Noted: Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison journalism professor who studies political messaging, said the priorities identified by the candidates reveal how they are trying to position themselves among the various Democratic voting constituencies.
The University of Wisconsin System must do more to combat sexual harassment and misconduct on its campuses, President Ray Cross told the Board of Regents on Friday.
Although UW-Madison is one of her top choices, she knows her parents can’t afford the $10,533 in tuition each year.
Under a dimly lit streetlight in Madison, Wisconsin, a woman witnessed a standoff between a fox and a coyote—two predators that have made the city their home. In an email to wildlife researcher David Drake at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, she described the brief (and quite frankly, anti-climatic) interaction: For about 15 seconds, they stood face-to-face, about 10 feet part. They then turned around—and sauntered off in the opposite direction.
Today, researchers at Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan announced the release of Polisis—short for “privacy policy analysis”—a new website and browser extension that uses their machine-learning-trained app to automatically read and make sense of any online service’s privacy policy, so you don’t have to.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has unveiled a plan to offer free tuition to students whose families make $56,000 or less a year.
This silence has real consequences. Almost 30% of college-age women can’t identify their clitoris on an anatomy test, according to a study from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
New in-state University of Wisconsin-Madison students from low-to-moderate income families will get free tuition and fees for four years under a new program, university officials announced Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin Madison on Thursday announced a free tuition plan for many in-state students that will start in the fall, the latest development in the spread of free public college.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will now offer free tuition and fees for students from households that make less than $56,000 a year, The Associated Press reported.
The PREFIRE team consists of experts in Earth system modeling, Arctic ice, and remote sensing, and is led by Tristan L’Ecuyer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
New in-state University of Wisconsin-Madison students will get free tuition if they come from families making $56,000 or less.
Noted: According to UW Madison Assistant Professor of Textile and Apparel Design Marianne Fairbanks, many athlete’s uniforms are ’smart’ textiles- meaning the uniform is actually a piece of technology that can aid the athlete in competition.
Students who go to University Health Services to visit mental health providers and participate in group therapy sessions can look forward to an increase in rooms.
Wisconsin students who want to attend UW-Madison and have a family income of $56,000 or less are now eligible to have four years of tuition and segregated fees covered by the university, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Thursday.
University of Wisconsin all-time leading men’s basketball scorer Alando Tucker has been hired as the athletic department’s director of student-athlete engagement.
A handful of UW System Regents circulated through the bright new MakerSpace on the UW-Madison campus, marveling at the high-tech equipment and talking with students about the devices they had designed.
A former UW-Madison employee stole more than $100,000 from the Division of University Housing, UW officials said Thursday.
The UW System Regents took UW-Madison administrators to task Thursday for a lack of controls that allowed a former Division of University Housing employee to allegedly defraud the university of an estimated $115,000 in property and cash.
UW-Madison officials say the university will cover tuition and fee costs for Wisconsin students from families with incomes below the state median, a move they say shows all state residents that an education at the state’s flagship campus is within reach.
SHINE, an offshoot of UW-Madison research, recently completed the first of several buildings and moved its equipment in last week.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved new contracts for coach Paul Chryst and two top assistants following a school-record 13-win season.
Meisler got her first camera in second grade, but it wasn’t until she enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in Madison during the mid-1970s that she became serious about the form while pursuing an MFA in illustration. During school breaks, she returned to her childhood home, where she staged a series of self-portraits that examined her past, present, and future.
University of Wisconsin researchers are hoping to expand a program that involves coaching primary care doctors to follow opioid prescribing guidelines as part of the fight against the state’s opioid epidemic.
The Supreme Court upheld mandatory bar dues for lawyers in 1990, relying on the Abood decision. And in 2000, the court rejected a free-speech challenge to the required student fees at state universities. Conservative students at the University of Wisconsin had sued, contending they should not be forced to subsidize left-leaning speakers and student groups.
“It’s a big step in the right direction,” says Erika Marín-Spiotta, a biogeochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who is co-leading a US$1.1-million initiative funded by the NSF to combat sexual and other harassment in the sciences. But Marín-Spiotta says that agencies must do more to develop truly protective policies. Among other things, the NSF policy does not address what happens if an institution never completes an investigation.
(Goldrick-Rab recently moved to Temple from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she once said the number of similarities between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Adolf Hitler were “terrifying.” Presumably, her contract with her new employer provides her with a daily plate of spaghetti and meatballs to prevent her from saying such uninformed things.)
While in graduate school in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I took a logic course from David Griffeath. The class was fun. Griffeath brought a playfulness and openness to problems. Much to my delight, about a decade later, I ran into him at a conference on traffic models. During a presentation on computational models of traffic jams, his hand went up. I wondered what Griffeath—a mathematical logician—would have to say about traffic jams. He did not disappoint. Without even a hint of excitement in his voice, he said: ‘If you are modeling a traffic jam, you should just keep track of the non-cars.’
