Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin
@uwchancellor.bsky.social
I’m the 30th leader of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. #OnWisconsin
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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:
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! 🎉
PhD student Zhewen Pan receives Google PhD Fellowship in Computer Architecture
Pan researches efficient computer architecture, including sustainable computing, in the lab of Joshua San Miguel.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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! 🎉
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UW-Madison is launching a new initiative to promote civil dialogue on campus called the Wisconsin Exchange: Pluralism in Practice.
UW-Madison launches initiative to promote civil dialogue on campus
MADISON (WKOW) -- UW-Madison is launching a new initiative to promote civil dialogue on campus called the Wisconsin Exchange: Pluralism in Practice.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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!
With the Wisconsin Exchange, UW–Madison is strengthening a culture of civil dialogue across difference
The new initiative connects existing programs and cultivates new opportunities to make constructive conversation a visible and integral part of everyday life on campus.
news.wisc.edu
October 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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!
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The University of Wisconsin Law School reported a 36% increase in applications this fall, which mirrored a national trend.
UW-Madison’s law school expects surge in applicants to continue
The University of Wisconsin Law School reported a 36% increase in applications this fall, which mirrored a national trend.
captimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The University of Wisconsin Law School reported a 36% increase in applications this fall, which mirrored a national trend.
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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.
Rock and roll and unleashed curiosity with Science on the Square
Wisconsinites shared collective jaw drops as they explored the kickoff event for the 15th annual Wisconsin Science Festival.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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.
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A breath of fresh air: @uwmadpharmacy.bsky.social graduate student Sara Hernandez is leveraging pharmacist expertise to create a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) management program for rural patients in Wisconsin.
Breathing New Life into Rural COPD Care - School of Pharmacy
Graduate student Sara Hernandez pilots a pharmacist-led program to improve COPD care and outcomes in rural Wisconsin.
pharmacy.wisc.edu
October 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A breath of fresh air: @uwmadpharmacy.bsky.social graduate student Sara Hernandez is leveraging pharmacist expertise to create a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) management program for rural patients in Wisconsin.
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Hope is on the horizon for Parkinson’s patients. A UW–Madison-supported clinical trial is showing early promise using a groundbreaking cell therapy. Patients are receiving brain cells grown from their own cells, potentially reducing symptoms and eliminating the need for immunosuppressants.
Parkinson’s treatment tested at UW showing promise in first clinical trial
Parkinson’s patients are receiving a new investigational treatment after UW–Madison researchers successfully demonstrated its safety and helped refine the delivery method.
news.wisc.edu
October 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hope is on the horizon for Parkinson’s patients. A UW–Madison-supported clinical trial is showing early promise using a groundbreaking cell therapy. Patients are receiving brain cells grown from their own cells, potentially reducing symptoms and eliminating the need for immunosuppressants.
A big congratulations to SMPH faculty Andrea Putnam — one of only 20 early-career scientists nationwide named a 2025
@packardfdn.bsky.social Fellow! 🎉 Her innovative work on RNA-protein condensates is expanding what we know about how cells function.
@packardfdn.bsky.social Fellow! 🎉 Her innovative work on RNA-protein condensates is expanding what we know about how cells function.
Andrea Putnam awarded 2025 Packard Fellowship - School of Medicine and Public Health
www.med.wisc.edu
October 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A big congratulations to SMPH faculty Andrea Putnam — one of only 20 early-career scientists nationwide named a 2025
@packardfdn.bsky.social Fellow! 🎉 Her innovative work on RNA-protein condensates is expanding what we know about how cells function.
@packardfdn.bsky.social Fellow! 🎉 Her innovative work on RNA-protein condensates is expanding what we know about how cells function.
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UW–Madison researchers have developed a new model for investigating the genetic drivers of a rare but aggressive brain tumor in children. The work has already identified potential treatment targets for the deadly cancer that has previously had few therapeutic options.
UW researchers uncover possible new treatment to target a devastating childhood brain cancer
Using fruit flies, scientists are investigating the genetic drivers of the rare but aggressive tumor.
news.wisc.edu
October 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
UW–Madison researchers have developed a new model for investigating the genetic drivers of a rare but aggressive brain tumor in children. The work has already identified potential treatment targets for the deadly cancer that has previously had few therapeutic options.
