UW System officials, policymakers, experts and students gathered Wednesday at James Madison Memorial High School to discuss the upcoming state budget and what it might mean for higher education in the state.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty are uneasy over a planned contract with Amazon for a pickup point in the Red Gym that they say is ethically suspect and could muddle public perception of the university’s mission.
The Middleton City Council on Tuesday approved a plan for a $9 million UW Pharmacy Enterprise Building on Deming Way.
What we all want after college, to get a job, just became a little easier for members of the University of Wisconsin System.
“When does the suffering stop?” Community leader Minister Caliph Muab’El asked City Council members and officials this question Tuesday evening when he and a group colleagues presented their 15-point plan aimed at reducing racial disparities, violence and recidivism in Madison.
Dear World, a national portrait project, brought their group to UW-Madison Tuesday to ask all members of campus one question: “If you had one story to share with the world, what would you say?”
Dr. Shilagh Mirgain, a clinical psychologist at UW Health, joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to talk about the mid-life crisis.
The nation’s longest-standing poverty research center right here in Madison has been selected to be the nation’s only federally-funded poverty research center.
For the second time in two days, the University Wisconsin women’s golf team saw its fate come down to the final hole of the final match in the East-West Match Play Challenge. And for the second straight day, the Badgers came up with a clutch shot when it was needed.
The honors keep rolling in for Molly Haggerty.
The Madison Common Council adopted legislation establishing an additional early voting site on the UW-Madison campus for the November general election at its Tuesday meeting.
Letter to the editor: Gov. Scott Walker has recently promised to link UW funding to what he vaguely calls “performance metrics.” The recent leak of documents to the Guardian newspaper clarify what “performance metrics” means.
Chase Bauernfeind knew he wanted to live at The Hub when it was no more than a maze of girders rising at the corner of State and Frances streets, steps from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
After showing extreme dedication and helping progress the Wisconsin wrestling program, Trevor Brandvold has been elevated to the associate head coach position and Camden Eppert has been named the volunteer assistant coach, head coach Barry Davis announced Monday.
There are 43,193 students enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These 43,193 students are trying to complete homework assignments on time. These 43,193 students are attempting to attend all the club kick-off meetings they signed up for at the Student Organization Fair. And these 43,193 students enrolled at UW-Madison are trying to find the perfect balance between school and their social lives.
Associated Students of Madison held their first voter registration event Monday at Memorial Library to attract student voters.
The University of Wisconsin is launching a new study to determine how to better allocate information technology resources on campus.
The University of Wisconsin System has launched a new website connecting students with state businesses in a bid to keep more UW graduates in Wisconsin.
Column by Jack Williams, a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: In the wake of a $250 million state budget cut and weakened protections for intellectual freedom, I’ve thought carefully about my family, my career, the University of Wisconsin, and whether I still felt a calling to serve Wisconsin and The Wisconsin Idea. It hasn’t been easy. It’s difficult to express my pride in being a part of the University of Wisconsin.
A continuing program at University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking to keep alcohol-related ejections at their football games.
Police arrested an 18-year-old early Sunday morning after authorities say she robbed a college student on Park St.
Dane County is teaming up with UW-Madison to study how and if the implementation of Wisconsin’s voter ID law affects voters during the first time it’s used for a presidential election, county officials said in a statement Monday.
The Wisconsin women’s hockey team starts the 2016-17 season ranked No. 1 in the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll, as announced by the organization on Monday. The team is coming off a 35-4-1 campaign last year, winning the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and going to its ninth NCAA Frozen Four appearance in the last 11 years.
Monkeys being used for research has been a long-lasting debate, especially when things go wrong.
Letter to the editor: At the Sept. 14 UW budget meeting Regina Millner vowed to protect the humanities at the University of Wisconsin, citing the necessity of fields like English and philosophy in terms of their capacity to enrich students on a human level.
The UW-Madison Police Department held its “Coffee with a Cop” event Wednesday morning where police officers handed out free coffee to students at East Campus Mall.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved the eligibility of Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics club Thursday evening.
During a campus budget forum held Wednesday evening at the Gordon Dining and Event Center, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank asserted now is the time for the state to reinvest in higher education.
As the City of Madison increases easier access to voting, the University of Wisconsin has followed suit by offering voter ID printers at polling stations around campus — even on Election Day.
