessities. The rate has since slowed a bit, but most prices aren’t likely to come down. Analysts say “affordability” could be one of the deciding issues in this fall’s midterm elections.
But while we all notice the spike at the gas pump and the cash register, many people may not realize they can use simple, free tools to quantify the change and figure out whether their pay is keeping up.
After months of President Donald Trump threatening a US takeover of Cuba and ramping up a decadeslong economic assault of the island, The New York Times revealed Wednesday that the Central Intelligence Agency created a related task force, “setting in motion plans for a more concerted campaign to pressure the Cuban government to make the economic, political, and leadership changes.”
In Wisconsin, a progressive gubernatorial candidate is polling far ahead of the other candidates before the battleground state’s Democratic primary next week.
That was the story in Michigan, too: Polls showed Abdul El-Sayed handily beating Rep. Haley Stevens ahead of Tuesday’s Senate primary — but he had barely edged out a victory by the time the race was called the next morning. Now, some Democrats wonder if the same will come to pass in Wisconsin, where polling has shown state Rep. Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, leading her opponents by double-digit margins for weeks.
Mario Russo wrote his own eulogy.
Without knowing it.
After former University of Wisconsin football coach John Jardine died of heart failure at age 54 in 1990, there was an outpouring of tributes from coaches, players, friends and fans.
Among the most genuine Jardine testimonials was from Russo, who coached the UW linebackers during the 1976 and 1977 seasons, Jardine’s final two years at Wisconsin.
The district is partnering with the YWCA and UW-Extension on some programming for Family University, starting with the Extension’s Fathers in Focus conference in October, which the district will encourage families to attend. Additional Family University sessions will begin rolling out after that conference.
Forced pushups, eating raw onions and performing to children’s music are among hazing incidents at UW-Madison and two other Wisconsin public universities over the last five years, according to campus reporting under a recent federal law.
The Stop Campus Hazing Act required universities to publicly list hazing incidents on their website by Dec. 23, 2025, update those reports twice a year, and disclose them in their annual security reports.
UW Health has been ranked the top hospital in Wisconsin for the 15th consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report.
The health system also earned national rankings in nine adult specialties and received the highest ratings for 20 adult procedures and conditions. Dr. Peter Newcomer, chief operating officer at UW Health, said the recognition reflects the dedication and expertise demonstrated across the health system every day.
As the only veterinary medicine school in the state, UW-Madison is working to recruit rural veterinarians as early as high school.
The program is called Food Animal Veterinary Medical Scholars. Students likely to pursue careers in food-animal veterinary medicine receive guaranteed admission and are placed on track to complete their undergraduate studies within three years.
“It’s absolutely crystal clear that there are benefits of protein to muscle growth and exercise response of active individuals,” says study co-author Dudley Lamming, professor of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Violet LaClair was ready to leave her job.
As a certified nursing assistant at UW Health in Madison, she used the skills she developed while caring for her dying grandmother for nine years. Her co-workers had supported her through her gender transition. She’d even won an award for providing “extraordinary” care.
When a Madison police officer fatally shot Corey Ruiz on July 22, his death sparked outrage — and questions.
Among them: Why was Ruiz killed, and what kind of training or rules could have prevented his death?
Ion Meyn, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, has studied exactly that. For a 2021 paper, he and his team interviewed police officers across the country and watched dozens of training videos to understand how police think about use of force and what guidelines they learn — even as departments argue that such situations can never be governed by hard and fast rules.
Air travel has become agony for many travelers: enduring endless lines, arguing about luggage with harried airline employees, running for flights because of security delays. The list goes on.
During the recent U.S. government shutdowns, lines often extended around and outside terminals, in scenes that still haunt travelers.
The final month of summer is here, which means many families will be getting into the back-to-school lists and shopping for supplies.
While we are providing physical tools to help kids with the new school year, are we spending enough time equipping our kids with strategies for their well-being so they can thrive this academic year?
Dr. Shilagh Mirgain, distinguished psychologist with UW Health, joined WMTV 15 to talk about the three “P’s” that families should try for the school year.
Sam Dean is often spotted juggling while running on trails around town. He is chasing the title of world’s fastest known “joggler.”
Dean is a teacher at Madison Country Day School in Waunakee and a runner, who learned how to run and juggle when he was a member of the UW-Madison marching band, playing trumpet. The assistant director of bands at the time, Alexander Gonzalez, inspired Dean to try running and juggling at the same time.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team announced its 2026-27 nonconference schedule Monday, featuring three exhibitions and four neutral-site games with opponents from as many as four high-major conferences.
A U.S. District Court judge granted a temporary restraining order last week that blocks the U.S. Department of Education from unlawfully terminating congressionally approved school-based mental health grants.
