The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ohio State University are no strangers in women’s hockey, playing together in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) since 1999
As diversity, equity and inclusion programs face increasing scrutiny and cuts across campuses nationwide, students at the University of Wisconsin are confronting a growing sense of uncertainty — not just about resources or representation, but about their mental health and sense of belonging in a predominantly white institution.
In a column published in the Wisconsin State Journal, Mnookin addressed the recent visa terminations of UW-Madison students and alumni. As of Tuesday, the university is aware of the termination of 27 total records, which includes 15 current students and 12 alumni.
On Friday, Memorial Union hosted their annual Terrace Chair Return party, celebrating the start of spring and return of Madison’s iconic Sunburst-style chairs on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin discussed the many issues facing the university, including concerns over federal investigations, funding cuts, and international student visa revocations, as well as the 2025 state budget cycle.
Donning a white bucket hat with a red “W” emblem, Caleb Hunnicutt stepped on the volleyball court at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Field House to demonstrate the skills others would need to perform as Bucky Badger, the university’s beloved mascot.
Dr. Kathy Cramer, a political science professor at UW-Madison, told the Cardinal institutions like UW-Madison have become more strict with pushing back on student activism in recent years.
“I think it’s part of a broader public trend where there’s just so much less trust in political institutions and institutions across the board,” Cramer said. “I think students feel that, too.”
The Wisconsin Football Spring Showcase, presented by UW Credit Union, is set for Saturday, April 19 at Camp Randall Stadium. The open practice event will provide a preview of the 2025 season and a chance for fans to meet the team.
UW-Madison officials’ sense of relief Thursday was almost palpable at the official groundbreaking for the new engineering building.
Jason Gay, a 1992 University of Wisconsin-Madison alum and acclaimed sports and culture columnist for the Wall Street Journal, will return to his alma mater to deliver the keynote address at the Spring 2025 commencement ceremony.
More than 250 people gathered on campus to rally against the Trump administration and demand action from UW-Madison higher-ups. The local unions representing university faculty, academic staff, and graduate students organized the demonstration, joining countless others today across the country as part of the National Day of Action for Higher Ed.
Over 100 faculty members, teaching assistants and activists rallied Thursday on Library Mall to oppose the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, demanding the University of Wisconsin-Madison provide support for international students facing visa terminations and join other Big Ten universities to pool money for a shared defense fund.
Campus leaders and Gov. Tony Evers broke ground Thursday on a new engineering building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after long delays and a protracted political funding battle.
A panel of University of Wisconsin-Madison professors and academic experts discussed the significant challenges facing higher education Wednesday in the wake of the Trump administration’s sweeping budget cuts, emphasizing the critical role of federal funding in public health and scientific advancements.
There have been at least 58 visa terminations at Wisconsin colleges and universities as of April 17. The terminations include current students as well as alumni who were legally working on their student visas after graduation through a program called Optional Practical Training.
Officials at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee said they did not believe the terminations at their schools were related to free speech or protests. Some other students nationally have been targeted for their participation in pro-Palestinian protests last year.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s was the perfect breeding ground to create the self-described “single most powerful and influential organization in human history.”
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the cancellation of a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate student’s visa and any actions in relation to that by the Trump administration.
Recent visa terminations are making international students in Wisconsin worry about their future, and take precautions like removing social media and not participating pro-Palestinian organizing.
When former University of Wisconsin-Madison director of tribal relations Aaron Bird Bear was hired in 2003, he was shocked at the lack of representation and resources for Native American students. He saw Native American students’ need for support.
Percival Matthews, professor and associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion in the University of Wisconsin School of Education, has been appointed to a new role as a special adviser to Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and Provost Charles Isbell focused on access and community, the university announced in a press release Tuesday.
A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from deporting a UW-Madison international student whose student visa was canceled April 4 just weeks before he was set to graduate.
Award-winning sports columnist Jason Gay will deliver the keynote address at UW-Madison’s spring commencement, the university announced Wednesday.
Jason Gay, a UW-Madison alumnus and sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, will be back in Madison for an encore presentation as the university’s spring commencement speaker.
At Memorial Union’s Grand Hall, a room of 100 University of Wisconsin-Madison students gathered to hear 14 speakers from the worlds of tech, medicine and business share business tips and their views on the evolving application of artificial intelligence (AI) in their industries.
On Wednesday, April 16, the Memorial Union will welcome back the famous orange, yellow and green starburst chairs to the terrace.
A federal judge barred the government from taking any action against a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering student from India, delivering a temporary blow to the Trump administration’s sweeping campaign to revoke international student visas.
A federal judge has put a hold on immigration officials’ move to deport an international student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Wisconsin issued a similar order, ruling the government could not take steps to detain or revoke the visa of a University of Wisconsin-Madison gradate student.
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily halted the removal of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from India whose visa was terminated from the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVIS) database.
Co-authored by James H. Stein, MD and Robert Turell Professor of Cardiovascular Research at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and Chad Alan Goldberg, PhD and the Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Pioneering doesn’t always come with a lot of flash.
In a darkened auditorium on the UW-Madison engineering campus Friday, a bright green laser beam shone over a model airplane wing.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host its second annual Earth Fest from April 21 to 29, a celebration of the planet over the week of Earth Day prioritizing environmental education, sustainability practices and climate justice.
Nearly a hundred students and community members protested the federal government’s termination of University of Wisconsin-Madison student visas and alumni visa employment extensions in a protest on Library Mall Saturday, urging the university to do more to protect its students.
International students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say many of them are still trying to figure out why their visas are being terminated by the government and how to protect themselves.
