UW-Madison is launching a new ad campaign touting the work of alumni in each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties as part of an effort to drum up support for the University of Wisconsin System’s request for new funding.
As Hurricane Hermine hit land last night, researcher Derrick Herndon could tell you step by step where it’s heading.
Hoffmann worked at UW-Madison as a filmmaker and photographer in the Department of Agricultural Journalism, now the Department of Life Sciences Communication.
September 3rd 2016: It’s a day Ryan Ramczyk and his family will never forget.
It’s not unusual for children to worry or be nervous at the beginning of the school year. But some students, especially girls, have sustained anxiety that can develop into a disorder, doctors say.
Many fans gathered at State Street Brats for one reason, Badger Football.
A man was shot once in the abdomen at a party near the UW-Madison campus early Sunday, the Madison Police Department said.
Members of the UW-Madison community can begin to take advantage this year of several new initiatives meant to foster more diversity and inclusion on campus.
Classes start Tuesday for UW-Madison students, but after a man was shot early Sunday morning at an outdoor party near campus, many students are questioning their safety as the new school year begins.
For the general population, satellites are simply there to help watch T.V., text, for the conspiracy theorists, spying or for a Skynet-esque takeover. But for UW-Madison professor Tracey Holloway, satellites are a tool for improving peoples’ lives.
A fourth-year biomedical engineering student at UW-Madison has won the grand prize of an international, GE sponsored, university challenge for his proposed technique to do the impossible.
A research team at UW-Madison was selected to work on a project designed to reverse blindness.
University of Wisconsin officials announced 18 initiatives Wednesday with the goal of achieving diversity and inclusivity on UW’s campus.
The Wisconsin football team’s equipment truck will have some special packages to go along with the helmets, shoulder pads and cleats it will be transporting to Lambeau Field for the Badgers’ game against LSU on Saturday. Thanks to generous donations from 100 Black Men of Madison (in conjunction with the United Way of Dane County) and ASPIRE, the truck will be transporting supplies to help the victims of the recent flooding in Louisiana.
Kyle Blackbourn became the newest addition to the Wisconsin men’s basketball staff, as announced by head coach Greg Gard on Thursday.
Women’s rowing head coach Bebe Bryans has announced that openweight assistant coach, Nancy LaRocque, will be promoted to associate head coach for the upcoming season.
Wendy Hahn, clinical nutritionist with UW Health, says eating at home translates into healthier meals and quality family time, saving money and calories.
Green Bay is rolling out the red carpet for Wisconsin and LSU fans ahead of the Lambeau Field College Classic.
Noted: John Witte, UW-Madison professor emeritus of public affairs and political science, explained the process as when one political entity assumes responsibility and political control over another political entity.
Green Bay is bracing itself for an invasion of Badgers and Tigers.
The University of Wisconsin football team will be transporting more than just sports equipment to Lambeau Field this weekend for the Badgers’ football game against LSU.
A Republican state senator says a new diversity outreach program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is “sinister.”
University of Wisconsin officials announced 18 initiatives Wednesday with the goal of achieving diversity and inclusivity on UW’s campus.
Saturday’s weather forecast for Madison is mostly sunny skies with the temperature expected to reach the upper 70s, ideal conditions for the University of Wisconsin to open its 2016 football season at home.
A Republican state senator says a new diversity outreach program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is “sinister.”
The University of Wisconsin and LSU will break a 33-year absence of college football at historic Lambeau Field when the teams meet in Green Bay on Saturday afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin and LSU will break a 33-year absence of college football at historic Lambeau Field when the teams meet in Green Bay on Saturday afternoon.
Move-in photo gallery.
Theresa Duello wanted to flesh out the picture of how state funding cuts are impacting the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials unveiled a package of training and discussion programs Wednesday designed to improve the campus climate around racial issues.
UW-Madison officials say several new initiatives they have launched in a bid to improve the racial climate on campus will not stifle free speech, criticizing as a false choice the idea that making the university more inclusive means limiting the exchange of ideas that is at its heart.
Editorial cartoon.
