Wisconsin Welcome, an annual multiweek celebration welcoming the incoming freshman class and transfer students, is underway at the University of Wisconsin, according to the UW Office of Student Transition and Family Engagement.
The celebration began Sunday with the Sunburst Festival at Union South, which offered free food samples from its restaurants, a silent disco, several indoor and outdoor games, live music and more for students to check out, according to the Wisconsin Union.
About a year before a renowned University of Wisconsin-Madison professor resigned and took a new job in Arizona, an investigation found he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one of them, and that he made derogatory, sexist and disparaging comments about members of his department.
The University of Wisconsin offers several resources through segregated fees paid in students’ tuition, such as career services, advising, University Health Services mental health services and more, according to UW segregated fees.
A prominent UW-Madison professor engaged in sexual activity with students and crossed professional boundaries, according to newly released records of a university investigation that ended in a settlement and his resignation.
It’s not uncommon for multiple generations of a family to attend the same university. It’s rarer when six siblings all attend at once.
Tim and Stacey Cavanagh raised their two sets of triplets, born 19 months apart, in a chaotic, loving home in Chicago. Last year, they saw two of their first three sons, Ryan and Charlie, off at FIJI house, where they spent their freshman year. On Saturday, the family returned with the second set of triplets, TJ, Kiley and Kate, loaded into a U-Haul, all bound for Badgerhood.
The Morgridge Institute for Research announced that Eric Perreault, a Northwestern University biomedical engineering professor and research executive, was selected as their third chief executive officer Tuesday, according to the Morgridge Institute.
Wisconsin Watch first reported in July 2025 on allegations that UWPD Officer Diego Lema Hernandez had initiated late-night texting conversations, asked female students on coffee dates while on duty and relayed confidential police information to help students avoid consequences for underage drinking.
UW-Madison student employees at the Wisconsin Union are challenging a tipping system they say misleads customers who think that when they order food and drinks, any tips go directly to their servers.
Music wellness organization Two Bridge announced Tuesday their music and mental health-focused events that will take place on UW’s campus this fall, including a student concert from Mt. Joy, according to a Reuters press release.
The events are in partnership with Future Friends Campus Series, a nationwide expansion of the mental wellness programming, according to the release. Future Friends similarly brought artist Alex Warren to UW in 2025, according to the release.
he Wisconsin Badgers are facing off against the rest of the Big Ten in a competition that helps save lives, rather than add points to a scoreboard.
The competition is called “We Give Blood” and it comes at a time when the need is dire, as the American Red Cross has declared its second-ever national blood crisis.
Now through Dec. 4, students, alumni and Badger fans can donate blood and credit the Big 10 school of their choice.
The winning school receives a $1 million grant from the health care company, Abbott.
Artificial intelligence and sports management are just a few of the new major offerings across the Universities of Wisconsin that students can enroll in this fall.
Classes for the 2026-27 academic year kick off at all but two of the UW system’s13 schools this week. Some students will be part of the inaugural classes in new majors, such as UW-Madison’s public policy undergraduate major, or UW-Green Bay’s reduced-credit computer science degree, which students will complete in under four years.
Applications and enrollment of international students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are down significantly for 2026, the schools said in court filings, as the Trump administration makes it harder to study in the U.S. and stay in the country after college for work.
D’Angelo, a UW-Madison graduate, has known since childhood he wanted to grow food for people and to do it on land he owned. He enjoyed working on his parents’ Christmas tree farm while growing up in New Jersey. But his parents, who never owned their own land, lost the farm when the landowner sold the property.
UW-Madison welcomed new first-year and transfer students to Camp Randall Stadium on Monday for the W Project celebration.
Students joined Bucky Badger and Interim Chancellor Eric M. Wilcots for campus traditions, a Fifth Quarter celebration and a recreation of the annual “W” photo.
The event also featured giveaways and an opportunity for students to learn Badger gameday traditions.
UW–Madison welcomed students and their families to campus Saturday as fall move-in began at the University’s residence halls.
Families arrived from Wisconsin and other states to help students move into their rooms before the start of the new academic year. Among those arriving was Chris Olhoff from Chicago, who was moving his son, Henry, into campus housing.
Olhoff said the move-in experience into Witte had gone well so far.
