UW–Madison will temporarily close more than 20 buildings starting Tuesday because of a broken chilled water line that has cut the campus’s air conditioning capacity during one of the hottest weeks of the year.
A 43-year-old man has been charged after UW-Madison police said he attempted to sexually assault a hospital employee at University Hospital earlier this month.
PJ Liesch, director of insect diagnostic lab at the University of Wisconsin, said spiders often get a bad rap, but they really aren’t going to bite humans. Humans aren’t food to them, so they’d really only ever do it in self defense.
William worked as a Project Manager for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geoscience for nearly 50 years, retiring officially in 2006, but finding many reasons to return to Weeks Hall in the years that followed.
UW-Madison is home to dozens of historic and archaeological sites that have national recognition.
Employees at Wisconsin’s public universities will get a 2% increase in their wages starting this month, and thousands of faculty members in high-demand fields have received salary raises.
Chris Clark is retiring after 32 years with the University of Wisconsin rowing programs.
Professionally, Janice dedicated her career to UW–Madison. She earned a B.S. in Journalism and Political Science in 1983 and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction in 1992. She spent more than 25 years as a Senior Editor in the Engineering Professional Development Department of UW–Extension, retired in 2009.
The fleet of small white robots that have ambled slowly around UW-Madison’s campus since 2019 to deliver dining hall food to students has been permanently powered down.
A break in a chilled water line from the Charter Street Heating Plant, 130 N. Mills St., on June 17 released some 40,000 gallons of lake water onto Charter and Spring streets.
As the horticulture outreach specialist with UW-Madison Extension Dane County, Johnson, 62, should have all the gardening answers you seek, and if not, she can surely find the right expert who does.
A recent University of Wisconsin study found that overfishing is hurting the Wisconsin and Minnesota fish population more than climate change.
Most species of fish are impacted primarily by overfishing, though climate change has a detectable impact on the upper midwest region of the United States, co-author of the study and associate professor Olaf Jensen said. “When we compare the magnitude of [climate change and fishing], for most species, fishing is still having a much larger impact than warming,” Jensen said.
The legislative package includes $40 million in new funding for advising and retention as well as a “tuition promise” scholarship program for low- and middle-income students attending other University of Wisconsin campuses aside from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin Foundation and Wisconsin Alumni Association (WFAA) broke a fundraising record during the 13th annual Fill the Hill, raising $737,849 in just 24 hours.
Ángel F. Adames Corraliza and Sébastien Philippe joined seven University of Wisconsin-Madison professors since 1981 to receive an $800,000 “no-strings-attached” genius award from the philanthropic MacArthur Foundation.
Alpha Chi Omega sorority (AXO) hosted a “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event Friday on Library Mall where the University of Wisconsin-Madison students walked in high heels to spread awareness about domestic violence and support survivors through the Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS).
Vice Chancellor Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska wants the University of Wisconsin-Madison to conduct more research with the U.S. Department of Defense — with a caveat.
“I’m not thinking of us going directly to classified (research) and developing new weapons. There’s so much good work we can do that benefits … society but also provide national security,” said Grejner-Brzezinska, who oversees UW-Madison’s $1.7 billion research operation.
Madison Quest can’t help but think back to another time every time she runs through the high five line during University of Wisconsin volleyball lineup introductions at the UW Field House.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison saw a sharp drop in the number of new students attending from overseas this fall, the decline coming after college officials voiced concerns about the impact of Trump administration policies on international enrollment.
Madison’s Alcohol License Review Committee (ALRC) will consider a proposal that would eliminate the seat reserved for a University of Wisconsin-Madison student government representative at their meeting tonight.
It’s because of the vision of professors Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, who secured a $3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that over the next three years will bring research scholars, musical artists, culinary and film events and expert speakers related to Puerto Rican studies to the university.
University of Wisconsin Ambrose-Hesseltine professor of U.S. military history and retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel John Hall said it is unlikely troops will be sent to Madison, Wisconsin, as the federal government is limited in its capacity to deploy the National Guard in the way it has thus far.
Acknowledgment without any sort of follow through is hollow. The university has an opportunity and obligation to move past empty gestures and truly show that Native American people, their complex history and ongoing struggles are genuinely valued.
The University of Wisconsin’s contention that there were signs that former football player Xavier Lucas had already started negotiating a deal to transfer to Miami before he parted with the Badgers can be explored, a Dane County Judge ruled Wednesday.
Don’t cry over spilled milk.
A pair of University of Wisconsin-Platteville professors, disturbed by news stories of farmers dumping milk during the pandemic, chose instead to take action.
University of Wisconsin’s Student Services Finance Committee, the allocations branch of the Associated Students of Madison, met Oct. 13 to hold an open forum and discuss Slow Food UW’s application for the General Student Services Fund.
Democratic lawmakers are proposing a package of higher education bills to help address affordability for students by investing in a statewide tuition promise program and to support faculty and staff members by reversing Walker-era collective bargaining and tenure policies.
The biota is a sedimentary deposit containing more than 2,000 fossils of small, aquatic animals from over 437 million years ago. Researchers salvaged the collection of specimens found at a Waukesha quarry. It was stored at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum.
More than a quarter of Wisconsin’s high school students are earning college credits through dual enrollment programs during the school year.
Greg Steinberger, president and CEO of Hillel at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said this is a historic moment.
