The University of Wisconsin athletic department will have a new provider of sports drinks for the second time in as many years.
Robert Drechsel, the former head of the UW-Madison journalism school and an expert on media law, agreed that someone who decides to speak at a public hearing has given their consent to have what they shared be made public.
Letter to the editor: The bill proposed by Rep. Andre Jacque to prohibit UW physicians from performing abortions and training others to do so is short-sighted and punitive.
Letter to the editor: As state lawmakers push to recruit university leaders from outside academia, we should consider what it means to employ the “business model” to higher education.
Dr. Mark Burkard, a UW Health oncologist heading up the research, got the idea for the study from Geisler’s remarkable story. After her cancer returned in 1982, she was told she had a 15 percent chance of living five years. But she has withstood recurrences in 2003, 2008 and 2013.
More than two years after his office was created within the University of Wisconsin System and more than a year after he was hired, the czar has yet to authorize a single charter school. His office doesn’t even have a website. Education reformers can have some confidence he hasn’t just been loafing around these last 16 months, even as state education data suggest the popularity of charters could be waning.
It can be easy to forget about the “charter czar.” More than two years after his office was created within the University of Wisconsin System and more than a year after he was hired, the czar has yet to authorize a single charter school. His office doesn’t even have a website.
Quoted: “The significance is high because for almost 20 years there have been no real promising developments to alleviate, and certainly not to cure this disease,” said Dr. Emery Bresnick, director of the UW-Madison blood research program.
The University of Wisconsin football team was picked to win the Big Ten west division this season by the conference’s media members.
Amy Gilman, who has worked at the Toledo Museum of Art since 2005, will start Sept. 11. She takes over for Russell Panczenko, who will retire after leading the campus art museum for 33 years.
At the reception, Lori Christianson, an admission counselor from UW-Madison, announced a partnership between the school and Madison College designed specifically for Scholars of Promise students. Christianson said the Scholars of Promise Transfer Plan will provide “UW-specific benefits.” If students follow certain courses and guidelines, they will “have the opportunity to transfer to UW-Madison.”
Sue Riseling, former UW-Madison chief of police and associate vice chancellor, received the 2017 Woman of the Year Philanthropy Award Friday from United Way of Dane County.
A master plan for the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus adopted by the City Council this week gives the university an expedited process of review for its development projects.
The Western Collegiate Hockey Association on Thursday launched an effort to crowdfund on behalf of its women’s league.
UW-Madison School of Business professor of finance James Johannes said: “Merger & acquisition is going to be part of the banking landscape in the foreseeable future … It is not clear that bank margins or spreads will rise nor is it clear that regulatory costs will fall. Therefore, to enhance earnings, banks will have to apply stable or falling margins to higher earning assets.”
What happens on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on a #UWSummer Day UW-Madison officials wanted to document it for everyone, so they deployed campus photographers, videographers and writers across campus Tuesday.
UW assistant Howard Moore, born and raised in Chicago, on Wednesday reported via Twitter he had lost an uncle.
A former UW-Madison student pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexually assaulting and choking a classmate in his dorm room while high on LSD in 2016.
All researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison needed to do the trick was a splash of water in a black cup and a Popsicle stick for the insect to lay its eggs on.
Surveillance video showing a January hit-and-run crash that injured a UW-Madison student who died months later was shown in a Dane County courtroom Wednesday.
Kids at a children’s hospital in Green Bay got a special visit Wednesday from Vince Biegel, the Packers linebacker and former Badgers star.
A brand-new, first of its kind program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health is aiming to fill a shortage of doctors in rural areas.
A suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student pleaded guilty to five charges related to sexual assault allegations.
Celebrating 100 years of public radio.
Stem cells used to protect respiratory function.
State lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday on a bill which would bar UW medical students from receiving training on how to perform an abortion, a move which critics say could threaten the accreditation of some programs.
Marquis Mason says he was definitely thrown into the fire, but has enjoyed his transition into a new sport – ultimate frisbee.
It’s like Lauren Carlini is living the life she charted as a 9-year-old when she drew a picture of herself wearing a No. 7 USA volleyball jersey.
A phone scammer is trying to scare UW-Madison students into paying for crimes they haven’t committed, with many of the students hailing from overseas.
One of those people McDowell says helped trailblaze a path for her was her mom, Candace McDowell, the founding director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Multicultural Student Center.
