Quoted: “These Asian earthworms that we have in Wisconsin live in the top layer of the soil,” said UW Arboretum Ecologist Brad Herrick, noting the reddish-colored earthworm can damage the soil they live in. “They decrease nutrients in the soil so that obviously has implications for plant growth.”
James Tinjum leaves Saturday, July 15 for Bike the Wind, a biking tour of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota that will take him past 17 wind energy sites.
Three seniors on defense and two junior offensive linemen at Wisconsin have made the latest round of college football preseason watch lists.
Video: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jonathan Gray talks about the significance of cable and streaming services leading the pack of Emmy nominations on Live at Four.
An estimate from the University of Wisconsin System said it cannot predict the bill’s impact on the System’s budget.
An estimate from the University of Wisconsin System said it cannot predict the bill’s impact on the System’s budget.
Adena Rissman studies the ways human interaction with ecological systems can be harmonious or ruinous. As part of a $4.9 million National Science Foundation project, the UW-Madison professor delved into people’s attitudes about government policies that rely on voluntary anti-pollution measures and those policies’ failure to rid lakes of unnatural bacteria, algae and weed growth.
The University of Wisconsin football and volleyball teams aren’t the only ones with a season right around the corner. The Badger’s Water Ski and Wakeboard teams are also in the midst of their summer workouts.
If you’ve been dying to see the musical Hamilton, or you’ve seen it and love it, this story is for you.
UW Football Student Athletes play pioneer games and engage with neighborhood children in different nature activities including skins and skulls identification as well as team building exercises.
Noted: Live at Four talks to UW meteorologist David Mikolajczyk about the implications of the event.
Badgers head to Australia, New Zealand in August.
After six years of inactivity, Hagenah Fountain on Library Mall started to flow again Monday.
Students looking for their morning caffeine fix on campus will be sipping freshly roasted, locally owned Steep & Brew coffee instead of Starbucks this fall.
Letter to the editor: Any claims that UW is partisan are just reactions to something the critics don’t want to hear.
Letter to the editor: Given the high status and high salaries of many of these positions, the new preferred hiring pool would likely be heads of major corporations, who would expect CEO-type salaries when they become provosts and chancellors. This is a dangerous path.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Morgridge Institute for Research have taken the first step toward developing laboratory-made arteries that could eventually be used to help combat heart disease.
He worked in computer sciences for UW-Madison up until his retirement.
Wisconsin’s state budget impasse just got $51 million harder to solve thanks to the tax increases that neighboring Illinois enacted to finally pass its spending plan, state lawmakers learned Tuesday.
The clinic at at 6041 Basswood Drive is part of a partnership with UW Health and Unity Health Insurance, the company’s health insurer. The clinic will be staffed by medical assistants and nurse practitioners, serving as an extension of UW Health. The clinic will be open Monday through Friday.
A video game about exploring the cosmos that a University of Wisconsin-Madison institution developed is up for a national award for educational games.
Williams was the UW representative on the team that included one player from each Big Ten school on a tour that took them to the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Italy and Austria from June 17 to 28.
The festival will be staged across three buildings on the University of Wisconsin campus. UW-Madison was our first co-sponsor.
The Hagenah Fountain, a fixture at the heart of the UW-Madison campus, began operating again Monday after about six years of silence, though it functioned intermittently between 2007 and 2010.
Money magazine has ranked UW-Madison 45th out of 711 total schools nationwide in its annual list of best colleges for your money survey.
Researchers at a Wisconsin university have been awarded a $1 million grant to develop a tool to find and fix algorithmic bias.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health Meriter, two of the largest healthcare providers in state, have established a new business relationship.
Sauk City farmer has seen milk production increase.
Leaders at UW System schools could be recruited outside of academia if language in the 2017-2019 biennial budget remains, granting new Board of Regents President John Behling’s wish of recruiting leaders from the private sector.
“I think it’s really important that we give them the spa treatment,” said Nigel Cook, who has directed the Dairyland Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine since 2010.
UW-Madison is one of the best colleges for the money, according to rankings released by Money Magazine.
Letter to the editor: Oscar Mayer allowed UW departments to collect tissue samples that led to innovation. An example was the use of pig heart valves to pioneer “bird cage” heart valves for humans. The company’s unpublished discoveries and inventions have been applied throughout the meat industry.
In a step toward one of stem cell science’s chief goals, UW-Madison researchers have grown functional human artery cells that helped lab mice survive heart attacks.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter, which have long collaborated on some services but became more competitive in recent years — leading to lawsuits and duplicate clinics — have become partners.