Wisconsin, best known for its cheese curds, beer, bratwurst and dairy, is in the midst of building out a new industry: nuclear fusion.
Tim and Stacey Cavanagh raised their two sets of triplets, born 19 months apart, in a chaotic, loving home in Chicago. Last year, they saw two of their first three sons, Ryan and Charlie, off at FIJI house, where they spent their freshman year. On Saturday, the family returned with the second set of triplets, TJ, Kiley and Kate, loaded into a U-Haul, all bound for Badgerhood.
The third annual Abbott and Big Ten “We Give Blood’ drive competition is underway, with Wisconsin entering this year as the defending champion.
Last year, UW Madison won a $1 million grant from Abbott after bringing in 15,476 donations.
Customers who use a credit or debit card to buy food at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union are prompted to leave a tip. They can select a specific amount or skip adding extra money.
The dog days of summer are over and many University of Wisconsin-Madison professors spent them reading books that provided both temporary escapes and insights into their lives.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Deliberation Dinners returns for its fourth consecutive year, giving 375 undergraduates with diverse perspectives the opportunity to deliberate on controversial political issues over six moderated meals throughout the academic year.
The discussions aim to maintain a respectful and collaborative environment and promote civil dialogue among undergraduates.
This weekend marks the beginning of a new school year at UW-Madison as students begin moving into the residence halls.
Nine-thousand new and returning students will be moving into on-campus housing starting Saturday until Monday.
University Housing is warning drivers heading downtown may experience delays, especially near campus resident halls, as there will be heightened traffic and lane closures.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students will begin moving into residence halls this weekend, bringing an estimated 9,000 students to campus and prompting traffic changes near the southeast side of campus.
Students and families headed downtown in the coming days should expect increased traffic, crowds and students moving furniture as the university’s fall move-in begins.
The university will close some roads on the southeast side of campus and convert Park and Lake streets to one-way traffic to accommodate move-in activity.
Madison blends student life at the flagship university with a state capital setting, offering students lake views, bike paths, farmers markets, and a lively downtown lined with bars and eateries.
he American Family Insurance Championship will stay in Madison through 2030 and return to University Ridge Golf Course next year.
American Family Insurance and PGA TOUR Champions agreed to extend the tournament, which has raised nearly $22 million for charity since 2016, according to a press release. The 2027 competition is scheduled for June 11-13 at University Ridge, where the championship first started.
All 18 Big Ten schools are competing to collect the most blood donations through a competition called “We Give Blood.” Wisconsin collected more than 15,000 donations last year to finish first
The committee leading the search for a new UW-Madison chancellor is holding a public input session next month to hear feedback on what the university’s leader should bring to the table.
UW-Madison’s new chancellor will succeed Jennifer Mnookin, who left the university in May after nearly four years to lead Columbia University. Eric Wilcots, dean of UW-Madison’s College of Letters and Science, is serving as interim chancellor.
There was a hint of autumn in Madison, Wisconsin before sun-up on Monday Aug. 24, 1970.
The temperature was only 49 degrees, and for those who happened to be awake at 3:30 a.m., there was unexpected cool relief from the dog days of summer.
But it was about to get hot on the University of Wisconsin campus. Searing hot.
The flame on a fuse was quietly burning down to one ton of explosive ANFO, hidden in the back of a Ford Econoline van that had been carefully parked right outside of Sterling Hall, a large university classroom building.
The American Family Insurance Championship is returning to its original home next year.
The 2027 iteration of the tournament will be played at University Ridge Golf Course from June 11-13, tournament organizers announced Wednesday. The unique scramble format will also return.
Organizers also announced that the tournament agreed to terms with PGA TOUR Champions to keep the event in Madison through 2030. Steve Stricker will continue as player-host.
A $27 million investment from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will advance four high-impact research initiatives at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the university announced Tuesday.
The investment comes as federal agencies and industry partners increase investments in these strategically important fields.
WARF said it will help UW–Madison strengthen its research leadership, diversify its funding portfolio and pursue new technologies and startup companies.
My favorite tomato is the Wisconsin 55, as much for the memories they stir as the taste they imbue. They’re a hybrid developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1940s, and are said to thrive in Wisconsin’s sometimes moist summers, which I’ve found to be sort of true.
