Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin
@uwchancellor.bsky.social
I’m the 30th leader of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. #OnWisconsin
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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...
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...
Congressional Staff See UW–Madison Research Up Close and the Federal Investments Powering Wisconsin Innovation
UW–Madison welcomed congressional staff for a three-day visit to campus, November 12 – 14, to see firsthand how national investments fuel discovery, improve lives, and strengthen Wisconsin's economy. ...
federalrelations.wisc.edu
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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...
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...
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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...
Learn more: nursing.wisc.edu/where-cultur...
Where Culture Meets Care
Undergraduate nursing students are benefiting from a new nursing immersion program with the Ho-Chunk House of Wellness.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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...
Learn more: nursing.wisc.edu/where-cultur...
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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...
⬇️ Read the full op-ed: www.jsonline.com/story/opinio...
Americans want to restore civility. A new UW-Madison major will help. | Opinion
UW-Madison will launch a new major in public policy. The most exciting element is that it will center civil dialogue in its curriculum.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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...
⬇️ Read the full op-ed: www.jsonline.com/story/opinio...
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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...
Brothers in care: Two physician assistants find a shared calling in emergency medicine at UW Health
Brothers Ben and Branden Statz share more than a last name — they share a calling. The Waunakee-born physician assistants work side by side in...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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...
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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.
Badger Tech Foundry, first “spoke” in the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub, focused on helping early-career researchers become serial entrepreneurs
As the first spoke in the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub, The Badger Tech Foundry helps ensure ideas become companies, careers and catalysts for change.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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.
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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. 🎓
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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-...
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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!
November 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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.🌎
2025 Open Doors report: UW–Madison ranked #6 for study abroad and #18 for international students
At UW–Madison, global engagement is embedded in the academic experience, and it is reflected in the number of students studying abroad and in the many countries represented by our international commun...
international.wisc.edu
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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.🌎
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Bucky Badger is ready for his close-up
Bucky Badger is ready for his close-up
A new historical documentary, "Bucky!", follows Wisconsin's beloved mascot from his debut in 1949 to his current status as a state icon.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Bucky Badger is ready for his close-up
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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.
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How to Win a Nobel Prize | On Wisconsin
Meet the UW–Madison faculty and alumni whose discoveries changed the world.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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.
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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.🦡
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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.🦡
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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/
On Wisconsin Magazine
On Wisconsin is the official alumni magazine for UW–Madison. It features news about the university, its alumni, and the biggest issues facing society today.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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/
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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.
A vibrant transition
Experience UW–Madison’s autumnal peak in motion, music and golden light.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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. 🇺🇸
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Happy Veterans Day, Badgers! THANK YOU to all our veterans and service members — students, faculty, staff, and alumni — for your service, sacrifice, and dedication. 🇺🇸
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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
Powering up the Midwest
Led by Wisconsin companies, fusion energy could fuel economic boom
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November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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
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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.
Go Big Read conversation centers around literature and language as a radical act
“Reading is the single most subversive act there is,” author Percival Everett told the audience at the Go Big Read keeynote at Union South on Tuesday evening.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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.
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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...
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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...
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🦇 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...
See their work in action: news.wisc.edu/uw-bat-briga...
UW Bat Brigade blends curiosity and conservation
Students on the brigade find opportunities to experience campus nature at night, take part in research, and support Wisconsin wildlife conservation.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🦇 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...
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.
UW–Madison partners with Microsoft and TitletownTech to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery
Through the collaboration, UW–Madison researchers will work with Microsoft Discovery experts and TitletownTech’s network of industry partners to explore applications of advanced AI that can accelerate...
news.wisc.edu
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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.
October 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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.
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“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/
Alzheimer’s blood test validated with help from UW–Madison data - School of Medicine and Public Health
www.med.wisc.edu
October 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“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:
Here and Now | Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin on Civil Discourse at UW-Madison | Season 2400 | Episode 2416
Jennifer Mnookin on a program to support dialogue amid free speech concerns on campus.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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: