Tuesday is a day to remember those who served this country. There is a ceremony planned to honor veterans at the state Capitol, and many businesses are offering free meals and more to veterans. Here are a few.
UW-Madison’s Memorial Union is hosting a free Veterans Day event featuring free refreshments, a program and a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Memorial Union breaking ground as a memorial to service members. The event is from 1:30 to 2:50 p.m. Tuesday.
The UW-Madison Police Department is involved with escorting buses that carry teams to Camp Randall Stadium for University of Wisconsin football games and in getting the opponent to the airport afterward.
Every Thanksgiving, Cheryl Peralez’s daughter flies out of Milwaukee to Charlotte, North Carolina, to spend time with family for the holiday.
This year, Peralez, a Cudahy resident, is worried her daughter’s flight later this month may be canceled due to the ongoing government shutdown. She is now wondering if she’ll have to drive instead of flying.
Founded in 1997, the MadHatters are the oldest a cappella group at UW-Madison. Next weekend, the group will be hosting their annual fall showcase. The performance will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, November 15, at the Overture Center.
The friendship between the three bandmates in Disney’s new show “Electric Bloom” shares similarities to one creator’s real life friends at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“When I was at Madison it took me a minute, but then I started finding theater, and I had a girl group to do shows with,” said co-creator Rachel Lewis, who graduated from UW-Madison in 2003 with a degree in theater. “Finding your friends, finding your place, that really translates to the themes of our show.”
This week marks anniversaries of some strong November gales in the Great Lakes region. The most famous of these include the White Hurricane (Nov. 7-10, 1913), the Armistice Day Blizzard (Nov. 11, 1940), the Edmund Fitzgerald Storm (Nov. 9-10, 1975) and the storm Nov. 10-11, 1998.
If politics is the process by which we resolve our differences without violence and figure out how to govern, then it’s been a while since politics has worked well in America.
We study politics for a living, and we’ve never seen a time in recent history when Americans have been so divided by party lines. Everyone suffers when both major parties become so adversarial that they can’t even agree on funding the most basic government services.
Dorota Grejner-Brzezińska a year ago stepped into a top role at UW-Madison with big plans to expand its billion-dollar research operation.
Then the executive orders poured in. Her plans had to change.
As the pot of federal funding for research at universities and colleges continues to shrink, UW-Madison’s campus leaders are positioning the university to grow its work with the Department of Defense.
That doesn’t mean UW-Madison researchers will be at the forefront of developing new bombs, said Vice Chancellor for Research Dorota Grejner-Brzezińska.
Cary Segall, who set out to run the Madison Marathon on Sunday, 26 days after getting a new heart valve at University Hospital, accomplished his goal of finishing in under six hours.
His time was 5:57:37 and he was the first and only man in the 75- to 79-year-old age group and the second-oldest finisher.
University of Wisconsin football players carried American flags onto the field as they ran out of the Camp Randall Stadium tunnel before Saturday’s game against No. 24 Washington.
As artificial intelligence infiltrates nearly all facets of society, an education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is no exception. While professors use AI to provide accessible materials, they want their students to understand how to use AI tools without circumventing learning.
Artificial intelligence is powering breakthroughs in everything from health care to climate science, but each new discovery comes with a cost: significant energy. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are asking a new question — how can this powerful technology be more sustainable?
The University of Wisconsin is implementing a national pluralism grant this year to support staff and faculty in addressing antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus, according to an emailed statement from UW Student Affairs.
The grant will provide support for a project titled “Pluralism Cohort Initiative for Senior Leadership in Student Affairs” over the course of the 2025-2026 school year, using the work of a cohort of 20 senior administrators at UW, according to SA’s statement.
Right now, the fall colors are reaching their peak. And it turns out our weather has a lot to do with the foliage we enjoy. The Weather Guys return to talk about the leaves, Great Lakes water temperatures, how weather forecasting has changed over the years and more.
