The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate is also an author. Her debut novel “Sunny Side Up” narrates the journey of plus-size protagonist Sunny as she powers through life with confidence and humor.
In 2026, the city anticipates an $8.6 million increase in property tax revenues and a $5.2 million increase in other local revenues, including a $3 million increase in earnings from city investments due to higher interest rates. The city is also expecting $5 million more in state aid, partly because the most recent state budget raises payments for providing some municipal services to state and Universities of Wisconsin facilities.
Neubauer was elected to the court in 2008, 2014 and 2020. She is an honors graduate from the University of Chicago Law School in 1987, and she earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979.
While the proposed caps might not immediately affect most colleges, some of the “elite” private colleges and large state schools would be impacted. Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Southern California, along with the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, all surpass the proposed limit. The high concentration of international students at these institutions is more related to brand recognition and recruitment efforts than to student success. Families should keep this in mind.
Though just 25, Alfonso could scramble the race with his strong ties to Duffy and President Donald Trump. He attended high school in the Wausau area and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to a now-deleted LinkedIn profile.
Having studied for two years at his local university, Wisconsin-Madison, he had won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford – unaware, he later insisted, that philosophy at the university was going through “a golden age”.
Manly’s list attracted wide notice, and a bit of controversy. But like Embree’s, it was a one-off. A few public institutions made Manly’s top 10—UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin—but the Ivy League and private schools that topped the list remained clubby domains that catered to their traditional clientele by selecting for intangible qualities, such as “character,” over academic excellence.
The draft legislation calls for the establishment of a registry at the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. The registry would include a website with annual reports on the incidence and prevalence of Parkinson’s Disease in Wisconsin.
After studying at Nebraska Wesleyan University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Wilson earned a master’s degree in piano performance and composition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Then he moved to Milwaukee to continue his varied career of performing, music directing and teaching.
Miller is an educator at University of Wisconsin- Madison, and worked previously for 10 years as an English teacher.
Mr. Barnett studied history and English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1968, and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1971.
Robert Bruce Barnett, the older of two siblings, was born on Aug. 26, 1946, in Waukegan, Ill. His mother, Betty (Simon) Barnett, did sales work at a department store, and his father, Bernard Barnett, worked for the Social Security Administration. Robert attended the University of Wisconsin.
Professor Savin, with researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Binghamton University, interviewed lawyers and social workers in 31 offices that help Americans enroll in disability and Supplemental Social Security Income, a needs-based program.
“To the Best of Our Knowledge,” which aired for 35 years on public radio, broadcast its last radio show this weekend with an audio montage of longtime listeners commemorating the show and thanking its host and producers.
At the beginning of last week, the Universities of Wisconsin’s travel expense audit team started temporarily assisting UW-Madison to help with more than 6,000 expense reports with processing times that average 30 business days.
Bill Ferrario, a four-year starter who was part of two Big Ten Conference and Rose Bowl championship Wisconsin teams in 1999-2000, died unexpectedly early Tuesday morning. He turned 47 on Monday. Details of his death have not been publicly released, but multiple former teammates who spoke to BadgerExtra on and off the record said he lost his battle to addiction.
Flash droughts came to prominence in the 2010s, with Prof Jason Otkin of the University of Wisconsin proposing a formal definition in 2018: a period of less than three weeks in which the moisture level in the top 40 centimetres of soil drops severely enough to affect vegetation.
Linda Gentes died September 6, 2025, unexpectedly, at home, as a result of a rapid infection.
In Richland Center, Linda was an outspoken advocate for the University of Wisconsin Richland Campus – acting as Director of Continuing Education from 1986 to 2004. During this time she earned her Master’s degree in Continuing and Vocational Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1999.
In October 1990, the Chicago Sun-Times came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus to see how students there felt about the new speech code, which could lead to suspension of students for “creating a hostile environment” by making remarks about another person’s sex, race, class, religion, or sexual orientation. Years later, the UW’s then-Chancellor Donna Shalala would tell The New Yorker that she pushed for the speech codes because the students wanted it.
But the Sun-Times headline told the truth: “Students cool to hostile-speech ban.” As board chair and former editor of The Badger Herald student newspaper, I was interviewed for the article and tried to make the point that the speech bans were self-defeating. I told the Sun-Times, “To shut off racial speech you’re actually feeding it. The whole point of a university is to educate the person to be a better person, and here’s the university saying, ‘Here’s a problem, we can’t handle it, send them [offending students] back to the farm.”
Three of the nation’s prominent universities reported receiving multi-million-dollar private gifts Monday. Dartmouth College, the University of Arizona, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will honor each of their respective donors with naming recognitions.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine will perform a necropsy to learn more information.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison gradually raised its out-of-state enrollment cap and then totally eliminated it in 2015. Within six years, nearly half the first-year students on the Madison campus came from other states.
