Video: In “Two Minutes with Mitch” local radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on the debate over free speech on University of Wisconsin campuses.
A lobbying group made up of UW-Madison alumni and donors is criticizing the University of Wisconsin System’s plan to pull $6.5 million of new funding from the flagship campus and distribute it among smaller institutions.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez adjusted responsibilities to some of his senior staff, it was announced Wednesday.One of the changes was that Chris McIntosh, formerly the associate athletic director for business development, will assume the role of deputy athletic director. He will take over for former deputy Walter Dickey
Stagakis and Wojcik set out to create an ice cream bar that would stand out in the industry, and for fine tuning, the partners took their recipe to the UW-Madison Dairy Science Department to make sure the product met the standards they were looking for.
Memorial Library, too, is going Spanish by hosting a special display titled “Don Quixote Through the Ages,” with books, musicals and other scores from the UW-Madison Libraries collection through Aug. 10.
Whether you’ve seen the musical, or just listened to the cast album on repeat in your car, “Hamilton” has a way of taking over your life. Now, a new summer class at the UW Division of Continuing Studies, “Hamilton: A Cultural Revolution,” offers both undergraduates and lifelong learners the chance to dive deeper into “Hamilton.”
Ald. Zach Wood, District 8, said the changes could “bring some semblance of order downtown.” He said UW-Madison campus areas such as Mills and Dayton Streets become hazards during busy periods between classes when students are rushing from one lecture to the next.
The Lewis Nine Springs E-Way is an impressive example of the UW-Madison professor’s gift for designing environmental corridors that enhance relationships between people and nature, said Bill Lunney, a longtime Dane County Parks Commission chairman.
Lewis became the founder and director of the Environmental Awareness Center (EAC), part of the School of Natural Resources and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He had joint appointments with the Department of Landscape Architecture, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, and the University of Wisconsin-Extension. Lewis also served as chair of the UW Landscape Architecture Department from 1964 to 1972 and taught undergraduate and graduate design courses.
University of Wisconsin System students wouldn’t face any tuition increases for another year but most would have to shell out more for fees and housing under a budget plan the Board of Regents is poised to vote on this week.
UW-Madison scientists, inspired by proteins found intact in centuries-old human bones, created a mineral coating that mimics bone and appears to keep proteins stable.
Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal courthouse Monday as a former UW-Madison student suspected in the kidnapping of a Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois made his first appearance since being arrested last week.
Scholarly publishing isn’t facing a crisis, but it is in flux, said Dennis Lloyd, director of the University of Wisconsin Press.
University of Wisconsin System officials are planning to give UW-Madison a smaller share of new state funding under an operating budget proposal released this week.
Being called out of one’s names is not only about calling out racist, sexist, or homophobic slurs. It is about the power and control to chart one’s own destiny.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison dorm custodian fired for inappropriately touching co-workers and making sexual remarks about female students wants his job back.
The regents are scheduled to vote on the system’s 2017-18 budget on Thursday during a meeting at UW-Madison.
And a second study, authored by UW-Madison athletic trainer Jerod Keene, involving more than 1,200 high school athletes, found no differences in self-reported quality of life over two years of follow-up, regardless of whether or not they’d had a concussion.
Q&A with Earlise Ward, a licensed psychologist and a professor in the UW-Madison School of Nursing
Track and cross country star Chris Solinsky was omitted from Tuesday’s initial announcement, Badgers athletics officials said Wednesday. He’ll also join the group being inducted in September.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty want the state Legislature’s budget-writing committee to rework the leadership structure for the newly proposed Tommy Thompson Center, a conservative think tank on the campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are putting the final touches on a high-tech metal pod designed to shoot a passenger through networks of pneumatic tubes at 270 mph.
New technology developed in part by UW-Madison researchers is speeding up the discovery time for new molecules from fungi. We’ll find out how it works and why fungi are a potential-rich place to look for new disease-fighting agents.
A faculty group wants lawmakers to remove language from the state budget prohibiting the University of Wisconsin System regents from imposing strict qualifications for top administrative positions.
Thieves appear to be targeting offices in academic buildings in a string of textbooks thefts on multiple UW System campuses, according to an email from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater officials.
The Twin Cities campus will have the greatest tuition increase compared to other system campuses, with a two percent hike for incoming state residents and Wisconsinites as well as a 12.5 percent increase for out-of-state residents who don’t have reciprocity.
