Five top administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are named in a lawsuit involving former Gov. Scott Walker targeting race-based scholarships.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Walker’s organization — Young America’s Foundation — and Citizens Defending Liberty filed the suit Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court.
Today, UW Health officially began offering proton therapy at Eastpark Medical Center.
The new treatment gives patients with cancer access to a highly precise form of radiation therapy designed to target tumors while limiting radiation exposure to nearby healthy tissue.
This milestone is meaningful to patients and team members alike at UW Health, according to Dr. Zachary Morris, professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and radiation oncologist at the UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will receive five awards ranging from $500,000 to $750,000 to support projects that seek to address the nation’s most important energy, scientific, and engineering challenges.
The grant awards, aimed at advancing nuclear energy, critical mineral extraction and commercial fusion energy, were announced July 22 by the U.S. Department of Energy during the first annual Genesis Mission Summit in Washington, D.C.
Nuclear fusion startup Realta Fusion will begin construction on their research and development facility and corporate headquarters in OM Station, a former Oscar Mayer plant on Madison’s north side, by the end of this year. The project will receive up to $55 million in financial incentives from the city and state.
Realta plans to create over 600 new jobs and will look to UW-Madison as a major “talent pipeline,” Kieran Furlong, CEO and co-founder of Realta Fusion, told The Daily Cardinal.
A conservative legal group celebrated last month when the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled a state grant program aimed at helping students of color attend college was unconstitutional. Now, the group is targeting a similar program for Universities of Wisconsin students.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Waukesha County Circuit Court against five administrators at UW-Madison, including interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots and Provost John Zumbrunnen.
Gardening season is in full bloom in Wisconsin, but while your perennials and their pollinators are peaking, so too are those nasty plant diseases that can filter into your flowers and victimize your vegetables.
Brian Hudelson, the director of the University of Wisconsin Extension’s Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic, recently joined Jill Nadeau on WPR’s “Garden Talk” to discuss what ailments may be plaguing your plants.
From the outside, Henry Dunn’s favorite gym looks like any other brick building on East Lincoln Avenue in Milwaukee. A small, shield-like logo in the window that reads “Wisconsin Medieval Combat Center“ is the only external clue that there might be more here than meets the eye.
UW-Madison’s research on artificial intelligence to improve the experience for children and their families was “the poster child” in a federal Health and Human Services presentation on innovations in pediatric care, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, said.
A month later, its federal funding evaporated, as the department rescinded the grant for being “inconsistent with agency priorities,” a catch-all phrase often used in President Donald Trump’s second term to terminate funding the government had already approved.
Violet LaClair was ready to leave her job.
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.
She loved her workplace, but after four years, she wanted a change.
Katy Huff, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, stated additional clarity would improve the regulatory process without harming
For 25 years, Discovery Farms has bridged the gap between science and practice by putting data collection directly into the hands of farmers, creating a legacy of water stewardship that is both data-driven and practitioner-led.
A part of UW–Madison Extension, Discovery Farms is a farmer-led research program that conducts studies on farms across Wisconsin to better understand the complex relationships between agricultural practices and water quality.
At the Rhinelander Agricultural Research Station in Rhinelander, UW-Madison professors and grad students are working hard and trying to find new ways to help potatoes grow.
Dr. Michelle Kelly, a pediatric hospitalist at UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison, was disappointed, but not surprised, when she received a notice last week spelling the end of a five-year, roughly $2 million grant from the agency.
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.”
