Research groups — including UW-Madison, UW Health, Medical College of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and BioForward, which represents the state’s biotech industry — said the fetal tissue research ban would prohibit lifesaving research already regulated under federal law.
Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison professor and legal expert, said Roggensack was right to defend the court’s institutional legitimacy. Owens said her remarks draw attention to what he described as the need for collegiality among leaders in various spheres, including judicial and political.
Noted: Dr. Katie Antony joined NBC 15 to discuss the latest insights on Zika just in time for spring break travel.
She was a student at the UW-Madison where she was on the Dean’s List, studying elementary education and teaching English as a second language. She was known for her kindness and thoughtfulness for others.
The commission also approved placing $361.3 million in a fund that could be tapped for projects not specifically enumerated. That could include many across the University of Wisconsin System that were not approved. The university asked for nearly $795 million but was approved for only $128 million.
In an effort to include more encompassing language in Associated Students of Madison’s constitution, a nondiscrimination amendment was passed in a 3155-369 referendum vote during its annual student elections.
Beginning in May, the Associated Student of Madison will have a new set of faces seated at the table after spring election votes were tallied for representatives and a change in ASM’s constitution Wednesday.
At UW-Madison, the LGBT CC works in junction with University Health Services to provide LGBT-identifying students with increasing support, especially for transgender persons. While services expand, some find help. But others are still waiting.
The event, “Who Needs College?” moderated by Michel Martin, weekend host of “All Things Considered,” brought together a varied group of panelists including University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty, alumni, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a lawmaker.
Madison police said officers working traffic control had helped an estimated 700 people march safely to the Capitol. Starting around 11 a.m., they came from two directions: along State Street from Library Mall on the UW-Madison campus and along East Washington Avenue.
Two lucky UW-Madison students will be brewing beer with Wisconsin Brewing Company.
Last year, a website called WalletHub ranked the best and worst cities for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, and Madison ranked 7th out of 100 cities.
The late “Funky Drummer” Clyde Stubblefield, along with educator and philanthropist Tashia Morgridge and sociologist Cora Marrett, will be receiving honorary degrees in May from UW-Madison.
Former Wisconsin head men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan will be is inducted this fall into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, according to UWBadgers.com.
Shellenberger, a pro-nuclear environmentalist has co-authored multiple books, including “The Death of Environmentalism,” “Break Through,” and “An Ecomodernist Manifesto.” He has been an advocate for environmental and social justice for more than 25 years.
A letter sent by a large group of black UW-Madison alumni drew a response from the university’s chief diversity officer, who said he hopes to work with the group to improve campus climate for students of color.
Amid elections for Associated Students of Madison representatives, state Sen. Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point, visited College Republicans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to discuss hot-button issues and drive home the importance of fighting for conservative values.
While many people put their faith in Jimmy the Groundhog as to how long winter will be, a better natural barometer can be found at the UW-Madison Arboretum.
Noted: Ashley Lauren Smith, who co-facilitates the fourth grade girls’ group, is a Ph.D. student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s education policy program. Her research focuses on African-American girls and school discipline.PauseCurrent Time 0:00/Duration Time 0:00Loaded: 0%Progress: 0%0:00Fullscreen00:00Mute
Amid uncertainty of the level of support Gov. Scott Walker has in the state Legislature for his budget proposal, state Sen. Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point, supported the tuition cut and increased UW System funding in a speech to UW-Madison’s College Republicans.
At this time next year, teams from the Big Ten Conference will be in a holding pattern as they wait for the start of the NCAA tournament or other postseason events. Howard Moore, an assistant coach with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program, knows the feeling.
In the midst of midterms, college students may be asking “Why college?” National Public Radio’s Michel Martin asked panelists, which included four UW-Madison students, this question, and what purpose they think higher education serves.
It was frustrating at the time, but going against Frank Kaminsky on a daily basis paid dividends for Ethan Happ while he was redshirting during his first season with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program.Two years later, Happ is an All-Big Ten first-team selection. That honor was announced Monday when the conference revealed its 2016-17 awards.
Five members of the No. 24 Wisconsin men’s basketball team received season-ending awards from the Big Ten Conference on Monday, headlined by Ethan Happ earning first-team All-Big Ten recognition.
The University of Wisconsin Madison held their first event for Women of Color week Monday.A panel discussion called “Immigration, Assimilation and Integration” invited students and community members to think about immigration issues, like President Donald Trump’s travel ban, in a historical context.
The Faculty Senate weighed risk versus “preserving some faculty shared governance” while debating a revised proposal for post-tenure review policy Monday.
When Junko Mori came to Wisconsin in the 1990s, Japan was experiencing an economic boom. To foster business collaboration, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction recruited native Japanese speakers to help elementary and secondary school students learn the language.
Carlini was named Monday as one of 18 semifinalists for the 87th AAU James E. Sullivan Award presented annually to the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States.
Letter to the editor: Students don’t come to a program understanding how to do research. Research involves many challenging skills, such as collecting and interpreting data, writing and presenting reports, publishing the results, getting funding for research, and identifying commercial possibilities. All this is learned only by a student’s active participation in the research process.
The debate over three-year versus four-year bachelor degree programs is taking center stage following Gov. Scott Walker’s 2017-’19 budget proposal. An aspect of this requires the UW System to establish pathways to a three-year degree for 10 percent of programs by Jan.1, 2018 and 60 percent of programs by June 2020.
UW-Madison students could soon be able to use food stamps to pay for meals on campus.
For several years, the Rape Crisis Center and UW-Madison have been working to break down the barriers to reporting incidents of sexual assault. Education and outreach efforts have made a goal of letting victims of sexual assault know they don’t have to suffer in silence. The belief is the reporting of sexual assaults has increased, and not necessarily the incidents themselves.
