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Campus community invited to listening sessions on recruitment for vice chancellor for research
Formerly known as the vice chancellor for research and graduate education, the vice chancellor for research will have an enhanced focus on UW–Madison’s research enterprise. The campus community is invited to attend an upcoming virtual listening session as the search and screen committee begins the recruitment process.
Senior Jinwan Park receives Schwarzman Scholarship to study in China
The scholarship, inspired by the Rhodes Scholarship, seeks to “prepare the next generation of global leaders for the challenges of the 21st century and beyond.”
Meet Jnae Thompson, student speaker for 2023 Winter Commencement
Winter commencement student speaker Jnae Thompson came to UW–Madison with a plan. But after two years, she realized her freshman-year goals no longer fit the person she was becoming. She took on the hard work of reimagining her future and herself, but she looks back with no regrets. Now, she believes her own story might help others.
Dining Farm: Students help grow food for dining halls
The produce serves not only as a stepping stone towards sustainability — including building permanent raised-bed soil — but also serves as an educational community experience.
UW’s Indigenous community reflects on the healing power of humor during Native November
Indigenous students, faculty, staff and alumni from UW–Madison came together throughout Native November to celebrate, reflect, and laugh in their shared experiences.
Fans rock the Field House as Badgers move on to Sweet 16
The Badger volleyball team beat Jackson State on Thursday night and the University of Miami on Friday night without losing a set.
Prohibition may have extended life for those born in dry counties
Using advanced analytical methods on data from the Prohibition Era, research findings provide important nuance to the assessment of Prohibition’s effects on public health and could have important implications for policies aimed at reducing maternal alcohol use.
Sound smarter at parties with help from UW experts
New faculty members share tidbits from their areas of expertise, allowing you to opine on everything from chamomile to improvisation to the amount of calories you'd get if you ate a medical textbook.
Type 2 diabetes may contribute to racial disparities in colorectal cancer among Americans
The findings underscore the value of colonoscopies and other colorectal cancer screenings, especially for Black and lower-income Americans who on average suffer worse outcomes after a cancer diagnosis.
UW–Madison remains 8th in research ranking, surpasses $1.5 billion in research expenditures
The NSF today released its Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) data showing a 10% increase in research expenditures at UW–Madison over the previous fiscal year, or more than $143 million for the period covering July 2021 and the end of June 2022.
University Relations leader to retire in 2024
Following a distinguished career leading the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s government and corporate relations, communications and marketing efforts, Vice Chancellor for University Relations Charles Hoslet will retire at the end of the 2023-24 academic year.
UWPD investigating Humanities Building incident
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating a Nov. 28 incident inside the Humanities Building in which several individuals unaffiliated with the university entered…
Lauren McLester-Davis becomes UW’s first director of Indigenous science advocacy
In this new position, she will weave together science addressing Alzheimer’s disease and dementias, metabolism, and cognitive aging among Indigenous populations in Wisconsin, and other groups often underrepresented in research.
Antarctica’s ancient ice sheets foreshadow dynamic changes in Earth’s future
Identifying how and why Antarctica's major ice sheets behaved the way they did in the early Miocene could help inform understanding of the sheets' behavior under a warming climate.
Putting all the blocks together
After beating archrival Nebraska on Friday and Iowa on Saturday, the Badgers volleyball team enters the NCAA tournament as the top regional seed and the No. 3 seed overall.
Media advisory: COP28 experts available
FROM: Veronica Rueckert, national media manager, rueckert@wisc.edu
Kids who feel their parents are less reliable take fewer risks vital to learning and growth
The researchers studied decisions that more than 150 children ages 10 to 13 made while playing games that offered opportunities to risk a little and explore for potential gains.
Study: Spike in premature births caused by COVID, halted by vaccines
The evidence showing the positive effects of vaccination in preventing premature births could help allay some of the most prominent concerns voiced as COVID-19 vaccines became available to pregnant patients.
Mice eating less of specific amino acid — overrepresented in diet of obese people — live longer, healthier
A calorie may not be just a calorie according to new research from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
New paper links childhood deprivation to accelerated biological aging later in life
By using advanced epigenetic aging techniques and new data from older adults, a team of researchers found that being deprived of a nurturing childhood environment is associated with accelerated biological aging in adulthood.