Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman sought to clarify this week that he is not proposing to solve the system’s financial woes by eliminating liberal arts programs after sharing a report with chancellors that examined steps an Arkansas university took to head off its own fiscal crisis.
Happy Scratch, a nutritional supplement for cats and dogs with seasonal or food allergies, began in the laboratory of the late UW-Madison animal science professor Mark Cook, who discovered the allergy-fighting technology with molecular toxicologist Jordan Sand about 10 years ago. The two patented their discovery in conjunction with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
In Dane County, fathers were more likely to pay child support, and those payments increased, after the county stopped new birth cost recovery cases in 2020, according to a study this year by UW-Madison researchers. The study, by the university’s Institute for Research on Poverty, compared unmarried Medicaid deliveries in the county in 2020-2021 with those outside of the county in 2016-2021 and in the county before 2020.
University of Wisconsin-Madison $1.524 billion
Animal rights group PETA obtained photos and videos of what it alleges were invasive experiments and animal cruelty inflicted on primates housed at the research facility
A story in a UW-Madison student newspaper set off a firestorm within the Universities of Wisconsin after it reported the system president suggested to chancellors they might consider “shifting away from liberal arts.”
Further emptying out the Mosse Humanities building by building a new music academic building and adding nearly 2,000 beds to University Housing could rank high on UW-Madison’s list of priorities for the next state budget.
The 1,400-square-foot gallery, named after a longtime art and history professor at UW-Madison, opened in 2004 and is operated by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. The organization’s work includes examining science and culture in Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine, exploring pathways to a sustainable future through its Climate and Energy Initiative, offering courses and public talks, and supporting the state’s poet laureate.
PhD student and president of UW Madison’s Bridge Club Austen Fen says he and his friends first started discussing the idea of bridge club this year.
’What we’re trying to do is confront power … Because for too long our stories have been told by non-Native people,’ keynote speaker Dallas Goldtooth says.
Mecha de UW-Madison moved from its location on Bernard Court to the Red Gym for at least one year due to looming Levy Hall construction.
As housing prices in Madison have continued to rise, developers have proposed several large housing developments responding to student housing needs.
The Badgers have another opportunity to avenge one of their three losses when they host Penn State at 6 p.m. Thursday with it being broadcast on ESPN2.
The University of Wisconsin football team will need to pack sunscreen for its bowl game trip.
It’s official: Lauren Carlini is coming home.
You know the story of Vitas from my column on sports specialization. She played a variety of sports in high school but didn’t develop a true passion or intensity for one until she walked on as a rower at the University of Wisconsin.
Guest column by state Sen. Melissa Agard, D-Madison.
But a recent study she wrote with Melody Harvey, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found no impact on eventual retirement savings. Perhaps, she said, for teenagers heading to college or just entering the work force, the idea of retiring is too distant.
She started her working career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an administrative assistant in the Medical College and followed that with many years as a Legal Secretary with several law firms in the Madison area.
Nerad was born in Marinette, grew up in Kenosha, studied at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, then transferred to UW-Madison, where he got a bachelors and masters in Social Work.
Blood, tooth and tissue samples from the cougar will be analyzed for additional factors, including age and genetics. The hide and skull will be mounted and displayed at a public site in Buffalo County, Johnson said.
And the other bones will be kept as part of a collection at the University of Wisconsin’s zoological museum.
