“This is excellent news for Wisconsin families concerned about the cost of higher education,” said Blank, “We know that students who take longer than four years often accrue additional debt. It is our goal that as many undergraduates as possible complete their program of studies in four years.”
Nominally an environmental and social history of the Galápagos Islands, Prof. Elizabeth Hennessy lays bare the many intertwined issues that confront us as we attempt conservation efforts in complex situations, while faced with a sweeping ecological crisis.
The N.I.H. and the F.B.I. have begun a vast effort to root out scientists who they say are stealing biomedical research for other countries from institutions across the United States.
A nine-member search and screen committee plans to meet in December to begin the nationwide search for the University of Wisconsin System’s eighth president.
Regent President Andrew Petersen said Friday that board Vice President Michael Grebe will chair the committee. Other members include Petersen, regents Mike Jones, Edmund Manydeeds and Torrey Tiedeman, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, UW-La Crosse Provost Betsy Morgan, UW-Superior Chancellor Renee Wachter and former regent Regina Millner.
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, awarded John Brady a doctorate in engineering in 2017, following his seven long years in the campus’s Wireless Communications and Sensing Laboratory.
UW-Madison police will expand their footprint by adding an officer who will oversee a densely populated area of student housing next to campus — the first position serving entirely off-campus in the department’s force.
Continuing an upscale student housing boom, a developer is proposing a seven-story, 124-unit tower with a rooftop swimming pool amid the fraternities and sororities that line historic Langdon Street.
Letter to the editor: Show of hands: Who believes that former band director Mike Leckrone should have a statue commissioned in his honor at UW-Madison?
People celebrated Mexican traditions at the sixth annual Day of the Dead Fiesta at the Nancy Nicholas Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Human Ecology on Friday.
Beginning Tuesday, three intercity bus companies serving Madison will move passenger loading from Langdon Street to Lake Street.
Also the co-editor-in-chief of The Black Voice on campus, Coley is a journalism major with certificates in African American studies and studio art. She expects to graduate in May 2020 and eventually pursue a PhD in sociology, though she wants to take a year or two to focus on research without the school part involved.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers are working on a bill that would allow college athletes to profit from their status and hire outside agents beginning in 2023.
UW-Madison police are working with Madison police to address a change in patrols to a troubled off-campus area.It comes after several violent crimes in the Langdon Street area.
The position will serve the off-campus area bordered by Lake Mendota, Lake Street, Gorham Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The role was created to serve as a liaison between students, the Madison Police Department and the University.
Graduate students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Master of Fine Arts program showcased their work Saturday at the fifth annual Open Studio Day. More than 50 students opened their studio doors for the public.
Dr. Ronak Mehta combined her passion for medicine and her love for plush toys to create something she hopes will spread some joy to hospital patients going through a rough patch in their lives. Nerdbugs – a line of stuffed cartoon-like characters representing various organs of the human body, including the heart, gall bladder, neuron, uterus and breasts – are also designed to teach people about anatomy.
More than a decade of hits took a toll on his body. The 6-foot-6-inch Mr. Thomas has had four knee surgeries since his days playing for the University of Wisconsin. Constant joint pain and inflammation made practice excruciating during his final pro years. “My last season I made it to three training camp workouts,” he said.
University of Wisconsin officials have taken the next step in their effort to convince the NCAA to declare transfer Micah Potter immediately eligible.
Letter to the editor: In my decades of attending college football games, I have never been treated worse by an opposing student fan base, with rude and vulgar comments shouted in my direction as I walked to the game, and inside the stadium.
Senior Olli Hoare’s first-place finish helped the No. 14 Badgers win the men’s team title — their 50th conference championship — for the second straight year, while UW senior Alicia Monson defended her women’s championship.
Quoted: “Nobody has come out and said these are extremely accurate,” says Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, one of the researchers on the heart rate study. Still, such variations from real measurements don’t matter much for its typical use.
Quoted: “When I look at local news and see what’s happening, I’m pessimistic,” said Kathleen Culver, journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “When I look at 18- and 20-year-olds and see what they want to do, I’m optimistic.”
Quoted: “We’re looking at evidence of traditions that have to do with social identification,” says John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who wasn’t involved in the study. “Why do you wear ornaments? Why do you go through this trouble? Because you notice something interesting, you want to associate yourself with it, [and] you want it to mark yourself for other people to recognize.”
Quoted: But the tens of thousands of Native Americans who served in the military were largely unable to access the education and mortgage benefits guaranteed by the GI Bill. “Employees of [Veterans Affairs] quite frequently directed American Indian veterans to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to access relocation rather than provide American Indian veterans with the GI Bill benefits,” says Kasey Keeler, a historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With smartwatch heart trackers, “if you’re trying to determine if someone’s heart rate is exactly 80 beats versus 90 beats per minute, that’s a really hard thing,” says kinesiology professor Lisa Cadmus-Bertram. “If you’re trying to determine if a heartbeat has ended, in my experience with these devices, they should be able to do that quite easily.”
The original reason for having daylight saving time was to conserve energy, but there isn’t much evidence that changing the clocks actually results in reduced electricity use, said Daniel Phaneuf, UW-Madison professor of agricultural and applied economics.
He dedicated 32 years of service passionately tending to the lands of the UW-Madison Arboretum.
