Researchers from UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee can take some credit in the Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to three researchers, for the discovery of gravitational waves originally predicted by Albert Einstein.
The position is the latest collaboration between the University of Wisconsin System and the state’s job-creation agency to address a growing worker shortage in the state, which the Wisconsin State Journal highlighted in its recent “Workers Wanted” series.
One in four women at UW-Madison who responded to a 2015 national survey reported having been the victim of sexual assault and misconduct. One in 10 experienced penetrative sex to which they did not consent.
University of Wisconsin men’s hockey season-ticket sales for the general public — not including students, suites or clubs — climbed 2.3 percent this year, the second straight season of gains after a prolonged slump.
Odin, the UW-Madison Police Department’s explosive-detection and tracking K9, was put down Tuesday morning, Oct. 3, after developing masses on his spleen and liver. The 9-year-old german shepherd was born in the Czech Republic and partnered with Lt. Brent Plisch.
Potential exposure to lead at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is more widespread than previously reported. Last week UW officials said there might be lead contamination at Agricultural Hall. Now, Bascom Hall is being looked at too.
The Associated Students of Madison took up several pieces of legislation Tuesday.
Local area hospitals have plans in place to prepare them for emergency mass casualty situations.
A first-responder motorcade drove University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department K-9 Odin from his home in McFarland to Middleton after he died Tuesday.
Proceeds from the ticket sales and additional donations will benefit the Chancellor’s Scholarship Program at UW-Madison.
An unknown suspect attacked and attempted to abduct a University of Wisconsin student early Monday morning near Observatory Drive.
UWPD is investigating an attempted abduction that occurred early Monday morning near Ingraham Hall.
UW System spokesperson Stephanie Marquis said that the proposed policy is meant to protect all students’ ability to express their views.However, not everyone agrees the new policy would be in students’ best interest.
A year after UW-Madison student Beau Solomon drowned in the Tiber River in the summer of 2016, his family sued John Cabot University in Rome, sparking a discussion about students’ safety while studying abroad.
A female student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was attacked and beaten early Monday by a man who tried to abduct her near the Social Sciences building on Observatory Drive, campus police said.
A team of computer science researchers at UW-Madison have been awarded over $6 million to work on security for one of the newer components of computering, known as container technology.
A UW-Madison student was assaulted by a man armed with a weapon early Monday morning, the UW-Madison Police Department said.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are set to vote on a policy that would punish students who interfere with campus speeches and presentations, getting in front of a Republican bill that would require them to crack down on disruptions.
Pepsi beverages will be for sale at University of Wisconsin athletics events starting in the 2018-19 school year if the UW Board of Regents signs off on a five-year contract later this week.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer behind “The Joker,” “Jet Airliner” and many more hits is a former UW-Madison student, and the Steve Miller Band will play a special show Friday, Oct. 20 in Shannon Hall to benefit a university scholarship fund.
The UW Board of Regents, mirroring what Republican state lawmakers describe as a push to safeguard free speech on college campuses, is poised to vote on whether students should be expelled if they repeatedly disrupt “the expressive rights of others.”
“The market — if they want to keep workers — should push employers to do better for them on scheduling,” said UW-Madison economist Tim Smeeding, but some governments can and have enacted policies to allow for more family-friendly scheduling.
John worked for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in the Water Resources Research Program and for several years a joint appointment with the Soil Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Trans people live in Wisconsin, and they are valuable members of our communities. If the Wisconsin Idea drives our fine university to benefit the people of this great state, then the work at the Trans Research Lab is the Wisconsin Idea in practice.
University of Wisconsin chancellors would be responsible for guaranteeing disciplinary action — including expulsion — for students who disrupt free expression by others on their campuses, under a proposed Board of Regents policy.
After high levels of lead dust were found in areas of Agriculture Hall, UW-Madison is testing several areas in the building and outside a neighboring preschool in Nancy Nicholas Hall.
Dreaming big can pay off — if you are passionate and persistent. That was the message from four University of Wisconsin alumni who told their stories to several hundred students Thursday night at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase at Gordon Commons.
One of the feel-good stories in college athletics last year was University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Tony Granato going back to school to finish his degree while simultaneously reinvigorating a powerhouse program that had gone dormant on and off the ice.
Some people may assume that police officers don’t have a sense of humor. That’s not the case for University of Wisconsin Madison Police Department.
UW-Madison officials say they are looking into possible lead contamination at two campus buildings, Ag Hall and Nancy Nicholas Hall.
A big grand opening is coming soon on the UW-Madison campus.
UW-Madison police say there is no continued threat to area and that they’re on the scene investigating.
