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.
Today, UW Health officially began offering proton therapy at Eastpark Medical Center.
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.
This milestone is meaningful to patients and team members alike at UW Health, according to Dr. Zachary Morris, professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and radiation oncologist at the UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will receive five awards ranging from $500,000 to $750,000 to support projects that seek to address the nation’s most important energy, scientific, and engineering challenges.
The grant awards, aimed at advancing nuclear energy, critical mineral extraction and commercial fusion energy, were announced July 22 by the U.S. Department of Energy during the first annual Genesis Mission Summit in Washington, D.C.
A trip to your local farmers market may be doing more than filling reusable bags with fresh produce. New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison shows those visits are also helping build a stronger, more connected community.
The study, published in Information, Communication & Society, found that people who regularly attend farmers markets report higher levels of community participation. They also have a stronger sense of belonging than those who rarely or never attend.
Nuclear fusion startup Realta Fusion will begin construction on their research and development facility and corporate headquarters in OM Station, a former Oscar Mayer plant on Madison’s north side, by the end of this year. The project will receive up to $55 million in financial incentives from the city and state.
Realta plans to create over 600 new jobs and will look to UW-Madison as a major “talent pipeline,” Kieran Furlong, CEO and co-founder of Realta Fusion, told The Daily Cardinal.
A conservative legal group celebrated last month when the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled a state grant program aimed at helping students of color attend college was unconstitutional. Now, the group is targeting a similar program for Universities of Wisconsin students.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Waukesha County Circuit Court against five administrators at UW-Madison, including interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots and Provost John Zumbrunnen.
Gardening season is in full bloom in Wisconsin, but while your perennials and their pollinators are peaking, so too are those nasty plant diseases that can filter into your flowers and victimize your vegetables.
Brian Hudelson, the director of the University of Wisconsin Extension’s Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic, recently joined Jill Nadeau on WPR’s “Garden Talk” to discuss what ailments may be plaguing your plants.
We turn to Bryna Godar, attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School, and thanks for being here. So I want to just back up a little bit to set those court cases up. It was a 2022 lawsuit where a Waukesha County judge ruled that the elections commission had to rescind its guidance, allowing for the spoiling of ballots. A state appeals court eventually repealed that ruling.
From the outside, Henry Dunn’s favorite gym looks like any other brick building on East Lincoln Avenue in Milwaukee. A small, shield-like logo in the window that reads “Wisconsin Medieval Combat Center“ is the only external clue that there might be more here than meets the eye.
The United States has now recorded more cases of measles in 2026 than in any other year since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000, a grim sign that the country may be headed toward a new era in which the disease regularly sickens thousands every year.
UW-Madison’s research on artificial intelligence to improve the experience for children and their families was “the poster child” in a federal Health and Human Services presentation on innovations in pediatric care, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, said.
A month later, its federal funding evaporated, as the department rescinded the grant for being “inconsistent with agency priorities,” a catch-all phrase often used in President Donald Trump’s second term to terminate funding the government had already approved.
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.
She loved her workplace, but after four years, she wanted a change.
Katy Huff, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, stated additional clarity would improve the regulatory process without harming
Shawn Eichorst does not keep a diary. But the freshly minted University of Wisconsin director of athletics has filed away some inspiring quotations.
The recent shooting of Corey Ruiz, a 38-year-old Black man in Madison, is another example of police unnecessarily taking a life. Yet police will likely find that taking his life was consistent with officer training and justified.
For 25 years, Discovery Farms has bridged the gap between science and practice by putting data collection directly into the hands of farmers, creating a legacy of water stewardship that is both data-driven and practitioner-led.
A part of UW–Madison Extension, Discovery Farms is a farmer-led research program that conducts studies on farms across Wisconsin to better understand the complex relationships between agricultural practices and water quality.
At the Rhinelander Agricultural Research Station in Rhinelander, UW-Madison professors and grad students are working hard and trying to find new ways to help potatoes grow.
Dr. Michelle Kelly, a pediatric hospitalist at UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison, was disappointed, but not surprised, when she received a notice last week spelling the end of a five-year, roughly $2 million grant from the agency.
Ion Meyn, a UW Law professor who teaches civil and criminal procedure, told News 3 Now that the investigation protocol is “not as independent as it may seem.”
Meyn explained that investigators often follow different procedures when examining police-involved shootings compared to standard criminal investigations. One significant difference involves the timing of officer interviews.
Hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, the field day will provide attendees with practical information on soil conservation, nitrogen management, and strategies to improve soil health and farm profitability. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from Extension specialists and conservation professionals who are working directly with Wisconsin farmers and agricultural landscapes.
As Madison reels from the deadly shooting of Corey Ruiz by a police officer this week, two professors who study police use of force say many questions remain unanswered about how officers responded.
