The number of UW-Madison community members requesting to be walked home at night has dramatically increased following multiple assaults and robberies on campus since the beginning of October.
Although the DOJ hopes to have all 4,000 kits designated for testing to be sent to labs for processing by Fall 2018, UW-Madison’s genetic programs cannot join the effort.
Kurt Bauer, the head of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, recently proposed replacing the slogan “America’s Dairyland” on state license plates with something more appropriate. That’s an idea right up there with the governor’s attempt to remove “The Wisconsin Idea” from the mission statement of the University of Wisconsin System.
Jadin would not name the sites, but three are in Madison — one on the East Side, another on the Far West Side in the as-yet unused University Research Park 2.
The Big Ten announced Thursday morning it will play 20 conference games in men’s basketball and 18 games in women’s basketball starting with the 2018-19 season.
What makes the Camp Randall experience truly special are the I-was-there moments. We all have them, some shared, some deeply personal.
An internal investigation of payments between University of Wisconsin System institutions and the private foundations that support them uncovered a handful of transactions officials flagged as questionable in a report released Wednesday.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has awarded over $80 million to UW-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research for the 2017-2018 school year, so researchers can continue to “dream big.”
University of Wisconsin officials on Wednesday turned up questionable payments by campuses to foundations — including one worth more than $180,000 at UW-La Crosse — but found none like the allegedly illegal ones that rocked UW-Oshkosh.
Quoted: Jason M. Fletcher, a professor of public affairs and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said some of the results from the new study suggest a “general weakness in the analysis.” Fletcher did not participate in the new study.
Student Council also deliberated on 2019 internal budget proposal
Each survivor of sexual assault is different, and each has felt the impact of their assault in different ways.
Although they did not get the turnout they expected, the American Red Cross began accepting blood donations for its Homecoming blood drive.
Swastikas were carved onto the hoods of more than 20 vehicles in an outdoor lot at a Madison car dealership.
The Muslim Student Association received a 14 percent slash to their budget after more than an hour of heated debate over program eligibility for funding from the student finance committee.
She was a member of the UW Foundation Board of Directors beginning in 1982 (ex-officio in recent years), and was the first woman to chair the Foundation (1996-1998).
Esther served as head of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association and later was a dietitian for two residence halls at UW-Madison.
Anti-abortion advocates, and a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, clashed with University of Wisconsin medical school leaders Tuesday over a proposal that would end an arrangement allowing UW doctors to perform abortions and train students at Planned Parenthood.
From his office above the seating bowl, Barry Alvarez can point to the areas where the second century of progress in Camp Randall Stadium are likely to be shaped.
A bill that would bar University of Wisconsin employees from performing or assisting with abortions under the scope of their employment would prevent the UW School of Medicine from training ob-gyn students to perform the procedure.
A proposed 12-story apartment building on the edge of the UW-Madison campus has drawn opposition from the university.
Student leaders at the University of Wisconsin’s 26 campuses are pressing regents to include their input on plans to merge two-year schools with four-year campuses.
Enter Room 2401 of the UW’s Humanities Building these days, and you’ll likely find Daniel Grabois tinkering with keyboards, speakers, microphones, pedals and all kinds of high-tech gizmos that now litter the space.
The annual UW-Madison Homecoming parade will bring fun, music and Bucky to Downtown and the campus, but will also bring traffic congestion for a few hours Friday afternoon and evening.
Recent travels took me to the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County in Wausau, where local bright-eyed first- and second-year students were busy preparing for the future.
The founder of UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
After reading Chris Rickert’s recent column, “50 years later, UW activists look inward,” I wondered what he would be saying about the Dow Chemical protests if they had happened yesterday. Would he be cheering or sniggering from the sidelines that kids today just don’t get it? We’ll leave that for the alternate historians, but Rickert is dead wrong about student protest.
The Madison Police Department said a man armed with a handgun entered the sub shop at 1401 University Ave. shortly before 8 p.m.
The students were selected to receive the federally funded Fulbright-Hays-Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award that will allow them to do research on three different continents for a year. The funds are provided from the U.S. Department of Education.
There are far too many unanswered questions for Regents’ approval in November and implementation in July 2018. Given the business background of the Regents, it would be astounding for them to approve this major change without having fiscal projections and understanding the consequences.
Lee Conway and Alex Becker joined NBC15’s Leigh Mills to talk about their group, Fundamentally Sound.