“This is a very important time of their life, where they’re growing independent, making career decisions and planning a future,” said Traci Snedden, a UW-Madison assistant professor of nursing leading the research. “If their academic experience is affected because of their cognitive deficits, there potentially could be long-term ramifications.”
Noted: Erin Silva is an organic production specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She says the increase in farms will strengthen the industry. Silva says growing consumer demand for organic products means there’s room for more farms in the industry.
UW-Madison is responding to a possible lead contamination problem created by a recent construction project at Agriculture Hall
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Camp Randall Stadium, the Bucky Wagon was back at the Badger game Saturday morning.
The McBurney Disability Resource Center, the university office that provides accommodations to students with disabilities, will introduce a new electronic accommodation and case management software this semester that will affect the way students and faculty communicate.
Students who want to pray, meditate or reflect during the school day can now do so thanks to a new reflection space in the Student Activity Center that will have its “soft run” Tuesday.
Although Gov. Walker signed the two-year state budget into law over a week ago, the UW System is still figuring out how the budget affects one of its programs targeted at non-traditional students.
The fall semester is kicking off with Attorney General Jeff Sessions embracing free speech protections on U.S. college campuses, while at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the police chief vows her officers will protect controversial speech.
The measures also will impact the University of Wisconsin, which, after years of Republican budget cuts and policies that some claim are anti-academic, is already having problems recruiting and retaining talented faculty.
Bucky’s Butchery, located in the UW Meat Science and Muscle Biology Laboratory, 1805 Linden Drive, is now open from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursdays in addition to its regular hours on Fridays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Photographic history of UW mascot.
“If people are having fewer children, there’s going to be a smaller pool entering the labor force 20 to 25 years down the road,” said David Egan-Robertson, a demographer at UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory.
“It’s a positive thing,” said Dr. Deb Ehrenthal, a UW-Madison associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and population health sciences. “Kids do better if they’re born into a more stable setting.”
UWPD partnered with Trek Bicycles for the “Be Bright” bicycle light enforcement initiative. Instead of giving out tickets to people biking without a light at night, bicyclists received a free Trek bike light.
UW-Madison police officers are encouraging bikers to be bright.
UW-Madison’s Young Americans for Freedom has invited gun rights advocate Katie Pavlich to speak on campus Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. Student activist group Cocks Not Glocks, which aims to “fight absurdity with absurdity” by carrying sex toys in opposition to campus carry laws, will lead a protest during the event.
Changes that Gov. Scott Walker made to the state budget before he signed it last week will require the University of Wisconsin System to double the number of courses offered through its online Flexible Option program over the next two years.
Madison ranked #1.
Malia Jones said despite government rules, parents are reluctant to vaccinate their child.
The idea is spreading across the UW System.
Gordon’s Flamingo Run began accepting food stamps this Monday — and they’ve already had their first transaction.
Webster is part of a star-studded 11-member class that includes Darrell Bevell (football); Brooks Bollinger (football); the late Bob Suter (men’s hockey); Brian Elliott (men’s hockey); Sara Bauer (women’s hockey); Tamara Moore (women’s basketball); Chris Solinsky (men’s cross country and track and field); the late Arlie Schardt (men’s cross country and track and field). The late Guy Lowman will be honored in the coach/staff category and UW marching band director Mike Leckrone will be honored in the special service category.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team will have at least 17 of its 35 regular-season games on television in the 2017-18 season.
Dr. Diego Calderon, a research fellow at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and an immigrant from Colombia, encouraged legislators to attend the upcoming World Dairy Expo in Madison and ask the farmers there how the bill would affect them.
A $1 million gift from Milwaukee entrepreneur and philanthropist Michael Cudahy will provide five full-ride scholarships for students attending Marquette University’s Opus College of Engineering, the university announced Tuesday.
This fall, the Cap Times is examining and explaining the student loan debt issue in a series of stories and a six-part podcast … looking at what lawmakers in Wisconsin and in Washington, D.C., are saying about it, how and why debt and tuition have increased so rapidly and how student debt has become the single largest asset on the federal government’s balance sheet, making the U.S. Department of Education equivalent to the fifth largest bank in the country.
The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Wisconsin, the University of Georgia and California State University, looked at appreciation since Jan. 1, 2014, when Colorado’s recreational cannabis law took effect. “The presence of retail marijuana establishments clearly had a short-term positive impact on nearby properties in Denver,” says Moussa Diop, an assistant professor of real estate at Wisconsin.
Russian cyberactors might have thought accessing Workforce Development systems would help them access voter files, said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison professor and elections expert.
Yong, staff writer for The Atlantic, will be the fall science writer in residence, taking the week of Oct. 2 through Oct. 6 to share his sometimes weird wisdom about the animal kingdom.