Perry didn’t set out for a career in health care. But while working as an officer with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department, he found himself repeatedly looking in the rearview mirror when transporting men — especially Black men like himself — and wondering, “What could be different to keep you from being in the back seat of this cruiser in the future?”
Hong attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying Spanish and journalism before leaving when she knew she wanted to be a chef, according to the Wisconsin Women Making History project.
He received a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from UW-Madison in 2008 and a bachelor’s degree in urban forestry from the University of Minnesota in 1994.
A 2021 study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Financial Security found 77% of Social Security recipients have reduced odds of owning a home.
Now a creative writing major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ikard was recently named Madison’s fourth Youth Poet Laureate. The city of Madison will honor them at a reading on Tuesday, Sept. 16.
In an episode of “The Dan O’Donnell Show” on Saturday, Milwaukee podcaster Dan O’Donnell criticized University of Wisconsin journalism professor Lindsay Palmer’s assignment which asked students to examine their “socio-cultural identities.”
Walsh visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 2022, where attendees at the indoor event outnumbered students protesting his visit. Police got involved to draw counter-protestors away after scuffles with protestors. YAF paid $8,000 for the event, and the student government provided the remaining $2,000 under its “viewpoint neutral” policy.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced budget reductions June 23 across campus following changes in federal funding. As a result, the university’s libraries have received a 7% budget cut, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library’s website.
At UW, political student organizations are grappling with what Kirk’s shooting means for both campus safety and the political climate, according to College Republicans of UW-Madison and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
Almost exactly a year before being assassinated at Utah Valley University, Charlie Kirk visited Library Mall on UW-Madison’s campus.
Starting Wednesday and continuing through Thursday, BadgersVote Coalition, an initiative by the University of Wisconsin, is hosting a voter registration event on the first floor of Gordon Dining and Event Center, according to BadgersVote. For students planning to vote in Wisconsin, they can register at this event with an election official trained by the Madison City Clerk’s Office.
Kirk visited UW–Madison last year, where he drew both supporters and protesters during a campus speaking event.
In the wake of his death, the university issued a statement emphasizing the importance of open dialogue and security.
At the University of Wisconsin, along with numerous other schools across the country, students studying journalism are faced with the consequences of the recent funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding for news outlets like Public Broadcasting Services and National Public Radio.
After graduating from Riverside, Schultz went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to pursue what he thought was his dream of being an astronaut. But he quickly realized he wasn’t cut out for it (“calculus was kicking my butt”) and wound up spending half of his sophomore year in theaters, watching movies by filmmakers like Claude Lelouch and Akira Kurosawa.
“My parents pushed for Black excellence, but I can’t tell you how many times I was told that I talk white, or I was criticized because I dressed well,” said Hawkins, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate.
When President Donald Trump started cutting billions in federal research dollars, American universities saw it as a threat to the country’s research enterprise.
Universities outside the U.S. saw it as something else entirely: an opportunity.
Just because surveillance might cause an animal harm doesn’t mean that its privacy has been invaded. But disturbing its tranquility might qualify, according to Martin Kaehrle, a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written about this subject.
More than 62,000 Hmong Americans lived in Wisconsin in 2020, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison analysis of the latest U.S. Census data. Appleton is the municipality with the fourth highest population of Hmong people in the state according to the report, tallying more than 3,400 people in 2020.
The famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, who attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later completed the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, also urged the city to seek land for a municipal airport and to join other American communities in the growth of commercial aviation.
Food scientist Bryan Quoc Le told Fortune the strong trend for consumers seeking to increase their protein intake is a part of a wide movement as consumers are realizing that high protein consumption is correlated to losing weight and gaining muscle.
“Additionally, many consumers… hope to gain functional benefits from their coffee consumption,” said Quoc, who has a Ph.D. in food science from the University of Wisconsin.
Lake Mendota is the largest of Madison’s lakes, bordering James Madison Park and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s memorial union.
Pema Hutter-Rennilson and her friend, Lupine Wolf, sit together on a sidewalk bench on State Street on a sunny Tuesday afternoon. The two wear long army-green bottoms, tank tops and statement jewelry.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison students say they like to curate their own fashion sense.
“It helps me be more confident,” Hutter-Rennilson said about having their own style.
Other voters, such as Will Brown, 20, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, urged the administration to pursue even more ambitious deportation goals.
Brown, who said he “couldn’t be more of a fan of Stephen Miller,” the White House aide credited with designing Trump’s immigration policy, noted that the deportation rate of Trump’s second term so far lagged that of the last two Democratic administrations.“Honestly, I don’t think they’re doing enough,” he said.