The debate over daylight savings “misses a key ecological perspective,” says UW-Madison lecturer Rachelle Wilson Tollemar. Humans, like the natural world, require brighter and darker times of the year to properly function. “We are beings who also need winter to rest and summer to bloom,” she says.
November 10 marks a tragic chapter in Great Lakes history. The freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a vicious storm on Lake Superior, taking 29 crew members with her.
For many in Wisconsin, the day is more than a passing anniversary; it’s a reminder of how powerful the lakes can be.
There are two types of artificial intelligence, Sendhil Mullainathan argued to a sold-out crowd Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
One kind can do everything that the smartest people can do. That sounds ambitious, he said, until you realize “we already have things that can do what people can do — people.”
The other kind of AI, Mullainathan said, can do what even the smartest people cannot.
Chris McIntosh is doubling down on the most significant decision of his tenure as the University of Wisconsin’s athletic director.
Luke Fickell will return as the Badgers’ football coach in 2026, McIntosh told BadgerExtra in an interview Thursday morning. BadgerExtra reported after Wisconsin’s loss to Ohio State on Oct. 18 that McIntosh met with the team that week and players’ takeaway from that meeting was that Fickell’s job was safe. McIntosh spoke to the team again Thursday after practice to ensure players knew Fickell was staying put.
UW Athletics announced on Wednesday that Wisconsin will kick off its 2027 football season in Ireland.
The Badgers will take on the Pitt Panthers on Aug. 28, 2027, in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland.
Fresh off the heels of summer break, some students were startled by three words they thought had been lost to time: “blue book exam.”
Indeed, for many students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this year, gone are the days of the take-home paper or at-home Canvas final. Faced with rising instances of students using generative artificial intelligence tools, such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini, to cheat, professors have instead returned to the ol’ reliable: a handwritten, in-class exam.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is testing out a new artificial intelligence chatbot that helps students practice civil discourse through simulated conversations and real-time feedback.
The pilot program, part of the university’s new Wisconsin Exchange: Pluralism in Practice initiative, launches this month in collaboration with the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. The AI-powered, voice-based tool allows students to choose topics they care about and engage in short conversations with AI partners that take opposing viewpoints.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Data Science Institution will invest in artificial intelligence through their Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) program to improve studies around the new technology
This new initiative, called “RISE-AI,” already hired 35 employees and current staff, students and faculty. They aim to “become the guides for society” in navigating the rapidly-changing world of AI, conducting research about AI’s uses to explore issues relating to medicine, agriculture and communications.
As artificial intelligence rapidly advances, University of Wisconsin System universities are launching new majors and certificates to prepare students for an increasingly AI-driven workforce.
The programs aim to teach students how to use the technology ethically, practically and responsibly as the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire started offering majors, certificates and minors in Artificial Intelligence this fall, while the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has offered an AI-related certificate since as early as spring of 2022. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, engineering students have been able to add a capstone certificate in AI since April.
University Health Services released a statement Oct. 31 that said four University of Wisconsin students were diagnosed with meningitis and quickly received medical care. One student was hospitalized for a short time and has been released.
Last spring, UW-Madison awarded the largest number of degrees in the university’s history, the campus reported Wednesday.
The university awarded 13,733 degrees to 13,663 recipients. The total is 1,200 more degrees students earned the year prior.
Drag queen and Wisconsin-native Trixie Mattel is coming to University of Wisconsin- Madison to talk about her life as an entertainer and activist, Wisconsin Union announced Wednesday.
Trixie Mattel was a competitor on season seven of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and won season three of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars”.
After he graduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Drew Wesson hopes to begin a career in strategic communication, a field with higher-than-average job growth and earnings.
At a university with a strong drinking culture, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students are creating an alternative community with Badger Recovery programming.
UW-Madison’s Badger Recovery program provides resources for students navigating recovery from addictive behavior in all forms, such as free coaching, peer meetings and sober social events for students in recovery from substance use, eating disorders, gambling and other behaviors.
Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and controversial vice presidents in history, died Nov. 3 at age 84.
Cheney died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement from his family.
The Cheney family had numerous connections to Wisconsin. Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1960s. His daughter, Liz, was born in Madison. Cheney returned to Wisconsin as recently as 2019.
Peter Kaufman, age 65, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, October 21, 2025. He was born on March 29, 1960, in Seoul, South Korea.
Peter was a graduate of UW-Madison, earning a degree in Computer Science. After graduation, he started working at UW-Madison in the university’s technology operations department (DoIT) excelling in many areas. His final career focus was on computer security and intrusion protection. After spending his entire career at UW-Madison, he retired in July 2017.
It may be November, but some lilacs in the UW Arboretum are behaving like it’s spring.
That these normally spring-blooming bushes are blossoming here in the fall is starting to become an annual event, said David Stevens, curator of the UW Arboretum’s Longenecker Horticultural Gardens.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter have opened a new training facility designed to help medical staff prepare for critical situations involving newborn babies.
The NEST, or Neonatal Education Simulation and Training Center, opened last month as a permanent space where medical professionals can practice life-saving skills using advanced technology and realistic scenarios.
In honor of the launch of our annual Share Your Holidays campaign, our Mark McPherson sat down with Dr. Shilagh Mirgain, a distinguished psychologist with UW Health, to break down the benefits of giving and paying it forward.
Aside from helping others and brightening their day, giving is also beneficial for the giver.
The Wisconsin Alumni Student Board (WASB) collaborated with student organization Slow Food UW to host “Food For Thought” at The Crossing on October 23rd, providing a free, homemade meal and discussion on food insecurity.
Food For Thought — this semester’s collaboration between Slow Food UW and WASB — serves as an initiative to raise awareness around ongoing food insecurity locally and globally, as well as how students and other members of the Madison community can improve access to healthy, nutritious food.
Next week, world leaders will descend on the port city of Belém, Brazil for the United Nations’ COP30, which begins Nov. 10.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the largest and most significant annual gathering in global efforts to address climate change, and the U.S. government will likely not attend. The Trump administration has made it clear that it wants no part in international efforts to take action on a rapidly warming planet.
Dick Cheney’s political career started in Wisconsin before he headed to Washington. Cheney, one of the most influential and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history, died at age 84 Monday.
Three companies behind planned and ongoing data center developments on Thursday separately announced efforts aimed at supporting Wisconsin researchers and communities.
The announcements come as new polling shows most Wisconsin voters believe the costs associated with data center projects outweigh the benefits of those developments.
Legendary heavy metal rock and roll band AC/DC announced Monday that it will play at Camp Randall Stadium on Sunday, July 19.
The Madison show will be part of the Australian band’s “Power Up” tour named for its latest studio album, which reached No. 1 in 21 countries.
The Madison Gamer Symphony Orchestra, founded by UW–Madison student Ben Carlee and composed of 55 regional musicians, will hold its inaugural concert on Nov. 1.
UW Health encourages lung cancer screenings, as it is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most common cancer in the U.S. excluding skin cancer.
Dr. Cheryl Czerlanis, a medical oncologist and UW Health and a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, says screening is a critical tool for early cancer detection.
UW-Madison’s food pantry, in one sense, looked a lot like business as usual Friday: Student workers continued to dump bags of carrots and onions into bins. They wrote produce labels. They trained volunteers.
The bevy of activity, however, was set against a backdrop of uncertainty, as millions of Americans were set to lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding, known as SNAP payments, due to the ongoing federal government shutdown.
Four UW-Madison students were diagnosed with viral meningitis in late October, according to an official with University Health Services.
All the students, who were diagnosed from Oct. 24 to Oct. 31, received prompt medical care, UHS director of medical services Andrew O’Donnell said in an email. One student was briefly hospitalized and has been released. The other three were not hospitalized, he said.
