Ion Meyn, a UW Law professor who teaches civil and criminal procedure, told News 3 Now that the investigation protocol is “not as independent as it may seem.”
Meyn explained that investigators often follow different procedures when examining police-involved shootings compared to standard criminal investigations. One significant difference involves the timing of officer interviews.
Hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, the field day will provide attendees with practical information on soil conservation, nitrogen management, and strategies to improve soil health and farm profitability. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from Extension specialists and conservation professionals who are working directly with Wisconsin farmers and agricultural landscapes.
As Madison reels from the deadly shooting of Corey Ruiz by a police officer this week, two professors who study police use of force say many questions remain unanswered about how officers responded.
Dr. Jessica Caldwell, multi-principal investigator of the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention at UW–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, said the results carry implications for both research and patient care.
“This finding is exciting for the research community as well as the medical community,” Caldwell said. “It isn’t just a marker of the protein, it’s a marker of people who are potentially likely to go on to have cognitive problems.”
The lawsuit that a former student brought against UW-Madison over readmitting a Badgers football star after he was expelled for sexual assault appears to have stalled.
After two decades of hosting the camp, Morgridge Institute researchers are now studying its long-term impact, such as whether earlier exposure to research influences a student’s academic interests and career goals.
As a certified nursing assistant at UW Health in Madison, she used the skills she developed while caring for her dying grandmother for nine years. Her co-workers had supported her through her gender transition. She’d even won an award for providing “extraordinary” care.
In a study by the Rural Livability Project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a national pattern shows that housing stress negatively affects rural health in high-poverty rural places, with higher prevalence of obesity, diabetes, stroke, and coronary heart disease. When rural residents face dual stress, the two constraints–housing financial stress and food insecurity–amplify each other’s negative effects on health (Figure 3).
The number of Wisconsinites many months behind on student loan bills has risen by nearly 50% since last fall.
That’s according to federal data analyzed by the Associated Press, which found that more than 108,000 people in Wisconsin haven’t made payments on their loans in more than 360 days.
Federal research funding cuts are having “unacceptable” impacts on scientific progress, according to the vice chancellor for research at UW-Madison.
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska spoke yesterday on a panel in Milwaukee organized by the Wisconsin Technology Council, focused on how shifting federal priorities are impacting innovation in the state.
As business leaders grapple with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and integrate the technology into their workplaces, leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are finding innovative ways to serve their needs.
Faced with technical, ethical, and business questions, Wisconsin’s flagship university is meeting the rapidly evolving technology with a multidisciplinary approach and changing to meet the demands of employers and society.
Proposed changes to how the federal government awards research grants are raising concerns among scientists across the country, including researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who say the changes could affect how medical discoveries are funded for years to come.
The Office of Management and Budget is proposing revisions to the federal rules that govern research grants, a move that has prompted more than 400,000 public comments from researchers, universities, patients and advocacy groups.
The road to reshoring Wisconsin’s casting and forging workforce started at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this month in a workshop where temperatures rose higher than the nearly hundred-degree heat wave outside.
What should have been one of the busiest weekends of the summer for downtown Madison businesses turned into a major disappointment as Canadian wildfire smoke created hazardous air quality conditions throughout the region.
The smoke essentially formed a black cloud over Maxwell Street Days, significantly impacting vendors and their bottom lines. Business owners reported drastic declines in foot traffic and sales during what is typically a peak revenue weekend for small businesses in the area.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering teams swept the top two spots at a national collegiate metal casting competition in May. The competition premiered as a series on Youtube on July 9. Season one of the series focuses on the 2025 competition.
Now that UW-Madison police have cut ties with Flock Safety, privacy advocates and others on campus say the community needs to be more involved in deciding which automated license plate readers, if any, the department uses in the future.
When eight of the company’s cameras first appeared on campus in July 2025, many people were taken by surprise, said Annette Zimmermann, a UW-Madison data science professor.
