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Breathing new life into rural respiratory care

October 7, 2025

Graduate student Sara Hernandez pilots a pharmacist-led program to improve COPD care and outcomes in rural Wisconsin.

A Decade of Discovery: ORCHARDS Concludes After Ten Years of Groundbreaking Research

September 16, 2025

After 10 years, the Oregon Child Absenteeism Due to Respiratory Disease Study has concluded. UW researchers involved with the study reflect on its impact as one of the most comprehensive and long-running community-based studies of respiratory illness in school-aged children in the US.

A century of research partnerships

August 26, 2025

Founded in 1925, as an independent, nonprofit foundation, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has helped steward the cycle of research, discovery, commercialization and investment at UW–Madison.

After the flood

August 26, 2025

UW students apply classroom learning to support a Wisconsin community in healing.

UW Tech Exploration Lab student projects highlight innovation, emerging technologies

May 19, 2025

Bold ideas, creative problem solving and community impact were at the heart of 24 student projects launched this past semester at the Tech Exploration Lab.

UW–Madison center combating opioid overdoses in Wisconsin highlighted in Sen. Baldwin visit

February 4, 2025

The new Wisconsin Opioid Overdose Response Center is already making important strides toward its mission to equip Wisconsin pharmacies with innovative tools to prevent opioid deaths.

Burning and Learning

September 12, 2024

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.

Summer at UW–Madison’s Trout Lake Station means science (mostly)

August 19, 2024

Driven by 100 years of research, a sense of community, and close regional partnerships, UW–Madison's Trout Lake Research Station offers a snapshot of Wisconsin's aquatic ecosystems, plus a little bit of fun.

Faculty and staff explore state’s rivers, culture and more in Wisconsin Idea Seminar

June 14, 2024

The seminar is an annual five-day journey through Wisconsin that offers faculty and staff the opportunity to learn firsthand about the social and cultural contexts that shape the lives of many of our Wisconsin students, and to see what the Wisconsin Idea looks like when it is rooted in local communities and shaped by local priorities.

The buzz about cicadas

June 13, 2024

Curious nature lovers crowded to Cicadapalooza, held on June 8 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to learn all about the noisy bugs.

Bringing delight by investigating a no-melt ice cream

June 10, 2024

Cameron Wicks, a PhD student in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Food Science, is working on a new technology that adds naturally occurring compounds to ice cream to prevent it from wreaking summertime havoc.

NIH director’s visit to UW–Madison highlights biomedical research, future opportunities

June 4, 2024

The daylong visit highlighted the university’s innovative work in areas such as theranostics and precision medicine, and Director Monica Bertagnolli heard how UW–Madison researchers are combining data-driven diagnostics and innovative technologies to develop highly targeted cancer treatments.

Wisconsin Idea Database reveals UW–Madison’s positive impact across all 72 counties

April 17, 2024

Latest data show how UW provides educational opportunities, builds the workforce and economy in every county in the state

UW unveils intellectual property models to build industry partnerships

March 26, 2024

With the Badger IP Industry Advantage program, companies interested in conducting research through the university can avoid some of the speed bumps that have slowed the transfer of technology from research to product.