Country singer Kane Brown is performing at UW-Madison’s campus next month for a student-only concert, the Wisconsin Union announced Monday.
The Sept. 5 block party and concert at the Library Mall is free for UW-Madison students and comes at the close of the first week of classes. The first day of the 2026-27 academic year is Sept. 2.
The founding dean of UW-Madison’s new College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence sees universities as a “counterbalance” to industry in the AI field, ensuring the technology benefits society.
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, who led the effort to recently launch the university’s first new college in more than 40 years, discussed his vision for its role during a recent UW Now webinar hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
Summer does not turn downtown Madison into a ghost town, but it does reshape the city.
With fewer UW-Madison students on campus and no Badgers football games, the area is more relaxed. It is also easier to find a seat at a restaurant or bar.
Sam Haegele, a bartender and manager at Vintage Spirits & Grill on University Avenue, said the business sees a significant demographic shift.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison would receive an additional $260 million in state funding, and in-state students would experience a tuition freeze if state lawmakers greenlight the UW system’s budget plans for the next two years.
“After careful consideration, I have made the difficult decision to withdraw from the program and not proceed with my plan to study in the United States,” one student who had committed to the University of Wisconsin–Madison wrote to the institution, per the court document. “A significant factor in my decision was the recently published DHS final rule … after weighing these circumstances carefully, I do not feel that I can proceed with my studies in the United States as originally planned and I won’t come to United States this academic year.”
“It’s impossible to say there’s one cohesive feeling,” said Joel Coyne, a business and marketing teacher at Sun Prairie School District and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Teachers are going to have to reevaluate what are we teaching, how are we teaching and how we are assessing the learning.”
Kenosha residents have three upcoming chances to donate blood and help the University of Wisconsin–Madison defend its title in the Abbott and Big Ten Conference We Give Blood Drive competition — and each city-sponsored drive comes with a free UW hat and a Culver’s coupon for a pint of custard.
The UW Cinematheque returns with regular free showings for its fall series starting Thursday, Aug. 27, after its summer screenings were canceled due to campus cooling problems.
Have you ever wondered which Wisconsin high school has the highest success rate at getting into the state flagship? Or how many students from your alma mater apply to the University of Wisconsin-Madison?
In an effort to be more transparent, UW-Madison has published this data. Covering the state’s high school graduating class in 2024-25, the dashboard shows how many public high school students graduated from each school, how many of the graduates applied to UW-Madison, how many were admitted and how many enrolled.
Interim chancellor Eric Wilcots and founding dean of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence (CAI) Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau presented a measured view of artificial intelligence in higher education at a Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association (WFAA) virtual panel on August 18.
Wilcots and Arpaci-Dusseau both said students should be AI competent when they graduate, but that UW-Madison needs to handle AI’s pervasiveness in college life: cracking down on take-home assessments while navigating emptier classrooms and a “silent spring” on Piazza, a popular classroom forum and social networking tool, as students increasingly turn to chatbots.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison would receive an additional $260 million in state funding, and in-state students would experience a tuition freeze if state lawmakers greenlight the UW system’s budget plans for the next two years.
prominent UW-Madison professor and expert in artificial intelligence has resigned after an investigation found he violated a university policy on consensual relationships.
Life Sciences Communication professor Dietram Scheufele also failed in his faculty responsibilities, including maintaining honesty and integrity, university spokesperson Gillian Drummond said. His departure, part of a settlement agreement, follows an investigation completed in September 2025 into complaints filed by three female students, including accusations of sexual harassment and hostile and intimidating behavior. His last day was Aug. 15.
The UW Board of Regents approved the Universities of Wisconsin’s operating and capital budget requests Thursday, which include plans to freeze tuition for two years, raze a prominent UW-Madison building and get the campus its first new dorm in more than a decade.
I first arrived at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2022 to help my sister move into her dorm room on the fifth floor of Witte Hall. It wasn’t until a couple years later that I finally got to experience UW–Madison as a student myself.
Even after what felt like hundreds of orientations, somehow, almost everyone I knew remained, completely and utterly — disoriented. But I was luckier than the rest, because I had my sister around to show me the ropes. Without her I’d likely still be lost on the fourth floor of the humanities building.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the country’s top party schools, according to a new USA TODAY ranking.
