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A time for Friendsgiving
During Friendsgiving at the Union, Badgers celebrate the connections they've made in campus.
Badger Tech Foundry, first “spoke” in the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub, focused on helping early-career researchers become serial entrepreneurs
The Badger Tech Foundry will help ensure ideas become companies, careers and catalysts for change.
Update on Act 15 policy provisions
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved two Regent Policy Documents, on teaching workload and general education requirements, as established in 2025 Wisconsin Act 15.
UW–Madison senior was finalist for a 2026 Rhodes Scholarship
Zoe Kukla reached the final stage of competition for one of the most prestigious and selective academic honors in the world.
Miss America 2023 Grace Vanderhei to address winter graduates
Vanderhei — a nuclear fuels engineer, Wausau native, and Miss American 2023 — will be back in Madison as the Winter 2025 Commencement keynote speaker.
Remembering Linda D. Scott
Scott, the eighth dean of the UW–Madison School of Nursing, was a nationally recognized leader in nursing education, research and policy. She passed away on November 17, 2025, at the age of 69.
Mnookin, Zumbrunnen: Dean Emerit Linda Scott’s passing
"She dedicated herself — and the school — to making the world a better place by reducing health disparities and addressing complex healthcare needs."
UW sustainability courses range across many fields of study
The University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2025 boasts more than 500 courses that cover environmental topics within their curriculum. Students can explore sustainability-focused courses that intersect with a variety of disciplines.
UW researchers tackle diabetes from multiple angles
Researchers at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health are working on new and improved treatments for diabetes and its complications. They're also searching for what doesn't yet exist: a cure.
This UW–Madison spinoff is making environmentally-friendly cement. The secret ingredient is pollution.
UW–Madison spinoff Alithic is leveraging a unique formula of typically harmful pollutants to produce a key ingredient of concrete.
Office of Strategic Consulting helps bring about positive change
This initial conversation opens the door to a full suite of services — including strategic planning, process improvement, organization design and redesign, leadership coaching, change management, team development, and organizational culture and climate enhancement.
Share input on search for new provost
The provost search-and-screen committee invites the UW–Madison community to share input on the search for the next provost during two listening sessions next week.
Scott to step back from School of Nursing deanship
Scott began her tenure as the eighth dean of the School of Nursing in July 2016, two years after the opening of Signe Skott Cooper Hall, the state-of-the-art home for nursing research and education at UW–Madison.
A vibrant transition
Experience UW–Madison’s autumnal peak in motion, music and golden light.
Veterans Day: Honoring those who served
The UW and Madison community came together to recognize those who have served our country during a special Veterans Day event.
AI referrals can reduce opioid addiction
A recent UW–Madison study suggests ways to increase access to treatment while saving money.
The barred owl’s westward migration threatens other species and a whole ecosystem, UW researchers find
A new study shows that the invasive predator feeds on 29 species given special conservation status by federal and state governments.
Meet 25 Wisconsin School of Business alumni who have changed the world
From starting a company or a recognizable brand to making it big in the entertainment or scientific fields, these UW graduates used their business degrees to launch big careers.
Go Big Read conversation centers around literature and language as a radical act
“Reading is the single most subversive act there is,” author Percival Everett told the audience at the Go Big Read keeynote at Union South on Tuesday evening.
‘Prepared for life’: UW–Madison awards the most degrees ever
This spring UW–Madison reached a major milestone, awarding 13,733 degrees to new graduates — the most in university history.