The five members of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coaching staff will earn more than $5 million in combined salary in the 2024-25 season.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday called on Republicans who control the state’s budget committee to release previously approved state funds set aside to aid communities facing the closure of several Universities of Wisconsin branch campuses.
Crews will work over the next few days to put in a new pier near UW-Madison’s Memorial Union.
At the NCAA Regional Tournament in West Lafayette, Indiana last week, Huss carded a 211 over three rounds (66-74-74), the best 54-hole score by a Badger in the tourney since 1991.
UW Health said four clinics would be closed until noon Wednesday due to power outages: Yahara Clinic, Science Drive Medical Center, Digestive Health Center, and Cross Plains Clinic.
The application window is open now for another round of By Youth for Youth funding thanks to the city of Madison, UW Extension and United Way of Dane County securing a climate specific grant. Any youth climate-focused projects can apply for a grant of up to $5,000.
Aiden Assad, a college sophomore at UW-Madison, also received the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. scholarship award through its Madison Alumni Chapter.
“What I have learned is that they offer connections, networking, lifelong relationships, and things you can capitalize off of in the long run,” said Assad. “it’s a beautiful brotherhood.”
Four UW Health clinics will be closed until noon Wednesday because of power outages.
The leaders of the encampment protest that occurred at Library Mall earlier this month called on the UW-Madison Police Department on Tuesday to return items that they said were confiscated when law enforcement cleared the encampment on May 1.
WARF Therapeutics’ portfolio includes innovations tied to “theranostics,” a term for delivery of radioactive drugs that can be diagnostic and therapeutic in the same dose. In short, it’s about pinpoint targeting of potentially malignant cells for both diagnosis with one drug and destruction with another.
“With the mild El Niño winter we had this last year we started seeing some activity back in months like February,” UW Extension Entomologist PJ Liesch said. “I always like to remind folks that technically, you could bump into ticks in Wisconsin any month of the year as long as it’s warm enough. It generally has to be free of snow on the ground and about 40 degrees and above.”
Giles-Klinkner was one of three finalists for the position and will step into the new role immediately. She has served as Madison College Interim Provost during the 2023-24 academic year after the retirement of Dr. Turina Bakken.
UW Applied Economics Assistant Professor Andrew Stevens said it’s more than just an attempt to help people dealing with high grocery costs caused by inflation.
UW-Madison botanist Shelby Ellison, who examined the plants for WMTV before they were removed, told the station that they were cannabis plants. But she told The Associated Press on Friday that she couldn’t say for certain whether they were marijuana or hemp.
Letter to the editor: Sometimes people may feel a certain apprehension about attending an unfamiliar place. I want to tip my hat to the exceptionally talented caring group at this location.
Wisconsin students study abroad at dozens of universities globally every year, while the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the top producers of Peace Corps volunteers. Other eligible voters might be temporarily in another country for their job.
Terrie Mess of Lake Geneva sent TMJ4 photos of several cicadas hatching in her yard on Friday. PJ Liesch, with UW’s Department of Entomology, along with the DNR, confirmed that this represents the first report they are aware of in Wisconsin this year.
Letter to the editor: Standing in stark contrast to this academic wasteland is the announcement that UW Madison has, over several years now, produced more Peace Corps volunteers than any other campus in the country. This accomplishment does not happen by chance but is the product of vision and hard work by the International Division of the University, our campus recruiter, and the tireless work of the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Wisconsin–Madison in volunteer recruitment. Congratulations to them. They are still able to find students with hearts to serve and to inspire them to follow their dreams.
Through a bill signed by the governor in February, top students at high schools across Wisconsin will be guaranteed to get into a Wisconsin university. Through Senate Bill 367, now Wisconsin Act 95, Universities of Wisconsin is offering certain high schoolers in the state some assurance.
There has been a general rise in solar activity on the sun in recent years, said Mayra Oyola-Merced, UW-Madison assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
Guest column by Anusha Talwalkar, a recent graduate of the master of public health program at UW Madison.