The University of Wisconsin will implement fiscal controls for the remainder of the 2025 fiscal year including hiring reviews, reductions in non-essential spending and the development of 5% and 10% budget reduction scenarios for fund 101 — a fund dedicated to state tax, federal indirect cost and tuition allocation.
At least 40 student visas have been revoked at schools within the University of Wisconsin school system, with more than two dozen from UW-Madison alone.
A spokesperson from UW-Madison wrote, “As of April 9, UW-Madison is aware of the automatic sevis termination of 26 total records. This includes 15 current students and 11 recent alumni on employment authorization … A sevis record termination generally means that a nonimmigrant individual no longer holds lawful nonimmigrant status and should depart the U.S. immediately.”
For many students, being away from home can be especially challenging during major holidays — and Passover is no exception.
But, thanks to the efforts of student leaders like Sophie Genshaft, the engagement intern and holiday chair at UW Hillel, Jewish students at the University of Wisconsin can look forward to a warm, welcoming and meaningful Passover experience this year.
At least 40 student visas across the UW System have been terminated as of April 10, according to university officials. The number has doubled since April 7.
The number of University of Wisconsin students whose visas were canceled by the Trump administration has risen.
According to a spokesperson for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as of April 9 a total of 26 students have now had their visas revoked. Fifteen current students and 11 recent alumni on employment authorization were impacted.
Between cuts to research funding and crackdowns on students participating in campus demonstrations, some international students at University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to find education elsewhere.
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students are inviting the public to learn more about the field at the upcoming Engineering EXPO 2025.
As the number of international students facing visa terminations swells this week, student leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are growing more concerned.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students contributed to a record-high turnout for uncontested local candidates in the spring 2025 elections, boosted by the marquee state Supreme Court race.
The NFL has announced a round of entertainment and other activities planned for the draft in Green Bay, but specifics are still to come on some on concert performers and other participants.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a student one month away from graduating seemingly had her visa revoked for a previous traffic violation. In Florida, a student from Colombia was taken into custody by immigration agents after he was stopped by Gainesville police with an expired registration and driver’s license. He signed his self-deportation and returned home.
Michael Wagner, who leads the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that universities could make a greater effort to get the work of misinformation researchers into the public’s hands.
Universities must do “a more aggressive job of promoting the work, even when it highlights partisan asymmetries, even when it highlights other kinds of things that might leave universities open to attack from those who don’t like the fact that universities exist,” said Wagner, who noted that his center has been subpoenaed by Congress. “[That] is something they need to do a better job of, to help the researchers who are trying to do this stuff get their work out there to folks so that they can engage with it and decide how they want to incorporate that information into how they live their lives.”
Managed by the Department of Botany, the greenhouse plays a crucial role at the university, assisting with classes and research initiatives. It is now under the leadership of UW’s Living Collections Manager III, Cara Streekstra, who has been with the department for over 12 years.
“We help further botany, education and teaching,” Streekstra said. “That’s the main focus of what we do in the botany greenhouses, teaching support. We grow plants specifically for use in lab courses and for horticulture, agronomy and also art classes and English classes.”
Last Spring, the University of Wisconsin chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine led an encampment protest on Library Mall that lasted from April 29 to May 10, 2024, which UW temporarily disrupted using police force on its third day.
The disruption of Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield’s (’75 MPA) talk reveals a growing trend of selective free speech among pro-Palestinian activists.
A Madison man was arrested Friday after allegedly strangling a UW-Madison student in the UW Arboretum earlier in the week.
The recent visa record terminations of six University of Wisconsin students and seven alumni have caused concerns regarding international students.
The Wisconsin Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union Senior Staff Attorney Tim Muth says it is unclear what allowed the federal government to terminate these visas.
A Madison man has been charged in connection with an aggravated assault at the UW-Madison Arboretum.
The victim reported being strangled and forced to remain in a vehicle on the morning of March 31, according to the UW-Madison Police Department. They were treated at a local hospital.
The undergraduate experience comes with many built-in moments that form the basis for a common understanding of life as Badgers know it. Among these — confronting the perils of the University of Wisconsin all-you-can-eat dining hall buffets daily, doing your part to jump around so enthusiastically on game days that Camp Randall literally moves up and down, and, of course, spending time on Madison’s most famous strip of real-estate — State Street.
UW-Madison Police Department arrested a man after a person reported being strangled last week in the UW Arboretum.
An aggravated assault was reported to UWPD the morning of Monday, March 31, explained UWPD. The victim reported being strangled and forced to wait in a vehicle during the attack.
The University of Wisconsin student organization VOCES, Voices of Courage, held a “Know Your Rights” panel for professors and students Tuesday. The panel focused on how to navigate potential U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement situations on campus.
A new recycling sorting system at UW-Madison is using artificial intelligence to help reduce waste on campus. “Oscar Sort” systems was introduced in four campus buildings a few weeks ago.
Among wards containing University of Wisconsin-Madison residence halls, Crawford received roughly 92.3% of the vote, outperforming Harris in wards containing university residence halls by nearly 15 percentage points, according to an independent analysis from The Daily Cardinal.
This is especially challenging when “there are a number of cases around the country which people are being deported who profess to have no idea why,” Howard Schweber said.
Schweber, a constitutional law expert and professor emeritus from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said, “The Trump administration is using laws in ways they’ve never been used before, for purposes which they’ve never been used before.”
The Trump administration is revoking visas for international university and college students across the country. Now, some international students at the Universities of Wisconsin have gotten their visas revoked.