Gov. Scott Walker has done it again. This man continues to attack the University of Wisconsin System, interfering with business that should not be messed with. If the $250 million in cuts to the UW System in the 2015 budget weren’t enough, he now wants the UW System to allow students to opt out of allocable segregated fees, which will have detrimental effects on our schools.
Proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also could affect some of the roughly 20 climate change researchers at UW-Madison who receive federal funding, but Wisconsin relies on agency dollars more heavily in the other areas.
Towards the end of every spring semester, Mifflin Street residents open their doors to hundreds of UW-Madison students and Madison residents for a Saturday of celebration. The residents of one house, though, are planning for their home to serve a different purpose and mirror the inaugural Mifflin Street Block Party.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he’s worried about relationships between University of Wisconsin System schools and their private foundations.
On this senior night, there was a big showing of support for Koenig, as he played his last game at the Kohl Center. Members of the Ho-Chunk Nation met for a watch party at the Double Tree in Madison Sunday evening, to watch the game and celebrate his career with Wisconsin.
In the last year, UW-Madison saw an increase of more than 100 sexual assault reports, according to a university official. The number of reported sexual assaults on campus rose from 217 reports in 2015 to 325 in 2016. This more than doubles the increase between 2014 and 2015, when the number of reports rose by only 45.
Senior Night didn’t start out very well for Bronson Koenig. The senior guard for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team picked up his second foul 5 minutes into the game and was forced to watch from the bench for the rest of the first half as 22nd-ranked UW and red-hot Minnesota were locked up in a tight game Sunday at the Kohl Center.
Six women will be honored by UW-Madison on Tuesday as the 2016 Outstanding Women of Color.
A controversial pay plan for graduate students who assist faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison will be introduced as planned, despite continuing opposition from the student workers’ labor union.
As a part of his 2015-’17 budget, Gov. Scott Walker edited the language in state statute outlining the responsibilities of the UW System. In essence, the role of students, faculty and staff shifted from that of policy developers to policy advisors, a move that left many in fear over the true weight of their voice.
Only later did Sarah Nurse realize the reason why she frightfully couldn’t hear anything while lying on the ice was that the sellout crowd at LaBahn Arena had gone silent.
Rep. Andre Jacque and Sen. Chris Kapenga are circulating a bill targeting an arrangement between Planned Parenthood and the university in which faculty members work part-time at the organization’s Madison clinic.
NPR, in cooperation with Wisconsin Public Radio, will host a panel discussion on the question, 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, at Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison.
Police arrested Chanell M Cousins, 20, Friday afternoon in connection to multiple burglaries over the past two weeks in which electronics and credit cards were stolen from unlocked offices in campus buildings.
From diabetes, asthma and tooth decay to lake algae, dairy production and panda reproduction, UW-Madison researchers are studying how tiny bugs in our guts, our mouths and a variety of ecosystems help or harm.
Once her boys were in college, Emily began a career assisting hundreds of medical students at the UW-Madison Medical School.
New funding for higher education in Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal would reverse years of cuts and boost University of Wisconsin System schools that have been slashing costs in recent years.But experts say two changes that System leaders and state lawmakers are considering this year could shrink the share of new funding that winds up at UW-Madison, and instead send more of that money to the System’s other campuses.
There is a waiting list from around the country for Little Mountain and only a few half-pound chunks are available at the Roelli Cheese Store next door to the cheese plant. Little Mountain was developed beginning in 2012 with the assistance of John Jaeggi at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison.
As students shuffled back and forth between classes in Birge Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus these past few weeks, they looked curiously at what Peter Krsko was up to. Up on a 14-foot-ladder, the Slovakian-born artist was building a plywood sculpture around one of the pillars in the entrance hall. Inspired by the plants he saw in the greenhouses at Birge Hall, Krsko constructed the sculpture of slender pieces of wood to climb 22 feet up the pillar like a vine, exploding outward like a geyser of water.
For UW-Madison junior Nour Saeed, the past three years have been unsettling to say the least. What started as a habit of watching the news turned into anger and confusion as events such as the Syrian Civil War and, most recently, the 2016 presidential election commanded headlines.
The UW Carbone Cancer Center hosted its annual Bowlin’ for Colons at nine different bowling alleys, to raise money for colon cancer research at the cancer center.
Republican legislators introduced a bill Friday that may result in UW System employees no longer being able to perform abortions or train others at Madison Planned Parenthood clinics.
Farmers could get a break on their student loans under a new plan at the capitol. The new measure would create a loan-forgiveness program for farmers who commit to staying in the state after they finish a tech college, short course or university degree.
UW-Madison instructors debated how they should deliver course content to this generation of college students that have seen the term “trigger warning” splashed on recent headlines.
Profiles of important women in state history provided courtesy of the Wisconsin Women Making History, a partnership of the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Media Lab, the University of Wisconsin Women’s Studies Consortium and the UW Gender and Women’s Studies Library.
Until Thursday, only one person from the University of Wisconsin had been a two-time top-three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award as the top women’s college hockey player.
Annika Collier took more classes about Swedish than she did in computer science while attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the seven years she’s worked at Epic Systems, the giant Verona-based company that specializes in complex medical software, that’s never been an issue, she told a small room of UW students at the Union South.
On Feb. 27, UW-Madison community members received a familiar “Timely Warning” email that highlighted the ongoing threat of burglary on campus. UW-Madison is obligated to send these emails under the Clery Act, which requires campuses to report specific crimes, such as homicide, sexual offenses and robbery. While these emails often describe the alleged perpetrator, rarely do they include identifying photographs like the one circulated on Monday.
