University of Wisconsin defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox is in contract negotiations with Cal to become the Golden Bears’ new head coach, according to a report by FOX Sports’ Bruce Feldman.
Quoted: Because of Walker’s approach, what happens to the exchange and its subsidies matters more in Wisconsin than in most places, said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute.
Quoted: Martin Ganco, an associate business professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is part of a nationwide effort to find out how widespread non-competes are, which industries use them, and how they impact companies, workers and the overall economy.
Replays shown to fans will be clearer next season at the Kohl Center, and they’ll be available at the Field House for the first time.
The Office of Quality Improvement at UW-Madison has named Darin Harris as interim director, choosing the long time consultant to the office to take over after Maury Cotter retired.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students this week applauded Gov. Scott Walker’s promise to cut tuition, but like campus officials, stressed that state funding of the cut is essential.
One area lawmaker will reintroduce a piece of legislation in the 2017-18 session that would expand the current concealed carry law to University of Wisconsin System owned buildings.
The University of Wisconsin announced at Thursday night’s game that the basketball court at the Kohl Center will be named after former Badgers player and booster Albert “Ab” Nicholas following the 2016-17 season.
Quoted: “Anybody that bought some dairy bought some milk from 2003 to 2010 can claim some damages,” Bob Cropp, a UW-Madison economist, said.
Oliver Smithies, a renowned geneticist, Nobel laureate and former UW-Madison professor, died Tuesday at the age of 91.
Editorial cartoon: Republican lawmakers, led by Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, have threatened to cut funding to the University of Wisconsin as punishment for allowing controversial classes such as “The Problem of Whiteness.”
Oliver Smithies, whose work as a genetics professor at UW-Madison helped lead to a Nobel Prize, has died.
Gov. Scott Walker got loud applause and big headlines this week for proposing in his annual State of the State speech the first tuition cut at University of Wisconsin System schools in more than 30 years.
Column by Ph.D. student in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Eric Luckey.
Quoted: “We don’t want to lose ground on the insurance coverage,” Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute, said during a panel discussion at the Capitol.
Vegas, a police horse at the UW-Madison Police Department since 2005, was euthanized Tuesday at the university’s School of Veterinary Medicine after his diseased hind legs couldn’t go any further.
A Madison man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly entering unlocked apartments last summer, while nothing was reported stolen, the Madison Police Department said.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition at the University of Wisconsin and use taxpayer funds to pay for it is shaking up normal political alliances with some Democrats expressing support while skeptical fellow Republicans worry it could put the state on a path toward socialist Bernie Sanders’ free college tuition plan.
It’s bad for Republican lawmakers to push for more ideologically diverse educators and courses at UW-Madison as a way to inject more conservatism into the left-leaning campus.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition for University of Wisconsin System students would be the first time that cost has fallen at the state’s flagship campus in decades.
Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday previewed next year’s potential re-election pitch, promising to cut university tuition and touting tax and unemployment rates that are lower now than when he took office in 2011.
Gov. Scott Walker said during his seventh State of the State address Tuesday he will cut in-state tuition at all University of Wisconsin campuses in his upcoming budget proposal.
Gov. Scott Walker is promising to cut tuition for all undergraduates in the University of Wisconsin System.
Letter to the editor: Thanks to former Gov. Tommy Thompson for his article that reminds us of the vitality that is brought to the state and its citizens, on so many levels, by a healthy partnership between the UW and state, local and federal government. I fear that for the most part, his pearls of wisdom will fall on deaf ears of the GOP legislators and Gov. Walker.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said he is “open-minded” to the idea, but he is not yet convinced a tuition cut will be a priority for lawmakers as they consider the 2017-19 budget.
Walker proposed a tuition cut in his State of the State speech on Tuesday. He did not say how much it would be, but his spokesman Tom Evenson says it will be paid for.
Following years of touting a tuition freeze, Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday that he aims to actually cut undergraduate in-state tuition at all UW System schools.
Gov. Scott Walker said he wants to cut undergraduate tuition for Wisconsin residents at University of Wisonsin System schools in his annual State of the State address Tuesday.
Recap of New York Times column penned by Professor Don Moynihan, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Services for a UW-Madison freshman nursing student who died in a plane crash along with her father in December will be held on Sunday, with a scholarship established in her name at the nursing school.
Column from faculty members Stephen R. Carpenter, John E. Kutzbach, John J. Magnuson, Monica G. Turner, Jonathan A. Patz, Stanley A. Temple and Donald M. Waller.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is calling on state legislators to fully fund a tuition cut Gov. Scott Walker promised in his State of the State address Tuesday.
Dr. J. joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, later opening his own practice. He was one of the first physicians in the state to employ an ultrasound.
A group of UW-Madison professors criticized the state Department of Natural Resources on Monday for scrubbing its website of language that stated human activity is causing climate change, accusing the agency of ignoring facts and violating the public trust.
