“Our stance is to go with what we know to be approved for smoking cessation,” said Amy Skora, an outreach specialist for UW-CTRI. “We see e-cigarettes as more of a harm reduction. We don’t want anyone on nicotine for the long term.”
UW-Madison students are being warned by police not to fall for an old scam that involves a pseudo police officer threatening the intended victim with jail time if money is not sent immediately.
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute and Medical College of Wisconsin have collectively been awarded $5.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to enroll patients in a nationwide precision medicine initiative.
It may surprise you to know that UW-Madison is a major contributor to national efforts to monitor and predict these powerful storms.
“Alcohol is hitting you harder and your balance is a little off because you’re older and your bones are more brittle,” said Julia Sherman, chair of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “You add that all together and the danger is obvious in hindsight.”
The executive creative director on the work is a Wisconsin native and University of Wisconsin alumni.
Friday night when the University of Wisconsin football team kicks of its 2017 season against Utah State (8 p.m. CDT), it will be just a small part of a yearlong celebration of 100 years at historic Camp Randall Stadium.
Get ready to ’Cha Cha’ on Halloween.
While this year’s lineup isn’t as impressive as years past, there are still a handful of performances you’d be a fool to miss.
The state’s budget-writing committee unanimously voted Monday to approve a proposal that would give UW-Madison $60 million to repair and maintain buildings on campus.
UW-Madison’s Badgerloop, a student organization made up of mostly undergraduate engineering students who aim to determine if hyperloop—a proposed form of transportation—could become a reality, placed high and won an innovation award Sunday at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition II in Hawthorne, Calif.
Madison Area Technical College will buy the soon-to-be-vacated state office building at Park Street and Badger Road, officials announced Monday, and turn the site on the historically underserved South Side into a new campus.
The Legislature’s budget-writing committee has unanimously endorsed a $1 billion plan to build and maintain state facilities, including more than $60 million for the UW-Madison campus.
Every so often there is an action that has a perfect reaction. And so it is for an old friend, professor Bassam Shakhashiri. He is the 2018 recipient of the prestigious Grady-Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public.
A new program will start this fall, aimed at turning more UW-Madison students into entrepreneurs and boosting the state’s tech economy.
Matt Kussow, director of Badger Advocates, a nonprofit group independent of UW-Madison that rallies state support for the university, said the cost of the Foxconn incentive deal is worrisome — in part because university funding often is targeted in a budget crunch.
Letter to the editor from Downs, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of political science and First Amendment scholar, and Underwood, a retired Madison attorney.
Madison businesses anticipate busy times as students return.
Noted: UW professor and chair of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, Jonathan Martin, explains the potential damage that hurricane Harvey could cause to the coast of Texas.
Last week, Erik Iverson, the managing director of UW-Madison’s patent, licensing and research support engine, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, said WARF plans to spend $60 million over the next roughly half-dozen years or so on seed and venture funding to grow young companies.
Noted: Steve Vavrus is the senior scientist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research. He says flood mitigation is important for communities that have experienced flash flooding because floods are likely to continue.
A look at move-in day through the eyes of one freshman.
As students across the country are wrapping up their summer internships, there’s a unique program right here in Madison at UW Health that promotes workforce development through an equity lens.
UW-Madison students will move back into residence halls and apartments starting this weekend. That will affect traffic on campus.
Video segment on start of the school year..
UW Health previously housed its children’s hospital on the fourth floor of UW Hospital, built in the 1970s and designed for adults. In August 2007, it opened American Family Children’s Hospital, with six floors, separate from but connected to UW Hospital, and designed for children.
Thursday, the contest shifts to Babcock Hall at UW-Madison, where 14 categories with 270 entries including ice cream, sherbet, frozen yogurt and gelato will be evaluated.
The annual migration of young people to living quarters on the UW-Madison campus will commence on Saturday, and with it, the congestion and confusion of out-of-town drivers lost on campus.
