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
Center for Healthy Minds moves to new building, joins L&S
The Center for Healthy Minds has become its own administrative unit under the College of Letters & Science, and it moved this week from the Waisman Center to the newly-renovated Kennedy Dairy Building at 625 W. Washington Ave. Read More
UW financial literacy program wins Governor’s Award
MADISON – The Financial Life Skills Program in the School of Human Ecology was one of 15 recipients of the 2016 Governor’s Financial Literacy… Read More
UW awards record number of Ph.D.s, excels in job placement
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is now third in the nation for number of Ph.D.s awarded, according to 2015 data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), a federally funded project that has collected this data for nearly 60 years. Read More
Three restaurants to open Jan. 17 in Memorial Union
Memorial Union’s iconic der Rathskeller and new restaurants Carte, a made-to-order salad and sandwich shop, and Strada, an Italian eatery, will begin serving customers Jan. 17. Read More
Two UW opera performances win national awards
UW-Madison’s University Opera is on a roll. Both shows from last year, Transformations and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, have won awards in the National Opera Association’s (NOA) Opera Production Competition for 2015-2016. Read More
A data tool for homeowners to make rain gardens more effective
A UW–Madison team is using a combination of outreach, sampling and detailed watershed modeling to remove obstacles that prevent more widespread use of green infrastructure, and, more importantly, evaluate which green infrastructure strategies are most effective in which areas. Read More
Violin professor off to a harmonious start
In just three semesters at the UW–Madison Mead Witter School of Music, assistant professor of violin Soh-Hyun Park Altino has made a stirring performance debut, forged deep connections with students and staged a pretty epic performance at Camp Randall. Read More
Unraveling the radium riddle
UW-Madison researchers began a two-year grant from the University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute (WRI) to examine water samples taken from 22 monitoring wells in and around Dane County to try to determine the geological strata that contribute to elevated radium levels in groundwater. Read More
Memorial planned for UW–Madison student and father after plane crash
Services will be Sunday in Ohio for a University of Wisconsin–Madison student who was killed along with her father in a plane crash just before the new year. In addition, a scholarship fund has been set up in her name. Read More
Forward Motion video: The art of science
A look behind the scenes at a yearly competition at UW–Madison to find incredibly cool science images. Read More
Alumni Q&A: Infamous Madison fire shaped Angela Gibson’s career
Angela Gibson was just 22 years old and four months into her nursing career when she was thrust into one of the most demanding, exhausting, exhilarating and life-changing events in her life. Read More
Athletics, financial aid reap rewards from record UW merchandise sales
Royalties from the sale of licensed UW–Madison merchandise set a record in 2015-16, exceeding $4.4 million. Read More
Q & A: Van Matre reflects on expanding and protecting the UW brand
Over her 17 years as the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s trademark licensing director, Cindy Van Matre has protected the UW trademark and helped expand it into… Read More
Abrupt climate change could follow collapse of Earth’s oceanic conveyor belt
A new study shows Earth’s oceanic conveyor belt, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, may be less stable than thought, posing a risk of abrupt climate change. Read More
More frequent hurricanes not necessarily stronger on Atlantic coast
Active Atlantic hurricane periods, like the one we are in now, are not necessarily a harbinger of more, rapidly intensifying hurricanes along the U.S. coast, according to new research performed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Q&A: La Follette professor shares poverty research worldwide
Professor Tim Smeeding has dedicated his career to studying poverty and economic inequality, and was recently named the 2017 John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow. He explains his research and his devotion to UW–Madison. Read More
Immunotherapy team harnesses cellular systems to fight diseases
A dedicated army of UW–Madison researchers is perfecting how to use immunotherapy and searching for new ways to do so. Read More