The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team has all of the trophies it could have claimed to this point .A prominent individual entry joined the team awards Saturday, when senior goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens became the fifth Badgers player to win the Patty Kazmaier Award as Division I women’s hockey’s top player.
Deep spending cuts in President Donald Trump’s budget proposal could threaten the federal funding UW-Madison researchers rely on to investigate Alzheimer’s disease, asthma and other ailments, and slash support for programs that help low-income students afford college, according to scientists and campus officials.
Searchable database lists salary details for all employees of the University of Wisconsin in the 2015 and 2016 fiscal years.
Noted: Donna Friedsam of the UW-Madison Population Health Institute and School of Business professor Justin Sydnor weigh in.
Football coach Paul Chryst topped the Business Journal’s list of 22 UW employees with base salaries of more than $350,000, at $2.57 million. Ray Cross, president of the UW System, led the six university administrators included on the list. With a salary of $512,064, he is the only one of the top-earning UW administrators not working at the flagship campus, UW-Madison.
Hayes has been on the floor for 113 wins at UW, which trails only Josh Gasser (118) and Frank Kaminsky (114). Koenig is at 112; four days after making his debut against St. John’s, he never left the bench in the Badgers’ 59-53 home win over Florida.
A Wisconsin HOPE Lab report released Wednesday argues technical colleges should invest in efforts to assess and address students’ basic needs in food and housing in light of a survey that found an estimated one-third are hungry and 14 percent are homeless.
A dozen UW-Madison faculty members have been honored by the university with the annual Distinguished Teaching Awards, awarded every year since 1953 to honor the best educators at the state’s flagship school.
Gov. Scott Walker warned his fellow Republicans on Thursday that it would “unwise” to reject his proposal to switch state workers to a self-insurance model, saying ditching the plan would cost the state tens of millions of dollars in savings.
Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke said at a UW-Madison faculty forum that he hasn’t found any lawmakers who are excited about the plan, The Associated Press reported.
The expectations started early, with the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team picked to win the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and given the No. 1 national ranking in preseason polls.
The Legislature’s budget committee plans to hold six budget hearings next month around the state on Gov. Scott Walker’s $76 billion biennial budget proposal, though none will be in the state’s 10 largest cities.
Goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens was named a first-team All-American for the second straight year on Thursday, and three of her University of Wisconsin women’s hockey teammates earned spots on the second team.
The event is at the Best Western Inntowner at 2424 University Avenue. It goes from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. March 16.
Quoted: “This is one of several studies that have shown some increased heart risk associated with medicines that are not steroids but are used for pain,” said Dr. Patrick McBride, the associate director of preventative cardiology at University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Letter to the editor: As a freshmen in the fall of 2015, I did not anticipate encountering so many issues related to diversity on the University of Wisconsin campus. Having grown up in a predominately white town in Wisconsin, I was excited to come to a university that people and advertisements told me was very diverse. Little did I know that when trying to navigate this large university, campus sometimes can feel unwelcoming to minority students.
To promote inclusivity for the Hmong communities at the University of Wisconsin, Associated Students of Madison unanimously moved to endorse a proposal to implement a Hmong-American Studies Program and Certificate Wednesday.
Lauren Carlini has been named a finalist for the AAU James E. Sullivan Award, presented annually to the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States.
Bob Bostad will earn $300,000 to coach the University of Wisconsin’s inside linebackers this season, according to documents released to the State Journal via an open records request.
Allocable segregated fees—the approximately $90 each UW-Madison student pays along with their tuition every year—go toward funding many clubs, resources and services across campus. However, according to the new budget proposal from Gov. Scott Walker, these fees will be made optional for students. While saving money may sound appealing, the loss of segregated fee income could be catastrophic for our campus community.
Rape and the fear of rape is a part of the American college experience for women. On American college campuses, one in four undergraduate women will be sexually assaulted or raped by the time they graduate. Indicated by UW-Madison’s Association of American Universities Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Assault Climate Survey, our precious UW-Madison is no exception, with 27.6 percent of undergraduate female students reporting experiencing nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching.
The top craft beer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison student beer-brewing competition went into full production Wednesday.
An idea conceived by four UW-Madison students in the fall of 2012 is coming to fruition with the remodel of Witte Residence Hall. After 53 years, the dorm, located in the Southeast neighborhood of UW-Madison’s campus, is set to be renovated later this month.
As national debates on immigration grow more prominent, the University of Wisconsin is hosting a conference to discuss how to help the children of immigrants and refugees cope with the challenges of starting life in a new community.
One thing that hasn’t changed much over the past two seasons is the starting lineup for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
The sophomore swingman for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team thought something was odd when he saw his brother waiting for him on his way to the locker room. The look on Kevin Iverson Jr.’s face made his younger brother realize something terrible had happened. Khalil Iverson soon learned two of his cousins had been shot to death on the north side of Columbus, Ohio.
Column by William Cox, Assistant Scientist, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Nearly 200,000 retired public employees covered by the Wisconsin Retirement System will get a bump up in their pension checks, starting May 1.
Walker is picking the University of Wisconsin Badgers to win it all, even though the Badgers enter the tournament as a No. 8 seed in the East Region.