“We’re here to give away scholarships to acknowledge their success on, you know, graduating high school and going to college,” UW-Madison Divine 9 Chairperson Alexander Ricketts said. “It is the first time we ever came together and done something like this in Madison.”
For several decades, he worked happily in two half-time jobs at UW-Madison, the first as a technical writer at Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), an academic unit that he first joined in 1966. In 1974, he began concurrent employment as a computer programmer at the Waisman Center, a UW research hub on developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative diseases.
Letter to the editor: I was behind the police line at the Commerce Building riot at UW-Madison in 1967. Crossing Bascom Hill, I had encountered small clusters of young people helping bloodied demonstrators away from the packed crowd. The police had just cleared the building of sit-in demonstrators, and around 15 officers had formed a defensive semi-circle outside the main doors.
Michigan took first place and their second consecutive title while Wisconsin finished sixth in the championship.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is discontinuing in-person classes at its Fond du Lac campus on Friday.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced the creation of a new central location for information and resources related to the spongy moth. The Spongy Moth Resource Center is part of a combined effort by the DNR, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension.
As a result, some schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have delayed their commitment deadlines. But many colleges are expecting fewer freshmen to enroll next school year, according to the Forum. Enrollment declines could be particularly sharp at community colleges, where many students from historically disadvantaged communities opt to attend due to their lower cost.
The Badgers are welcoming seven other Big Ten crews to Wisconsin this weekend for the conference regatta. It’s the fourth time the state has held the event and the second time for Devil’s Lake State Park in Baraboo as the body of water chosen for racing.
The return of University of Wisconsin men’s basketball and men’s hockey teams to the NCAA Tournament in 2024 meant higher bonus payouts for the athletic department.
The zoo’s animal care team brought in consultants and veterinarians from UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, the Henry Vilas Zoo, the Kettle Moraine Equine Hospital and Regional Equine Dental Center, and others, to assist with the procedure and its planning.
Singapore’s new prime minister is a 1994 graduate of UW-Madison. Lawrence Wong took over as prime minister on Wednesday, becoming the fourth leader of the country since its independence in 1965.
UW Madison Assistant Director of Federal Rewards Katy Weisenburger said her office is working to extend deadlines for students who, to know fault of their own, couldn’t make the FAFSA process work.
”I have seen a lot of students be very discouraged, yes, for sure…. I have had parents crying about not being able to get this done,” she said. “It’s a really awful situation. I would not be surprised if some students choose to not apply for financial aid or choose to not go to school because of this situation, which is really sad.”
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student adaptation of the play “Boy Gets Girl” by Rebecca Gilman cuts deep into dating experiences and expectations of women in a three-day run in Vilas Hall room 4010.
The collective, launched in the second half of 2022 to facilitate name, image and likeness deals for Badgers players, released its first tax filing Thursday. It showed nearly $3.5 million in contributions and more than $1.7 million in payments to athletes.
Saturday, May 18, the University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra will present its 26th annual spring concert, ‘The Snowstorm’. The concert will feature several soloists as they perform Slavic-inspired orchestral pieces.
The author, Dr. Phil Greenwood, joined WMTV on Wednesday to discuss the five strategies for growth. Dr. Greenwood says he was motivated to write this book as these strategies have been taught at UW for decades.
The Badgers on Wednesday hired Lance Randall as an assistant coach. Randall rounds out the Badgers coaching staff, joining Joe Krabbenhoft, Sharif Chambliss and Kirk Penney.
The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center is now home to the new Initiative for Theranostics and Particle Therapy.
Construction season is in full swing on UW-Madison’s campus, as some of their summer projects are already underway.
You can show some school spirit with new Badger Red mini Terrace chairs.
Terrace enthusiasts can add a new mini Terrace chair to their collection as a new limited edition chair has been unveiled.
