The event runs from Sunday, Sept. 15, through Saturday, Sept. 21. Shannon Hall in UW’s historic Memorial Union will be home to four days of sessions. We will also use other venues across the city.
In a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Katy Jinkins typically starts her day at a filing cabinet full of thin, purple silicon disks that reflect green in the light.
Following a showdown between the Legislature and Universities of Wisconsin over funding last winter, a new group will study the future of the state’s public universities and issue recommendations.
Sixty students can’t sustain a college campus. That’s the hard truth that ended classes at the Universities of Wisconsin’s two-year campus in Richland Center a year ago. The closure is sad and difficult, yet justified.
University of Wisconsin-Madison volleyball player Sarah Franklin received a nomination for the Best College Athlete in the Women’s Sports category at the 2024 Excellence in Sports Yearly Awards (ESPYS).
In fact, the issue unifies all Wisconsinites — Democrats, Republicans and independents alike. It ranks at the top of issues residents rated as most significant problems they face. And while it is a common problem for all, inflation has an outsized impact on the young, according to the “WisconSays” survey of nearly 4,000 residents conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Survey Center in partnership with the La Follette School of Public Affairs.
A new study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison team of researchers looking at wolves on an island in Lake Superior is helping shed light on the role that certain species play in helping shape an entire ecosystem.
It is an Olympic trifecta for former Badger track and field legend Zach Ziemek as he becomes just the second U.S. athlete to qualify for the Olympics three times.
“There’s a shift of power from the (governor’s) administration to the Legislature,” said Andrew Reschovsky, professor emeritus of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on public finance. “And is that good or bad? It depends on one’s politics. But in a very fractured political environment, the consequences could be substantial.”
Wisconsin’s application was submitted by a coalition of businesses (GE HealthCare, Accuray, Exact Sciences, Plexus and Rockwell Automation), colleges and universities (Madison Area Technical College, Milwaukee Area Technical College, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and the Universities of Wisconsin), economic development agencies (Milwaukee7, Madison Region Economic Partnership and Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation) and workforce training organizations (Employ Milwaukee and WRTP | BIG STEP).
Zach Ziemek will represent the United States in the decathlon for the third time when he competes in the 2024 Olympics that will take place in Paris. He worked out at the McClimmon Track/Soccer Complex on Wednesday, but he wasn’t alone.
Terrace Art Zone: Easy, free craft sessions for all ages are held on the UW Memorial Union Terrace, 800 Langdon St., from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays through Aug. 17.
UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone is stepping down from the chancellorship of the Universities of Wisconsin’s second-largest school at the end of the upcoming academic year, continuing a years-long string of turnover in top leadership across the UW system.
Mone will have served as chancellor for 11 years, a tenure he noted exceeded any of UWM’s past chancellors, with the exception of its founder. Mone will return to teaching at the Lubar College of Business, effective July 1, 2025.
The Wisconsin hub focuses on personalized medicine, or tailoring treatments to a patient’s genetic makeup or other individual characteristics. Along with UW-Madison and Madison Area Technical College, partners include Madison companies Accuray and Exact Sciences, GE Healthcare and Rockwell Automation in the Milwaukee area and Neenah-based manufacturer Plexus.
As a Wisconsin resident, I am proud of the role played by UW-Madison in gene therapy and its future potential. Unfortunately, our Legislature fails to appreciate the university’s scientific contributions to humanity when it comes to funding.
The University of Wisconsin’s director of cross country and track and field was again its most-rewarded coach in bonuses for the spring season.
All three of the Universities of Wisconsin’s vice presidents will be serving in interim status come September.
The Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub Consortium members include the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), the University of Wisconsin System Administration, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, GE HealthCare, Rockwell Automation, Exact Sciences Corporation, BioForward Wisconsin, Employ Milwaukee, Accuray, Plexus, WRTP Big Step, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Madison Area Technical College, the Madison Regional Economic Partnership (MadREP), and Milwaukee7.
UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott told me his department is “working through challenges” with the new law and hoping to receive guidance from the state’s Office of Open Government, part of the Department of Justice. “It’s a broadly worded law that’s really untested. We’re all trying to figure it out.”
“We’re coupling Wisconsin’s innovation capacity with Wisconsin’s manufacturing capacity in a way that is really unique,” said Aaron Olver, managing director of UW-Madison’s University Research Park on Madison’s West Side and steering committee chair for the tech hub.
Leo began his teaching career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1964, first serving as an Assistant Professor in the Soil Science Department, then as an Associate Professor, and subsequently rising through the ranks, eventually becoming full Professor and Chair. Leo’s long and impressive career culminated in his appointment as Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) in 1979 and served in this capacity until 1991.
The nuclear engineering program at UW-Madison is also part of the research mix.
Leaders of Wisconsin’s state universities are weighing whether to update policies on political campaigning in residence halls for the first time since 1988.
He went on to complete his PhD in Physiology in 1970, and joined the UW faculty. Over the course of his career, he advanced engineering applications in medicine, taught, and mentored graduate students in Medical Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Radiology. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 1994.
UW Health plans to build a new cyclotron, which makes radioactive atoms used in scans to detect tumors and other ailments, to expand research and treatment of cancer and conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Thomas O’Guinn, professor emeritus in marketing at UW-Madison, said businesses typically gain cult-like followings by accident. But it’s the businesses that help fulfill a person’s need to belong that stick out from the pack, he said.
Former University of Wisconsin standout women’s soccer player Rose Lavelle will try to improve on her last finish with the U.S. Women’s National Team at the Olympics.
