The future of UW-Madison’s new engineering building, as well as other Universities of Wisconsin building priorities, is again in limbo after Republicans on the state’s Building Commission refused to reallocate nearly $70 million in state funds.
UW-Madison is adding a business partnership floor to its upcoming engineering building, aimed at opening a direct pipeline between students and the kinds of businesses that may one day employee them.
“Working in a restaurant is, I think, some of the best ways to learn some really cool life traits,” Jacobs said. “Whether it’s just about organization, cleanliness, empathy, or having to deal with people that sometimes you don’t want to deal with. It’s kind of a great way to learn.”
The Universities of Wisconsin are set to fare better financially than earlier projected, largely due to sizeable increases in tuition at a handful of schools and unaccounted-for donation dollars for UW-Madison, the system said Monday.
The privately funded program, known as the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise, covers the full cost of attendance for in-state students who are enrolled members of one of the 11 federally recognized tribes in Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin marching band already was in game mode despite more than 10 hours remaining before kickoff of the Badgers’ football game against No. 1 Oregon.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison rose in national rankings on federal research activity after slipping for nearly a decade.
The university announced the ranking change Monday alongside an announcement that it had spent a record-breaking $1.7 billion on research for fiscal year 2023, a 13.7% increase over the prior year. UW-Madison’s growth outpaced the national increase of 11.2% spent on university research and development, bringing the national amount spent to $108.8 billion.
After 24 hours of programming and coding — fueled by plenty of snacks and energy drinks — the organizers of an annual hackathon event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced which of the 55 projects would move on as finalists.
The committee studying the future of the Universities of Wisconsin wants the state Legislature to explore spinning off the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The state Legislature should consider splitting UW-Madison from the rest of the Universities of Wisconsin system, according to a panel of legislators and others making a list of recommendations about the future of the UW system.
A committee studying the future of the state’s public university system recommended the Legislature explore spinning off the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the state’s public university system.
Universities of Wisconsin campuses have 1,177 more students this fall than previously projected, according to enrollment data released Tuesday.
“Top Chef: Wisconsin” finalist Dan Jacobs was chosen as the keynote speaker for UW-Madison’s Dec. 15 winter commencement.
Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, a librarian at UW-Madison’s Ebling Library for Health Services, has culled nearly 30,000 such ads from 1923 to 2007 into the digital Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources, or HADES. Former colleague Amanda Lambert and several students helped her compile the database, which continues to grow.
Ateam of UW-Madison current and former biomedical engineering students sliced through the competition at a national collegiate inventors competition to win first-place with their combined forceps-scalpel device.
In a survey sent out last spring, the College for Rural Wisconsin found that 82% of rural-identifying UW-Madison students felt somewhat or unprepared for college, director Jennifer Blazek said.
Soon after police officers removed protesters’ tents and withdrew from the scene on May 1, a pro-Palestinian encampment reemerged on Library Mall, forcing University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders to contemplate their next step.
There’s a lot of public discussion about how much state taxpayer money the University of Wisconsin System should receive.
There’s next to none about how that money is divvied up between the universities.
A patient should never come out of the operating room with more pain than they went in with.
That’s the thinking behind a group of UW-Madison engineers whose invention aims to make surgical incisions easier and reduce the incidence of accidental cuts from free-floating scalpels.
One of the Dairyland’s key industries has a shortage of people — and UW-Madison is stepping in to help.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison “Sustain-A-Bash” campus tour highlighted environmentally focused projects across campus.
The UW Board of Regents fired former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow a second time, ending a drawn-out faculty disciplinary process focused on his controversial pornographic videos.
The percentage of Black, Latino and Indigenous students in UW-Madison’s Class of 2028 has dropped, despite a record number of applications, following last year’s Supreme Court ruling that barred consideration of race in college applications.
UW-Madison dropped slightly in the latest edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings for 2025, going down one place to tie for 13th in the national public colleges category.
Gov. Evers toured one of the campus dining halls before hosting a roundtable discussion with students to learn more about their concerns and how they thought that extra funding could be spent.
Preliminary enrollment figures released Monday show eight colleges in the Universities of Wisconsin system have more students this year than last fall.
Universities of Wisconsin systemwide enrollment is projected to increase by just more than 1,000 this fall overall, an encouraging sign as enrollment has increased for a second year in a row after a decade of declines.
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni donors are giving $75 million for construction of a long-awaited new engineering building.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison unveiled a $75 million gift Wednesday for a new engineering building that just last year seemed doomed to be delayed.
The Levy surname will grace a second UW-Madison building, as prolific Madison-area philanthropists Marv and Jeff Levy have pledged $75 million in support of the College of Engineering’s new building.
UW-Madison officials said the new building will be named the Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center. It will be an eight-story, 395,000 square-foot building that gives the College of Engineering a chance to expand its enrollment.
Brothers Marvin and Jeffrey Levy, both UW-Madison alumni, are donating $75 million to help build the university’s new engineering building. On Wednesday, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said this is the largest single gift in college history.