A telehealth study being conducted by UW Health, so far, has completely eliminated hospital readmissions for postpartum hypertension.
hildren living in less affluent neighborhoods are less likely to be diagnosed with autism, according to a new study led by the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison researchers have set their sights on increasing treatment participation rates and options for those who suffer from opioid addiction after receiving a $3.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Known as Egypt’s Jon Stewart, noted satirist Bassem Youssef will come to University of Wisconsin’s Shannon Hall in November as a part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
What kinds of free speech should be protected? Do some people, or some ideas, get more protection than others? How inviolable is our right to protest speech that we find offensive, or potentially an incitement to violence?
Jeffrey Lewis, an outreach specialist for under-served communities at the University of Wisconsin Extension, will retire Nov. 3, after being recognized next week as a “distinguished prefix,” a title reserved for a small number of high-level academic staff “whose superlative accomplishments are evidenced by widespread peer recognition.”
They always say that one is the loneliest number. As state superintendent for Wisconsin’s public schools and one of only two non-Scott Walker appointments on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, I know it all too well. 16-1.
Dane County has recently been criticized for funding a study with UW-Madison that looked at the specific effects of the new photo ID law on voting patterns in Dane and Milwaukee counties. Apparently, some believe it is inappropriate to study this issue at the local level.
The University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension is a natural fit with University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Wednesday about news that the agency would be absorbed by her campus as part of a sweeping reorganization of the UW System.
The wide-ranging restructuring plan System President Ray Cross announced Wednesday would also bring UW Extension programs under new administration.
A man who was arrested by UW-Madison police on Tuesday for a reported assault and attempted abduction was identified in federal court documents Wednesday as Monona man who is serving five years of federal probation for possessing child pornography.
If you’ve thought about expending brain power to untangle the case of the UW-Madison grad student who may or may not be a racist and the UW-Madison grad student who exposed him, beware that it’s quite the rabbit hole.
A downward spiral in enrollment at the University of Wisconsin System’s two-year campuses spurred the announcement Wednesday of a proposal to keep them afloat by merging them with nearby four-year UW institutions.
University of Wisconsin political science professors involved in the creation of a new publicly funded policy center expressed concern that there wasn’t enough balance between Democratic and Republican speakers at its first planned major event, newly released emails show.
After the Sterling Hall bombing, the war protests on the UW campus came to halt.
While acknowledging areas for improvement, sororities, fraternities seek to expand capacity for positive change.
Speakers were protesting Senate Bill 169, which allows individuals to carry weapons in public places with no permit.
Following four gun-related incidents throughout Madison in the last week, a campus protest of concealed carry on Tuesday and a mass shooting in Las Vegas Oct. 1, legislators and student leaders gathered at the Capitol to voice opposition to a proposed permitless carry bill.
Quoted: “There are no good ways to describe it, but using ‘flinch point’ sounds appropriate,” said Nancy Wong, a professor of consumer science and marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say a recent study of voting on college campuses in the 2016 presidential election shows that efforts to help students navigate the new state Voter ID law were successful.
For his professional career, Fritz worked in sales positions at Nabisco and Great Lakes Homes, following which he entered an extended career with UW-Madison Housing, both in student housing and family housing.
A UW-Madison graduate teaching assistant has been removed from his position after an alleged history of racist and anti-Semitic social media posts.
A bigoted message was painted on a fire circle honoring Native American tribes outside UW-Madison’s Dejope Residence Hall, a university official said.
Unfortunately, the current UW Board of Regents — with the notable exception of state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers — no longer recognizes this essential premise of the University of Wisconsin. They have made clear their abandonment of a commitment to sifting and winnowing, and the Wisconsin Idea that extends from it, by voting to restrict First Amendment rights on UW campuses.
A conservative commentator speaking at UW-Madison on Tuesday advocated for allowing firearms on campuses on the coattails of a new policy that disciplines students for disrupting others’ free expression.
A person of interest was arrested Tuesday in relation to an assault and attempted abduction on the UW-Madison campus last week.
College women cannot rely on the police — no matter how hard-working — to protect them from sexual assault. And their universities should not take away their right to carry guns on campus, conservative commentator Katie Pavlich told a full house Tuesday in a University of Wisconsin-Madison lecture hall.
While the Wisconsin Alumni Association built the park, it’s those who visit who make the park come alive.
