A $27 million investment from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will advance four high-impact research initiatives at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the university announced Tuesday.
The investment comes as federal agencies and industry partners increase investments in these strategically important fields.
WARF said it will help UW–Madison strengthen its research leadership, diversify its funding portfolio and pursue new technologies and startup companies.
After nearly a decade of planning and construction, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s athletics department welcomed visitors inside its brand new, $285 million indoor football practice facility Tuesday.
“This is the largest project in Wisconsin athletic history,” said Jason King, senior associate athletic director for capital projects and operations.
The Kellner Family Athletic Center sits next to Camp Randall Stadium along Monroe Street. It houses a 120-yard turf field and 300-meter training track, among other amenities. The project includes nearly 600,000 square feet of renovated or new space, King said.
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 newly redeveloped State Street Campus Garage is now open to the public.
The development replaces the former Lake Street Parking Garage, built in 1964, as maintenance costs for the aging structure increased.
City officials say the building will include student housing and public parking. A regional bus terminal is scheduled to open in October.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team has sold out 36 of its 37 home games over the previous two seasons, including the last 35 in a row. It can be a hard ticket to get at 2,273-seat LaBahn Arena.
It’s also becoming a more expensive ticket to get.
Country singer Kane Brown is performing at UW-Madison’s campus next month for a student-only concert, the Wisconsin Union announced Monday.
The Sept. 5 block party and concert at the Library Mall is free for UW-Madison students and comes at the close of the first week of classes. The first day of the 2026-27 academic year is Sept. 2.
It’s not often that public projects can be described as both on time and under budget, but Madison’s State Street Campus Garage appears to have managed that feat.
The combined apartment building, parking garage and intercity bus terminal at 415 North Lake St. is slated to open its leasing office and public parking Monday, though bus service is still a few months away.
Question: Is it dangerous to fly through a thunderstorm?
Answer: Thunderstorms pose several hazards, whether you are on the ground or in the air, namely lightning, hail, turbulence, icing, downbursts and even tornadoes. Because of these potential hazards, planes don’t fly through thunderstorms. Instead, they fly around them.
From towering stalks of maize to floods of rice paddies and waves of golden-colored wheat, grass plants cover ecosystems around the world and provide more than 40 percent of the calories people consume.1 Researchers have long wondered how grasses became such successful plants and outcompeted other species to dominate the natural and agricultural landscape.
Thousands of people across Wisconsin are not keeping up with repayment of student loans. According to a Wisconsin Watch and AP report, more than 100,000 borrowers in the state carry loans that are in default, as defined by not making payments in more than 360 days. Collins said the student loan default rate is a bellwether for the overall economy right now given the cost of other obligations many people have.
The founding dean of UW-Madison’s new College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence sees universities as a “counterbalance” to industry in the AI field, ensuring the technology benefits society.
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, who led the effort to recently launch the university’s first new college in more than 40 years, discussed his vision for its role during a recent UW Now webinar hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
Summer does not turn downtown Madison into a ghost town, but it does reshape the city.
With fewer UW-Madison students on campus and no Badgers football games, the area is more relaxed. It is also easier to find a seat at a restaurant or bar.
Sam Haegele, a bartender and manager at Vintage Spirits & Grill on University Avenue, said the business sees a significant demographic shift.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison would receive an additional $260 million in state funding, and in-state students would experience a tuition freeze if state lawmakers greenlight the UW system’s budget plans for the next two years.
“After careful consideration, I have made the difficult decision to withdraw from the program and not proceed with my plan to study in the United States,” one student who had committed to the University of Wisconsin–Madison wrote to the institution, per the court document. “A significant factor in my decision was the recently published DHS final rule … after weighing these circumstances carefully, I do not feel that I can proceed with my studies in the United States as originally planned and I won’t come to United States this academic year.”
Approximately 3 million people in the United States are living with a condition called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF. The number of people with this form of heart failure, which is more common in women than men, is growing alongside a rise in risk factors like aging, hypertension, diabetes and obesity. Additionally, more than 80% of HFpEF patients also face pulmonary hypertension, or increased blood pressure in the vasculature of the lungs.