The Washington Monthly ranked the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the number one public university in the country in a study released this past August.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor hosted a media roundtable with student journalists Tuesday. Updates on campus initiatives, financial and housing needs and free expression were prominent in the discussion.
A lot has been on University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s plate since the spring.
Between a 12-day pro-Palestine encampment and juggling the university budget process, she’s had to carefully tread an upcoming election with a student body that has divided perspectives. Mnookin and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor sat down with campus media Tuesday to discuss free speech efforts, the affordable housing shortage and protest culture.
Dr. Gee has an in-depth conversation with University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin on what the university is doing to improve the sense of belonging for students of color. Their discussion covers Dr. Gee’s participation in a committee working to recognize the universities history with students of color and what can be done moving forward. The committee will be releasing a report soon with their findings and recommendations. Chancellor Mnookin shares about her plans and initiatives in this role at the university and how she sees that they are developing so far.Jennifer L. Mnookin is the 30th leader in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s 175-year history, and one of the nation’s top legal scholars.
UW ranked first by Washington Monthly’s 2024 College Guide and Rankings according to three categories.
UW-Madison will conduct its official student census on the tenth day of classes. Roughly 8,400 first-year students and another 1,400 transfer students are expected to enroll this fall, the university estimated in late August. Over 70,000 applicants sought a spot in the incoming class.
“This is the largest applicant pool in the university’s history and a 3.6% increase over last year’s record number of applicants,” according to Kelly Tyrrell, a campus spokesperson.
After years of being crammed in an outdated UW-Madison School of Veterinary Science building, staff, students and their patients finally have a bit of breathing room.
Thousands of students are flooding the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday for the first day of the fall semester, marking the beginning of a new academic year. University officials say they are welcoming 10,000 new and transfer students this year, continuing a trend of growing enrollment.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and other speakers spoke to the importance of taking on new challenges and making new connections Tuesday.
As first-year and transfer students start classes this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they must watch a new presentation about freedom of expression on campus.
Revisions to the protest policy include restrictions on “expressive activity” within 25 feet of university facility entrances, size limitations for signs in buildings, specific sound amplification restrictions and restrictions on protest activity during select times on campus areas typically used for photos like the Abraham Lincoln statue at the top of Bascom Hill.
As Madison sweltered under an excessive heat warning Tuesday, thousands of UW-Madison students arrived at campus residence halls for fall semester move-in.
The study confirmed what is largely already known through reams of anecdotal evidence: Nearly 70% of rentals are too expensive, costing individual students $1,000 or more in rent each month per student, often hundreds of dollars above what the students consider affordable; the cheapest apartments are often furthest from campus and more run down; and UW-Madison is one of the most expensive off-campus housing markets in the Big 10 conference.
With only one dissent, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a plan Thursday from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that will include the layoff of 35 tenured faculty members.
The board overseeing Wisconsin public universities voted to lay off 32 tenured University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors, marking the first large-scale application of a Republican policy put in place nearly a decade ago.
Universities of Wisconsin schools would keep in-state undergraduate tuition steady for the next two academic years if lawmakers hike state aid by $855 million of state dollars as part of the upcoming budget cycle, UW system President Jay Rothman said in a budget request Monday.
The Universities of Wisconsin’s top priorities in its next capital budget are tearing down and replacing two failing 1960s-era monstrosities: Cowley Hall at UW-La Crosse, and the towering concrete fortress known as Mosse Humanities building at UW-Madison.
Written by Jay Hill, vice president of Advanced Technologies at GE HealthCare, and Anjon Audhya, senior associate dean for basic research, biotechnology and graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
175 years after UW-Madison was founded, it continues prioritizing teaching, research and public service across the state. Now, the university is celebrating its impact while thanking Wisconsinites in the Chippewa Valley and beyond for their support.
Eighty years later, Stevens was finally buried in Florida National Cemetery. His daughter attended the service in March, along with Ryan Wubben and other members of a University of Wisconsin-Madison group who helped find Stevens’ remains.
“It’s an interesting feeling that the success of your project results in a funeral,” said Wubben, the field physician for the University of Wisconsin Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project.
Weeks before a deadline to submit budget requests to Gov. Tony Evers, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman provided a glimpse of his ambitions for increased state funding of higher education.
Almost 90% of Wisconsin residents with a bachelor’s degree from the Universities of Wisconsin were still living in the state five years after graduation.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is awarding $11 million to 15 organizations, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to establish new medical residency programs in rural areas.
The number of financial aid applications is down across the Universities of Wisconsin system, an early indication that enrollment may be down this fall as well.
UW-Madison researchers have teamed up with a group of the university’s tribal partners for a new project to support and expand Indigenous food traditions and practices of Great Lakes tribal nations.
For the first time, a fusion device at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has generated plasma, inching one step closer toward using nuclear fusion as a a new source of carbon-free energy.
University of Wisconsin Hospitals was ranked number 1 in Wisconsin for the 13th year in a row.
