Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Princeton in the US have found that between 2000 and 2024, large quantities of uranium were extracted, concentrated and exported from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the country’s cobalt supply chain.
University of Wisconsin–Madison and Princeton University nuclear engineers have identified a major blind spot in nuclear accounting with global nuclear security implications.
“Limited adoption” of uranium-removal processes such as the use of acid “suggests that consistent compliance with this threshold is unlikely”, wrote the authors, Ryan Manzuk of Princeton University and Sébastien Philippe of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall will welcome students this fall, Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities Grant Nelsestuen told The Daily Cardinal.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the construction of the Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall in May 2024. The building will be home to eight Humanities departments,: African American Studies, American Indian & Indigenous Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, History, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies.
As one of the nation’s leading research universities, the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers students access to thousands of research opportunities. In 2024, the university ranked fifth nationally in research volume and expenditures, spending $1.93 billion on research.
The UW-Madison Arboretum is another similar organization. While the arboretum has never received funding from the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund, it’s another conservation effort that provides educational support around land management and use.
The Dane County Board of Supervisors signed a resolution on June 8 condemning UW Health and Children’s Wisconsin for pausing gender-affirming care for minor patients after federal funding threats back in December 2025.
A law firm filed suit against the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Waukesha County Circuit Court on July 27, claiming the university is unlawfully administering scholarships and grants that consider race.
Ion Meyn, an associate professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reviewed videos shared on social media and Patterson’s remarks about the shooting at the request of the Cap Times. Meyn called the shooting unnecessary.
“What’s particularly egregious to me is that this person seems to have been going into compliance at the time he was shot in the head,” Meyn said.
John Gross, a clinical associate professor in UW-Madison’s Law School who researches police use of force, also reviewed the videos. He questioned whether there were opportunities for officers to de-escalate the situation before making physical contact with Ruiz.
Acton said part of the problem is that contracts with groups such as the Madison School District, UW-Madison and others do not cover the full cost of bus service and need to be addressed.
When visitors return in the coming months, the familiar space in the Chazen Museum of Art at UW-Madison will be born anew, with galleries centered around different focus objects, dictated by themes rather than eras.
Shawn Eichorst is returning to his home state and getting another chance to run a Big Ten athletic department.
Wisconsin’s new athletic director says he’s learned quite a bit since the last time he was in a similar position.
The University of Wisconsin announced Shawn Eichorst as its athletic director July 1 and among his first-day duties was to make a telephone call to Badgers football coach Luke Fickell.
UW-Madison Extension will host a beef cow-calf workshop Tuesday, July 28, at 6 p.m. at Starck Century Farm near Cadott.
This program is designed for cow-calf producers seeking to improve pasture and herd management practices while increasing profitability. Topics will include managing pastures for long-term production, breeding decisions for cow longevity, and marketing the fall calf crop. The Starck family will also discuss their transition to rotational grazing and efforts to improve herd genetics.
Had UW Cinematheque organizers known what was coming, they might have reconsidered naming their most recent film series Bleak Week. It was almost too on the nose.
A $50,000 cash bond was set Wednesday afternoon for a 43-year-old man charged in an attempted sexual assault at UW Hospital last month, online court records show.
Shawn Eichorst’s Wisconsin ties run deep. The Lone Rock native played football at UW-Whitewater, got his law degree at Marquette, and served as UW-Whitewater’s Athletic Director before coming to UW-Madison from 2006-2011, where he served as Barry Alvarez’s right-hand man, climbing his way to being the Badgers deputy Athletic Director.
UW-Madison has a new director of athletics, and he’s a son of America’s Dairyland.
UW-Madison interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots announced Wednesday that Shawn Eichorst will lead the program moving forward. Eichorst, who was raised in Lone Rock and graduated from UW-Whitewater, was previously the Deputy Athletic Director and Chief Operating Officer at the University of Texas.
