Just as it was last year, artificial intelligence will be one of the biggest stories of 2026. See how @uwmadison.bsky.social faculty and students are grappling with AI’s promise and perils. onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/quantum-leap...

High FIVE! We moved up to #5 in the U.S. in the National Science Foundation’s HERD rankings (for the first time in >10yrs!) with $1.93B in @uwmadison.bsky.social’s FY’24 research expenditures! Proud of our deep commitment to discoveries & innovation that benefits lives across Wisconsin & beyond.💡🌍

Students participating in the UW Tech Exploration Lab have made skin-care and carpooling apps and developed a questionnaire to help small businesses.

Come along with us and see what shaped UW–Madison in 2025: triumphs in labs and on the field, stepping out on stage and on the ice, explorations that reach from Lake Mendota to the cosmos. This is our year in pictures, still and moving: news.wisc.edu/still-moving/

UW–Madison’s new Puerto Rican Studies Hub, which launched in October as the first of its kind in the Midwest, is already becoming a center for outreach and scholarship focused on Puerto Rico’s rich culture and history.

Despite uncertainty over federal funding, the university’s scientific community continued to advance knowledge and improve lives. Find out how from our favorite UW–Madison research stories of 2025: news.wisc.edu/a-year-of-re...

Happy holidays and happy New Year, Badgers! Here’s to a great 2026!!✨

Thank you to our excellent Winter Commencement speakers: nuclear engineer and Miss America 2023 @gracestanke.bsky.social ’23 and student speaker (congrats!) #UWGrad Jeeva Premkumar ’25. So grateful for the wisdom, humor and authenticity you shared with our new grads.🎓

Congratulations to our Winter 2025 graduates! Wherever life takes our newest 2,151 alumni, I know they are ready and capable of incredible things. On, Wisconsin! #UWGrad 🎓🦡

Our Badgers make excellent leaders! It’s nice to see @time.com recognize this quality in their list of Colleges for Future Leaders — #6 for public universities and #22 nationwide. 👏

Raj Vinnakota, president of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, offers advice on how UW–Madison can lead the way in fostering civic dialogue: news.wisc.edu/engage-in-ci...

Congratulations to UW professors Daniel Ludois and Guri Sohi, who have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors! The academy recognized Ludois for his development of new types of electrostatic motors and power converters and Sohi for his work on computer microprocessors.

Teaching students to deliberate not debate: In a public policy course, UW–Madison students put the science behind productive disagreement into practice.

Congrats to Badger senior Evelyn Browning: a 2026 Marshall Scholar!👏 One of only 43 awardees in the country this year, she will investigate genetic variants related to neurodevelopmental conditions as a grad student at @cam.ac.uk & @sangerinstitute.bsky.social.

Commencement Week has arrived!🎓Our Winter 2025 #UWGrad class is already doing impressive work across campus, community, and our state — and this is just the beginning. Meet some of our notable grads:

Very proud that more than 15,000 people in our Badger community donated to the Big Ten 'We Give Blood' challenge and that we won the $1M grand prize toward supporting health on our campus. Huge thanks to Abbott for championing this great cause. Together, we’re saving lives! 👏

Grateful to the UW Board of Regents for supporting our vision to create our first new college in many decades: the College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence. I look forward to working with many on & off campus to help make this college a reality.

UW–Madison‘s statewide network of hyper-local weather stations gives Wisconsin growers a powerful tool called Wisconet to reduce costs and improve yields.

Badgers, there's only 2 days left of the @big-ten.bsky.social We Give Blood challenge by Abbott!🩸We’re neck-and-neck with Nebraska as the lead tightens — and your donation could help us win that $1M prize. If you’re able, please consider giving by December 5: bigten.org/abbott/

Looking forward to welcoming #UWGrad Jeeva Premkumar as our Winter 2025 Student Commencement Speaker! 🎓 He’s taken leaps across continents (and into a freezing Lake Mendota!) and in just over a week he’ll take the stage to celebrate with our winter grads.

Why does federal research funding matter? A delegation from Wisconsin's congressional staff spent three days at UW–Madison to see how national investments translate into real impact for Wisconsin. Read more about their visit: federalrelations.wisc.edu/2025/11/25/c...

Undergraduates in UW–Madison's School of Nursing are benefiting from a new nursing immersion program with the Ho-Chunk House of Wellness. Learn more: nursing.wisc.edu/where-cultur...

Director Susan Yackee argued in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that despite declining trust, many Americans want to restore civility and common ground. Our new public policy major will help students practice that civil dialogue. ⬇️ Read the full op-ed: www.jsonline.com/story/opinio...

Brothers, physician assistants, colleagues — Ben & Branden Statz have found a shared calling in emergency medicine at UW Health. Their story of connection through service reflects the remarkable skill and compassion our APPs bring to patient care every day. emed.wisc.edu/news/brother...

The first spoke in the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub, the Badger Tech Foundry launched by the UW –Madison College of Engineering recruits and trains graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to help ensure ideas born in the lab become companies, careers & catalysts for change.

Honored to be part of last night's premiere of Sacred Wisdom, Sacred Earth. So grateful to the Tribal elders, culture keepers, youth & the @lokainitiative.bsky.social at the @centerhealthyminds.bsky.social for bringing this film to life & honoring generations of Indigenous knowledge & stewardship.

