The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team had the top offense and top defense in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, and one player on each side earned league honors on Wednesday.
A chorus of faculty demanding that University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross demonstrate respect for their role in governing the university is rising, as news of looming layoffs on one campus renews concerns over the way Cross is leading the institution.
Future salary is not the best measure of a degrees worth, or a student’s success.
Researchers at UW-Madison are reassuring everyone about the safety of their work on an Ebola virus vaccine.
Union South’s traffic has declined by 10 percent every year for the past three years.
Russian influence in elections has been going on for years around the world, U.S. election just brought it to light, panelists said.
New dining policy puts spotlight on food insecurity on campus.
A UW-Madison lab next month will start making an experimental Ebola virus vaccine for use in a clinical trial to start in Japan in December.
Ethan Happ earned first-team All-Big Ten honors for the second consecutive season, but he wasn’t the no-brainer pick he was a year ago.
Could the sexual assault scandal that unfolded in Michigan State’s athletic department take place at the University of Wisconsin? It’s a fair question, said Walter Dickey, the Badgers’ special assistant to the athletic director. “We feel no,” Dickey said, “but we also feel a responsibility to our kids and our fans to assure them that we are managing these things in a responsible way.”
Under the president’s plan, teachers would get paid more to go through the training necessary to carry a gun in school.
Johannes Wallmann took a circuitous route to the University of Wisconsin–Madison before saving its jazz program.
Pursuing a degree in L&S should not be something that seems like a risk for incoming students.
The UW System Board of Regents Executive Committee approved a resolution Tuesday to return Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television to its administrative home at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison administration reassured students that participation in April’s national walkout in protest of gun violence in schools would not hurt their chances of being admitted to the university, the Journal Sentinel reported Monday.
A week after ranking among the top producers of Peace Corps volunteers worldwide, UW-Madison kicked off its week-long celebration of the 57th anniversary of the federal volunteer program Monday night.
Lilly runs four dedicated fan accounts for the Badgers: one for D’Mitrik Trice, one for Aleem Ford, one for Walt McGrory and one for the whole Wisconsin team.
Newly released open records have revealed that there have been 96 formal investigations of employee sexual misconduct since 2014.
In an effort to raise awareness for campus contraception resources, University Health Services and a student organization are working together on a series of contraceptive workshops slated to take place next month.
Following college he worked for the University in the Library Copy Center until retirement.
A one-block, one-sided stretch of North Lake Street will be closed for two weeks, due to the construction of a building on the UW-Madison campus.
The circular forms built into the concrete structure of UW-Madison’s new music hall weren’t put there as windows or for aesthetics.
They had been roommates for all of two weeks when Aaron Moesch decided it was time to deliver a bold statement to Matt Ferris.
When the U.S. women’s hockey team scored an epic victory over the long-dominant Canadian team, the loudest cheers went up from Wisconsin. Mostly, they were for the U.S. team.
The paper presented at the conference was written by David Greenlaw of Morgan Stanley , James Hamilton of the University of California San Diego, Ethan Harris of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Kenneth West of the University of Wisconsin. It argues most of what people now believe of the asset purchases is likely wrong.
While the Fed has not set an end point, the paper’s authors – David Greenlaw of Morgan Stanley, Ethan Harris of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, James Hamilton of University of California at San Diego, and Kenneth West of University of Wisconsin – said it should not go too far and consider larger and looser run-off caps.
Galioto allegedly pushed the UW Madison student into Rome’s Tiber River, where he drowned. Solomon was in Rome for a five-week course at John Cabot University and disappeared at around 01:00 on July 1, 2016.
Blobel graduated from the University of Tübingen’s medical school in 1960 and, at the suggestion of his oldest brother, a veterinarian on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, completed his education in the United States. He received a doctorate in oncology from Wisconsin in 1967 and subsequently joined Rockefeller University on a research fellowship. Beginning in 1986, he also worked as an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Md.
Günter Blobel left his native Germany in 1962 to attend graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. He thought he would stay in the U.S. a year or two. He ended up remaining for the rest of his life, becoming a professor at Rockefeller University in New York and winning a Nobel Prize in 1999 for his contributions to cell biology.
On Wednesday, the day before he turned 22, former University of Wisconsin-Madison student Alec Cook went before a judge in Dane County criminal court and put an end to a major case of campus serial rape, pleading guilty to sexually assaulting three female classmates, and suffocating or stalking two others.
“Neanderthals appear to have had a cultural competence that was shared by modern humans,” says John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who wasn’t involved with the study. “They were not dumb brutes, they were recognizably human
Other experts agree with the dates and that the timing means the art must have been created by Neanderthals. There’s no fossil evidence of modern humans in Spain that long ago, says John Hawks a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who wasn’t involved in the research. “There’s no secret story,” he says. “The results are just, ‘Hey, Neanderthals were making these things, and you didn’t know it.’”
