The US-Africa Energy Summit 2017, to be hosted by UW-Platteville and scheduled for Sept. 18-19 at Monona Terrace, was canceled after the Department of Homeland Security refused to issue visas to key presenters and attendees, professor and summit organizer John O. Ifediora said.
DJ Khaled — the hit-making producer behind such songs as “I’m the One” and “All I Do Is Win” — will play a free concert for UW-Madison students at the Kohl Center on Oct. 30, after a freshman met Mentos’ challenge of handing out tens of thousands of packs of gum during his first week on campus.
In this year’s omnibus motion, lawmakers adopted a Walker proposal to require the UW System to monitor teaching workloads and report that data to the governor and the Legislature; and to move up by a few months 2 percent raises for state employees.
A suspect in an intrusion into a woman’s bathroom at a UW campus dorm, is accused of committing a sexual assault twenty four hours after his jail release.
University of Wisconsin schools would be required to monitor teaching workloads for faculty and other instructors under a budget provision passed Wednesday evening by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee.
By handing out no less than 43,000 packs of Mentos gum, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Sam Jeschke earned his university a concert by renowned musical artist DJ Khaled.
The co-director of the UW Joint Replacement Program has helped develop a robotic assisted procedure to improve the outcomes of those surgeries.
Professor Noel Radomski said communicating with greater community is key to keeping UW united.
US Africa Energy Summit postponed indefinitely.
In addition to receiving a free year of tuition from the gum company, Jeschke will receive $2,500 for distributing Mentos Gum at designated locations throughout campus.
At UW-Madison, 19.7 percent of students screened positive for an eating disorder.
Recent UW Graduate Mikayla Simonson was diagnosed with aplastic anemia earlier this summer.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has gone up in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, according to a release.
Dane County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Elise Schaffer tells 27 News the investigation into Yu Chen’s death in May is now being reviewed by the Dane County District Attorney’s Office.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank released a statement Tuesday opposing President Donald Trump’s proposed repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
“I am saddened that I contributed to an environment of exclusion,” Morrison said. “My intentions were never to alienate Jewish members of our community, but I fully recognize that that was my impact.”
After making a suggestion to the sociology department chair and gaining the support of faculty members across UW-Madison, Brenzel created a new course aimed at exploring the university’s relationship with the state of Wisconsin.
“FORWARD? The Wisconsin Idea, Past and Present,” is under the microscope after UW announced launch of study of the school’s history with the Ku Klux Klan.
Alissa Swenson continued her involvement in Kibera Girls Soccer Academy by organizing a book reading of the school’s story.
In the aftermath of violent protests on college campuses from University of California-Berkeley to Middlebury, and the deadly events of Charlottesville, some think it’s possible the University of Wisconsin could also reach a tipping point.
Under the Trump administration’s plans for winding down the program, immigrants whose protections expire before March 5 can apply for a two-year renewal.
Despite growing up in Madison, Selina Armenta felt culture shock when she first set foot on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus as a freshman.
“It’s not surprising, but the things that were said were disheartening,” said Laura Minero, a graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison and leader in a campus DREAMers group after the announcement Tuesday that Trump would phase out the program.
The London-based Times Higher Education puts UW-Madison at No. 43 on its World University Rankings list of 1,000 schools, up two spots from No. 45 last year.
Dr. Boutwell was a Professor Emeritus of Oncology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and an Emeritus Program Member for the UW Carbone Cancer Center. He was a founding faculty member of the Department of Oncology at McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. He was regarded as a groundbreaker for many studies demonstrating cancerous tumor growth.
The audio clips were recorded by fieldworkers with the Dictionary for American Regional English (DARE) in the late 1960’s, as part of a five-year project to uncover regional pronunciations and vocabulary.
Some smokers have more of an urge to light up right after they wake up, and UW-Madison researchers have identified a reason: genetic variation in a substance that breaks down nicotine in the brain.
The Institute for Foundations in Data Science, which will be part of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, will re-examine the core mathematics, statistics and computer science that make big data science possible. The ultimate mission will be to come up with new ways to more efficiently and effectively use big sets of data.
Faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are eager to tell the public about their work and how it benefits the state, said Patrick Brenzel, a staff member in the Department of Sociology.