Rose Bowl-winning quarterbacks Darrell Bevell and Brooks Bollinger were among 10 players named Tuesday to be inducted into the University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame.
One former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey captain will replace another on the Badgers coaching staff.
A University of Wisconsin Board of Regents member says taxpayer money will not be tapped to cover debts of the financial troubled UW-Oshkosh Foundation.
Ten former Badgers will be inducted into the University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 29 at Union South.
Faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison are asking the state Legislature’s budget-writing committee to change the leadership model of a proposed campus conservative think-tank named for former Gov. Tommy Thompson.
Letter to the editor: I am extremely proud of the Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly, which passed the Campus Free Speech Act last week. I earned my master’s degree from UW-Madison in 1973 and lived through many violent protests during my time there.
The University of Wisconsin System will not use taxpayer money to pay the debts of the troubled UW-Oshkosh Foundation, officials said Tuesday, and has backed out of talks with the nonprofit’s creditors about a potential settlement.
Joan was employed by UW-Madison, working in the Bursar’s office.
More than a dozen current and former Badgers are set to compete this week at the 2017 USA Swimming National Championships in Indianapolis.
A Republican bill toughening penalties for disruptive campus protests that passed the state Assembly last week likely won’t come up in the Senate until this fall.
A Hmong-American who recently received his medical degree plans to return to Madison, Wisconsin, to pursue research on using stem cells to treat chronic pain.
Event will honor a giant of UW athletics.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin fruit crop entomologist Christelle Guédot.
Madison Area Care of the Homeless, also known as MACH OneHealth, hopes to start the project by September, said Dr. Ann Catlett, a palliative care specialist at UW Hospital and a leader of the effort.
Quoted: Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute.
Frank Ntilikina, Daymean Dotson, Ognjen Jaramaz will be joining former Badger for summer practice as well.
Former Badger took to Player’s Tribune to announce ’I’m the best shooter in this year’s draft class.’
UW-Madison handed down their harshest-ever sanctions for sexual assaults that occurred in 2016, expelling three students from the university.
Warren Porter, a University of Wisconsin-Madison zoology professor who has done extensive research on environmental toxicology .. said that even in minute amounts, glyphosate can have profound long-term health effects. “Most people don’t have a clue as to what’s going on,” he said.
First-year and transfer students will complete a new program to learn about dating violence, sexual assault and violence prevention beginning this fall.
The Capital Times has defended campus free speech since the days when U.S. Sen. Robert M. La Follette and Capital Times founder William T. Evjue were burned in effigy by pro-World War I militarists at UW-Madison.
The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee should be commended for approving a much-needed raise for state employees — and for including University of Wisconsin System employees.
State Journal editorial from a century ago: The University of Wisconsin’s own catalog lists 27 teachers in the department of German. And it was only a short time ago when every student at the university, regardless of what course be pursued, was compelled to study German. …That compulsory regulation has been eliminated. But German is still the language urged on our students. The German department has 27 instructors compared to 25 in all other modern languages combined.
In all, 3,981 workers outside the University of Wisconsin System moved on from their state jobs in 2016, which was nearly 11% more than in 2015 and more than twice as many as in 2010. Turnover is also up among UW professors.
Letter to the editor from Matt Kussow, executive director of Badger Advocates.
Literacy Network and the Madison Path to Citizenship will receive a 2017 Community-University Partnership Award that highlights exemplary partnerships that get to the heart of the Wisconsin Idea.
In just five short years, the Aly Wolff Foundation has raised $700,000 to make groundbreaking research possible at the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
Healthcare expert Donna Friedsam said it isn’t a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Democrats call bill ’too broad, unconstitutional.’
The state Assembly approved a Republican-backed bill late Wednesday night that aims to prevent disruptive protests on college campuses by requiring the University of Wisconsin System to suspend and expel students who repeatedly interrupt speakers.
n debate on the Assembly floor Thursday, Democratic opponents of a Wisconsin campus speech bill accused Republicans of hypocrisy in presenting themselves as champions of free speech while they routinely squelch protest in the Capitol and try to silence speech at the University of Wisconsin that they don’t like.
Take a look back at the career of former Wisconsin Badgers basketball star Nigel Hayes as he prepares for the NBA draft, which begins Thursday.
This happens to be her last month at the helm of the Wisconsin Alumni Association, the super-active organization that serves the more than 400,000 UW-Madison alumni around the world.
Drew Binsky, a travel blogger and UW-Madison alum, has visited about 110 countries — including North Korea.