The order in the case joined by the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) and a coalition of 14 state attorneys general came just days before the Department of Education would have begun terminating several grants designed to provide critical mental health services to Wisconsin public school students at the end of July. Terminating the grants would have resulted in the projected loss of $12.5 million to the University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Aliya Maly had her heart set on attending the University of Portland for a degree in elementary education — until she learned the price tag.
The university had offered on its website to help students cover tuition. But on a campus tour, Maly recalled learning the cost would be $20,000 more than she thought.
Her next choice was the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but she missed a deadline to accept admission. So Maly enrolled at Edgewood University, which offered a better financial aid package with a refund every semester.
Earlier this year, the Madison suburb of DeForest abruptly rejected a $12 billion, 1,600-acre data center amid mounting public opposition.
In doing so, the village of 12,000 also turned down wide-ranging public benefits that some experts say could be a model for what communities can demand from hyperscale data center projects.
Wisconsin Watch reported in January that DeForest and other communities around the state had, for months, secretly worked on proposals for billion-dollar data centers before informing the public.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison defended its partnership with an organization that encourages people of color to pursue graduate degrees but still canceled it after the Trump administration launched an investigation, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found in recently released records.
“The tax benefits are big,” said professor Ross Milton, a local government tax expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Milton said the guarantee means that even if the data center’s property valuation didn’t reach $1.2 billion, the village would still receive the amount of property tax revenue as if it did, though other local taxing bodies would not.
In Wisconsin, the NSF Materials AI and Transformation through Research Infrastructure for eXtreme environments Materials Innovation Platform (NSF MATRIX-MIP) will be based at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. NSF MATRIX-MIP will investigate how the chemical and structural complexity of materials influences their performance in extreme environments, like those with high heat or strong radiation. MATRIX-MIP will explore how to use complexity to design and create materials with superior properties in such environments. Researchers will design experiments that use AI to rapidly predict the properties of many new materials, fabricate them using high-throughput synthesis methods and then measure their resulting physical properties.
Question: What is atmospheric ducting?
Answer: Atmospheric ducting is a phenomenon that affects how radio waves travel through our atmosphere.
Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic energy that carry information as they travel by modifying certain properties of the wave, like their amplitude or frequency. In a vacuum, radio waves travel at the speed of light. In Earth’s atmosphere, radio waves travel at very nearly the speed of light.
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate UW-Madison’s federally funded primate lab after two monkeys sustained serious injuries there.
In the first incident, reported on March 12, a macaque injured another macaque’s arm as the two were reaching for food through openings in their side-by-side cages, according to a letter the university sent to the National Institutes of Health Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, or OLAW.
After nearly two decades without a permanent regional bus station, Madison is preparing to open a facility this fall as part of the redevelopment of the former State Street Campus Garage.
The site at 415 N. Lake St. is now home to Theory Madison, a 15-story student housing development built above a new public parking garage and regional bus terminal that will provide service to destinations including Milwaukee and Chicago.
Luke Fickell has appreciated Morocco Brown’s approach during his first two months in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin football program formally announced Brown as its general manager on June 4, and he arrived with plenty of NFL experience since the beginning of the century. His most recent roles were director of college scouting and later chief personnel executive with the Indianapolis Colts from 2017-25, where according to the Badgers’ release, he “managed Indianapolis’s college football department and contributed to the franchise’s annual roster breakdown.”
A vehicle hit a mother and a 1-year-old child in a crosswalk on Madison’s north side Thursday afternoon.
While this was not fatal, there have been five pedestrian deaths from similar crashes in the area this year.
Traffic engineers study road structure and pedestrian safety for a living. Designing crosswalks and bike lanes with an extreme amount of caution for those using them.
Although, unfortunately, safety can never be completely guaranteed.
“You just can’t assume the vehicles are going to stop. You can’t assume the bikes [going to] stop you can’t assume the pedestrians is aware of the crosswalks,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Engineering, Transportation Engineering professor David Noyce.
One month after Wisconsin welcomed a new athletic director, the scientist who led that nationwide search is sharing what drove her to the table — and how an unexpected end to her own athletic career made it possible.
Microbes are pioneers of the planet. They evolved over millennia from the primordial precursors of ancient Earth, the starting point for the preponderance of life as we know it.
People generally assume that getting too much fat or carbohydrates is bad for health. But with protein, the general thinking is too much doesn’t matter. That may not be true, says aging biologist Dudley Lamming of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“The exposome doesn’t work alone, but rather, it works in tandem with our genome,” Eleanna Melcher, an MD/PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said during her presentation. “Our genetic influences plus our environmental influences form the basis of our health.”
As early voting gets underway ahead of the Aug. 11 primary, Wisconsin is hurtling toward a gubernatorial matchup between Madison state Rep. Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, and Northwoods U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, a MAGA Republican.