This ideological rot is not at all unique to Harvard. It’s the norm in teacher prep programs nationwide. The University of Wisconsin system has discussion circles reading “Anti-Racist Baby” and making Black Lives Matter friendship bracelets. The University of Florida fills its syllabi with such critical race theory icons as Kimberlé Crenshaw and Gloria Ladson-Billings. Columbia has a course on “Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Curriculum Practices.” Some of the most assigned authors, like Paulo Freire and Gloria Watkins, are outright Marxists.
Hawkins grew up in the Twin Cities, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a business reporter for the Journal Sentinel from 1997 to 2003. He was a 2022 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for work at the Wall Street Journal about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Stanke, a Wausau native with a nuclear engineering degree from UW-Madison, spoke from the stage in Rhode Island and is part of the nuclear fuels team and a spokesperson for Constellation, the nation’s largest producer of nuclear energy. During her tenure as Miss America, she was an outspoken advocate of zero-carbon nuclear energy.
Susan Monarez, who noted her Wisconsin roots prior to her confirmation as head of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on July 30, is out at the agency after less than a month on the job.
Monarez had had a long career in the health field but was the first person to assume the position without a medical degree in more than 70 years. She said in her testimony before the U.S. Senate that she grew up the daughter of a dairy farmer in rural Wisconsin. She holds bachelor’s and doctorate degrees in microbiology and immunology from UW-Madison.
Jason Nolen, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, started the account in 2016 and didn’t expect it to take off. But with the sale of annual cat calendars, the project has become another source of income for him, as well as a resource for cat lovers across the community.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Inside Higher Ed counted 19 confirmed swatting calls since Aug. 19, including at Mercer University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Utah and the University of New Hampshire.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s scholarship program, First Wave, brings hip-hop pedagogy into the community by encouraging their scholars to engage with Madison’s youth. Meanwhile, an artist-led youth movement seeks to cultivate an underground hip-hop scene that directly engages with Madison’s unofficial “hip-hop ban” during the 2010s.
Leaders with Cardiac on Campus, a student-run organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Madison Fire Department and the City of Madison gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the two AEDs on Tuesday.
A Catholic priest in the Diocese of Madison who was once a leader at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Catholic student center has been restricted from public ministry after he was arrested on suspicion of child sex crimes in Waupaca County.
Andrew J. Showers, 37, is accused by the Clintonville Police Department of arranging to meet with a 14-year-old girl to have sex with her. Clintonville police arrested him Aug. 24 on suspicion of attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child, using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, and child enticement, Police Chief Craig Freitag said in a statement.
Clarence Sherrod, one of the top scorers in University of Wisconsin men’s basketball history, died Aug. 18. He was 75.
Sherrod was a three-year starter at guard for Wisconsin from 1969 to 1971. He was the leading scorer for the program’s 1970-71 team, a squad that averaged the most points per game in a single season in team history at 86.3 points per game.
Researchers from the UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology co-authored a study finding that cold plunge elicits a natural rush of dopamine, similar to what people experience using social media.
Also installing his art that day was Victor Hugo Jimenez, 22, a recent University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate. He will be displaying his pieces in a new merchandise area near the Generac Stage, where people can buy T-shirts and baseball caps to commemorate the festival with motifs such as Our Lady of Guadalupe, retro cars and cowboy boots.
An important figure from the late 1960’s to early 1990’s in Madison city and academic life, Donna M. Jones, age 75 has passed away in Atlanta, GA (03/02/1950- 07/31/2025). Donna Jones time of undergraduate activism parallels current political hot button issues. Beyond undergraduate work, Donna was a highly awarded UW Law student, practicing attorney and rising figure in local government and university administration.
In the late 1980’s to early 1990’s, Donna served as Director of UW-Madison Office of Affirmative Action and Compliance under Chancellor Donna Shalalah. In addition to these posts, Donna Jones won scholarships for two masters degrees in Public Policy, one in New York and another in Arizona both following her 1978 UW Law degree and Admission to the Bar January, 1979.
According to the Applied Population Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Green County, where Monroe is located, has experienced a 229% increase in Latinos from 2000 to 2019. That growth has not been accompanied by a surge in murders, robberies, pet-eatings or any other crimes that the current administration has leveled against migrants. Instead Monroe has seen a rise in the number of Mexican restaurants and bilingual masses at the local Catholic church, as well as hardworking community members hoping to make a better life for themselves.
Alec Luhn, the journalist from Wisconsin who spent six days stranded on a remote Norway mountain before being rescued, said his family gave him the hope and will to survive.
“Just thinking about my wife, wanting to see her again, thinking about my parents and my brothers and sisters,” Luhn, 38, said from his hospital bed on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” his first public interview since his rescue.