“It’s impossible to say there’s one cohesive feeling,” said Joel Coyne, a business and marketing teacher at Sun Prairie School District and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Teachers are going to have to reevaluate what are we teaching, how are we teaching and how we are assessing the learning.”
Kenosha residents have three upcoming chances to donate blood and help the University of Wisconsin–Madison defend its title in the Abbott and Big Ten Conference We Give Blood Drive competition — and each city-sponsored drive comes with a free UW hat and a Culver’s coupon for a pint of custard.
“She is the smallest surviving baby by weight at 355 grams to graduate from our NICU. She makes history,” Dr. Claudette Onyelobi said.
Dr. Onyelobi, who is affectionately known as “Dr. O,” is UW Health Kids Neonatologist and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Onyelobi is also the Director of Small Baby Care at American Family Children’s Hospital and UnityPoint Health-Meriter.
Hospital costs in Wisconsin are about 26% higher than in Illinois, according to a new study comparing the two states, but a hospital trade association questions the report’s methods and disputes its conclusions.
The reason for the difference isn’t certain, says the report’s co-author, University of Wisconsin economist Anthony Lo Sasso. But he says it could be because most metro areas in the state have one dominant hospital and healthcare system.
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.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison would receive an additional $260 million in state funding, and in-state students would experience a tuition freeze if state lawmakers greenlight the UW system’s budget plans for the next two years.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department was prepared for a loss of football season ticket buyers for the 2026 season.
The numbers after two straight losing seasons, however, are striking.
Wisconsin’s season ticket base for 2026 is down more than 7,000 compared to the year before. It’s off more than 11,000 over 2023.
prominent UW-Madison professor and expert in artificial intelligence has resigned after an investigation found he violated a university policy on consensual relationships.
Life Sciences Communication professor Dietram Scheufele also failed in his faculty responsibilities, including maintaining honesty and integrity, university spokesperson Gillian Drummond said. His departure, part of a settlement agreement, follows an investigation completed in September 2025 into complaints filed by three female students, including accusations of sexual harassment and hostile and intimidating behavior. His last day was Aug. 15.
The UW Board of Regents approved the Universities of Wisconsin’s operating and capital budget requests Thursday, which include plans to freeze tuition for two years, raze a prominent UW-Madison building and get the campus its first new dorm in more than a decade.
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.
Violent outbursts are so common that they’ve been dramatized on the popular medical TV series The Pitt. “Emergency rooms right now are like a powder keg,” said Rachel Odes, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing.
The road to opening a copper-nickel mine in Minnesota is long and uncertain, but it’s a path Twin Metals is exploring every day.
Their exploratory drilling brings them further below the surface than 16 stacked Statues of Liberty, all to refine a plan to mine out the copper and nickel on the land here, if they ever get the proper approvals.
The Wisconsin budget provides $14.6 million for athletic facility debt payments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and $200,000 each for the Milwaukee and Green Bay campuses.
“None of that state funds technically would go toward student athletes,” said Republican state Rep. Alex Dallman, who sponsored the legislation.
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.
As visitors walk through the renovated Chazen Museum of Art this fall, their eyes might wander from a contemporary abstract painting on one wall to a 16th century ceramic dish and a Renaissance-era oil painting on another. Soon, they may notice that the art around them lacks a clear-cut organization that separates each gallery by time period, medium or geographic location. Rather, these artworks are organized by an innovative technique allowing for countless connections between items.
Dirac Labs, a quantum-enabled navigation company, today announced its $1.8M pre-seed funding to prototype its quantum sensors and conduct field trials to further refine its technology to provide universal positioning where GPS is unavailable.
Quantum sensing offers a resilient, alternative method of positioning by measuring features of Earth’s magnetic field, which remains present in environments where GPS signals cannot reach.
Homestead High School in Mequon hosts a college admissions presentation every year, offering families general advice about the application process.