The new head of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents wants UW institutions to recruit leaders from the private sector, and said Friday that the System is launching a new effort to “streamline” its process for hiring chancellors and other top officials.
She worked as an administrative assistant for ASCS, the State of Wisconsin and the UW Medical School throughout the years, where she made many wonderful friends.
Column: Right now there there are 664 African-Americans out of 31,407 undergraduates at UW-Madison. In the entire UW System, there are 4,640 African-Americans out of 151,895 undergraduate students. Yet rather than asking why the percentage of African-American students is so alarmingly low, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is fast-tracking a bill to create safe spaces on Wisconsin campuses for right-wing purveyors of racism, misogyny and xenophobia.
UW-Madison researchers are trying to root out race bias and other unfairness that has surfaced in computer programs used increasingly by private companies and government offices to decide if you are hired, approved for a bank loan or sent to prison.
While lawmakers in the state Capitol debate legislation that would punish University of Wisconsin students who interrupt campus speeches, the UW Board of Regents quickly and unanimously approved a resolution Friday affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
Of course, Tommy Thompson deserves to be honored with a University of Wisconsin center that is named for him — and that explores his fascination with politics and the innovative policymaking that can and should extend from the electoral process. But the center must not get bogged down in the petty politics of the moment.
Noted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden grouped Evers in with Soglin and McCabe as unexpected candidates, but added he stands out from the list of 11 names in that he has won statewide office multiple times.
Dr. Visick served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Au Sable Institute for Environmental Studies, having planned to attend in August a program honoring its founder and director, a professor emeritus at UW-Madison, with whom he founded the Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists.
Over a year after University of Wisconsin-Madison students of color protested at a Board of Regents meeting and demanded that the university address what they saw as its institutional racism, the task force formed to hear them out affirmed that the system needs to do more for marginalized students.
Sarah Marty, professor with the UW-Madison division of continuing studies, has been in “the room where it happens” to see “Hamilton” four times.Now she’s delving deeper into the “Hamilton” phenomenon in a six-week summer course dedicated to the award-winning musical that highlights a story that is so American.
Now a junior at UW-Madison, the 20-year-old Harris has several championships under her belt and is the current College Miss Majorette of Wisconsin — which involved winning a pageant event involving a solo baton routine, a strut or dance routine as well as a modeling and interview portion.
Several people affiliated with UW-Madison are featured.
As a person of color studying at the overwhelmingly white University of Wisconsin-Madison, I believe policymakers also ought to hear my story and consider my experience, and the stories and experience of other students of color, before telling us whose voices are and aren’t being heard.
Instead, Nathan Friar will be put on probation for eight years, will register as sex offender.
Recently, the organization announced that it will be cutting back on the number of schools it will be accessible to.
In a continuation of UW-Madison’s efforts to combat sexual violence after a year in which three students were expelled for sexual misconduct, first-year and transfer students will complete a new program to learn about dating violence, sexual assault and violence prevention beginning this fall.
“I have so much hope for our campus and I care so deeply about it and so I wanted to be in a position where I could maximize my ability to create change on campus,” Katrina Morrison said.
Noted: Dr. Monika Roots is a psychiatrist, a professor at UW and VP of Health Services for Teladoc. She’s found there’s a comfort and convenience with telemedicine for PTSD patients.
Quoted: Tyler Tunney, a fish researcher with the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, was taken aback by the bloom when he saw it biking by the Yahara River.”I looked over and I was shocked,” Tunney tells 27 News. “Instead of this sort of clear, green water you can see plants through, the whole river just looked like someone had dumped a bunch of teal, blue paint.”
Mother names child after neurosurgeon.
Despite a boost in state funding for the UW System in the upcoming biennium, UW-Madison will receive less than its usual share as system officials look to direct it elsewhere.
Patricia worked as the Chair and Jan and Kathryn Ver Hagen Professor of Translation Research for UW-Madison Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology in the School of Medicine and Public Health. She founded the Keely Lab in the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research which explores how cellular interactions with the extracellular matrix result in invasive, metastatic carcinoma.
The University of Wisconsin System regents plan to vote on a resolution affirming their commitment to free speech as legislators consider a bill that would punish UW students who disrupt campus speakers.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced Thursday it received accreditation for its public health program, making it the first in the state.
The University of Wisconsin System Regents on Thursday approved a budget that will freeze resident undergraduate tuition for a fifth straight year but increase student fees and housing costs on all campuses.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department ranked in the top three of the Big Ten Conference in operating revenue and expenses for the 2015-’16 fiscal year.