DeWalt led the nationally-known Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) talent development program for 15 years as its director.
UW to maintain new bike racks, masonry towers.
The Wisconsin Union announced Wednesday that they will soon accept food stamps at Badger Market in Union South.
n an attempt to counter perceptions that its majors are unemployable, UW-Madison’s College of Letters and Science celebrated the grand opening of its new career center, SuccessWorks, Wednesday evening.
The Common Application is a win for both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and prospective college students, according to UW-Madison officials, as it increases the number of applications received while decreasing the amount of time spent applying.
As University of Wisconsin System Regents meet to discuss the merger of the System’s two- and four-year campuses, President Ray Cross faces new push-back from faculty for his handling of the merger — and what critics call his disdain for input from faculty, staff and students.
Getting the vote out will be paramount on the UW-Madison campus this year, as the state’s flagship university goes for the Big Ten voting trophy.
It may be legal to shout insults or slurs at someone, but that doesn’t mean you should. That goes for college campuses, social media or anywhere else, said participants in “Ideas on Trial: Free Speech on College Campuses,” a panel discussion held Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Eau Claire officials are trying to figure out why fewer students got the flu shot this year.
As a single mother of six and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison studying mothers and feminism, Levingston said, “I know firsthand the ways in which mothers from the margins are often spoken for, spoken to, spoken at, but rarely invited to speak.”
Representative for Sen. Tammy Baldwin also attended Tuesday meeting.
The Perkins Loan Program, which provided $25.4 million in low-interest loans to UW System students, has expired, with seemingly little hope of congressional renewal in sight.
The Badgers coach, who’s scheduled to leave Wednesday to be head coach of the U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team, said he’s going to try to keep tabs on the UW games.
The worst season in 20 years for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team has put some fans on edge. Some people are even wondering about the direction of the program under coach Greg Gard.
Security weaknesses in the University of Wisconsin System’s IT infrastructure increase the risk it could be subject to a cyberattack or that student data could be exposed, a new state audit has found.
Opioid doses dropped 11 percent at UW Health clinics that paid special attention to urine drug testing and other monitoring of patients, while doses went up 8 percent at other UW clinics, a new study found.
University of Wisconsin System officials are being admonished to make progress on long-identified weaknesses in the university’s information technology security, as recommended in a report by the Legislative Audit Bureau.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison professors is criticizing UW System President Ray Cross for his deliberate refusal to consult with faculty groups in devising a plan to merge the system’s two-year colleges with four-year institutions, and his “shocking” allegiance to the agenda of Republican legislators.
Mitch, an associate professor at UW-Madison and director of the Neighborhood Law Clinic who goes by just that name, compared (Matthew Desmond’s book, “Evicted”) to “The Jungle,” the Upton Sinclair novel that portrayed harsh working conditions faced by immigrants in the early 1900s.
Wisconsin head football coach Paul Chryst and his top two assistants are in line for pay raises.
In a Saturday morning incident, Madison Police Department officers pulled a man to safety from a sixth floor balcony they believed he was prepared to jump from.
University of Wisconsin System regents are considering raising tuition for nonresident and graduate students at three institutions next year.
Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee met on Monday for a budget decision on Child Care Tuition Assistance Program and a budget hearing of University Health Services.
Leslie Bow, a professor of Asian-American studies at the University of Wisconsin, spends her time conducting research within the uncanny valley. Bow is discovering how artificial intelligence has begun to embody stereotypes of Asian women seen in popular culture.
University of Wisconsin biomedical engineering professor David Beebe is working to bring a new type of tuberculosis test to places in Africa that experience high rates of the disease.
The discovery, “could help close major gaps in our understanding of spider evolution,” says Prashant Sharma, an evolutionary developmental biologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who was not involved in the work.
Two years ago University Health Services got a 17.5 percent increase to their budget — a massive jump from their average yearly increase of two to four percent — in order to expand their mental health services.
Exactly 169 years ago today, a group of Badgers attended UW-Madison’s first classes. Now, Feb. 5 — Founders’ Day — is celebrated by students and alumni around the world.
An email exchange obtained by Wisconsin Public Radio revealed Thursday that University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross did not include shared governance committees of students and faculty in his decision to restructure the UW System.
During its writing he had enjoyed a year as a visiting fellow at the School for Workers run by the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and in 1961 he returned there to a professorship in the department of history. Many friends thought he might settle in the US for good, but his former Leeds colleague Asa Briggs lured him back to the UK and the chair of social history at the University of Sussex in 1970.
It will come as no surprise to friends of Pete Christianson that the recently retired Madison attorney gets news alerts about the University of Wisconsin sent to his phone.
