Wisconsin’s flagship university remains one of the top public higher education institutions in the United States despite a slight drop compared to last year, according to a report released Monday.
MADISON, Wis. – Kids and teens spend plenty of time playing video games, but new evidence from the University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests certain games may be good for their brains.
Kids and teens spend plenty of time playing video games, but new evidence from the University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests certain games may be good for their brains.
A graduate still $50,000 in debt. A junior with mounting bills after changing her major. An aspiring lawyer forced to take a semester off because she can’t access financial aid.
For years, critics of the college rankings of U.S. News & World Report have said that they reward prestige and wealth. The institutions that are always on the top of the rankings — places like Harvard, Princeton and Stanford Universities — enroll students who are destined to succeed, the critics say. It should be no surprise (and not worthy of praise) that the students then do well.
UW-Stevens Point does not believe low enrollment is a result of the proposal to cut 13 humanities majors, including English and Philosophy. For months, students have fought against the cuts as a last hope before the proposal is passed.
Bucky on Parade ends on Wednesday, September 12th. After that, the statues will be auctioned off at a grand finale party. The money raised will go towards local non-profits. One of those non-profits is Garding Against Cancer. It’s a non-profit, started by UW Men’s Basketball coach Greg Gard. The organization supports cancer research.
UW-Madison will officially open the Latinx Cultural Center and the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Cultural Center in 2019 following remodeling plans this winter.
The Wunk Sheek student representatives stressed the importance of the organization, as UW falls on indigenous Ho-Chunk land. The decision on Wunk Sheek’s eligibility, which would determine whether the group can receive funding from the committee, will be decided at the next SSFC meeting on Monday, Sept. 10.
Geist and two other UW-Madison alumni, all key players in American documentary production and distribution, were back on campus this week as part of the Department of Communication Arts’ “Spotlight on Documentary” event, screening some of their films and talking about their careers with students.
UW Police issued 24 citations and arrested 22 people at Saturday’s Badgers football game, according to the police department.
Quoted: “I think we have a very important mission for the state and for the university,” Poulsen says. “We are investing in our staff because they are the scientific minds and the people who get the testing in and done, and the customer service done.”
The launch of construction and renovation for UW-Madison’s Babcock Hall Dairy Plant and Center for Dairy Research was marked with a celebration in the Lake Mendota Room of Dejope Hall on Sept. 7.
It took me 33 years to make it to Madison, Wisconsin, and I grew up a state away in Michigan. To be fair there is a giant lake between us. Why now? Madison has momentum.
WRAP began at UW-Madison in 1940 to foster creativity in rural areas. Now part of Continuing Studies, WRAP partners with the nonprofit Wisconsin Regional Artists Association (WRAA) to showcase artists in rural and urban areas statewide.
Donna Shalala, one of 11 inductees into the University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018, discusses how the athletic department transformed during her years as chancellor.
Alando Tucker, the all-time leading point scorer in University of Wisconsin men’s basketball history, discusses his induction into the UW Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the 2018 class.
University of Wisconsin women’s basketball’s all-time leading scorer, Jolene Anderson, speaks to reporters before the 2018 induction ceremony for the UW Athletics Hall of Fame.
Former University of Wisconsin men’s track and field and cross country coach Ed Nuttycombe discusses his career with the Badgers before his induction into the UW Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the 2018 class.
The University of Wisconsin football team dropped one spot in the AP poll for the second straight week.
It’s college rankings season, and if you look at the top of the listings from U.S. News & World Report to the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, you’ll notice one thing missing: state universities. Despite the fact that 8 in 10 undergraduates attend a public college or university, very few of those schools crack the top 20 in many of the popular rankings.
To broaden participation in STEM programs and fields, the National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million INCLUDES Alliance grant to be co-led by UW-Madison’s Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
The National Science Foundation revealed a $10 million award to boost involvement in STEM programs at UW-Madison. This will also prove as an opportunity to provide underrepresented students with the chance to thrive in the program.
Noted: Story references a new working paper by Justin Sydnor and other researchers about the “gap between intentions and actions.”
Quoted: “Governor Walker has indicated that (this year) is going to be a challenging year for his campaign and for his party,” said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and director of the university’s Elections Research Center. “The headwinds he faces might be why Walker’s style of campaigning is somewhat different in this election cycle.”
Quoted: “I think this perfectly illustrates the fundamental transformation we’re seeing in how we all communicate, and in how researchers study that communication,” University of Wisconsin communications professor Dietram Scheufele told BuzzFeed News. In the past, scholars could study newspaper articles without buying a subscription or asking for a stream of electronic articles, for example, but in an age of social media, access to data has become more fraught.
Noted: Universities typically choose to redistribute loans first because students benefit more from keeping grants and scholarships, said Karla Weber, communications manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Student Financial Aid.
The number of mosquitoes caught in traps in three different locations in the area is expected to surpass the record of 500 collected in 2016, according to Susan Paskewitz, a UW-Madison entomology professor.
Fred worked for UW-Madison at the physical plant as a concrete worker, retiring in 1989.
On Jim Tinjum’s #bikethewind tour last year, he often saw the installations he visited for miles in advance — turbines towering gracefully in the distance. On his recent #bikethesun tour, covering about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) of the Upper Midwest, he often had to pedal around in search of his solar destinations.”Some of the sites were nestled in to the landscape pretty well,” said Tinjum, an associate professor of engineering with a specialty in renewable energy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