UW-Madison is being investigated for four cases of mishandling reports of sexual violence—the second-most of any Big Ten school, after the University of Indiana’s five, and more than double the average of investigations for all Big Ten institutions.
There are memories everywhere, every day, even when Lamont Paris is locked in on his responsibilities with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program.
he held several different positions with the State of Wisconsin, the most recent as a financial specialist with the Department of Geology, UW-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison committee has upheld the recommendation to expel Alec Cook from the university for violating university student conduct policies, according to a release.
Column by Jeffrey S. Russell, dean of the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies.
A UW-Madison misconduct committee has voted to expel a student who prosecutors allege sexually assaulted or harassed 10 women, officials said Tuesday.
For a student government so avowedly committed to creating a welcoming campus atmosphere for students of color, this legislation may be a counterproductive move. Black students already experience some measure of harassment because of stereotypes surrounding race, affirmative action and scholarship money. Imagine the hostility they as a group would face if every black student did not pay tuition, and nearly every white student did.
The challenge a professor presented to a group of civil engineering students was one that came from the real world: Come up with a plan to renovate UW-Madison’s Witte Residence Hall that adds amenities for its residents and lets the university keep open a building that houses 15 percent of the campus’ dorm population.
Roger worked as a building and grounds superintendent, most recently for UW Waisman Center.
Laura Albert-McLay is a professor at the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She said even the most thought out bracket may not be a winning one.
Following a 2015 survey that revealed high rates of sexual assault at UW-Madison—particularly in residence halls and Greek houses—campus groups have been working to build prevention programs aimed at reducing these numbers. This programming aims to reach a significant portion of the campus population, as 90 percent of freshman choose to live in university housing and approximately 13 percent of undergraduates are members of the Greek community.
Requests for no contact orders happen fairly often—about once every two weeks, assistant dean and director of conduct and community standards Tonya Schmidt said. Reasons can be as simple as a roommate relationship gone sour, but they more commonly deal with dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
[S]ome on campus are worried that President Donald Trump’s administration may change standards for college sexual assault cases, making the reporting process more difficult for some survivors.
UW-Madison Industrial Engineering professor Laura Albert McLay tells 27 News she can’t mathematically justify the Badgers tough spot in the tournament. She thought based on their rankings and season schedule that they’d be a 5 or 6 seed.
Attorneys of suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook are set to receive at least 2,800 pages of police reports and other evidence previously undisclosed by the prosecution after an emergency motion was filed Friday requesting the release of the material.
Excitement rose Monday as snow fell with the announcement that the annual Battle for Bascom would be taking place. The tradition, now in its sixth year, calls all students that currently or previously lived in the Lakeshore and Southeast neighborhoods to face off in a snowball fight on Bascom Hill.
TRIUMPH has recruited 69 students between 2010 and 2016. Out of these, 50 have graduated and worked in areas where at least 50 percent of urban patients live in poverty, Haq said. An additional 40 former students are now pursuing primary care specialities.
In an attempt to address the cost of higher education, Wisconsin legislators have reintroduced a “Higher Ed, Lower Debt” bill to help students alleviate their debt.
Granato was named the Big Ten Conference’s coach of the year on Monday after leading the Badgers to a second-place finish in his first season.
Basketball fans agonizing over their NCAA tournament brackets — or casual viewers looking to make some cash in the office March Madness pool — might want to take some advice from UW-Madison professor Laura Albert McLay as they make their picks.
According to UW-Madison, the video is a new supercomputer simulation of a supercell storm that left a path of destruction in Oklahoma in May 2011.
As part of ongoing celebrations of International Women’s Day, University of Wisconsin students and members of the Madison community gathered Wednesday to discuss key issues affecting women’s rights, ranging from the patriarchy to President Donald Trump.
Ten professors from a variety of disciplines at UW-Madison have been selected for named professorships from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Arizona State University’s president is warning University of Wisconsin System regents that they must offer a college education on a scale never seen before.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to increase funding for the University of Wisconsin System is the best budget news UW has heard in a long time, System President Ray Cross said Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was ranked fifth in the world in communications and media studies in the newly released 2017 QS World University Rankings.
The city’s University of Wisconsin campus has more than 1,200 faculty in the biological and physical sciences, plus an uncounted number of academic and university staff who are scientists, according to UW spokeswoman Meredith McGlone. And as of last fall, there were more than 19,000 students, including graduate students, in those sciences out of a total of some 43,000. These days, it occurs to me that most of those scientists and science students might be inclined to take to the streets.
A pledge to implement 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030 at UW-Madison could be on the table after The Climate Reality Project recently opened a new branch on campus.
When U.S. Paralympic sled hockey goaltender Steve Cash heard of the death of Jeff Sauer last month, he said one of the toughest realizations was that he could never make his coach proud again. Cash was one of many who spoke Thursday of their appreciation for Sauer at a celebration of the former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach’s life at the Kohl Center.
Rowers from UW-Madison and Stanford University faced off Thursday for a good cause. The rowers took part in a 100 kilometer ERG challenge to support the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation, which raises funds to fight childhood brain cancer.
UW’s Band is marching for meals, sharing about the importance of the Meals on Wheels program. Students started off playing crowd favorites at The Gardens Retirement Community, moving on to play at other senior apartments throughout Madison.
