UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said that while his university took a major hit in the last budget, both Gov. Scott Walker and former Gov. Jim Doyle have consistently cut funding for the UW System in the past decade.
From 1973 to 1993 she taught horn at the University of Wisconsin School of Music, playing in both the Wisconsin Brass Quintet and the Wingra Woodwind Quintet during that time.
She worked as a receptionist at the University of Wisconsin Student Health.
A rainy summer and the impending winter have forced officials to push back the opening date of Alumni Park, the planned new lakeside green space between Memorial Union and the Red Gym on the UW-Madison campus.
From the 1960s until his retirement at the end of 2014 John worked at the UW Memorial Library, alongside the Bibliographers for Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Studies.
Forty-nine people, including eight students, were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday, during the football game between Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The University of Wisconsin is the No. 3 seed in the NCAA volleyball tournament, the highest seed in program history.
Letter to the editor: The governor and the Republican Legislature threaten to further reduce state funding of UW-Madison until it meets unspecified criteria. Evidently “world-renowned research” is no longer on the list.
The news that the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s ranking for research activity dropped from fourth to sixth in the nation is just jaw-dropping.
Now-retired UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley would often say that it took well over 100 years for the people of Wisconsin to build a world-class university, but it won’t take but a few years to tear it all down.
Barry then taught at UW-Madison, soon becoming the university’s oral historian. For more than 25 years, he researched the university’s history, selecting scores of leading scholars and administrators associated with the university for interviews. Barry’s extensive preparation resulted in a fascinating archive that exists orally in audio/videotape as well as in writing.
In 1970, he was hired at UW as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1978. John became residency director and directed the Anxiety Disorders Center in the Department of Psychiatry. He was chairman of the UW Department of Psychiatry from 1980 until 1989.
For the first time since records have been kept, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has fallen out of the nation’s top five universities in terms of dollars spent on research and development.
Although many had experienced the same thing when Bret Bielema left for the, um, greener pastures of Arkansas in 2012, the University of Wisconsin football players were still shocked two years later when coach Gary Andersen told them just hours after the Big Ten Conference Championship Game that he was fleeing for the, um, academic flexibility of Oregon State.
Letter to the editor: A protest about very real racial injustices should not be interpreted as unpatriotic. It shows that Hayes cares about the direction this country is going. I would call that good citizenship, especially when it has required such bravery.
Letter to the editor: As a city taxpayer, I question the spending of $160,000 for a project that is essentially a gift to UW. The universtiy surely has resources (art students or instructors who could create a sculpture for a lot less) or finances to get their own public art.
Noted: The Republicans’ counter-argument in the case was that their maps abide by all current rules, said David Canon, the chair of UW-Madison’s political science department, on Capital City Sunday.
Local families hosted international students from UW, so that they could enjoy new turkey traditions.
Noted: UW-Madison Political Science Department Chairman David Canon says Trump greatly expanded margins in counties Republican candidate Mitt Romney won in 2012, and also flipped a chunk of rural counties from the democratic column in 2012, to his column by sizable amounts.
He graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1962 and was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals in Madison. He served one year as chief medical resident.
No American principle is more important than the right of dissent against what is percieved as an unjust government.
One of the men who wore a costume depicting President Barack Obama in a noose to a UW football game last month apologized and said that “there was no racial intent” behind the costumes.
A woman who had an extramarital affair with Bo Ryan, the former University of Wisconsin basketball coach who resigned abruptly last December, has filed a federal lawsuit against eight UW-Madison officials alleging defamation and other rights violations.
Cited as a reason to be thankful: Researchers at UW-Madison and elsewhere continue to advance treatments and drugs.
Some artists at UW-Madison put all that energy of disappointment with society on stage. In a series of movement and dance, UW-Madison Professor Li Chiao-Ping and students capture the essence and conflict of life. The “Weight of Things” confronts what we as humans place value on and what we see as important. The show also addresses the hardships of women and the constraints our society has placed on them, having to live up to standards of beauty while constantly battling within themselves to have as much power as men.
The attorney for one of the two former UW football season-ticket holders whose tickets were used by two people in costumes that depicted President Barack Obama in a noose said his client “condemns” their actions.
UW-Madison will open a center for black students early next year inside the university’s historic Red Gym, in a move administrators say shows they are taking action in response to complaints from minority students about their experiences on campus.
A woman who was romantically involved with former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan on Wednesday sued several top university officials, alleging they deprived her of due process, defamed her and invaded her privacy.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee history professor David Hoeveler has written a new book on John Bascom, who was president of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887
UW-Madison wants to serve more low-income and first-generation college students, says Derek Kindle, the university’s new director of financial aid.
The four candidates for UW-Madison police chief will be on campus next week to meet the public as well as student, faculty and staff groups and university leaders.
Walker spokesman Tom Evenson said the governor’s budget will include more money for public education, technical colleges and the UW System.
