UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said this project, however, is a unique one in that it has been six years in the making and includes one of the largest private/public partnerships in the university’s history. In eight months, almost 200 partners came together to donate $16 million toward the project.
A study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that ideas generated by diverse teams were of better quality in terms of feasibility and effectiveness. The research showed that critical analysis and suggested solutions were more nuanced when they came from diverse teams. They also noticed that input from individuals with diverse backgrounds offered alternatives to problems that weren’t previously raised.
Facebook and the U-W School of Medicine and Public Health will partner to study teens’ use of digital technologies – and their mental and social health.
UW-Madison Botany Professor Simon Gilroy reveal a communication system within plants.
Amy Carlson sits down with two cancer researchers from UW Carbon Cancer Center to talk about The Ride.
That legacy in a word is progressivism: seeded by socialist immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia, nourished by liberal icons like Robert La Follette and Russ Feingold, and sheltered by institutions like the proudly lefty University of Wisconsin at Madison, with a campus where granola crunched underfoot like fall leaves.
The husband of Beverly A. Kopper, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, has been banned from the campus after an investigation found that he had sexually harassed women employed there, says a letter to the campus from Kopper.
Pete Hill, associate to the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, was removed from his position after an internal investigation determined that sexual harassment allegations against him were credible. Hill is the husband of Beverly Kopper, university chancellor, and served alongside her in an unpaid, advisory role for the university. Kopper addressed his removal on Friday in a message to the campus.
UW-Whitewater’s chancellor’s husband has been prohibited from returning to the campus and stripped of his unpaid position following sexual harassment allegations Friday.
Susan Brandscheid, 70, was a central figure in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication where she started working in 1973.
The Badger Band Alumni Association said it hit capacity for band alumni to participate.
The university is planning a $133 million revamp of the Department of Chemistry building at University Avenue and Mills Street.
Saturday was Alumni Band Day at Camp Randall. It’s a day when graduates come back, get together and march in the band during the game.
Officials broke ground on a new marina for the Wisconsin Union’s sailing boats Saturday, honoring a family with a long sailing history who contributed to the project.
Management decisions made now can impact how alfalfa stands do during winter. In spring 2018 there were a lot of reports of alfalfa surviving winter, but much alfalfa was weak and yields were less. Winter weather was to blame.
The goal of the festival is to broaden horizons, particularly for UW students, and serve as a platform for artists who may be very well-known in their countries but haven’t performed in the United States yet.
An expensive but promising gene therapy approved a year ago for children with leukemia has had mixed results in patients at UW Health, the first place in Wisconsin to offer it.
UW Health, which is in the midst of a plan to trim $80 million from its annual budget of about $3 billion, plans to issue $350 million in bonds this year for building projects and refinancing.
“Definitely the guidelines were needed,” said Dr. Alaa Abd-Elsayed, medical director of UW Health’s pain clinic. “They had good intentions, to reduce the public health problem.”But some doctors have become overly fearful of prescribing opioids, Abd-Elsayed said.
Virginia Kehl Mackesey attended UW and graduated in 1956. While at the school, she was one of four females UW Athletics let cheer as part of the first coed cheer group in 1952.
The University of Wisconsin football team plummeted 12 spots to No. 18 in the Associated Press poll Sunday after its 24-21 upset loss to BYU at Camp Randall Stadium.
According to the University Wisconsin-Madison Police Department, 82 fans were taken to temporary on-site cooling centers during Saturday’s UW-Madison Badger’s game against the B.Y.U. Cougars.
Lewis ‘Les’ Ritcherson was the first black member of the athletics coaching staff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: According to Tom Richards, an entomologist with the University of Wisconsin- Madison, as we get our last taste of summer, mosquitoes are getting one last taste of us.
Lowell served as chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison from 1970 to his retirement to emeritus faculty in 1993.
She was an employee at UW-Madison for many years, retiring as assistant to the Dean of the Journalism School.
Hal was the Emma Welsch Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology at UW-Madison, where he taught and conducted research for 33 years.
She retired in 1999 after a long and distinguished career as a professor and researcher of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Susan French Brandscheid, a longtime University of Wisconsin employee and iconic figure within the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, died Wednesday at the age of 70.
I was awarded Master’s degree in Civil Engineering of the same university, on fellowship. I later proceeded to the University of Wisconsin, Madison sponsored by the university of Ife and USAID in 1972 where I acquired Ph.D. degree in Agricultural engineering in 1974. Thereafter, I became a professional engineer in Wisconsin USA and a registered engineer in Nigeria in 1974.
In college, Coon played Titania in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” but she didn’t consider applying to graduate acting programs until a drama teacher urged her to. She was accepted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