Kirk Penney, Wisconsin’s special assistant to the head coach, will be inducted to the FIBA Hall of Fame’s class of 2024 during a September ceremony in Singapore.
Letter to the editor: In this global economy, more companies do business with Israel than don’t. Additionally, many of these companies develop medical and other technologies that save lives and advance human knowledge. Then there is the hypocrisy: If UW-Madison must divest in Apple and other phone makers because of its Israeli market (and use of its products by the military), are UW students going to give up their iPhones?
Letter to the editor: We of Madison for a World BEYOND War found what happened there extremely inspiring. Of the many things we witnessed, the conduct of the students was a true ray of hope in our murky future. We saw young people capably imagining & creating a better world.
The University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate is scheduled to hold a special meeting May 20 to read through a resolution condemning university administration’s decision to use police force against protesters on Library Mall May 1.
Meanwhile, new technologies like artificial intelligence will give cybercriminals new frontiers, said University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor Somesh Jha, who specializes in security. While machine learning tools can be used to automate some parts of the cybersecurity process, they also offer bad actors new ways to wreak havoc, like, for example, interfering with self-driving cars.
Similar-sized cities like Fort Wayne, Indiana, or Toledo, Ohio, that had their manufacturing sectors decline have seen their populations either stagnant or barely grow year over year, while Madison continues to grow, said Kurt Paulsen, a professor of urban planning at UW-Madison. And other Midwest state capitals with big universities, such as Lincoln, Nebraska or Columbus, Ohio, have lower median home values.
“This is always the challenge with how you measure Madison,” Paulsen said. “It’s really hard to find a comparable.”
There’s a chance that not everyone in the audience made the connection between the guitar-playing singer churning out cover songs and the many other hats that Vince Sweeney wore.
That play list includes being a former Cap Times sports editor, a University of Wisconsin athletic department administrator and a founding vice chancellor for university relations.
The Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which was erected in late April by University of Wisconsin-Madison students who want to see an end to the killing in Gaza and Israel, was taken down last week after UW administrators and members of the group Students for Justice in Palestine reached an agreement to keep talking about student demands.
The Associated Students of Madison (ASM) approved over $5,500 in grant allocations to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for the 2024-25 academic year — the eighth-highest allocation of all 119 student organizations that received grant funding at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When Wisconsin hosts Alabama on Sept. 14, the premier college football matchup will be televised on FOX as part of the network’s Big Noon kickoff.
“I’ve lived here for 30 years and until last summer, never had a summer like that where we had the air quality warnings,” says Monica Turner, a Professor of Ecology & Biology for UW-Madison.
“The wildfires in Canada are so large and they’re being driven by the warming climate that we have. The smoke particles are going up in the atmosphere and then coming down and being driven by the winds into Wisconsin and other parts of the country,” says Turner.
At about 7:20 p.m. Saturday, UW officers responded to Library Mall for a report of a battery and a person told them that a man later identified as a 48-year-old Madison man had assaulted a speaker during a peaceful demonstration, UW police spokesperson Marc Lovicott said in a statement.
UW-Police Department arrested a 48-year-old Madison man after he allegedly assaulted a speaker during a peaceful demonstration at 7:20 p.m. Saturday evening.
UW-Madison management professor Martin Ganco says non-competes allow companies to lock employees in place without offering competitive wages.
Friday evening, University of Wisconsin students and Madison community members stood on Library Mall as a group of organizers took tents down one by one. As each tent was taken down, the name of a Palestinian university destroyed in the ongoing war in Gaza was read aloud.
A small group of protesters were back out on Library Mall Sunday, just days after the encampment was torn down after lasting nearly two weeks.
For 7,868 newly minted UW-Madison graduates, Saturday’s commencement ceremony was a last hoorah, a time to take in the view from the peak of their academic careers thus far.
The spring 2024 commencement ceremony marks just over four years since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down many activities across the nation, including high school graduations. For many bachelor’s degree graduates, this commencement offered resolution.
