Med Wise Rx is an education program to help older Wisconsinites communicate with their pharmacists and safely manage many prescriptions. 

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The Verona Public Library has debuted floor-to-ceiling translucent dot stickers on its 35-foot tall glass windows. The treatment comes after volunteer citizen scientists documented 88 bird deaths while periodically surveying the windows since 2021.

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The small Midwest office, founded almost 20 years ago by computer scientists from UW-Madison, helps power technology used across the globe.

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Two suppliers of aquatic creatures were recently convicted for ignoring warnings from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and selling illegal crayfish species to Wisconsinites, the department announced today. 

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State mental health officials say more teen boys are feeling anxious, depressed and suicidal in recent years. There are ways that adults can help boys who are struggling.

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It’s been one year since UW students in Madison and Milwaukee set up encampments to demand their campuses divest from Israel and protest the war in Gaza. 

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Some visa terminations have been restored at Universities of Wisconsin campuses following a sweeping walk back by President Donald Trump's administration Friday. 

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Advocates for faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said it’s time for collective organizing against federal attacks on higher education.

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Recent visa terminations are discouraging international students at Wisconsin colleges from participating pro-Palestinian organizing, students said. 

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Milwaukee health officials said they’re focusing on local efforts to address the school district’s lead crisis in the absence of federal support. 

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Advocates for patients with spinal cord injuries are raising alarm over a $40 million research program they said was quietly cut from a Department of Defense office that funds medical research. 

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