With college football season about to begin, USA TODAY ranked the top party schools across the United States by averaging the results of seven different online lists, including Niche.com and The Wall Street Journal.
UW-Madison ranked fifth, just ahead of West Virginia and just behind Georgia.
The road to opening a copper-nickel mine in Minnesota is long and uncertain, but it’s a path Twin Metals is exploring every day.
Their exploratory drilling brings them further below the surface than 16 stacked Statues of Liberty, all to refine a plan to mine out the copper and nickel on the land here, if they ever get the proper approvals.
There’s only one training program in the state: the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine, where roughly 2,500 students vie for 100 open seats yearly. About half of the graduates will stay and practice in Wisconsin.
The school isn’t churning out enough graduates to make a serious dent in the state’s shortage. And its lecture halls and laboratories don’t have enough physical space to expand enrollment.
“We are capped out at the number of students we can admit because … the facilities just literally cannot fit any additional folks,” said Dr. Jonathan Levine, dean of the vet school.
As visitors walk through the renovated Chazen Museum of Art this fall, their eyes might wander from a contemporary abstract painting on one wall to a 16th century ceramic dish and a Renaissance-era oil painting on another. Soon, they may notice that the art around them lacks a clear-cut organization that separates each gallery by time period, medium or geographic location. Rather, these artworks are organized by an innovative technique allowing for countless connections between items.
Dirac Labs, a quantum-enabled navigation company, today announced its $1.8M pre-seed funding to prototype its quantum sensors and conduct field trials to further refine its technology to provide universal positioning where GPS is unavailable.
Quantum sensing offers a resilient, alternative method of positioning by measuring features of Earth’s magnetic field, which remains present in environments where GPS signals cannot reach.
Homestead High School in Mequon hosts a college admissions presentation every year, offering families general advice about the application process.
This year’s presentation, however, was much more specific: How to get into the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders on Monday announced the system will freeze tuition for two years, starting in fall 2027, provided the state “invests $190 million to support the cost of the freeze and other operating needs that preserve educational quality,” according to a news release.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student Elena Motonishi’s personal experience managing asthma became the basis of an entrepreneurial venture that offers support when medical professionals cannot.
Her web platform, called Lobelia, is an AI-powered personal asthma management platform that uses health data, environmental factors and more to provide users with personalized risk assessments and advice.
As artificial intelligence usage grows at a rapid pace, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other colleges across the country are grappling with how to integrate the technology into classrooms.
Point Taken host Kristin Brey shows her co-host Steve Scaffidi and WTMJ fans a device called the “Brick,” created by two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates, that helps fight social media addiction by locking apps on one’s phone. Kristin has found it helpful in curbing doom-scrolling habits.
The Universities of Wisconsin Regent President Kyle Weatherly and UWs President Renee Wachter announced Monday that the Universities of Wisconsin will propose to freeze tuition rates for 2027-2029.
The pledge, called the 4-Year Tuition Pledge, is a main focus of the UW’s 2027-2029 budget proposal.
The Pledge proposes freezing tuition for the 2027-2029 biennium, provided the state invests $190 million to support the cost of the freeze and other operating needs that preserve educational quality, officials said.
The University of Wisconsin System is asking state lawmakers for $190 million in additional funding in order to freeze tuition for two years and cap the increase at the rate of inflation for the two next years.
The proposal is part of the university system’s biennial budget request from state lawmakers. UW leadership recently asked for an additional $90 million of funding to use toward training 35,000 new healthcare professionals over a 10-year span.
Wisconsin’s State Building Commission approved roughly $374-million in building projects statewide last week and one of those projects include a nearly $20-million investment in Barron. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Veterinary Diagnostic Lab (WVDL) has been looking to renovate and expand its Barron location for several years. The lab’s current building was constructed in 1992, but since then its grown too small and its labs can no longer keep up with demand.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders announced a proposal Monday, Aug. 17, to freeze tuition through the 2027-29 budget cycle, provided the state invests $190 million to cover the cost of the freeze and other operating needs.
Under the plan, called the 4-Year Tuition Pledge, the university system would also commit to keeping tuition increases at or below the rate of inflation for the following two years.
Wisconsin’s public university system is emphasizing affordability, access and forward motion in its 2027-29 budget request, seeking a $730 million increase in funding from the state Legislature and governor ahead of November elections.
