New Career Exploration Center for students opens its doors
The CEC supports students with services and resources that will empower them to make decisions about their majors and career paths. Read More
UW-Madison team wins Innovation Award in Hyperloop competition
A team of University of Wisconsin–Madison students won an innovation award in a worldwide SpaceX Hyperloop pod competition. Read More
Video: I calculate, therefore I am: Mixing math and philosophy
By double majoring in math and philosophy, Hannah DeBrine says she learns both kinds of truth: Logical truth, and individual people's truth. Even if a good philosophy class ends with more confusion than it started with. Read More
UW startup bringing high-speed gene sequencing to water purity tests
A fledgling company that emerged from the UW–Madison College of Engineering applies high-speed genetic sequencing to the difficult problem of detecting — and for the first time counting — pathogens in water. Read More
Badgerloop unveils pod design at California competition
A behind-the-scenes look at UW–Madison's BadgerLoop team as it unveils the pod that will compete in the Hyperloop competition. Read More
Capital infusion prepares UW–Madison startup to stir up industrial adhesive market
An idea hatched during an engineering class at the University of Wisconsin–Madison promises to reduce waste in a common industrial mixing process. Read More
CDC awards $10 million for insect borne disease center
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded $10 million to a consortium of Midwestern universities to establish a new research and training program to stem the spread of disease carried by vectors like ticks and mosquitoes. Read More
Now this is what Madison looks like in January
Despite half a foot of snow falling today, life on the UW campus continued today, with students making their way to class through the damp snow. Read More
Potato industry commits $5M to support UW–Madison potato and vegetable research program
Wisconsin's potato industry has made a commitment to raise $5 million over the next 10 years to support the UW–Madison's potato research program, to continue a decades-long partnership. Read More
UW-Madison team at Hyperloop competition
After more than a year of intensive work, a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison students is ready to test its futuristic high-speed transport vehicle on SpaceX’s Hyperloop test track in California. Read More
GOES-16 offers Earth’s first light in true color
After spending months in space, quietly orbiting the Earth, the next-generation geosynchronous satellite has broken its silence and sent back its first images, with help from UW–Madison. Read More
Watching gene editing at work to develop precision therapies
University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers have developed methods to observe gene editing in action, and they’re putting those capabilities to work to improve genetic engineering techniques. Read More
UW-Madison spinoff releases new module to help women, doctors decide on mammogram
HealthDecision, LLC, a 7-year old startup with deep roots at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has just released the fourth module in a series intended to help doctors and patients share decisions. Read More
Important new insights into the influence of poverty on child maltreatment
A new set of studies published this week and edited by researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the first to try to get at the causal mechanisms behind the economic factors that are strongly associated with child maltreatment. Read More
‘Magic’ plus UW science equals world-champ cheese
Wisconsin cheese is at least as old as the state. The University of Wisconsin–Madison has one of the world’s great institutions of dairy food science,… Read More
Center helps make radiation treatment for cancer safer
Tracking down and eliminating errors is radiation therapy is the stock-in-trade of the Center for the Assessment of Radiological Sciences, an organization born at the UW–Madison in 2012. Read More
Sesame Street brings UW center’s kindness curriculum to kids
Sesame Street is emphasizing kindness in its upcoming season with the help of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a research center that studies the science of well-being and how it can be nurtured. Read More
Video: Welcome back to campus!
Lori Berquam, UW–Madison's vice provost for student life and dean of students, welcomes new and returning students back to campus. Read More
UW organ transplant, donation programs have record year
The UW Health Transplant Program, celebrating its milestone 50th year of service in 2016, and UW Organ and Tissue Donation both experienced one of their busiest years on record. Read More
Nuts and bolts business meets 21st century tech, with help from UW
Endries International has made key advances with the help of the UW E-Business Consortium, a collaborative group of businesses founded in 1998 at the UW–Madison College of Engineering. Read More