“The hard work will now begin,” Steinberger said. “But to witness these images of all of these world leaders coming together to discuss and work on and overcome the thorny, challenging issues of the next moment is amazing, it’s very hopeful.”
She taught Women’s Studies, Public Policy and Political Science and the University of Wisconsin-Madison for five years.
Universities of Wisconsin faculty in high-demand fields of study could get salary bumps under a new policy that’s part of the recent state budget deal.
Last week, the UW Board of Regents approved a proposal detailing how the UW system will dole out $27 million annually for market pay adjustments to attract and keep faculty in growing fields, fulfilling a legislative reform set in the budget agreement. Of that, $2 million is earmarked for UW-Madison to use for faculty who work in “areas that advance diversity of thought and the foundation of free markets.”
As part of the Big Ten’s “We Give Blood” campaign, the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a Homecoming Blood Drive at the Nicholas Recreation Center Tuesday and Wednesday. Working with Abbott Laboratories, a health care company, the 18 universities in the conference aim to address the nation’s blood shortage by targeting first-time blood donors.
Public college is less affordable in Wisconsin than in nearly every other state, according to a new analysis of 2022-23 school year data. The nonprofit National College Attainment Network, which advocates for college access, reports annually on each state’s “affordability gap” between the cost of college and what students and their families can pay.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is employing the work of a unique robot dog at the Kellner Family Athletic Center’s construction site near Camp Randall.
Pink flamingos blanketed the front lawn of UW-Madison’s Bascom Hill on Friday, each ornament in the grass representing a donation toward the record-breaking total of $737,849 brought in by the annual fundraiser.
Ralph’s professional career began in Cambridge, Mass. as assistant-professor at the Harvard School of Business. He then went on to Earlham College in Richmond, IN, for a professorship, and finally to UW-Madison as professor of economics from 1965-1997.
Former Wisconsin men’s basketball standout guard Brad Davison is joining Greg Gard’s staff as the Badgers’ special assistant to the head coach, the team announced on Sept. 29 via a press release.
The man injured in an attack on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus earlier this month has died, and campus police want prosecutors to pursue homicide charges for the suspect.
After years of planning, Wisconsin Air National Guard members from the 115th Fighter Wing have the opportunity to continue clinical training at UW Health in Madison.
The victim of an unprovoked and targeted attack outside of camp Randall stadium on September 20 died in the hospital late last week.
It may ultimately be impossible to replace what’s been lost, at least in the short term, said Chris Vagasky, research program manager for Wisconet, a statewide network of weather and soil monitoring stations based at the University of Wisconsin.
Mr. Barnett studied history and English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1968, and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1971.
Robert Bruce Barnett, the older of two siblings, was born on Aug. 26, 1946, in Waukegan, Ill. His mother, Betty (Simon) Barnett, did sales work at a department store, and his father, Bernard Barnett, worked for the Social Security Administration. Robert attended the University of Wisconsin.
Professor Savin, with researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Binghamton University, interviewed lawyers and social workers in 31 offices that help Americans enroll in disability and Supplemental Social Security Income, a needs-based program.
Once established, the fish could significantly impact sportfishing. Acy noted recreational fishing has a $234 million impact on the local economy, according to a 2006 survey by the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
Growing up in Dallas, the general manager of the Wisconsin football program watched his father, Marvin, a former football coach, turn down better jobs in favor of the program that was a project.
College athletics, as Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard sees it, is “slowly moving towards a more stable environment.”
UW officials say a government shutdown could affect research operations on campus, depending on the length of the shutdown and the guidance provided by federal agencies.
UW-Madison’s School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences celebrated its new home Friday.
Morgridge Hall is a privately funded $267 million investment, with Tashia and John Morgridge as the building’s principal donors.
As the fall semester begins, UW–Madison remains committed to maintaining a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of the campus community, according to UWPD Chief of Police Brent Plisch.
A University of Wisconsin study brought to light the personal challenges Black men face in engineering graduate programs. The study was conducted by educational leadership and policy analysis professor Brian A. Burt.
“To the Best of Our Knowledge,” which aired for 35 years on public radio, broadcast its last radio show this weekend with an audio montage of longtime listeners commemorating the show and thanking its host and producers.
Letter to the editor: My question is: Why should Baraboo and Sauk County supply the funds for upkeep and maintenance, which could be hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Why not establish trade courses in the unused portion of this facility.
A sixth former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball player has joined a lawsuit claiming psychological abuse by former coach Marisa Moseley.
Letter to the editor: Perhaps the UW-Madison athletic department should let the season ticket holders vote for the next coach. Give us three qualified candidates and let the people paying for these outrageous salaries choose the next coach.
At their first meeting of the semester Sept. 19, the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) Sustainability Committee celebrated the GOLD Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) rating the University of Wisconsin-Madison was recently awarded, while calling for increased student and faculty involvement in combating the climate crisis.
They may flower in the spring but now is the time to dig up your peony plants. We talk to UW Extension Horticulture Outreach Specialist Lisa Johnson about how to make sure your peonies look great next spring.
University of Wisconsin’s iconic mascot Bucky Badger marked his 85th birthday with an unprecedented celebration that brought thousands of Madisonians together across downtown Madison.
The event, which started in 2017 and has gained popularity and significant local business support over the years, will feature inspiring UW Badger Talks guest speaker Zain Abhari, interactive workshops and engaging hands-on activities designed to spark interest in STEM subjects.