Shawn Eichorst was named University of Wisconsin-Madison’s director of athletics, interim Chancellor Eric M. Wilcots announced Wednesday.
Forty-four years after University of Wisconsin-Madison student Donna Mraz was murdered, UW-Madison Police say the case remains active and continues to generate new leads.
Shawn Eichorst has officially been named the Badgers’ next athletic director. UW-Madison interim Chancellor Eric M. Wilcots announced the hiring of Eichorst on Wednesday.
The Urban League of Greater Madison is requesting a formal review of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s hiring process for its athletic director position, citing concerns about whether the search followed established policies.
The UW-Madison Police Department said [Coney] went into multiple restrooms at UW Health University Hospital while armed with a knife. That’s where he tried to sexually assault a hospital employee, according to investigators.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots announced July 1 that he appointed Shawn Eichorst to serve as the next athletic director for the Badgers – the first decision in his time as chancellor.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has named a new leader for Badgers athletics.
Wisconsin native Shawn Eichorst has been appointed to serve as the university’s new athletic director, interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots announced Wednesday.
Protesters reached an agreement with University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators in 2024 to end a pro-Palestinian encampment on Library Mall. Two years later, the two sides disagree on whether that deal has been upheld.
Phosphorus remains one of the region’s top concerns for lake health, said Hilary Dugan, an associate professor and researcher at UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology, which studies inland lakes.
It’s not easy for someone to make a great first impression in a virtual setting, so it’s only fair to cut Shawn Eichorst some slack for what technically served as his introductory news conference as the University of Wisconsin athletic director.
Shawn Eichorst presented a collaborative vision for the future of the University of Wisconsin athletic department in an effort to become its leader.
The leader of the Urban League of Greater Madison has called for a formal review of the University of Wisconsin’s athletic director hiring process to see if it was in line with policies and equal opportunity standards.
Shawn Eichorst will have a higher compensation level as University of Wisconsin athletic director than his predecessor did.
It’s about 45 miles from the Richland County village where Shawn Eichorst grew up to the office he’s about to take over at the University of Wisconsin.
After UW-Madison named a new athletic director on Wednesday, all eyes are turning to the university’s other vacant leadership position: chancellor.
The Wisconsin Badgers appear to be taking a familiar route with their athletic director hire.
Wisconsin is targeting former Nebraska and Miami athletic director Shawn Eichorst for its AD vacancy, according to a report by ESPN’s Pete Thamel. A university spokesman did not immediately comment on the report.
“As your water balance gets off, your electrolytes get kind of a little sideways, you start having cramps,” said Dr. Jeff Pothof, an emergency medicine doctor with UW Health. “If you’re sweating profusely and you’re feeling lightheaded when you stand up, and now you’ve got this cramp in your calf that just won’t go away, that’s your body telling you you are not doing OK. You’ve got to get out of this heat, get yourself hydrated before you get more ill.”
More than 20 buildings on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are locked on Tuesday as crews work to address air conditioning issues caused by a broken chilled water line.
Meanwhile, university records are raising new questions about the state of UW-Madison’s infrastructure.
Wisconsin is targeting Shawn Eichorst as the school’s next athletic director, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
Wisconsin families didn’t always dominate the dairy industry. According to UW-Madison, after other states outpaced the Badger State in growing wheat, farmers had to shift to dairy production and adopt entirely new practices — something dairy farmers are always looking to do.
Children wearing sandals can suffer deep burns to their feet when they drop sparklers, according to a UW Health emergency medicine physician. Dr. Jeff Pothof said burns to fingers or the side of the head are also common injuries he sees.
The UW-Madison campus experienced a significant break in a chilled water main supply line at one of the three heating and cooling plants that serve campus on June 17, according to an email sent to students, faculty and staff Friday. The break has caused campus buildings to have reduced cooling capacities this week, according to the email from UW Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Robert Cramer.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison said it was closing 23 buildings to the public starting June 30, allowing only limited access to 11 others. It was relocating some summer classes after a broken water line at its cooling plant earlier in June severely reduced the ability to provide air conditioning across campus.