This year’s presentation, however, was much more specific: How to get into the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The cause of death has been revealed for former University of Wisconsin tight end Jack Pugh, who died March 30 at age 24.
Pugh died of acute bronchopneumonia, according to a report from the Franklin County (Ohio) Coroner’s Office obtained by People.
Acute bronchopneumonia is a type of pneumonia that inflames the lungs and has symptoms including fever, cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, sweating, chills and more, according to Healthline.
A pacemaker that never needs a battery replacement could soon become reality, thanks to a device that generates its own electricity from the very heartbeat it regulates. University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers built a nanogenerator small enough to slip inside an existing leadless pacemaker, potentially letting a single implant last a patient’s entire lifetime.
Led by postdoctoral scholar Pengfei Chen under professor Xudong Wang, the team designed the device to fit inside the Medtronic Micra, the most widely used leadless intracardiac pacemaker on the market today.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders on Monday announced the system will freeze tuition for two years, starting in fall 2027, provided the state “invests $190 million to support the cost of the freeze and other operating needs that preserve educational quality,” according to a news release.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student Elena Motonishi’s personal experience managing asthma became the basis of an entrepreneurial venture that offers support when medical professionals cannot.
Her web platform, called Lobelia, is an AI-powered personal asthma management platform that uses health data, environmental factors and more to provide users with personalized risk assessments and advice.
Watching a loved one with Alzheimer’s or dementia slowly lose their cognitive abilities can be heartbreaking. While the person you once knew seems to be slipping away, sometimes people with Alzheimer’s briefly seem like their old selves again. They may remember a long-forgotten name or suddenly regain the ability to have a fluid conversation. What do these moments of lucidity really mean for the progression of the disease? And what implications do they have for those living with the disease, and their caretakers?
Nearly a decade ago, University of Wisconsin–Madison professors Barbara Bendlin and Federico Rey led research showing that people with Alzheimer’s disease have different communities of intestinal microbes than healthy individuals.
“Since then, we’ve been trying to figure out how this difference in the gut perhaps leads to changes in the brain,” says Bendlin, a professor of gerontology in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Long before the University of Wisconsin’s athletic director position was within Shawn Eichorst’s sights, he had “Bucky.”
The backstory of “Bucky” goes back to 2018 – seven years after he last lived in Madison and eight years before his recent hire with the Badgers that he could have hardly predicted at that point.
As artificial intelligence usage grows at a rapid pace, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other colleges across the country are grappling with how to integrate the technology into classrooms.
Point Taken host Kristin Brey shows her co-host Steve Scaffidi and WTMJ fans a device called the “Brick,” created by two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates, that helps fight social media addiction by locking apps on one’s phone. Kristin has found it helpful in curbing doom-scrolling habits.
The Universities of Wisconsin Regent President Kyle Weatherly and UWs President Renee Wachter announced Monday that the Universities of Wisconsin will propose to freeze tuition rates for 2027-2029.
The pledge, called the 4-Year Tuition Pledge, is a main focus of the UW’s 2027-2029 budget proposal.
The Pledge proposes freezing tuition for the 2027-2029 biennium, provided the state invests $190 million to support the cost of the freeze and other operating needs that preserve educational quality, officials said.
The University of Wisconsin System is asking state lawmakers for $190 million in additional funding in order to freeze tuition for two years and cap the increase at the rate of inflation for the two next years.
The proposal is part of the university system’s biennial budget request from state lawmakers. UW leadership recently asked for an additional $90 million of funding to use toward training 35,000 new healthcare professionals over a 10-year span.
Wisconsin’s State Building Commission approved roughly $374-million in building projects statewide last week and one of those projects include a nearly $20-million investment in Barron. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Veterinary Diagnostic Lab (WVDL) has been looking to renovate and expand its Barron location for several years. The lab’s current building was constructed in 1992, but since then its grown too small and its labs can no longer keep up with demand.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders announced a proposal Monday, Aug. 17, to freeze tuition through the 2027-29 budget cycle, provided the state invests $190 million to cover the cost of the freeze and other operating needs.
