The university’s 175th anniversary year, which kicked off in July, brings the next specialty flavor. The university has put up a public survey online for ice cream aficionados to choose a winning flavor from the four options vying for the coveted spot.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison determined that heating compost or soil to at least 104 degrees for three days will kill the cocoons, but solarizing isn’t an option in a bed containing plants.
When Jeffrey Pickron moved to Wisconsin 20 years ago to join his wife at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, he says the school told him he would have a secure job as a lecturer for years to come.
Incoming University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students who come from households earning less than $62,000 will have their tuition and fees completely covered under a new tuition promise program launching next fall.
This is the first installment of a 5-part series in which former University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson and Vice President Jim Langdon reflect on their experience guiding the system though the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chants of “Save our staff!” and “Education over administration!” echoed across the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh on Tuesday as protesters took aim at campus plans to eliminate more than 200 jobs.
Other employees across the System’s 13 four-year and 12 two-year branch campuses are feeling the same concerns. They’ve seen colleagues furloughed, class offerings dwindle, department budgets slashed, new buildings denied funding and college become increasingly more expensive for students.
Americans view college campuses as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes to free speech, with adults across the political spectrum seeing less tolerance for those on the right, according to a new poll.
About 150 people at UW-Oshkosh and a few dozen elsewhere across the University of Wisconsin System participated in walkouts Tuesday in protest of the university’s layoff plans, which staff there say have been developed with minimal academic staff input and risk damaging the educational experience.
Students participating in the blood drive make a life-saving contribution to those in need. One hundred and twenty appointments were booked Tuesday, and the university has a goal of getting 123 people to donate per day.
This year’s Multicultural Homecoming Tailgate and Watch Party on Saturday, Oct. 7, at the Pyle Center in the heart of the UW-Madison campus will be a chance to connect with alumni, students, staff and faculty at a fun-filled tailgate party before the Badger Homecoming game against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.
Attendants spoke of an accomplished, fun-loving leader who served the university for nine years.
The total UW-Madison enrollment broke 50,000 for the first time in school history, and the new freshman class includes the second-highest number of Wisconsin residents.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has many gameday traditions. Fans sing along to “Build Me Up Buttercup,” sway arm-in-arm to “Varsity” and jump up and down to “Jump Around.” Although all of these traditions are loved by the masses, many people don’t actually know how they started.
I had the pleasure of interviewing UW-Madison associate marching band director Dr. Corey Pompey about his initial take on Fifth Quarter when he started as director several years ago. After experiencing his first Fifth Quarter, Pompey felt he had “never seen anyone or any organization do a post game performance like this one.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will “absorb” $7 million in budget cuts with no faculty layoffs and furloughs, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced Monday. Mnookin made her announcement during the chancellor’s annual State of the University address to UW-Madison’s Faculty Senate.
Officers responded to the area of Langdon and Carroll streets about 12:10 a.m. Sunday on a report of an unconscious man in the road after a fight. Police found the man, who in and out of consciousness with substantial injuries, officer Ryan Kimberley said in a statement.
Some of the early results over the weekend included the Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest won by the University of Minnesota, with three Wisconsin schools, UW-Platteville, UW-Madison and UW-River Falls, finishing fifth, seventh and eighth, respectively.
Every University of Wisconsin volleyball setter’s film session typically looks the same.
The Big Ten conference released its 2023-24 men’s basketball tip times and network schedules, and the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team is set to appear multiple times on Peacock.
Letter to the editor: Power politics has become the norm in Madison and has pushed good governing aside. Rather than employing the power of his office by denying pay increases to UW’s employees Vos should take his case to the UW Board of Regents as they are the governing body for the UW System.
David Schwartz, a constitutional law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, said that although “there may be a handful of other (similar) cases around the country, it’s a relatively new area.”
The ruling does not set a binding precedent for other courts in Wisconsin, Schwartz said. While the ruling could be referenced in other cases, no other court is legally obligated to follow it.
“It stood in, in a lot of ways, for race relations in America,” UW-Madison professor Hemant Shah told, Spectrum News 1. “Black man on trial for the murder of a white woman.”
But unlike humans, who see very poorly in low light, canines have evolved to see well in both daytime and nighttime conditions, explains Paul Miller, a veterinary ophthalmologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Put on by the university’s Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, the conference broadcast from the Fluno Center featured a panel of Black intellectuals and activists including Bob Woodson, founder and president of the Woodson Center and Voices of Black Mothers United, and Wilfred Reilly, assistant professor of political science at Kentucky State University.
