University of Wisconsin

Katherine Charek Briggs, assistant director of UW–Madison’s Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, has been honored with the 2021 Dr. P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on Behalf of LGBTQ+ People.Charek Briggs is one of 11…

Alexander disease is a progressive and rare neurological disorder with no cure or standard course of treatment. But a new study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison involving a rat model of the disease offers a…

As International Education Week begins, the University of Wisconsin–Madison has additional cause for celebration with the release of the 2021 Open Doors Report.The report lists UW–Madison as No. 4 among all U.S. universities for study…

University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Katherine Cramer has been chosen as co-chair of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences’ new Commission on Reimagining Our Economy, an interdisciplinary and nonpartisan multi-year…

Recently, a COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 years old became available, and it opens the possibility of vaccinating the last large remaining segment of the population.There are about 28 million children in this age group in the…

The microbes that make us sick often have ways to evade our attacks against them. Perhaps chief among these strategies is a sticky, armor-like goo, called the biofilm matrix, that encases clusters of disease-causing organisms.This defense…

The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, a national, nonpartisan initiative, recognized UW–Madison with several awards on Monday for student voting in the 2020 presidential election.ALL IN honored UW–Madison for having the highest student…

A team from the University of Wisconsin–Madison is one of the top winners in the $5 million XPRIZE for Carbon Removal Student Competition. The contest is kickstarting projects that could mitigate the impacts of climate change by removing…

In August, enrollment for kids ages 5 to 11 years old closed just days after the nationwide trial opened at the Madison site thanks to a high volume of applicants. Data from that cohort are currently being analyzed by Moderna.In Madison,…

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Odyssey Beyond Bars (OBB) program received the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Eisenberg Award for its work in giving people who are incarcerated the ability to take college courses and improve their…