Allan “Bud” Selig, the founder of the Milwaukee Brewers and former commissioner of Major League Baseball, will deliver the headline speech at UW-Madison’s commencement ceremony in December.
This has been a big year for his beloved team, who came within one game of the World Series.
UW-Madison is bringing one of the biggest names in Wisconsin baseball history back to Madison for its winter commencement.
Allan “Bud” Selig will deliver the winter commencement on Dec. 16 at the Kohl Center, the university announced Wednesday.
To use data that applies specifically to their dairy, producers can use an online “Heifer Replacement” tool developed by Victor Cabrera, a dairy science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin pork farmers are invited to join University of Wisconsin-Extension, the Wisconsin Pork Association, and the UW-Agriculture Colleges (Madison, Platteville, and River Falls) for the Badger Swine Symposium on Friday, November 9, 2018. The Badger Swine Symposium is being hosted at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station.
Racial and socioeconomic gaps have grown at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the last 15 years, according to a new report on disparities in access and graduation rates at Midwestern flagship universities.
Faced with steep budget cuts, several University of Wisconsin System campuses have targeted academic programs to try to save money. The Superior campus announced last year that it was suspending 25 programs, including nine majors — sociology and political science among them.
Racial and socioeconomic gaps have grown at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the last 15 years according to a new report on disparities in access and graduation rates at Midwestern flagship universities
The goal for many students is to avoid using plastic products — ranging from straws to silverware — on a daily basis.
Milwaukee Brewers founder and University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Bud Selig knows a lot about overcoming obstacles, staying the course and managing disappointment.
Organizers of the forum say Wednesday’s discussion comes at a critically important time because of how divided our nation has become on all topics.
Experts reacted to studies showing U.S. will be ’minority white’ by 2045.
Internal budget saw 7 percent reduction from last year.
He graduated from UW-Madison in 1956 with a bachelor’s degree in American history and political science. He currently co-teaches an upper-level history course called Baseball and Society Since WWII.
“I love Madison and I love the university,” Selig said in a UW press release. “Those were four of the best years of my life. I could not be more thrilled and honored to accept this invitation.”
A Waunakee woman whose car struck a UW-Madison student as she crossed a campus-area street last year, then drove away, pleaded no contest Wednesday to homicide by drunken driving.
Many overdoses play out like one shown in body camera footage NBC15 Investigates requested from UW Madison Police.
Nicole Bruns faces up to 25 years of combined prison, extended supervision.
Parents of UW students will also be able to receive alerts.
Farmers who are hesitant about transitioning to no-till practices might consider doing a test and hiring someone to do the no-till planting. The Uplands Watershed Group has a no-till drill available to rent at an economical cost, said Daniel Smith, southwest regional specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nutrient and Pest-Management Program.
As the midterm election approaches, Madison early voter turnout is on track to match turnout from the 2016 presidential election, according to data collected by the city clerk’s office.
UW Health plans to build a $255 million clinic, on land with room for additional expansion, next to its hospital that opened three years ago on Madison’s Far East Side.
Then came the Federal Housing Administration, which insured mortgages against default and set new standards for those loans. Hello, 15-year mortgage. “And then basically the FHA kind of keeps pushing it to 20 years, and then 25, and then 30,” said Andra Ghent, who teaches real estate finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has mathematically concluded what Packer national already knows: Aaron Rodgers is a better quarterback than Tom Brady. UW-Madison math professor Jordan Ellenberg — author of the bestseller “How Not to Be Wrong” — will make his numbers-crunching case for Rodgers in a pregame feature during the national broadcast Sunday of the match-up between the Green Bay Packers and Brady’s team, the New England Patriots.
Noted: “It’s sort of the best possible way of describing rational solutions for these curves,” said Bjorn Poonen, a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of the model along with Park, John Voight of Dartmouth College, and Melanie Matchett Wood of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
From 1966 until his retirement in 1997, Mr. Ramos taught at California State University, Hayward. He had also been an artist in residence at Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin.
“Mercile changed lives – and this university – in profound ways,” says Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