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Fresh curds squeak. Old ones don’t. Why?
In celebration of National Cheese Curd Day, go on a dairy deep dive with On Wisconsin Magazine and explore the physics and chemistry behind the squeak: onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/and-the-sque...
In celebration of National Cheese Curd Day, go on a dairy deep dive with On Wisconsin Magazine and explore the physics and chemistry behind the squeak: onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/and-the-sque...
And the Squeak Goes On | On Wisconsin
Scientists search for a better cheese curd.
onwisconsin.uwalumni.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Fresh curds squeak. Old ones don’t. Why?
In celebration of National Cheese Curd Day, go on a dairy deep dive with On Wisconsin Magazine and explore the physics and chemistry behind the squeak: onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/and-the-sque...
In celebration of National Cheese Curd Day, go on a dairy deep dive with On Wisconsin Magazine and explore the physics and chemistry behind the squeak: onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/and-the-sque...
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Homecoming 2025 pulled all that vibrant Badger energy together on a beautiful fall weekend, from the excited students cheering on Friday’s parade to the fireworks reflected off the waters of Lake Mendota later that night to the reunions of many happy alumni all weekend.
Homecoming Week 2025
From pink flamingos and silent disco to fireworks and a parade, see how UW–Madison students and alumni celebrated community the Badger way.
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October 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Homecoming 2025 pulled all that vibrant Badger energy together on a beautiful fall weekend, from the excited students cheering on Friday’s parade to the fireworks reflected off the waters of Lake Mendota later that night to the reunions of many happy alumni all weekend.
Happy homecoming, Badgers! What a beautiful fall night for our parade and block party! Thanks to Steve and Trevor Reiner for another ride in their stylish Badger red ‘64 convertible.
October 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Happy homecoming, Badgers! What a beautiful fall night for our parade and block party! Thanks to Steve and Trevor Reiner for another ride in their stylish Badger red ‘64 convertible.
It's flock o'clock! 🦩I hope you'll join Bucky and me, and all our awesome Badger supporters, as we FILL THE HILL to support our @uwmadison.bsky.social students — 2 hours left! uwflamingos.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's flock o'clock! 🦩I hope you'll join Bucky and me, and all our awesome Badger supporters, as we FILL THE HILL to support our @uwmadison.bsky.social students — 2 hours left! uwflamingos.com
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Our director @johandelsman.bsky.social weighs in with @nytimes.com essayist @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social about the value of basic research and its relation to the #NobelPrize.
Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
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October 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our director @johandelsman.bsky.social weighs in with @nytimes.com essayist @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social about the value of basic research and its relation to the #NobelPrize.
Madison in today’s @nytimes.com! 🎉 So much to do here in 36 hours+, including of course, visiting the Terrace & Bascom Hill. Happy Homecoming week, Badgers! 🦡
36 Hours in Madison, Wisconsin: Things to Do and See
Embrace this beer-and-cheese-loving Midwestern capital with farmers’ markets, cozy supper clubs and picturesque lakeside strolls.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Madison in today’s @nytimes.com! 🎉 So much to do here in 36 hours+, including of course, visiting the Terrace & Bascom Hill. Happy Homecoming week, Badgers! 🦡
WOO HOO!! Proud to share that TWO @uwmadison.bsky.social faculty were just announced as 2025 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipients. HUGE congrats to Ángel F. Adames Corraliza & Sébastien Phillipe, doing amazing work on tropical storms & nuclear security, respectively.👏
Two UW–Madison professors named MacArthur Fellows
Atmospheric scientist Ángel F. Adames Corraliza and nuclear security specialist Sébastien Philippe, professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, have been awarded 2025 MacArthur Fellowships.
news.wisc.edu
October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
WOO HOO!! Proud to share that TWO @uwmadison.bsky.social faculty were just announced as 2025 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipients. HUGE congrats to Ángel F. Adames Corraliza & Sébastien Phillipe, doing amazing work on tropical storms & nuclear security, respectively.👏