If donors have a set sum they’re willing to give to the Wisconsin athletic department, which category should it go to: the facility that has been eyed for years or the NIL funding that might make the difference in putting together a winning roster?
Katie Ledecky and Phoebe Bacon have been “buddies’’ for decades. Or since Ledecky was in grade school and Bacon was in kindergarten and they were part of a “buddy’’ system.
List includes multiple former UW-Madison student athletes.
The returning American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Americans are two of 14 college players who will represent the United States at the NORCECA Women’s Final Six Pan American Cup next week in the Dominican Republic.
Bucky Badger, the Wisconsin Alumni Association and members of the UW band came to Janesville for a birthday party Tuesday.
Jake Vander Zanden is director of the Center for Limnology at UW-Madison, a research center focused on Wisconsin’s inland waters. He is exploring whether lake ecosystems can themselves keep invasives in check. But for now, a lake district’s best bet is to “manage to minimize” the negative impacts, Vander Zanden said.
“The wet springs become even wetter, the drier springs become even drier. That creates risk that these producers need to manage,” said Jeff Hadachek, assistant professor of agricultural and applied sciences at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a primate problem. No, there aren’t primates running amok on the campus, but there are significant concerns about the ethics of animal research and the treatment of the campus’ over 1,500 primates.
It’s been quintessential to the college experience of Parthenon Gyros’ co-owner, Erin Vranas, in ways far more personal than most. As a new college student at UW-Madison in 2006, the Black River Falls native was still adjusting to a world where people outnumbered cows when she met her now-husband, Dimetri, outside his parents’ restaurant on State Street. At the time, nothing Vranas was studying at UW-Madison felt right — interior design, consumer science and astronomy all piqued her interest but ultimately didn’t offer what she wanted.
This State Journal report ran on June 23, 1854:
This engraving represents the university as it is to be when completed. At present, only the first dormitory building at the right of the central building is completed. The first one at the left is in the process of construction and will be finished the present season.
The University of Wisconsin swim program is going to have to adjust its wall of Olympians.
That’s because senior Phoebe Bacon earned a spot on Team USA with her second-place finish in the 200-meter backstroke finals Friday at the USA Swimming Trials in Indianapolis. That means she’ll be part of the U.S. Olympic team this summer in Paris.
UW Health is opening a new regional Med Flight base at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville, allowing faster response times for patients in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
Zach Ziemek knows what it takes to reach the Olympic stage, having earned top-10 finishes in the decathlon at the 2016 Rio Games and the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
He retired from UW-Madison in 1997 as Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Counseling Psychology and as Director of Training at the University Counseling Service.
The Richland campus will officially close at the end of June, since UW system leadership has ended negotiations with Richland County officials over the future of the campus. The real death of the campus came a year ago, when classes ended.
Sarah Franklin, the reigning national player of the year, and Carter Booth both were selected to play for Team USA at the NORCECA Women’s Final Six Pan American Cup in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The tournament runs Wednesday through June 30.
In 1991, he applied to work at the School for Workers in Madison, WI, and started another chapter of his life.
Column authored by Steven Wright, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he directs the Constitutional Litigation, Appeals, and Sentencing Project.
Thirty years ago, when the idea that would give rise to Mirus Bio took shape in a UW-Madison laboratory, scientists were only beginning to piece together the puzzle of human genetics.
Former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow pushed back on claims that he used university computers to visit pornography websites during a hearing on whether the university has grounds to dismiss him from faculty.
She worked in several Madison-area laboratories, most recently with the UW-Madison Carbone Center.
Kelly Sheffield’s salary as University of Wisconsin volleyball coach is getting a boost, with more on the line for continued success by the Badgers.
Susan Carpenter, the native plant garden curator at UW-Madison’s arboretum, said she also likes to keep an eye out for the yellow bumble bee. It’s one of the species in Wisconsin in need of conservation, she said.
After two days of fiery exchanges at the Omni Center, former Chancellor Joe Gow and UW-La Crosse officials concluded their arguments Thursday about whether Gow should be allowed to keep his tenured faculty position.
A team of scientists from the UW-led Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center mapped millions of acres of abandoned farmland across the U.S. over several decades in a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Knowing where this abandoned land is could help people evaluate it for different uses, including climate solutions, the team theorized.
Authored by Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist at UW-Madison and the manager of the Wisconsin Environmental Mesonet. Vagasky is an expert on topics related to lightning data and lightning safety, meteorological measurements, and applications of weather measurements.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, in collaboration with the UW-Madison Animal and Dairy Science Department, is set to host a series of four in-person workshops focused on Beef X Dairy crossbred cattle from July 29 to August 1, 2024.
A BadgerExtra source said Thursday morning that director of player personnel Max Stienecker will be getting a new title and the Badgers will look to hire a new director of player personnel.
For UW-La Crosse, the hearing is the first step in a two-part process to finally purge Gow from its payroll and move on from what many see as an embarrassing chapter that damaged the university’s reputation.
That’s particularly true in the state’s dairy farms, which are routinely staffed by undocumented immigrants, according to a 2023 report from the UW-Madison School for Workers. This has created new coalitions advocating on immigration issues in the state.
Among the recipients are Luiz Ferraretto, UW-Madison Dairy Nutrition Extension Specialist, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, and PJ Leisch, Extension Entomologist, Director, Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Former UW-La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow and his former colleagues engaged in a harsh battle of words over Gow’s disputed faculty position Wednesday afternoon.