Noted: Susan Paskewitz is a professor and director of entomology at UW-Madison and is the director of the Upper Midwest Center of Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police have received several reports of scam phone calls targeting students.
In the wake of the Zika outbreak researchers at the UW Medical Entomology lab have been working for the past year trying to find this bug.
Noted: Clinical psychologist Dr. Julianne Zweifel at UW Health Generations says that anxiety and depression often appear as a pair – but that doctors may be more accustomed to screening new moms for PPD than anxiety, so it could be overlooked.
Graduate students from the University of Wisconsin have helped bring a little piece of Norwegian history to life in Mount Horeb.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medical Entomology Laboratory and health officials from the Department of Health Services and Public Health Madison-Dane County announced Monday that the Aedes albopictus mosquito was found in Dane County.
Luckily, this wasn’t during the school year. Only 16 camp counselors were staying there at the time and all got out safely.
Letter to the editor: This Tuesday, July 18, there is a public hearing on a uniquely dangerous bill. This legislation if passed will do irreparable damage to the University of Wisconsin System and the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority, while attacking health care access for Wisconsin women.
Later she moved her career to the University of Wisconsin Medical School and then the Department of Economics as the Administrative Department Head.
A Republican bill that would block UW-Madison faculty from training resident physicians in abortions would worsen a shortage of obstetrics/gynecological providers in the state, school officials say.
Typically, in such classes, she must watch the instructor and an American Sign Language interpreter, if one is provided. But in the new class at UW Health, the instructor teaches in sign language.
New rules will limit what kinds of bags spectators can bring into University of Wisconsin football games at Camp Randall Stadium starting this season, but the change isn’t as severe as at some other schools.
A UW-Madison research center that has used the university’s largest-ever federal grant to develop ethanol technology over the past decade will shift its focus to other alternative fuels after winning another major award from the U.S. Department of Energy.
“Mosquitoes certainly are out in force. I mean this is Wisconsin, after all. We’ve had a lot of rain this year, so it is not surprising the mosquito numbers we’re seeing, but they seem to have really picked up in the last couple of weeks,” said P.J. Liesch, extension entomologist with UW-Madison.
“What we’ve discovered here is there are aspects of language that are affected earlier than we thought,” before or at the same time that memory problems emerge, said one study leader, Sterling Johnson of UW-Madison.
In the interest of security, the University of Wisconsin has announced a new bag policy for fans attending home football games this upcoming season at Camp Randall Stadium.
UW-Madison Police Department and Madison Gas & Electric responded to the scene after they received a call around 3 p.m. The cause and location of the leak is currently unknown, according to UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott.
Marc Lovicott, UW Police Department spokesman, said the leak was first reported between 2:45 p.m. and 3 p.m. Monday, but has since been turned off. West Dayton and West Johnson streets surrounding the residence hall were closed to pedestrian and vehicle traffic, Lovicott said.
Quoted: “The scientific interest in solar eclipses has evolved from pinning down the location of the moon to discovering planets near the sun,” said Jim Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Place.
Izzy Ashburn loved playing volleyball with Sydney Hilley in high school so much that she’s decided to do it again in college.
The facilities manager of the original site where America’s nuclear weapons were developed has been named the facilities planning director at UW-Madison.
A push from state lawmakers and a top University of Wisconsin System official to recruit campus leaders from outside academia would add UW institutions to a growing number of colleges that are searching for chancellors and presidents who don’t have Ph.D.s or tenure, experts say.
Noted: Lee Welhouse is an instrument technician who oversees weather satellites put on the continent by the UW Antarctic Meteorological Research Center.
A Republican bill that would block University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty from training resident physicians in abortions would worsen a shortage of obstetrics/gynecological providers in the state, school officials say.
The immune system is a network of different cell types such as T cells and dendritic cells.
In her new water exercise class, Delores Erlandson understands where to move her arms and legs by looking at the instructor.
From cardiovascular technologist to medical coder, 73 local students are exploring health care careers through internships at UW Health this summer.
Erin Thornley Parisi, executive director of the Rape Crisis Center, said the potential policy change is concerning.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials say a Republican bill to block resident physicians from being trained to perform abortions would lead to fewer OB-GYNs in the state.
As U.S. Department of Justice Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller looks into whether President Trump’s campaign assisted Russia in targeting Wisconsin voters with fake news last year, a UW-Madison researcher is working to determine just how often Russia was placing such phony stories here.
