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UW–Madison enrolls freshman class of 8,516, drawn from record number of applicants
UW remains a top destination for talented students from the state, the nation and the world, with a record-setting 65,933 applicants for this year’s fall freshman class.
Cultivate curiosity at the 14th annual Wisconsin Science Festival
All ages and interests are welcome to attend and engage with science through demonstrations, performances, nature hikes, pub talks and hands-on exhibitions.
UW’s 5 hottest certificates: Students seek skills with real-world value
Overall, more students are getting certificates, with 4,210 undergraduate certificates awarded in 2022-23, compared with 1,544 a decade earlier.
UW launches pharmacy-focused regional center to combat the opioid crisis
The center will reach out to and support community pharmacies around the region, getting much-needed tools into both urban and rural parts of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison launches search for new police chief
The chief of police is responsible for leading and overseeing all police department functions while building and maintaining strong relationships with campus stakeholders to address issues and foster community strength.
New Faculty Profile: Looking at how exercise changes mood
"After my own experiences linking behavior to mental health, I became very interested in identifying the best ways to integrate movement into mental health treatment as well as in determining how exercise or other physical activity actually changes mood at the molecular and mechanistic levels."
New institutional and public position statements policy
In recent years, and with increasing frequency, campus leaders across the country have elected to or have been asked to use our position and our university platform to make public statements about or take a position on major issues, events, and controversies.
Burning and Learning
UW–Madison instructors, land care managers and students, along with the help of volunteers and farmers, are returning fire to landscapes on and off campus to restore the beauty of native tall grass prairies and oak savannas.
Ad hoc study group completes work, recommends steps to ensure success of Black students, faculty and staff
The group’s wide-ranging recommendations, contained in its final report, include enhanced recruiting and retention strategies, the formation of advisory councils, more outreach to Black alumni, and increased support for the Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History.
UW–Madison nationally recognized for greatest overall turnout in 2022 Big Ten Voting Challenge
In addition to winning greatest overall turnout in the 2022 Big Ten Voting Challenge, UW–Madison was recognized for having the highest student voter registration and voter turnout among four-year colleges in Wisconsin and certified it as a platinum campus for its level of student voter engagement in the 2022 midterm elections.
With $75 million gift for new UW–Madison engineering building, brothers’ impact spans generations and transcends campus boundaries
A stunning facility that marries intentional design with future-ready engineering flexibility, the Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center will be the new centerpiece of the College of Engineering campus.
What do our first-year students look forward to?
We touched base with a number of new students at the W Project on Aug. 29 to ask them what they looked forward to in in their Badger careers.
MCOR performances rev up the crowd
The event showcased a range of dance, musical, spoken-word, stepping and strolling talent by Multicultural Student Center-affiliated student organizations and individual performers.
Author, Washington Post journalist David Maraniss to visit UW–Madison as fall Journalist in Residence
During his residency, Maraniss will connect with faculty and staff, conduct classroom visits and meet with students of history, journalism and African American studies, among other disciplines, to share experiences from his career as a chronicler of America.
Streamlining energy regulations on Native American reservations could help alleviate poverty
The researchers identified multiple barriers to development that help explain the disparity between clean energy projects on and off reservation land. One of the biggest is the complexity and uncertainty of the permitting process — for building both the facilities and the transmission lines that feed the generated energy into the power grid.
These students tapped into new communities through student orgs
These students enjoyed meeting groups of like minded people and doing new activities, from bird-watching to engineering projects in Africa to hearing from professional journalists.
UW–Madison supports multi-million-dollar U.S. clean energy project to benefit rural Wisconsin communities
Dairyland will use the funding to procure 1,020 megawatts of renewable energy through four solar installations and four wind power installations across rural portions of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois.
New vice chancellor for research feels at home on the shores of Lake Mendota
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska oversees the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, boasting more than $1.52 billion in annual research expenditures, a figure that puts UW–Madison in the top 10 in the nation among universities for volume of research.
Aquatic invasive species are more widespread in Wisconsin than previously thought
The analysis highlights several lessons learned through four decades of data collection, research and experiments conducted by the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research program.
Washington Monthly ranks UW as No. 1 national public university
The rankings are based on a school’s contribution to the public good in three categories: social mobility, research, and providing opportunities for public service.