Just last week, Mimi Colyer, former University of Wisconsin volleyball standout, announced she is coming home and joining LOVB Madison.
Colyer spent only one season at Wisconsin, but it was a memorable one. In her senior year, she helped lead the Badgers to the Final Four before the program fell short in a semifinal loss in Kansas City in December.
Marsha Martin, a special education assistant at Sherman Middle School, always wanted to be a teacher, having grown up watching her mother teach.
But major life events distanced her from fulfilling her dream.
Astronomers have found a pair of the lightest giant planets known in the universe in a star system about 1,100 light-years away, according to a new study.
The discovery of these two gas giants, which are less dense than cotton candy, will help astrophysicists better understand the most extreme and unusual ways planets can form.
Now that UW-Madison police have cut ties with Flock Safety, privacy advocates and others on campus say the community needs to be more involved in deciding which automated license plate readers, if any, the department uses in the future.
When eight of the company’s cameras first appeared on campus in July 2025, many people were taken by surprise, said Annette Zimmermann, a UW-Madison data science professor.
Starship Technologies has withdrawn its tiny, white food delivery robots from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus alongside other universities in the United States, the company announced early June.
The robot delivery company, based in Estonia and San Francisco, said they reduced their campus operations to focus on retail grocery chains and hot food delivery in cities across Europe and the United States.
UW-Madison researchers are “paving the way for scalable and practical” quantum computing by using advanced sensors to improve the technology.
That’s according to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which is touting the approach as a top licensing prospect in its portfolio of engineering and computer science research from the university.
UW-Madison researchers are calling the Trump administration’s plan to rewrite the rules for awarding and managing federal grants “catastrophic” and “a dagger to the heart of science.”
Those are among a flood of nearly 500,000 public comments from researchers and higher education groups over the last few months, overwhelmingly opposing the Office of Management and Budget’s proposal released in late May.
An iconic rock ‘n’ roll band is coming to Wisconsin this weekend during the final leg of its stadium tour.
AC/DC is playing at Madison’s Camp Randall Stadium Sunday, July 19 as part of its PWR UP Tour.
The stadium tour is named after the 2020 AC/DC album of the same name and has been going on since 2024. The rock band’s website describes the tour as “powering up for the last time!” though it’s unclear if it’ll actually be AC/DC’s final tour.
UW-Madison’s June water main break that continues to disrupt campus air conditioning has prompted broader concerns from the UW Board of Regents about the aging infrastructure at the state’s 13 public universities.
Several Regents at a virtual meeting Thursday said the Universities of Wisconsin needs to plan for fixing other potentially failing campus infrastructure.
Dane County has seen more frequent air quality warnings over the past decade, but the area had yet to experience hazardous levels. That was until Thursday.
As more than 100 wildfires burn in Canada and northern Minnesota, southeast winds carried smoke across the Midwest this week. Shortly before noon on Thursday, a monitor in Madison recorded an air quality index of 450.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to repair recent air conditioning problems at campus buildings before students return later this summer, an administrator said Thursday.
The company, a UW-Madison spinoff courted by several other states, will occupy part of the massive former Oscar Mayer plant on Madison’s northeast side – itself a symbol of the old and the emerging new. Private investors, the governor, state legislators, the state’s economic development arm, local officials, university leaders, utility experts and technology advocacy groups were all part of advancing the deal.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today that international students will now only be allowed to stay in the United States for four years under their visa.
The new ruling will officially be published in the Federal Register tomorrow, July 17. The ruling guts a 1978 policy, known as ‘duration of status,’ that allowed international college and university students to stay in the U.S. until their program ended.
The smoke blanketing Wisconsin Thursday wasn’t subtle. You could see it, smell it and sometimes feel it while breathing. It was the product of wildfires burning in northern Minnesota and Ontario. Dr. Mayra Oyola, an atmospheric scientist at UW-Madison, said dry and windy conditions are fueling those fires. Typically, rain is helpful to fight fires, but Oyola said storms can pose a new challenge: lightning. Lightning strikes can ignite more fires.