Under the plan, called the 4-Year Tuition Pledge, the university system would also commit to keeping tuition increases at or below the rate of inflation for the following two years.
Wisconsin’s public university system is emphasizing affordability, access and forward motion in its 2027-29 budget request, seeking a $730 million increase in funding from the state Legislature and governor ahead of November elections.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders are proposing to seek an additional $730 million in aid over the next two years with an offer to freeze tuition over that period — if the state comes up with the money to cover the lost revenue.
UW Board of Regents President Kyle Weatherly and interim system President Renee Wachter said yesterday if state lawmakers take them up on the offer for $190 million to fund the freeze, the system would also keep tuition increases at or under the rate of inflation for the 2029-31 biennium.
Across Madison and beyond, children are spending a significant amount of time on screens and social media.
While there are some benefits of devices, such as certain educational platforms, local families are expressing growing concerns about the harm of too much screen time and social media.
The Universities of Wisconsin is again requesting money to demolish and relocate UW-Madison’s Mosse Humanities Building and to build new residence halls.
The Humanities Building project tops the list of major requests included in the system’s $2 billion capital budget request for 2027-29, released Monday. The request seeks $463.5 million to cover the demolition of the entire building and a portion of the Art Lofts facility next to the Kohl Center, which houses a gallery for student and faculty artwork, though $46.8 million would be covered by donations.
The Universities of Wisconsin is pledging to freeze tuition for two years and create thousands more workers as part of a $730 million two-year budget request it plans to submit to the state Legislature.
The request, released Monday, seeks to “address the state’s needs,” UW system Interim President Renée Wachter said.
Over the last few budget cycles, the UW system’s budget efforts have had mixed success, sometimes leading to significant increases in state funding and at other times resulting in hard-fought negotiations that yielded little.
Now is the perfect time for students to start adjusting their sleep schedules before heading back to the classroom.
Dr. Casey Freymiller with UW Health Kids recommends slowly moving up a child’s bedtime and wake-up time rather than making big changes all at once.
Fifteen years ago, in the basement of the George L. Mosse Humanities Building, I stood in the hallway outside the stage doors to Morphy Recital Hall. I held my trumpet in my hands, nervously pressing the piston valves up and down, going over and over a difficult passage. I was about to perform in my junior recital.
Western Wisconsin desperately needs rain, but if you’re looking at your lawn this weekend and wondering whether firing up the mower will help or hurt, experts say the answer may be as simple as taking a walk.
If your footprints remain visible in the grass for more than about 10 minutes, UW-Madison Division of Extension says your lawn is showing signs of drought stress.
And you probably shouldn’t mow it.
That’s one of several recommendations from Wisconsin lawn experts as drought conditions expand across the state and rainfall remains well below normal in Eau Claire.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural & Life Sciences recently received a $5,000 grant toward the project. One year from now, the plot is expected to grow and be shared communally, allowing for elders and youth to learn more about hemp production and weaving through a Hmong cultural lens.
Working with Wisconsin-based multicultural and Hmong organizations, Shelby Ellison, a UW-Madison associate professor and hemp geneticist, applied for the grant following a meeting with an expert hemp weaver visiting Wisconsin from Thailand last year.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed RuFaS, an open-source model that simulates dairy-farm operations before management changes are made. The platform is intended to help veterinarians and herd managers assess veterinary, nutritional and environmental interventions across an entire farm.
Recent Wisconsin Farm Related Fatalities reports indicate that injuries and deaths remain a persistent issue.
“This is incredibly unfortunate, given the many other challenges farm families and farm workers are facing here in this day and age,” said one of the reports’ co-authors, John Shutske, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor and Agricultural Safety & Health Specialist. “We saw a high of 41 deaths in 2017. And, then a low of 28 in 2020, but climbing back in these last three years, we looked at around 30-35 deaths.”
The Democratic primary in Wisconsin is over, but the flattening of Asian American identities in Wisconsin politics is not. And this will likely continue as Francesca Hong, the first Asian woman who ever ran for governor in Wisconsin, continues to serve people in the state.