“Most cows will revert back to positive calcium balance by six to eight weeks post-calving, meaning the calcium intake now equals or exceeds calcium outflow,” says Garrett Oetzel, DVM, professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “However, she can draw on her bone calcium for up to four months into lactation, including during times of stress or low feed intake.”
Wisconsin hockey players were among those who helped Team USA win Olympic gold in women’s hockey for the first time in 20 years.Forward Hillary Knight, who won two national championships with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, scored the opening goal against Canada Thursday, redirecting a teammate’s shot into the net just before the end of the first period.
“I think the reaction to the song was shock; Curtis had been such a voice for harmony and reconciliation,” says Craig Werner, an Afro-American studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Curtis Mayfield and the Rise and Fall of American Soul.
A driver who was drunk and on drugs when he struck and killed a University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Pity Ray Cross. The formerly genial president of the University of Wisconsin System is trapped between an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)–fueled state government and Board of Regents, on the one hand, and the venerable, obstinately popular “Wisconsin Idea” of accessible public higher education, on the other. What’s an ambitious university administrator to do?
In her first season with the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, goaltender Kristen Campbell is one of 10 finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award.
With that, often comes criticism from the community and competition for the few spaces made available for public art. UW-Madison art professor Faisal Abdu’Allah said public art can be “problematic,” especially for the artist.
Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television will become part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison this summer, members of the UW System Board of Regents decided Tuesday.
A Madison man whose careening SUV jumped a curb and struck and killed a UW-Madison student from China, only minutes after she last communicated by social media with her mother in Beijing, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison.
UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said Fitzgerald has been enrolled since 2016 as a graduate student in a Ph.D program in molecular and cellular pharmacology.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is responding to criticism from faculty and students who say he failed to consult them on the plan to merge two-year campuses with four-year universities.
At the University of Wisconsin- Madison School of Nursing, a new accelerated program was started to help end the nursing shortage.
A student organization at the University of Wisconsin- Madison called Badgerloop has qualified as one of nine teams in the United States to compete in the international 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Competition.
A 33-year-old man was sentenced in Dane County court Thursday in connection with a drunken-driving-related death of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student last year.
UW Health is making history in the state this month opening the only clinic focused solely on lupus patients and addressing their needs.
University has pre-established process for companies wishing to sell UW-branded products.
Z Nicolazzo, an assistant professor of higher education and student affairs at Northern Illinois University, spoke to approximately 50 students and faculty about the importance of fostering an inclusive campus environment.
Two of the people in the group were Wisconsin Badgers. Of course two of them were Wisconsin Badgers. It’s basically a federal law that any good bachelor party needs at least one Wisconsin Badger.
Faculty and students have criticized UW System President Ray Cross for not consulting with them in a plan to merge two-year campuses with four-year universities. However, Cross said Wednesday that system leaders had to act quickly to avoid the closure of several campuses.UW System President Ray Cross said he believes strongly in shared governance, but he feels the responsibilities for administration under that process and those of faculty, staff and students aren’t clearly understood.
The tallies were always close. And when turnout in cities like Madison and Milwaukee lags, urbanites can be swallowed by rural folks — and those latter voters have become more consolidated around the Republican flag in the last decade, says Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Obama’s success in the state, and Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016, proved, “Yeah, we could be very blue, but you have to excite and engage the base,” Burden says.
Hilary Knight was “crushed and heartbroken” after that come-from-ahead loss. “There was definitely an I-don’t-know-if-I-can-go-another-four-years kind of feeling,” she told NBC Sports’ Nick Zaccardi last year. Knight, who was a college star at the University of Wisconsin, had thought at one point that she wasn’t even going to make it to Sochi. She’d gone to Boston to train for the games, she told Fox Sports, and ended up calling her mom “bawling crying because my funding essentially wasn’t enough to live out here.
Although still in high school, VanDommelen has logged hundreds of hours in a lab headed by biomedical engineer Melissa Skala at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The experience has sent the teenager down a career path that will probably include many more hours at the bench. “At first, I wasn’t sure that research was something that I wanted to do in my future,” VanDommelen says. “But after all of the positive experiences that I’ve had, I definitely want to continue this.”
Lucas Graves, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and chair of the Shadid Award judging committee said of the Reuters entry: “This series involves a topic that is highly personal to the families of those who donated their bodies and important to everyone. Reporters and editors invested in telling this story as thoroughly as possible and dealt with some unexpected landmines in a thoughtful way.”
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of a series of sexual assaults pleaded guilty to five felony charges Wednesday in Dane County Court. Under the plea agreement, 21-year-old Alec Cook will also have to register as a sex offender.
Jared Kaufman ran out of a University of Wisconsin-Madison library last week to call his brother.Kaufman, a senior, was writing a paper when he found out about a shooting at his alma mater, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida — the same school Kaufman’s brother attends.
“The cognitive changes we report are highly statistically significant in view of the internal normative standards we employ, and the large sample size of the control, or non-surgery, population,” said Kirk Hogan from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.
A former student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has pleaded guilty to five felonies stemming from a string of alleged assaults around campus.