Katherine Vosters arrived at UW-Madison hoping to become a sideline reporter.
State support for the University of Wisconsin System has dropped more than a third over 15 years, says a new report by the Wisconsin Budget Project.
The Princeton Review named the University of Wisconsin the country’s top party school Monday. Two Heralders explored the good and the bad of this.
The University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2016 has amassed some impressive numbers: 14 All-America honors, 11 school and conference records and five national titles.
UW-Madison is back atop a list it doesn’t want to be on, but can’t seem to get off of. The Princeton Review has ranked UW the number one party school in the nation.
One of the nation’s best-known college rankings has once again crowned UW-Madison the top party school in the country, a distinction sure to draw groans from campus administrators nearly as loud as the cheers from many students.
Letter to the editor: As a faculty member, an elected official, and a member of a commission, I have witnessed the strategy used by administrators and politicians to kill off institutions they don’t like.
The Big Ten released its 2016-17 women’s basketball conference schedule on Monday, completing the University of Wisconsin’s slate of games for next season.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and online retail giant Amazon have struck a deal for a pick-up location on campus, but not everyone in Madison is excited for it.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has clinched the number one party school spot. West Virginia University has claimed second and The University of Illinois was lowered to the third spot.
The professors, Sue Robinson and Kathleen Bartzen Culver, focused their research on Madison, using in-depth interviews (including with me), focus groups and analysis of actual coverage. They track the Madison media landscape from 2011, when a contentious bid by an African-American leader to create a charter school aimed at African-American boys failed.
When the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team released its 2016-17 schedule on Thursday, one notable opponent was missing from the list.
State agencies granted pay increases or one-time bonuses worth an estimated $9.7 million for 4,638 state employees — or about 15 percent of the state workforce — the State Journal found using data provided under the state’s open records law. Fiscal 2016 was the first year in which University of Wisconsin System employees were removed from the state’s civil service system.
Two city streets on the UW-Madison campus will be shut down to through traffic starting Tuesday, so thousands of students can move into their dormitory rooms.
Former UW System Regent Chuck Pruitt column: For generations, public universities have been seen as great equalizers in the United States, especially for the middle class. In many states, a high-achieving student could go to a “Public Ivy,” a land-grant, flagship university in Michigan, Wisconsin or California, among others, and receive a Harvard- or Yale-caliber education at an affordable price.
University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders are chafing under a state-imposed tuition freeze and the football team didn’t crack the Top 25 preseason rankings. But no school in the country throws a better party, according to the Princeton Review’s 2017 edition of “The Best 381 Colleges.”
Noted: Dominique Brossard, a professor and chair of UW-Madison’s Life Sciences Communication Department: “People are super confused right now because they hear things about genetically modified foods being controversial and a risk.”
Over the past year, efforts by political leaders have been introduced to replace the “Wisconsin Idea” with an updated and, what some would believe to be, a more current University of Wisconsin mission statement.
Is Wisconsin really in the cellar when it comes to new business creation?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is stepping up its efforts in combating sexual assault. According to a survey that about 25 percent of students took last year, 1 in 4 undergraduate female students admitted to experiencing sexual assault.
According to the City of Madison, there are a few street closures and transit route changes in order to accommodate UW Move-In.
The somewhat mysterious whistle has actually been a signal for a variety of messages through the years.
Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to provide new funding for the University of Wisconsin System based on its performance in measures such as graduation rate and job placement would subject the System to a budget model that critics say has failed to deliver on its promise to improve higher education.
Noted: While some economists think a big hike in the federal minimum wage would kill jobs, two UW-Madison economists (Andrew Reschovky of the La Follette School of Public Affairs and Tim Smeeding, past director of the Institute for Research on Poverty) didn’t see much danger in raising county workers’ living wage.
Gov. Scott Walker has been declaring his intention to impose performance-based funding on the University of Wisconsin, saying it is working well at the state’s technical colleges.
David dedicated 37 years of state employment and service at the UW-Madison research labs where he worked in medical research.
For the first time in a decade, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will start and end conference play at home.
As Plan Bs go, spending a week in Hawaii isn’t half bad.