“I feel bad saying this because it’s summer and everybody wants to eat fresh produce, but there isn’t really a safe way to wash it,” said Laura Knoll, a professor of medical microbiology at UW-Madison.
While the current outbreak has not been linked to produce sold by local farmers in Wisconsin, it’s still top of mind for farmers in the state.
Smoke from wildfires in Canada and northern Minnesota moved into southern Wisconsin on Thursday, bringing advisories through noon Friday that may be extended for some parts of the state.
Dane and other counties in south-central Wisconsin are under an “unhealthy for all groups” advisory, counties to the east are under a “very unhealthy for all groups” advisory, and counties to the west are under “unhealthy for sensitive groups” and “moderate air quality” advisories.
Summer is the most cherished time of year for Wisconsin residents. After a harsh winter, there’s nothing better than spending your days outside.
However, every good Wisconsinite knows a day spent out in a forest or at a lake is not complete without a tick check.
Every kid knows to look for ticks because they can cause Lyme disease, but a different tick species popping up in Wisconsin is a new reminder to check.
Aerica Bjurstrom, a regional dairy educator with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, said interest in the product is good news for the state’s dairy farmers.
“I think a lot of this innovation is coming from people in their own kitchens,” she said. “I think a lot of this boom in cottage cheese is coming from social media.”
Madison-based Realta Fusion plans to build a nuclear fusion research facility at the former Oscar Mayer plant in a move that company executives and government leaders say could boost the local economy and make the state capital a hub for green energy development.
The company, which got its start at UW-Madison and is currently based in a shared office building on the Far West Side, had 35 full-time employees at the end of last year and expects to grow to 70 by the end of this year, CEO Kieran Furlong said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison found July 7 that registered student organization Animal Advocacy violated university posting policies but cleared the organization of allegations that it solicited students to participate in the April Ridglan Farms rescue attempt, according to an investigative report obtained by The Badger Herald.
A broken pipe about four feet in diameter and buried 20 feet underground is affecting air conditioning at nearly every UW-Madison facility.
As another stretch of hot weather settles into southern Wisconsin, UW-Madison is continuing to work to restore cooling across campus after a major chilled water line broke last month.
The university says campus remains open and operating, but many buildings are still warmer than normal. Some buildings remain temporarily closed while crews continue both temporary cooling efforts and work toward a permanent repair.
The size of an adult male giraffe. The height of a small two-story house. The length of a standard shipping container.
That’s how deep crews are digging to fix the broken pipe 20 feet underground that has left UW-Madison without most of its air conditioning and temporarily shuttered nearly three dozen buildings to preserve cooling.
It’s expected to take weeks to repair the chilled water line that broke on June 17, Robert Cramer, vice chancellor for finance and administration, wrote in a message to campus Monday.
The foundation for much of what UW-Madison and the Universities of Wisconsin have become today was laid by Charles Van Hise.
President of UW-Madison from 1903 until his death in 1918, Van Hise is credited with creating the “Wisconsin Idea,” the concept that the state’s public university system should benefit every person in the state.
UW Madison’s Trout Lake Station is a lake ecology research station on the South side of Trout Lake in Vilas county. Every summer they open their doors to the public and invite them to explore the science happening right in their own backyard.
Lily leaf beetle, also called scarlet lily beetle, is an invasive species that is native to parts of Europe and Asia. It first showed up in Wisconsin in 2014 in the Wausau area. It likely came in with infected nursery stock to a garden center or big box store in that part of the state and was then purchased by customers who moved the plants elsewhere, said entomologist PJ Liesch, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
The explosive popularity of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound is transforming the way Americans treat obesity, with demand soaring beyond doctors’ offices and into online marketplaces, med spas and unregulated gray-market vendors. And while the medications are helping many people lose significant weight and improve their health, one Madison doctor warns the trend is outpacing the science.
Every Phish show generates its own mythology. In Madison that mythology dates back to 1998, when the band’s last appearance at the Kohl Center was nearly upstaged by an onstage streaker.
