The University of Wisconsin-Madison is getting a new engineering building, a widely supported project ensnared for months in a broader political negotiation over campus diversity programs.
Dave Weimer, a professor of political economy at the UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs, has a new book called “Dog Economics” that dives deep into the costs and decisions associated with dog ownership.
Scientists studying viruses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently opened their lab door for a tour, looking to shine a light on their work after being targeted by a Republican bill.
When the paper came out, Jacquelyn Gill was working on her dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, studying the Pleistocene mammal populations of the Upper Midwest through the proxies of ancient pollen, charcoal and fungal spores.
Morna Foy, president of the Wisconsin Technical College System for more than a decade and its first female president, on Tuesday announced her plans to retire.
Foy will leave a role overseeing Wisconsin’s 16 publicly funded technical colleges that currently receive more than $625 million in annual state funding. Those schools educated nearly 288,000 students last year, more than 50% more students than the University of Wisconsin system.
In an effort to address the state’s teacher shortage, Edgewood College is launching an online program to help Wisconsin National Guard members and their spouses earn their master’s degrees and state teaching licenses.
Foy hasn’t set a final retirement date — it’ll be dependent on the timing of a search for her successor, which will be led by the system’s governing board. But it’s expected later this summer or fall, system spokesperson Katy Pettersen said.
‘MENA in the Modern World’ theme acknowledges, affirms rich, vast cultural impact.
Campus-wide survey available through March 22.
Garage Sale focuses on the narrative of a girl exploring the community-wide garage sale. The player is able to discover different parts of a forest town, complete quests and collect friends throughout. The landscape is a quaint and comforting town featuring a wide variety of rooms for the player to discover.
“I would like to tell you about the man I love, Eric, who is running for the U.S. Senate,” Hovde’s wife, Sharon, says in his Tuesday ad. She calls Hovde a fourth-generation Wisconsinite and notes he graduated from Madison East High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The new maps create an open seat in and around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, meaning voters there will have the chance to select new representation.
Incident involving group of six males reported near intersection of Linden and Observatory.
University police are actively investigating the case.
During the assault, the victims say the other members of the group allegedly stood by and watched. The victims were able to escape.
Police said that, when the students stopped to speak with the men, two of the men punched them in the face and head. The other members of the group reportedly stood by and watched.
According to a news release, the two students walked by a group of six men at about 8:30 p.m. Three of them followed the students. The students stopped to interact with the men, and two of them “punched the victims in the face and head.”
Two UW-Madison students were attacked while walking together on campus Sunday night, campus police reported.
But, shaken by the devastation she (Trish O’Kane) saw in New Orleans, O’Kane, in her mid-40s, decided to return to school for a PhD in environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Enchanted by catbirds singing near her new home, she signed up for an ornithology class and became a regular at Warner Park, a recreation center and urban wildlife refuge.
University of Wisconsin junior wrestler Dean Hamiti was nearly speechless last year after winning a Big Ten championship, a dream he’d harbored since first putting on a singlet.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team is headed to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in the 2024-25 season.
Christine Whelan studies the wellness economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She said this is one Gen Z and millennial health obsession she can get behind. “The movement away from alcohol is probably the best of the wellness remedies,” Whelan said, compared to, say, vitamins and supplements, in terms of its proven positive impact on our health.
She settled on botany instead. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1948, a master’s from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1950 and a doctorate from Yale in 1955, all in botany.
For thousands of years, marriage has been a building block of productive societies. Despite modern sentiments to the contrary, men and women need each other. The easiest way to build a meaningful and productive life is to fall in love, get married and start a family.
—Anika Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics
