The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Blk Pwr Coalition hosted a candlelight vigil on Library Mall Thursday night in remembrance of 13 Black lives, including Corey Ruiz, who Madison police shot in a fatal encounter on Williamson Street this summer.

Around 60 students gathered to light candles, recite poems and anecdotes and grieve with the community. The vigil’s main purpose was to let families of the victims know they will not be forgotten, Blk Pwr Coalition’s chief operating officer Azuri Lawson said.

Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadets from the University of Wisconsin-Madison joined local law enforcement at Camp Randall Stadium early morning on Sept. 11 to honor rescue workers who responded in the wake of the terrorist attacks 25 years ago.

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gathered in Library Mall, September 16, for the first protest for a sanctuary campus of the semester. Madison Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) led the protest, joined by the Black Power Coalition (BPC), United Faculty & Academic Staff, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

The University of Wisconsin released a report describing three hazing incidents at Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. from February 2025 on Tuesday, specifying multiple Student Organization Code of Conduct violations relating to hazing.

It’s September and that means people all over the country are headed back to college at some really beautiful campuses.

New data compiled by SIXT reveals 10 of the most eye-catching college campuses across America, and some of the answers might surprise you.

Wisconsin Metallica fans – “The Bell Tolls” for thee.

One of the most influential metal bands of all time is making its way back to Wisconsin to wrap up the “M72 World Tour.” Visiting 26 countries since 2023 that have hosted 99 concerts so far, the tour will wrap up in Salt Lake City June 19, one of 12 final tour stops in North America the band hasn’t visited on this run.

Missionaries to the Preborn, a pro-life Milwaukee based group, held signs featuring bloody photos of allegedly aborted babies on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Library Mall Wednesday while students and Madisonians played instruments and yelled to drown out the pro-life group’s words as a counter-protest.

It’s been nearly nine years since heavy metal icons Metallica have played Wisconsin, and that changes next summer.

On Wednesday morning, the band announced that their “M72” world tour will make a stop at Camp Randall Stadium on June 12, 2027, marking their first Wisconsin show since 2018.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Aug. 27 to rename Lake Ontario — which resides on the northern border of New York and Canada —  Lake America, as a symbolic jab amidst increasing trade tensions with Canada. The move, framed by Trump as “Making the Great Lakes Even Greater,” is political theater, but its real cost is cultural.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD) opened its doors to the Madison community Wednesday, Sept. 9 for an open house during UW-Madison’s Welcome Week event schedule.

Speciality divisions, guided tours, free food and the opportunity to learn more about UW-Madison’s campus police drew a crowd to the UWPD’s Monroe Street office. The event gave students and community members the chance to interact with officers, ask questions and learn more about the department.

The UW-Madison Hazing Prevention Coalition released a new report detailing hazing incidents that led to the suspension of one fraternity.

The report shows the University began investigating Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. on February 26, 2025, the same day the incidents were reported. The incidents occurred on or around Feb. 17–20. The university concluded the investigation and alerted the organization on April 14, 2025. The organization was then suspended until July 31, 2025.

A landmark gift of a new humanities building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has inspired a sweet new addition to the Babcock Dairy lineup.

To honor the extraordinary generosity of UW alumni Marv and Jeff Levy, Babcock Dairy will unveil a limited-edition ice cream flavor created by the brothers: Levylicious Salted Turtle. The flavor features a salted caramel ice cream swirled with a rich chocolate fudge ribbon and roasted, salted pecans.

A massive donation for a new humanities building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has inspired a limited-edition ice cream flavor at Babcock Dairy.

The $115 million humanities building project was made possible by a $20 million lead gift from Marv and Jeff Levy, who named the building after their late parents, Irving and Dorothy.

There are almost as many students at the University of Wisconsin this fall as there were last fall after the university released its day one student enrollment figures.

“Enrollment decreased approximately 1% across the 13 UWs, which included significant international student decreases. Estimates show fall 2026 enrollment at 163,260 students, a decline of 1,732 students overall, with 1,100 of those being international students,” the university said in a statement.

When state lawmakers reconvene next year to set another two-year budget, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will revive its years-long push for constructing a new residence hall.

University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating after a recent UW-Madison graduate released video he says he secretly recorded inside the university’s meat science facility.

The video involves the facility’s use of carbon dioxide to stun pigs before slaughter.

Ryan Blum said he spent months planning how to get inside to record the process. He said he captured about 83 seconds of video, with less than 30 seconds showing pigs inside what he says is the CO2 chamber.

A recent UW-Madison graduate and animal rights activist has released video he says he secretly recorded inside a campus facility while pigs were undergoing carbon dioxide stunning, a process used to render pigs unconscious before slaughter.

Ryan Blum, who graduated in May, told WMTV he spent months planning how to secretly enter UW–Madison’s Meat Science & Animal Biologics Discovery Building specifically to record the process.

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation announced Thursday that it provided $160.7 million in total support to research and innovation at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research in the fiscal year ending in June 2026.

The funding includes annual grants for both institutions, supplemental grants for special initiatives and in-kind support for operations, investments and inventors.

A UW Health doctor is reflecting on how the events of 9/11 shaped her life’s purpose.

Dr. Lisa Arkin was working in television in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001.

In the days following the attacks, she volunteered overnight at a nearby trauma center, helping families search for loved ones.

That experience inspired her to leave her career and go to medical school.

For ten years, my first day of school outfit was always the same: an annoying navy blue cross tie, a white polo, cardigan and khaki skirt. Having been forced to wear a uniform, the most I could do to explore my style was wear colorful headbands and beaded bracelets.

But when I got to high school, everything changed. On the first day of school, I could swap that bland uniform for baggy jeans, a baby pink tank top and a cable knit cardigan —I was thrilled.