Alumnus David Plonka MS'08, PhD'13 is a scientist, artist, and former roller derby mascot.

The University of Wisconsin–Madison ranked among the top 40 institutions in the country for undergraduate education for the fourth consecutive year, according to the 2026 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings released today. “This university is dedicated both to meeting the highest standards of educational excellence across a tremendous array of …

New faculty member Misha Khodak started out studying math as an undergrad and switched to CS for his MS and PhD after a "throwaway comment" to a CS professor while looking for a math thesis topic.

Charles Yuan arrived in Madison for the first time just after a blizzard. He recently completed his PhD at MIT in Cambridge, MA, so winter is something he already understands, but he noted that people in Madison went about their regular day despite the inches of snow left by the blizzard.

New faculty member Gavin Brown joins UW-Madison from a postdoc position at the University of Washington. In his research, he focuses on the question, "What happens when the models we train or the analyses we run leak personal information?"

Originally from Guangdong Province, China, Zhang joined Madison's optimization research group after completing his postdoc at MIT's Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems.

PhD student Ben Young has been awarded the 2025 Best Student ICALP Paper at the 52nd EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) in Aarhus, Denmark.

The Wisconsin State Journal recently toured Morgridge Hall on its first day of classes.

View the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's photo essay from the first day of classes at Morgridge Hall.