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?
While Wisconsin residents are dealing with a heat emergency that’s sent the heat index over 100, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s response has been complicated by a broken cooling system affecting dozens of buildings on campus.
Wisconsin is no stranger to Social Security. The modern Social Security system has Wisconsin roots: faculty at UW-Madison led the creation of the program nearly a century ago.
Hall of Fame basketball coach Bo Ryan had an impressive run of athletic department administrators who oversaw his University of Wisconsin program.
One of them was Shawn Eichorst.
A national organization focused on defending free speech is calling on the University of Wisconsin-Madison to halt its disciplinary investigation into an animal rights student group.
The University of Wisconsin is working on hiring Shawn Eichorst as its next athletic director, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Tuesday.
It’s really important for a columnist to have a strong opinion on a big news event, but you deserve honesty more than some contrived take.
So here it goes: Truth is, I have no idea how to feel about UW-Madison interim chancellor Eric Wilcots apparently choosing Shawn Eichorst to be the school’s next athletic director.
Prediction market bettors don’t have prophetic powers: they are a “quantification of conventional wisdom,” said Ross Dahlke, a data science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The most common way to enrich uranium is by spinning uranium gas in a centrifuge, where lighter U-235 separates from the heavier U-238. This is done in stages, using multiple centrifuges that enrich the uranium bit by bit.
The early stages are especially labor-intensive because there is so much more U-238 to strip away, said nuclear security specialist Sébastien Philippe at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Over time, the enrichment process gets easier.
Rayburn, a UW-Madison graduate who got his start in radio in 2001 when John “Sly” Sylvester hired him at WTDY-AM, says he will bring his own personality to the chair with the “Lee Rayburn Show.”
A radio class in his final semester at UW-Madison changed his career and life trajectory, making Meiller one of the most beloved personalities in Wisconsin.
The fleet of small white robots that have zipped around UW-Madison’s campus since 2019 to deliver dining hall food to students has been permanently powered down.
I was on the SF Muni train on my way to lab the day the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action. I remember staring at my phone for a moment before swiping out of my news app and opening Instagram. I mindlessly reposted Canva-made infographics and video essay think pieces. I saw posts from friends and mutuals and some of the tears they shed, but I honestly felt nothing. Frankly, the ruling was a confirmation of something many Black students already understood: that our presence in academic spaces has always been conditional and could be revoked at any moment.
The United States is one of only a handful of countries that allows companies to hold patents on plant varieties. As a result, a small number of corporations can – and do – suppress competition in the seed industry, stifle innovation and turn taxpayer subsidies intended for farmers into corporate profits.
Julie Dawson is a Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She told “Wisconsin Today” parts of Bayer’s rebate program would discourage smaller seed sellers — who buy seeds from seed giants like Bayer and re-sell those directly to farmers — from testing products from multiple companies and specializing what seeds they sell to their region or customer base.
Dr. James H. Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said a patient who listened to a podcast episode about cardiology now might arrive at his clinic and announce, “I have advanced heart disease and I need a coronary CT angiogram and I need you to measure my homocysteine level.”
UW Health dermatologist Dr. Lisa Arkin sat down with our Leigh Mills to talk about the risks of spending too much time in the sun or the tanning bed.
[Leslie] Petty has more than 30 years of experience in higher education.
“I was the first Black administrator at the University of Wisconsin School of Business,” Petty said.
After eight years at UW-Madison, Petty was hired as dean for the School of Academic Advancement at Madison Area Technical College (MATC).
The Madison Metropolitan School District is celebrating its inaugural Grow Your Own to Teacher Program.
The initiative inaugural cohort completes associate degrees at Madison College and prepares to continue towards teacher licenses through the UW-Madison School of Education.