This week, some 28 years later, the Vermont-based jam band icons returned to Madison and the Kohl Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to open their summer tour. They delivered another performance fans are likely to be talking about for years — an expansive, 18-song marathon spanning two sets and an encore over more than three hours.
Over the course of a day, Americans spend six hours and 40 minutes on average looking at a screen, with the average person spending two hours and 40 minutes on social media alone.
“It starts with a message from your friend or checking your email, and then you slide into TikTok, and it’s like 30 minutes gone out of your day, eventually, without even realizing,” Prafull Sharma, a 2023 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and co-founder of Spool, told The Daily Cardinal. “I built [Spool] as a way to fight back against that and reclaim my focus.”
Additionally, the University of Wisconsin-Madison was awarded $322,500 for 36 projects, including a $48,000 grant to the Odyssey Project, which offers adults who never had a chance to attend college the opportunity to take college-level classes. Among the university’s grants was one that includes students from the Madison school district’s Shabazz City High School in a project monitoring chlorine in the east side’s Starkweather Creek.
In February – in the wake of federal agents shooting and killing two Minneapolis residents – Milwaukee council members were defiant.
Members introduced ICE Out, a package of legislation aimed to curtail the federal agency’s work in the city. Within months, Milwaukee Common Council members unanimously passed one of the key pieces of that package, an ordinance that prohibited ICE agents from wearing masks while working in the city,
UW-Madison will warn a student animal advocacy organization about improperly posting a flyer after investigating the group’s support for activists’ attempted April raid on the research and beagle-breeding facility Ridglan Farms.
The university’s investigation found that Animal Advocacy UW-Madison did not solicit others to attend activists’ illegal attempt to seize Ridglan Farms’ nearly 2,000 beagles, but the group is guilty of the less severe violation of improperly posting a flyer for an event, according to a Tuesday letter obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department will stop using contentious license plate reader cameras on campus.
The department started using the automated cameras last July, and its contract with the company Flock Safety was set to expire June 26. The department said it decided not to renew the contract “after careful and thoughtful consideration.”
Vernon Thomson was born in 1905. He went to Richland Center High School and eventually earned a law degree from UW-Madison. He practiced in Richland Center and became active in the Republican Party.
In 1963, Lloyd Barbee, a UW–Madison Law School graduate and NAACP attorney, called on Milwaukee Public Schools to desegregate.
Protesters reached an agreement with University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators in 2024 to end a pro-Palestinian encampment on Library Mall. Two years later, the two sides disagree on whether that deal has been upheld.
Wisconsin families didn’t always dominate the dairy industry. According to UW-Madison, after other states outpaced the Badger State in growing wheat, farmers had to shift to dairy production and adopt entirely new practices — something dairy farmers are always looking to do.
A national organization focused on defending free speech is calling on the University of Wisconsin-Madison to halt its disciplinary investigation into an animal rights student group.
In May 2024, a pro-Palestinian encampment formed on a campus lawn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. When the students refused to leave, Jennifer Mnookin, who was then the chancellor of the flagship state university, called in the police to remove their tents. Thirty-four people were arrested.
This fall, the organization plans to release a competitive grant to Wisconsin universities and school districts to determine who the National Center for Grow Your Own will work with. The $300,000 will cover about 15 apprentices, depending on how much universities will charge the prospective teachers, Donaldson said.
Hong grew up in Madison’s Eagle Heights community, a neighborhood near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Her parents emigrated from South Korea to the U.S. in the late 1980s. Her dad is a researcher at UW-Madison’s Waisman Center and her mom was a music teacher.
Rayburn, a UW-Madison graduate who got his start in radio in 2001 when John “Sly” Sylvester hired him at WTDY-AM, says he will bring his own personality to the chair with the “Lee Rayburn Show.”
A radio class in his final semester at UW-Madison changed his career and life trajectory, making Meiller one of the most beloved personalities in Wisconsin.