Many a successful Wisconsin football season has ended in a trip to the Rose Bowl. In 2029, the Badgers are guaranteed to visit Pasadena, albeit in September as opposed to January.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire College Democrats had begun organizing a counter-protest to the event in that city advertised as an NSM barbecue meet-and-greet.
Some Wisconsin veterans hoping to score special Badger Football tickets believe they lost out because of a change in the distribution process.
As UW-Madison attracts more students from overseas, the university is offering a new summer course that officials say can help ease the transition to college.
28 year old Brendt Christensen, a UW-Madison grad, pleaded not guilty in July to one count of kidnapping in connection with Zhang’s disappearance.
There’s a new effort at UW-Madison to review how the Ku Klux Klan was connected to campus after recent violence in Charlottesville.
The University of Wisconsin announced a home-and-home football series with UCLA on Tuesday, with the games set for 2029 and 2030.
WARF is blazing forward with efforts to turn UW-Madison discoveries into products on the market, and will triple its spending on entrepreneurial programs over the next several years.
As far as coach Greg Gard is concerned, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team checked off a lot of boxes during its journey to Australia and New Zealand.
Just over a week after a gathering of white supremacy groups in Charlottesville, Virginia, left three dead and led to the quick removal of Confederate memorials across the country, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Monday she has formed a committee to examine the history of student groups affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.
The University of Wisconsin football program will enter the season as a consensus top-10 team.
Walker on Tuesday was joined by University of Wisconsin Hospital doctors and other university leaders on Tuesday to talk about the statewide benefit the display screen manufacturing facility will bring to the state.
It has been nearly a century since a total solar eclipse crossed the United States as it did Tuesday, according to UW-Madison’s Department of Astronomy.
A collective roar of “oohs” and “aahs” swept across UW-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace about 12:30 pm Monday as the clouds parted to reveal the emerging solar eclipse.
A history professor and the president of a local mentoring and economic development organization will lead a study group this fall to examine the Ku Klux Klan’s history at UW-Madison, campus officials announced Monday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced this afternoon that she has formed a committee to examine the history of student groups at UW affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.
Last month it was announced that five-year university employee Karla Foster would serve in a directorial role as the center’s Program Coordinator.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank ordered a study of the Ku Klux Klan’s history at the school, in the wake of the violence in Virginia.
Gov. Scott Walker is touting the potential that a massive Foxconn Technology Group plant could have on Wisconsin’s health care industry.
Family and friends of a windsurfer who died in May when a University of Wisconsin boat collided with him still have many questions about the incident.
Noted: Sanjay Limaye is a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center.
Numerous campus-area streets will close to accommodate the more than 7,500 UW-Madison students moving into university residence halls beginning Aug. 26.
UW-Madison to take steps toward grappling with its history.
Live at Four talks with a researcher to find out what your smile reveals about you.
UW student Shane Linden wants to bring a Culver’s to campus,
The embattled UW-Oshkosh Foundation, whose top officials were sued by the UW System in January for mishandling funds and making illegal financial guarantees, will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
An electrical problem at the UW-Madison boathouse cut off power to three dorm buildings Wednesday night, with nobody hurt in the outage.
James Watson was among the astronomers and scientists who traveled to America’s West to observe a total solar eclipse in 1878, shortly before he was named the first director of the Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A 21-year-old Chicago man shot himself in the groin early Wednesday morning, while on a commuter bus stopping on the UW-Madison campus en route from Minneapolis to Chicago.
Does the name Vel Phillips ring a bell? How about Edwin Witte? They are more than 120 University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni whose achievements will be honored at Alumni Park, a new feature on the Lake Mendota waterfront due to open Oct. 6.
Noted: Katy Culver, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and associate director of the Center for Journalism Ethics, helps explain the meaning of “alt right” on Live at Four.
Live at Four talks with a researcher to find out what your smile reveals about you.
