Badger fans bring the red to New Hampshire for championship
Plenty of Wisconsin Badger fans — and Bucky Badger himself — made it to New Hampshire to cheer on the women's hockey team as it went for a record eighth national championship. Read More
Badgers head to national championship game
The No. 2 Wisconsin women's hockey team is heading back to the national championship game after dispatching Colgate, 3-1, in the semifinals at the 2024 NCAA Women's Frozen Four on Friday night at the Whittemore Center Arena. Read More
Student-to-student: Laptop stickers provide a peek into the soul
An easy way to get a grasp on Badgers’ personalities — their likes and quirks and obsessions — is to look at their laptop cases. Read More
Bold UW grad helped open college, workplace to women
Partly because of the work of people like Mary Ingraham Bunting-Smith, women are no longer a novelty on college campuses. Read More
New UW–Madison book introduces “dogonomics”
Although we have come to primarily view our dogs as family, Dog Economics: Perspectives on Our Canine Relationships examines their role as both family and property. Read More
Some students use spring break to make a difference
The Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Alternative Breaks Committee provides service-based spring break trips for students to sign up for and spend their week giving back to a selected community. Read More
Belay is the way to keep danger away
To build the foundation for safe climbing, instructors offer Top Rope Belay Lesson classes at the 32-foot-tall Mount Mendota climbing wall in the Bakke Recreation & Wellbeing Center. Read More
Meet the 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award winners
Thirteen faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. Read More
New research finds boreal arctic wetlands are producing more methane over time
By improving scientific understanding and the ability to project greenhouse gas emissions, researcher can more accurately estimate temperature increases in the future. Read More
UW–Madison launches Sustainability Research Hub
The hub aims to bring significant interdisciplinary sustainability research funding to campus by connecting researchers across departments and targeting major federal research grants. Read More
Visiting journalist gets close-up look at Geology Museum’s treasures
Kallie Moore is on campus March 12-14 to visit classes in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, tour museums and labs and share her insights as a professional science communicator with students and others. Read More
She’s golden — and a Badger: Olympian Meghan Duggan to keynote spring commencement
A former professional hockey player, Duggan currently is breaking new ground as the director of player development for the New Jersey Devils, one of only a few women in hockey operations roles in the National Hockey League. Read More
NBC News investigation of missing people buried in a pauper’s graveyard wins Shadid Award
Jon Schuppe, Mike Hixenbaugh and Rich Schapiro showed how authorities in Hinds County, Mississippi, were unceremoniously burying the bodies of missing people without notifying the loved ones still searching for them. Read More
UW–Madison Public Records Custodian Julie Laundrie on the importance of Sunshine Week
March 10-16 is national Sunshine Week, which was first established in 2010 to raise awareness of the importance of the Freedom of Information Act and the importance of government transparency. Read More
Students share ideas, discoveries at Research in the Rotunda
On Wednesday, undergraduate students from UW–Madison and campuses across the Universities of Wisconsin gathered at the Wisconsin State Capitol for the annual Research in the Rotunda event to present research findings to Wisconsin legislators, state leaders, UW alumni and members of the public. Read More
Celebrating MENA Heritage Month
The wide-ranging cultures of the Middle East and North Africa were celebrated in many forms at “Night at the Bazaar” kickoff event for MENA (Middle Eastern North African) Heritage Month on March 1 at the Red Gym. Read More
Engineering building, reciprocity changes receive final approval
The new building will permit the enrollment of around 1,000 additional undergraduates in engineering at a time when Wisconsin employers urgently need more engineers. The facility will also provide a state-of-the-art space to continue to attract and support exceptional faculty. Read More
PBS host Kallie Moore to visit UW–Madison as spring Science Writer in Residence
From March 12 to 14, Moore will visit campus to share her expertise in digital content creation and science communication with students in journalism and communication courses. Read More
Howard Moore honored in return to Kohl Center
Former assistant basketball coach Howard Moore was honored at halftime of Saturday's game against Illinois in his first return to the Kohl Center since a May 2019 accident that killed his wife and daughter and seriously injured him. Read More
UW–Madison moves up in annual ranking of America’s Best Large Employers
UW–Madison came in at No. 113 on the list of employers with more than 5,000 employees. In 2023, the university ranked No. 196 in the same survey. Read More