A Badger with crowning achievements as Miss America & as a nuclear fuels engineer, @gracestanke.bsky.social ’23 will be our Winter 2025 #UWGrad Keynote! 👑⚛️ She’s taken the Wisconsin Idea around the world through her travels, & I look forward to celebrating our graduates on December 14. 🎓

I am heartbroken by Dean Linda Scott’s sudden passing. Her integrity, leadership, commitment to excellence & wonderful dry humor shaped the School of Nursing & the national nursing community & touched so many lives. Her legacy will endure & she will be dearly missed. nursing.wisc.edu/remembering-...

So pleased to open our 2nd annual Wisconsin Research, Innovation & Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Summit, connecting talented faculty & leaders across RISE-AI, -EARTH & -THRIVE. Great momentum, with 119 new hires & interdisciplinary collaborations tackling important challenges!

Fantastic to see our international programs ranked among the nation's best — #6 in study abroad and #18 for international students! A testament to the exceptional experiences Badgers have on campus and abroad.🌎

Bucky Badger is ready for his close-up

Nineteen @uwmadison.bsky.social alumni and faculty have won a @nobelprize.org, placing the university in elite company. Read about the Badgers who made life-changing breakthroughs for the benefit of us all. onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/how-to-win-a...

Crane-side on campus with JP Cullen today!🏗️ Their work on the @uwhealth.bsky.social C2 project & the Kellner Family Athletic Center is helping create spaces where Badgers learn, heal & thrive. Grateful for alumni leaders Jeannie Cullen Schultz MS ’09 & George Cullen MS ’12.🦡

Welcome to our winter issue! Learn about @uwmadison.bsky.social connections to Nobel Prizes; tag along on a campus tour; meet brave UW police horses; see how love blossomed on campus for alumni couples; and get tips for seasonal coziness from a hygge expert. Click 👉https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/

Change is constant on campus in autumn. The semester settles in, midterms loom and winter edges closer. But there’s beauty in the in-between. So take a breath. Join us for a journey across UW–Madison as it transforms for autumn, where color, light and life shift before our eyes.

Happy Veterans Day, Badgers! THANK YOU to all our veterans and service members — students, faculty, staff, and alumni — for your service, sacrifice, and dedication. 🇺🇸

The world is closer than ever to limitless clean energy thanks to recent advancements in nuclear fusion — and Wisconsin companies Realta Fusion and SHINE Technologies are at the forefront, positioning the state and region for explosive economic growth. #WisconsinInnovates

Percival Everett, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "James," joined UW–Madison last night for our Go Big Read keynote. His conversation with @uwchancellor.bsky.social explored literature and language as radical acts, highlighting how stories shape education and critical thinking.

Such a pleasure to welcome Pulitzer Prize–winning author Percival Everett, our 2025 GoBigRead Author, to @uwmadison.bsky.social. 'James’ brilliantly reimagines Twain’s classic & invites us to reflect on language, history, race & identity in new ways. Thank you, Percival, & thanks to all who joined.

Shoutout to our outstanding Badgers! 🎉 Students Sarah Stevens & Taeren Yang and educators Eduardo Romero Arvelo & Prashant Sharma are among this year’s @universitieswi.bsky.social and Alliant Energy Award honorees — celebrating excellence across Wisconsin. www.wisconsin.edu/news/archive...

🦇 Meet UW–Madison's Bat Brigade! During their night prowls, students in the brigade count bats, record audio of them and otherwise gather data to be shared with biologists at the Wisconsin DNR. See their work in action: news.wisc.edu/uw-bat-briga...

Very excited about this partnership with TitletownTech and @microsoft.com to equip our researchers with powerful AI tools and connect them with industry and innovation leaders.

Wisconsin innovation up close!⚙️Thanks to Oshkosh Corporation for the warm welcome and a look at how their engineers — including UW–Madison engineering grads — are designing tech that helps everyday heroes. And fantastic insights from CEO John Pfeifer, Scott Manley & Dean Ranjan on manufacturing.

“A blood test of this kind is going to greatly expand clinicians’ ability to confirm that Alzheimer’s is present,” says Dr. Nathaniel Chin, referring to the first FDA-approved blood test to detect Alzheimer’s biomarkers: med.wisc.edu/news/alzheimers-blood-test-validated/

I recently sat down with @pbswisconsin.bsky.social’s Here & Now to share more about the Wisconsin Exchange at @uwmadison.bsky.social — giving Badgers opportunities to engage across differences, learn from one another, and build skills for civil dialogue:

Kudos to graduate student Zhewen Pan, selected for the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship in Computer Architecture for her innovative research advancing energy- and memory-efficient computing — congratulations, Zhewen! 🎉

UW-Madison is launching a new initiative to promote civil dialogue on campus called the Wisconsin Exchange: Pluralism in Practice.

Introducing… the Wisconsin Exchange: Pluralism in Practice!🎉 A new way to bring together @uwmadison.bsky.social’s longstanding work & new opportunities that help foster civil dialogue across differences. Many perspectives, One Wisconsin!

The University of Wisconsin Law School reported a 36% increase in applications this fall, which mirrored a national trend.

Families shared collective jaw drops as they explored magnetic rocks, learned about the wonders of physics, held a human brain and more during Science on the Square, the kickoff event for the 15th annual Wisconsin Science Festival.