A top state lawmaker is questioning how a new proposal for a science building at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire vaulted over high-priority building projects that have waited in line for years.
UW-Platteville Chancellor Dennis Shields updated the Sauk County Board on Tuesday about the campuses’ ongoing integration. He said the partnership could bring collaborative programs in agriculture, hospitality and business to the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County.
A proposed project would mean the end for the current science building, Phillips Hall, which is more than 50 years old. Assistant Chancellor for Facilities Mike Rindo told News 18 a study was done that showed it wasn’t feasible functionally or structurally to renovate the current Phillips Hall.
Plans for a new academic and research chemistry and biochemistry building are among the UW System’s capital project requests in its 2019-21 biennial budget.
A proposed project would mean the end for the current science building, Phillips Hall, which is more than 50 years old. Assistant Chancellor for Facilities Mike Rindo told News 18 a study was done that showed it wasn’t feasible functionally or structurally to renovate the current Phillips Hall.
Earlier this month, the Common Application decided to “ban the box” starting next year — so the million-plus students who use the online form to apply to some 800 colleges nationwide won’t have to disclose whether they have ever been convicted of a crime.
Every Badgers football season it’s the same. The student section fills up slowly for each game and older fans grumble about it. Players and coaches plead with them to get there on time. There are often even angry letters to the editor.
Officials with the UW Police Department said they shut down the path near Willow Creek as a precaution.
“I’ve been waiting so long,” said Rowan Calyx, 46, a transgender man who works at UW-Madison and has an appointment with a UW doctor soon to discuss surgery. “Now that this is actually approved, I can go ahead and feel like this is going to go somewhere, instead of continuing to get disappointed over and over.”
WAUSAU – In the early 1970s, they were two long-haired guys with hippie tendencies and a shared craze for bikes.
On Wednesday, police said they were working to arrest 23-year-old Tony Fountain, of Madison, for scamming University of Wisconsin students.
Days after historic rains caused massive flooding in Dane County, many highways and streets remain closed due to high water or damage, and it could take weeks or even months for some roads to reopen.
What can Dane County do to better prepare for floods in the future? For that, W-O-R-T producer Nina Kravinsky spoke with UW Madison flood expert Shane Hubbard.
Noted: At the center is an enormous portrait of Freddie Mae Hill, the first African American to graduate from UW-Madison. Hill’s family is well-represented at the event, dressed up and posing for pictures in front of their now-famous relative.
This month, chancellors at UW-Madison and five other UW campuses asked the board to restore the coverage, saying four Big Ten campuses offer it.
The first day of school is just around the corner, which for many also means time to think about vaccines. But one vaccine still isn’t getting the attention it should, says James Conway, associate director for health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute.
Former Badger OL Travis Frederick, who is now a Dallas Cowboys center, announced on social media Wednesday night that he has been diagnosed Guillain-Barré syndrome.
University of Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst suspended sophomore wide receiver Danny Davis for two games Wednesday after Davis’ involvement in an alleged sexual assault became public.
No matter what happens, UW must send a strong message because there is more at stake here than the success of the football program.
Usually after a fall on the track, Brenna Detra can get right back up. But when the University of Wisconsin–Madison sprinter and hurdler began to fall on hurdle No. 3 at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, she knew something was wrong when she couldn’t catch her feet.
Wisconsin sophomore wide receiver Danny Davis will be suspended for the first two games of the 2018 football season, UW head coach Paul Chryst announced Wednesday. That’s according to a release put out by University of Wisconsin Director of Athletic Communications Brian Lucas.
Dallas Cowboy center Travis Frederick announced on Twitter that he’s been diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, an autoimmune disease, and that doctors have given him no timetable for when he might be able to return to the field.
Wisconsin wide receiver Danny Davis was suspended for the first two games of the season on Wednesday, two days after his roommate was charged with felony sexual assault following an incident last April involving two women at his apartment.
Chalk one up for Mother Nature.With an assist from the farmers of Oaxaca, Mexico; Mars candy company and researchers at the University of California-Davis and our own University of Wisconsin-Madison.We’re talking about growing corn. Something near and dear to Wisconsin farmers. And corn, of course, requires nitrogen — an essential ingredient for plant growth.
When I was in graduate school in the early 1980s, I remember hearing Winston Brill, a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on the radio. Brill was predicting that in the coming years we would develop corn capable of incorporating nitrogen from the air into its tissues, reducing this important crop’s hunger for soil-applied fertilizers.
Quoted: “A summer’s worth of rain in one day,” said Stephen Vavrus, a scientist at UW-Madison’s Center for Climatic Research. “We haven’t had anything like this in memory around here. Or even beyond.”
Quoted: “When you find a needle in a haystack, you have to start wondering if what you’re really looking at is a needlestack,” John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote in an email. “This genome shows that hybrids were nowhere near as rare as people have been assuming. They must have been really common.”
Noted: “Being a highly specialized athlete means that you can identify a primary sport, you train more than eight months/year for that sport, and you have quit other sports to focus on your primary sport or have only ever played your primary sport,” said study leader David Bell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The man who died Monday after being swept away in a flash flood caused by torrential rains has been identified as a longtime employee of the Wisconsin Historical Society and the state’s first historic preservation architect.
