The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will close its Waukesha campus at the end of the spring 2025 semester, eliminating an educational option that has been around since 1966.
The titles of the 150 or so posters on display in the Capitol’s Rotunda sounded just as impressive as what might be found at a symposium of doctoral students — such as “The cost of clean water: An efficiency analysis of Wisconsin’s water utilities” or “Investigating alternatives to antibiotics using phage.”
The cofounder of Retraction Watch and a Wisconsin medical analyst take academia’s ‘publish or perish’ dynamic to task.
Raymond Allen speaks of past, present, future of lakes in Madison.
A state Senate committee has recommended rejecting the nominations of two members serving on the state public university board, both of whom voted against a deal struck with the Legislature to restructure campus diversity positions.
A Republican-led committee this week recommended rejecting two of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointments to the UW Board of Regents after they voted last year against a divisive deal that gives the UW system additional state funding in exchange for scaling back diversity efforts.
Last April the Wisconsin Examiner published an examination of the way that Native American human remains have been retained by public institutions in Oshkosh long after the passage of a federal law that was intended to speed their repatriation to the tribes that once inhabited the area.
UW-Madison student veterans advocated for a space to call their own, as the university proceeds with the $285 million Camp Randall Sports Center project.
Students can vote for members of the student council and the Student Services Finance Committee.
Late-night vending will continue at the bottom of Madison’s State Street, the City Council decided Tuesday, but on slightly different days and for slightly fewer hours.
The number of food trucks allowed in the 700 and 800 blocks of State — which are closest UW-Madison and open to pedestrians only — also will increase from three to five.
Menzie Chinn, a macroeconomist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the rise in state construction employment may be tied to a larger national construction boom. Chinn said about one-fifth of the change in employment for January and February is tied to nonresidential construction.
“There’s a big boom in the building of commercial (properties). Not commercial as in stores, but factories,” he said. “I don’t know how much of that is in Wisconsin, but nationwide, that’s a very big factor. There’s a lot of construction going on.”
Our early spring is one more reminder that our climate is changing. We look at how to still get good results in your garden despite changing temperatures and precipitation levels. We also look at how to correctly prune fruit trees. Interview with Vijai Pandian from University of Wisconsin-Extension.
The UniverCity alliance is a program that marshals the research capacity of UW-Madison students in service of the unique needs of cities, counties, villages, townships and others across the state of Wisconsin. The Alliance has helped some communities learn how government bodies can operate more efficiently, and others determine how to address needs like childcare in their local communities. Joining us on “Newsmakers” this week are Gavin Luter, Managing Director of the UniverCity Alliance; Max Hart of the Jackson County Board of Supervisors; and Doug McLeod, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at UW-Madison.
James “Jim” Frohna knew since he was a child that he wanted to be a film director. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Frohna went off to film school at New York University.
A spokesperson for UW Health — which operates multiple hospitals in the Madison area — told the Cap Times that the health group has heard concern from patients who aren’t sure how the ruling in Alabama may affect access to fertility treatment elsewhere in the country.
“According to the medical director of UW Health Generations, patients have been inquiring about any risk to having their embryos stored and potentially losing their ability to choose what to do with them,” Sara Benzel, a spokesperson for UW Health, wrote in an email to the Cap Times.
How the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team handled the opening 10 minutes of Saturday’s WCHA championship game against top-ranked Ohio State was paramount for coach Mark Johnson.
The University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s track and field teams turned in some stellar performances at this season’s NCAA Indoor Championships, with 11 of the 12 Badgers athletes competing in Boston securing All-America honors during three days of fierce competition.
Since the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, U.S. presidents have tried a variety of approaches to maintain balanced relations with Israel and the surrounding Arab states. In the years leading up to the Israeli-Hamas war, a series of conflicts have made the attempt particularly challenging. Interview with Daniel Hummel, director of The Lumen Center and a research fellow in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Less ice could translate to longer fishing seasons, but winter storms could wreck nets and traps and destroy whitefish eggs that rely on the ice for protection, said Titus Seilheimer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison fisheries specialist.
Dr. Bordwell taught at the University of Wisconsin for 30 years and wrote or co-wrote more than 20 books, including “Film Art: An Introduction” (1979), a textbook written with his wife that is widely used in film studies programs.
Qualls, who coached the Badgers from 1976 to 1986, died unexpectedly last month at the age of 76. She was the first Black women’s basketball coach in the Big Ten, arriving at Wisconsin just as women’s sports were trying to find their footing following the passage of the historic Title IX legislation in 1972.
Denise Wiyaka is director of the UW Madison American Indian and Indigenous Studies program, where she spearheads the Annual Evening of Storytelling and established the Elder-in-Residence program as associate director in 2018.
At the University of Wisconsin School of Law in 2023, one of just two law schools in the state, Black students accounted for 34 of the 698 law students, or 4.9%, according to data compiled by the university. But of the 228 students who graduated with juris doctorate degrees in 2023, just seven (3.1%) were Black. It’s not clear how those numbers will change following the 2023 Supreme Court ruling that struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