Prominent scientists at UW-Madison say that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ revised statement on climate change is “simply incorrect.”
Officials at a Lindenwood University near St. Louis are trying to pinpoint what caused a carbon monoxide leak that sickened 19 women’s hockey players after a game.
He then went to work for the University of Wisconsin, Madison, from which he retired in 1986 as Emeritus Professor in Education.
In addition, state Rep. Andre Jacque (R-De Pere) said he will introduce a bill this session to prohibit University of Wisconsin physicians from doing outside work for Planned Parenthood clinics and any other abortion provider.
When Republican legislators threaten to withhold funding from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, fire professors who teach material they deem controversial, or comb through the list of course offerings to make sure classes meet some conservative definition of what is legitimate to teach, it has a chilling effect on academic and intellectual freedom and threatens our democracy. These attacks on free speech will continue to poison the atmosphere on our campus and do significant damage to Madison’s national and international reputation.
Advocates for survivors of sexual and domestic abuse are calling on state Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, to retract his condemnation of a University of Wisconsin-Madison program that challenges men to reevaluate ideas of masculine identity.
The Badger Caring Closet, which will open in the Lutheran Campus Ministry in spring, will provide a space for low-income UW-Madison students to get free clothes, hygiene products and school supplies.
Quoted: “It seems like climate science is going to be targeted,” said Michael Notaro, associate director of the university’s Center for Climatic Research, which receives about 90 percent of its roughly $3 million budget from federal sources. “We are very vulnerable, and from our standpoint we see climate change research as something very critical that has big impacts on the state and the globe.”
A UW-Stout biology professor and his students may have made an important discovery in the effort to determine why honey bee hives are dying out during the winters in the Upper Midwest.
Conservative critics of higher education in Wisconsin have opened a new chapter of their long-running complaints about institutions such as UW-Madison, scrutinizing specific university courses and even a class reading they consider biased or inappropriate.
The bills proposed include legislation relating to the University of Wisconsin System chartering a recovery school.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point announced on Thursday that it has suspended head men’s basketball coach Bob Semling for the remainder of the 2016-17 season and will self-impose a postseason ban, including the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament.
UW-Madison royalties from licensed merchandise sales set a record in 2015-2016, exceeding the previous record by more than $500,000.
UW-Madison received more than $4.4 million from royalties made off the sale of licensed merchandise in the 2015-’16 fiscal year, exceeding the university’s previous high mark by $561,000.
Score a hat trick 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday with free ice skating with the UW-Madison women’s hockey team, and Bucky Badger at Vilas Park ice rink, 1602 Vilas Park Drive.
Environmentalism, medicine and art all have one thing in common at UW Hospital. Staff members are now recycling and reusing medical plastic, like vial caps, that otherwise would have been thrown away, largely for art projects.
A Republican legislator said Wednesday that UW-Madison is attacking men and masculinity by offering a six-week program called the “Men’s Project,” which explores masculinity and the problems it may cause.
Jim retired in 2008 from the University Wisconsin-Madison after working 17 years in the environmental and custodial services department.
Another offering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this one on masculinity, is drawing fire from conservatives as an example of ideological excesses at the school.
Today, the UW’s flagship school in Madison has a $15 billion annual impact on Wisconsin’s economy and brings in $1 billion in research funding. Then as now, I was proud to carry on the tradition started more than a century ago by Van Hise and La Follette — that the university is intricately tied to the state. While today’s challenges differ in some ways from those that we tackled in my time as governor, I believe strongly that this collaborative approach remains the most effective way to solve them and ensure prosperity and health for the people of our state.
A Republican legislator said Wednesday that UW-Madison is attacking men and masculinity by offering a six-week program called the “Men’s Project,” which explores masculinity and the problems it may cause.
Letter to the editor: Following the Cotton Bowl game Monday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, I was standing in the elevator corridor with about 100 other UW-Madison alumni when a group of Western Michigan University fans exited.
Ahead of the spring semester, a new University of Wisconsin-Madison program is gaining sharp criticism from conservative lawmakers.
If all goes according to the plans of the UW-Madison Division of Recreational Sports, the facility at 715 W. Dayton St. will be closed for good late in the summer of 2017 and torn down in the fall. Two years later a new SERF with nearly four times as much fitness space as the current one will open to students, at an estimated cost of $93 million.
Megan was a freshman studying nursing at UW and also a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. Family members say she and her dad were loving, caring, remarkable individuals.Although her sorority sisters are all still away on winter break, the president of the UW chapter Jillian Parks describes Megan in a statement as a vibrant and ambitious young woman who aspired to be a neonatal nurse one day.
I had the privilege of attending the Nobel Prize ceremonies and lectures in Stockholm this year. Bob Dylan’s thank you speech, read by the American ambassador, and Patti Smith’s performance of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” captured headlines.
