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Division of the Arts announces two artists-in-residence for the 2021-22 academic year
Saxophonist Arun Luthra is an American musician of Indian heritage. Judy Frater, living in India for 30 years, co-founded KalaRaksha Trust and Museum. Read More
UW alumna confirmed as ambassador to United Nations
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who received a master’s degree from UW–Madison and maintains close ties to the university, has extensive experience navigating issues on the world stage. Read More
Study led by UW doctor finds analyzing DNA in urine could help detect cancer
Currently, cancers are detected using more invasive methods. Urinalysis has long been used to manage many diseases and disorders, but not cancer. Read More
Mission to Mars will memorialize exceptional UW engineering alum
Jim Willmore’s name, along with those of his team members, is inscribed on a small helicopter called Ingenuity being sent to Mars as part of NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission. Read More
Polar bears as patients: Caring for animals at Henry Vilas Zoo
“I am so lucky to get to work with such wonderful polar bears,” says Mary Thurber, the primary veterinarian at Henry Vilas Zoo and clinical instructor of zoological medicine at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine. Read More
A year of COVID: Panel reflects on what’s transpired
A review of how the UW–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health rose to the challenge and responded to the pandemic. Read More
Remembering Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Rachel Feldhay Brenner, the Elaine Marks WARF Professor of Jewish Studies at UW–Madison, died Feb. 4. Born in Poland, Brenner moved to Israel with her family before coming to Madison, where she became an internationally recognized scholar of Hebrew, Polish and Canadian literatures. Read More
Philanthropist donates $10 million for new transplant clinic
Pleasant Rowland, who received a kidney transplant in 2012, says it's her way of saying thank you to the kidney donor and the University Hospital doctors and staff who made it happen. Read More
Luo remembered as kind friend, brilliant scientist, lover of adventure
Graduate student Zhan “Ross” Luo died on Wednesday, Jan. 27, after a brief battle with T cell lymphoma. Read More
Kutzbach’s role in climate science ‘expansive and foundational’
John Kutzbach, an emeritus professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, died Jan. 29. His contributions “helped all of us better understand important aspects of our universe — in particular, those of the Earth’s climate system." Read More
Dark Energy Survey catalogs nearly 700 million astronomical objects
Astronomical researchers around the world can access these unprecedented data and mine them to make new discoveries about the universe. Read More
UW Health encourages patients 65 and older to visit uwhealth.org/vaccine
Following today's announcement from the state Department of Health Services that individuals age 65 and older are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, here is more information about the process for scheduling appointments. Read More
Pediatric diabetes on the rise during pandemic
Health experts at the American Family Children's Hospital are observing a significant increase in cases of pediatric Type 2 diabetes over the last year compared to 2019. Read More
Sociologist battles inequities in artificial intelligence
Alumna Alex Hanna is a research scientist on Google’s Ethical AI Team, which focuses on responsible artificial intelligence systems. “There’s a very strong chance that those data are exacerbating existing race, gender, and class inequalities,” she says. Read More
Kit Saunders-Nordeen, women’s sports pioneer, dies
Saunders-Nordeen was perhaps the single most important person in the advent of women's intercollegiate sports at UW–Madison, and thousands of women student-athletes benefited from her commitment. Read More
UW-Madison geographer recognized for work to diversify geoscience
Erika Marín-Spiotta has worked to enact meaningful policies against sexual harassment, bullying, and discrimination, and to take meaningful steps to make the geosciences more diverse. Read More
Are U.S. cities ready for autonomous vehicles?
Autonomous vehicles could transform urban planning by, for instance, reducing the need for parking ramps. Yet many cities aren't planning for those changes, research shows. Read More
How to teach anatomy in a pandemic? Graduate TAs create video library
Even students physically in class benefit from the lab livestreams, which show things like 360-degree views of the bones of an alligator skull or a walkthrough of a grad student dissecting a sheep eyeball. Read More
Statewide data shows four-fold increase in recent COVID-19 infections
The antibody study showed that 1.6% of survey participants had evidence of antibodies when tested in July and early August. Between October and December, the number was up to 6.8%. Read More
Farm and Industry Short Course announces tuition guarantee
UW–Madison will guarantee all FISC students from Wisconsin with a family income below the median will have their tuition funded by gifts and grants. “Short Course” has trained future farmers on the latest management and production techniques since 1886. Read More