Madison continues to grapple with the aftermath of a fatal police shooting. Today, Ion Meyn, an associate professor of law at UW-Madison who specializes in civil rights and criminal procedure, joins host Bianca Martin and executive producer Hayley Sperling to talk about the legal ramifications of the case. Plus, we look at what comes next for the controversial Act 10 law following a recent court ruling. And if you’re a Neighbor, you’ll hear our takes and gripes about the flood of trolls invading our comments section in our exclusive members-only segment.
At the center of this momentum is a deeply collaborative ecosystem. Wisconsin’s universities serve as powerful engines of discovery, with the University of Wisconsin–Madison surpassing $1.7 billion in annual research expenditures. Organizations like the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation help translate that research into real-world impact through patents, licensing, and early-stage funding.
All University of Wisconsin-Madison buildings that fully or partially closed because of major cooling issues will reopen on Aug. 10, UW officials said.
Robert Cramer, the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, made the announcement Thursday.
Parts of the campus have been closed since June 29, when the air conditioning stopped working in buildings after a chilled water line broke.
Tom Jones, a Native American artist, curator and recently retired professor of photography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has four portraits from his “Strong Unrelenting Spirits” series on display at Arts + Literature Laboratory through Aug. 29.
Conservative groups are suing UW-Madison for continuing to offer race-based grants and scholarships they claim are discriminatory and unconstitutional.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s lawsuit, filed Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court, alleges the university’s race-based grants and scholarships violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
A constitutional court is built to do something almost no one else in a democracy can do: tell the majority it has gone too far. But a court has no army, and no budget of its own. Whether its rulings mean anything depends on other people choosing to honor them, including the officials who must carry them out, and, as Barry Friedman has argued, the public that those officials ultimately answer to. That dependence is the soft spot at the heart of judicial power, and populists everywhere have figured out how to press on it.
All closed and partially closed buildings on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will fully reopen Aug. 10 following weeks of repairs to the chilled water system.
Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Robert Cramer announced the reopening date in a campus-wide message on Thursday. All employees should return to their standard workplace arrangements on that date, he said.
A major scientific review is challenging the idea that more protein is always better.
The review, led by pathologist and biomedical researcher Dudley Lamming and published in the journal Cell Press Blue, examined more than 350 studies involving humans, mice, insects, yeast, and other organisms.
Luke Fickell wanted to make clear that things are different with the University of Wisconsin football program.
After two losing seasons and almost all of the conversation about the Badgers over the past nine months centered on his job security, it’s unlikely he’s made a dent in outside perceptions. But he emphasized in each of his four public interviews Tuesday at Big Ten football media days that he sensed the changes on his roster and in his program can lead to success.
Michelle Harnisch, a clinical dietitian at UW Health, joined News 3 Now at Noon on Tuesday to offer guidance for navigating produce purchases and food preparation during cyclospora concerns.
UW Health began offering proton therapy at Eastpark Medical Center today.
The new treatment gives patients with cancer access to a highly precise form of radiation therapy designed to target tumors while limiting radiation exposure to nearby healthy tissue.
Realta, which got its start at UW-Madison, picked the site after a nationwide search, and Gov. Tony Evers and other elected officials and business leaders heralded the company’s decision to stay in Madison as a win for the entire state.
Madison doctors want to stem a sharp increase in emergency room visits for young people crashing on electric bikes, e-scooters and other battery-powered devices.
Parents and elected officials must heed their warning.
“I know they’re getting some really beneficial rain in the eastern part of the state today,” said James Otkin, a drought expert at UW-Madison. “But for us here in Dane County, it’s been another hot, dry week. And generally speaking, it’s been pretty much dry across much of the state again.”
Wisconsin volleyball has unveiled the lineup for its annual Alumni Match, bringing a group of former Badgers back to the UW Field House on Saturday, Aug. 8.
The program says 13 alumni will face the 2026 Wisconsin roster in a best-of-five match scheduled to start at 6 p.m. CT.
UW Health is making radiology treatments easier for kids, using a new imaging machine that’s only available at a few hospitals worldwide.
It’s part of the new pediatric interventional radiology suite at the American Family Children’s Hospital, which began taking patients in June.
Interventional radiology is a growing subspecialty that uses medical imaging, such as MRI, ultrasound, CT scans and fluoroscopy (X-rays), to perform minimally invasive surgeries.
Question: Is wildfire season getting longer?
Answer: Wildfires are an important part of many ecosystems and an essential part of forest and rangeland health.
IV hydration businesses have emerged at the intersection of several consumer trends that have accelerated over the last decade, particularly the growth of the health and wellness industry, said Dan Olszewski, director of UW-Madison’s Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship.
Five top administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are named in a lawsuit involving former Gov. Scott Walker targeting race-based scholarships.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Walker’s organization — Young America’s Foundation — and Citizens Defending Liberty filed the suit Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court.