Having scrapped an earlier plan for a metal leaf due to rising materials costs, committee members representing the Madison Art Commission and the Downtown Coordinating Committee heard presentations from three finalists on Friday. They ultimately chose a proposal by RDG Dahlquist, based in Des Moines.
Five UW-Madison professors have been elected as fellows into the world’s largest general scientific society.
UW-Madison received a surge in discrimination reports after Donald Trump was elected president, campus officials say, adding the university to a growing list of colleges and communities across the country experiencing a rise in tensions and troubling behavior since Election Day.
As anti-Trump student protests began at American universities last week, members of Climate Action 350, a student group dedicated to climate solutions, were protesting something entirely different.
As a community of college-educated citizens, we are doing ourselves a disservice if we are not informed in the field of environmental sustainability. The environment provides us with all of the base resources we need to survive. Humans will never be able to synthetically produce all the goods and services that the environment gives us, and yet we are destroying it as though we are losing nothing; in fact, we are losing everything.
UW-Madison fifth-year student Donale Richards is one of the few students of color who majors in biological systems engineering. He has made it his goal through his involvement in various groups that focus on the use of natural resources to change this and spark interest in incoming students of color of agricultural majors.
Westman is professor emeritus of psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
The NCAA title hopes came to an end for the University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team Friday night.
Letter to the editor: Two recent stories about UW-Madison in the State Journal really caught my interest. The first was about basketball player Nigel Hayes’ public protest during the national anthem. He stands a few steps behind teammates.
A city selection committee is recommending a large rectangular steel and stone sculpture be placed on State Street Mall.
Noted: Markus Brauer, a UW-Madison psychology professor who studies behavior modification comment: ?”‘Prescriptive norms’ tell people what is the right thing to do. And there are many studies suggesting that people’s perceptions of prescriptive norms are heavily influenced by the leadership, in the positive and in the negative direction.”
The residents of a UW-Madison apartment complex where a young child was diagnosed with lead poisoning earlier this year had complained to housing officials about chipping and peeling paint outside their apartments for a decade before the girl was poisoned, records obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal show.
University Health Services gynecologist Dr. Mary Landry said the clinic has seen 55 online requests for intrauterine device (IUD) consultations between Nov. 8 and Nov. 10. In the week after the election, UHS reported between 5 and 10 requests for IUD consultations per day. Typically, she said, the service sees five to six such requests per week.
In 1964, Bud earned his PhD from UW-Madison. Bud worked at the Synchrotron Radiation Center as an accelerator physicist for over 20 years until his retirement in 1993.
Donal MacCoon at Madison Psychiatric Associates said the vast majority of his clients are talking about the election … noting that he treats UW-Madison staff who are worried about some of their minority students. “It’s affecting their lives personally, but even beyond that, it’s affecting their communities and how they feel. How do they honor their own ethical obligations?”
Dr. John Herrington is scheduled to talk to UW-Madison students Thursday night. He was born into the Chickasaw Nation and is credited with being the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space.
I grew up in Madison, as did my father. I now live in California, but I often thought my children might attend UW-Madison.
It could have been a season to forget for the University of Wisconsin cross country teams.
Chover worked as a professor of math at UW-Madison for 36 years, officially retiring in 1993 but continuing to teach part-time for five additional years.
The panelists, Charlie Sykes, a conservative radio talk show host; Dave Weigel, a reporter for the Washington Post; and Mike Wagner and Kathy Cramer, both professors at the UW LaFollette School of Public Affairs, took questions from the audience during the 90-minute session.
Wednesday’s event featured UW-Madison Sociology Professor Doctor Pamela Oliver who’s studied the incarceration rates and its connection to social movements like Black Lives Matter.
The Wisconsin basketball players Nigel Hayes and Jordan Hill took a step behind their teammates during the national anthem before the ninth-ranked Badgers’ season opener on Friday. It was another in a long series of visible protests from one of college basketball’s most socially aware locker rooms.
Four finalists have been selected for the position of UW-Madison Police Department chief of police.
State politicians and community members met Monday to discuss concealed carry on UW System schools’ campuses, with a bill allowing for so-called campus carry potentially looming next year.
In many states across the country, legislation that allows concealed carry, a license which grants an individual the ability to covertly carry a gun on them, has already been passed. The addition of guns on campuses has caused students, staff, faculty and parents to worry, especially after mass school shootings such as Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook.
A University of Wisconsin business student has invented an add-on to insulin injectors ensuring a safer and surer injection for diabetics.
As we stood in the long line waiting to get into the Badgers’ nonconference basketball game with Central Arkansas last Friday night, I couldn’t help but think of what this is going to be like come real winter.
Noted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden is skeptical that Trump would work arm-in-arm with congressional Republicans in the same way that Walker was able to work with his Legislative majority in Wisconsin.