UW Madison is responding by launching the country’s first ever OBGYN rural residency program.
It’s usually pretty exciting to see UW-Madison in a movie, whether it’s recognizing Bascom Hill in “Back to School” or hearing the school referenced in “Away We Go.”
Seeing his old players follow in his footsteps has been rewarding for former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Jeff Sauer.
Bill Elvey, associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and management, is becoming senior vice president at Children’s Health System in Texas.
When Princeton Review released their annual rankings of American colleges and universities, one ranking stuck out to me, and probably you too: the University of Wisconsin-Madison found itself in the number one slot for top party schools in the nation. Suddenly I heard Lil Yachty reverberating inside my head: “We did it, we did it, we did it.”
UW-Madison kicked off a new program aiming to connect the campus community with the needs of cities in Wisconsin with a meeting Wednesday night at the Leopold Nature Center in Monona.
At a few minutes past 2 on Tuesday afternoon, 16 members of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team came to a stop at a crosswalk at North Park Street before making their way to the other side.
UW-Madison eliminated 420 positions and laid off 50 employees over the past year as it managed its share of a $250 million reduction in state higher education funding, Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty, lawmakers and employees Wednesday.
A shortage of rural doctors that can practice obstetrics is causing UW Madison to change its program. No more doctors in training will be learning in smaller towns.
A shortage of rural doctors that can practice obstetrics is causing UW Madison to change its program. No more doctors in training will be learning in smaller towns.
Milwaukee artist Jan Serr and her husband, John Shannon, are giving the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts $1 million to create and operate a multidisciplinary arts studio and performance space at the Kenilworth Square East building, 1915 E. Kenilworth Place.
The much-anticipated annual rankings of “Best Colleges” in America by U.S. News & World Report is out, and colleges recruiting their next class of freshmen are jumping at the chance to tout their spot on the list.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is reporting a 10% increase in enrollment and $4 million boost in new revenue for its recently completed summer term, and it is planning to continue ramping up the number of courses next summer to help students stay on track for graduation and bring in more money for the university.
UW-Madison has identified those believed to be responsible for drawing swastikas on three residence hall whiteboards over the weekend.
As Badgers both new and old flood the University of Wisconsin campus this fall, a renewed pressure greets them — the pressure to party.
UW-Madison is ranked 10th out of all public colleges in the United States in the newest ranking released Monday by U.S. News and World Report.
Less than a week into the new school year, UW-Madison officials are dealing with an incident of intolerance on campus after swastikas were found on three dorm room doors in Sellery Hall.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s annual “Skate with the Badgers” event is set for Oct. 22 at the Kohl Center from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students voting on campus who lack proper identification will be able to remedy the problem at their polling place this fall.
Summer school enrollment at UW-Madison rose 10 percent this year, led by a 40 percent increase in enrollment in online courses, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Tuesday.
Summer school, the bane of high school kids everywhere, is one hot ticket at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison formally congratulated Chris Nguyen, a fourth-year biomedical engineering major, Monday morning at Engineering Hall for winning the grand prize in General Electric’s “Unimpossible Missions: The University Edition” competition.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was ranked 10th among public institutions in U.S. News & World Report’s latest college rankings, according to a release from the university.
Letter to the editor: I am appalled that you would reproduce Rep. Robin Vos’ charges about “political correctness” on the UW campus without any fact checking or examination.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials hope providing workshop training for incoming students will help to improve racial climate on campus.
UW-Madison has been ranked 10th among public colleges by U.S. News and World Report, which released its latest rankings for 2017 Best Colleges.
I think there’s a theme here, a common thread that ties some of this stuff together. Each provokes a modicum of frustration for me. We should be doing better in measures of new economy performance, in part by virtue of the presence of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the excellence of our public schools. So it would follow that we should be doing a better job of supporting UW–Madison and those public schools.
Officials say the individuals are students from another college who were visiting UW-Madison and picked the doors at random.
With the rollout of UW-Madison’s new cultural competency program, Our Wisconsin, and other inclusion initiatives developing throughout the UW System, some state Republicans are lamenting the overemphasis of political correctness.
Three roads will be closed on the UW-Madison campus beginning Wednesday, Sept. 14.
Some 30 people gathered at the base of Bascom Hill to share experiences of life as members of the LGBTQ+ community and commemorate the victims of the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre in June.
