Alumni: Chats with the (Interim) Chancellor


Want a behind-the-scenes peek at life on campus? Chats with the (Interim) Chancellor is a special-edition e-newsletter for alumni and friends of UW–Madison. Hear from interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots as he takes over the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association’s UW Now Weekly newsletter to share leadership insights, the latest campus news and classic Badger traditions.

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  • October 2026: Chats with the (interim) Chancellor

    By now you’ve already heard the extraordinary news that my longtime colleague Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics, becoming our first sitting faculty member in more than 50 years to…

  • Congrats to UW–Madison’s newest Nobel laureate: Francis Halzen

    Dear campus community, I could not be more thrilled today to share extraordinary news: Francis Halzen, professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in…

  • September 2026: Chats with the (interim) Chancellor

    I am always energized by the beginning of the academic year, when we welcome back our returning students along with more than 10,000 new Badgers — and, this year, a strong cohort…

  • Welcome to a new semester of possibility

    Dear campus community, I absolutely love this time of year. The hint of fall on the breeze across the Terrace, the sound of the Marching Band’s first practices, the new students looking…

  • Getting to work in service to an extraordinary university

    Dear campus colleagues, Today, I have the honor of becoming your interim chancellor. In my nearly 31 years here at UW–Madison, I have come to know just how extraordinary this university is,…

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163 Bascom Hall
500 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706

Email: chancellor@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-9946