The chairman of a panel of University of Wisconsin regents looking at ways to streamline the process of hiring chancellors and other top administrators was surprised to learn that typically it is five months after a search committee is named that a chancellor is hired.
UW-Madison is introducing its own mandatory sexual harassment prevention training this semester. But some universities do not require it, and some academic fields have special training needs, said Marín-Spiotta, an associate professor at UW-Madison in the Department of Geography. She will be lead investigator of research being conducted in a partnership of the American Geophysical Union, Earth Science Women’s Network, and Association for Women Geoscientists.
[A] report from from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), a nonpartisan think-tank based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wants to remind Wisconsinites that the health of the economy can’t be encompassed in a single statistic.
The sessions will be on Saturday, Sept, 23, and Sunday, Sept. 24, at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., and will go over fundamentals of court interpreting, such as ethical conduct, legal terminology, court procedure and basic legal interpreting skills.
The event was the third — and second one on Labor Day — hosted by the Wisconsin Union’s Wheelhouse Studios.
Nine minutes. That was all it took for Wisconsin women’s soccer to establish the tempo and energy in Sunday’s game.
Hundreds filled an auditorium at the Gordon Dining and Events Center on UW-Madison’s campus Saturday night for an interactive performance.
After the first quarter, the Aggies (0-1) had a 10-0 lead over No. 9 Wisconsin (1-0), and the Badgers’ offense remained scoreless with only 1:21 remaining in the first half.
If Jeschke is successful in distributing the gum—approximately the same number of bottles as there are students—Mentos Gum will pay for one year of his tuition. The gum company will also bring rapper DJ Khaled to campus for a free concert.
The UW Marching Band performed on Wake Up Wisconsin under the direction of its legendary director, Mike Leckrone.
Taylor spends most of the year teaching right here at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Mead Witter School of Music.
UW is ninth Big Ten school to pursue clear bag security policy at home football games.
He became the first Medical Director of U-Care, later to become Unity HMO. During his 35 plus year career at the UW Hospital and Clinics, he became a beloved caregiver, friend and coworker to many in the community.
A Madison man arrested after allegedly going into women’s restrooms in a UW-Madison dormitory early Wednesday was arrested again on Thursday for allegedly grabbing a woman’s buttocks.
The ticketed event is on the University of Wisconsin campus on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 16-17.
Carl Ross began his new duties on July 1 after more than a year as the Waisman Biomanufacturing interim director.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison economist who published a positive analysis of the impact of the proposed deal that would bring a Foxconn plant to southeast Wisconsin just opened a think tank on campus funded by the conservative Koch and Bradley foundations.
UW Madison researcher Justin Sydnor and his colleagues studied a group of people of all ages and fitness levels who just joined a gym.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is trying to expand what people might think of when they imagine a typical police officer. The department held a “Women’s Conversation and Coffee” event Wednesday to talk to women interested in joining the force.
He allegedly entered several women’s restrooms, took illicit photos of Sellery Hall resident using bathroom
A 20-year-old Madison man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly punched two people repeatedly near the UW-Madison campus.
Rather than renovate the 60-year-old state office building that sits on the site Madison Area Technical College has identified as the future home of an expanded South Side campus, officials plan to demolish the facility and build one in its place.
Health insurance premiums for state workers won’t go up next year, but roughly a fifth of the 250,000 workers and dependents will need to change health plans and 1 percent will have to switch doctors.
An 18-year-old man entered several women’s restrooms at a UW-Madison residence hall after trespassing in the building early Wednesday morning, UW-Madison Police said.
The Wisconsin Badgers will play the Utah State Aggies at Camp Randall Stadium on Friday night, but the tougher battle might be on the streets and in parking lots.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students didn’t win the global competition to prototype a Hyperloop pod, but they did take home an award for innovative design.
A UW basketball player is from the Houston area and has been down there through this storm.
He’s a man who towers above many of his colleagues at University of Wisconsin- Madison. Although he retired last fall, Lyle Anderson still climbs the stairs of the UW Carillon Tower to be the man behind the bells on campus.
CW News at 9 talked with UW Professor of Animal Sciences Dan Schaefer about what he expects for the beef, poultry and produce industries.
A new mindfulness-based “kindness curriculum” created at the UW Center for Healthy Minds shows promising results in early research.
Two young Madison women have been duped out of a total of $5,500, police said Tuesday.