There’s a certain kind of candy that instantly takes you back-not to Halloween or the movie theater, but to your grandparents’ house. It’s those shiny red-and-green strawberry candies that lived in a glass dish on the coffee table. Unwrapping one revealed a hard, glossy shell that eventually gave way to a soft, jammy center bursting with strawberry sweetness.
In a groundbreaking study that may redefine our understanding of chromosome stability and its link to certain devastating diseases, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have identified a critical new role for the human replication protein A (RPA).
So how can you tell when your favorite candy changes? I compared current labels on the packages of Mr. Goodbar, Rolo caramels, and Almond Joy with past ingredient lists using the crowdsourced database Open Food Facts, a U.S. Department of Agriculture ingredient database, and data compiled by Richard Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who each year writes down ingredients in common chocolate bars for one of his classes.
Does Halloween candy expire? Yes, but not in the same way that perishable items such as eggs, chicken and produce do. When candy goes bad, it’s “almost always a physical (drying out) or chemical (lipid oxidation, flavor change) change and not microbial,” Richard W. Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says.
The University of Wisconsin African Studies Program hosted a discussion Wednesday afternoon featuring UW Vice Provost and Dean of the International Division Frances Vavrus and other program directors. The discussion provided insights into the importance and future of international education amidst federal funding cuts.
As darkness fell over the state capital Oct. 25, Makeela Magomolla, Tayah Dean and George Whitney led a group of more than 40 people on the winding paths of UW-Madison’s Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter rehabilitation hospital to treat patients recovering from a stroke, neurological diseases or brain or spinal cord injuries is coming to Fitchburg.
A groundbreaking was held Thursday for the estimated $45 million inpatient facility, located at 5094 Greenmarket Place in Fitchburg, which is expected to be completed in early 2027. The 58,000-square-foot hospital will offer 40 private rooms.
Avian flu—otherwise known as bird flu, or H5N1—has spread to dairy cattle in several states across the country. The first confirmed case of the virus in dairy cattle was recorded in March 2024. Luckily, there have been no cases among cattle in Wisconsin.
As a prime dairy state, Wisconsin has implemented mandatory testing of milk entering the supply chain, and researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are actively helping to keep tabs on bird flu in dairy milk by testing samples.
Migratory birds are driving up avian flu cases across the country, reviving concerns about U.S. readiness to respond to outbreaks, especially during the government shutdown.
Republican lawmakers have introduced a package of bills aimed at preventing foreign adversaries from causing harm in Wisconsin, including new regulations for the University of Wisconsin, medical research and telecommunications technology.
If Wisconsin’s disappointing 2025 football season is prompting Badgers fans to drink, they are not doing it at the Camp Randall concession stands. Or at least not at the level that fans did so in 2024.
Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in both Jamaica and Cuba in the last two days, followed what has unfortunately become a familiar pattern for major storms in a warming world.
Microsoft, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Princeton University, and the New Jersey AI Hub, announced a unique partnership with TitletownTech to accelerate scientific discovery.
This new model will combine the agility of a startup, the technology of a global company, and a university’s expertise.
The Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison appointed Ricardo Carrion Jr. as its next director on Oct. 23. Carrion will begin the role Nov. 3, 2025.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a request from University of Wisconsin-Madison on Sept. 18 seeking an additional $13.5 million to make space for a cancer research project.
Originally budgeted at $48.5 million, researchers at the Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research found the new structure requires significantly more complex infrastructure, adding $13.5 million to construction costs. The building will support a cyclotron particle accelerator, [brief definition], and will be ready in 2027 according to UW-Madison’s request.
Professor, author and orator Brittney Cooper discussed the need to reframe narratives surrounding attacks on justice and recognize individual power in reforming systems rooted in oppression at her keynote speech at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center Saturday for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Gender and Women’s Studies 50th Anniversary Celebration.
