The Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education is investigating four complaints alleging that UW-Madison’s handling of sexual assault reports violated federal gender equity law. They are among 280 active cases involving colleges and universities across the country.
UW-Madison has started searches for candidates for two positions, the chief human resources officer for the university, and director of the UW-Madison Arboretum.
A possible funding increase for the University of Wisconsin System that would be tied to UW’s performance in certain metrics is still on the table for the next state budget, a spokesman for Gov. Scott Walker says.
Parking meters are becoming a thing of the past at UW-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison swimmer with three school records under his belt last season will compete in the Rio Olympics. Matt Hutchins will swim the 400-meter freestyle and the 1500-meter freestyle.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) is starting a new initiative this fall to help incoming freshmen from one of the whitest states in the union better understand diversity.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is creating a diversity program for its incoming freshmen students after a series of race-related incidents on campus.
UW-Madison officials say the graduation rates of students from one of the university’s best-known outreach programs are poised to rise in the coming years, after a critical evaluation found participants in the pre-college program have been less likely than their peers to finish school.
UW Hospital and Clinics is the state’s top hospital for the fifth consecutive year and is among the nation’s top 50 hospitals in nine medical and surgical specialties, one fewer than last year, according to U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings released Tuesday.
Thielke, who wrestled at the University of Wisconsin for two seasons and redshirted for another, will participate in the Greco-Roman wrestling event in Rio. And a gold medal is the only thing on his mind.
Given the current composition of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and a recent decision by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals invalidating similar laws in North Carolina, it’s possible the recent Wisconsin court rulings will be upheld, said UW-Madison law professor Robert Yablon.
Gov. Scott Walker says he wants to extend the freeze on University of Wisconsin System tuition for another two years. The Republican governor also told UW and most other state agencies they should not anticipate new funding in his next budget.
Students from high schools in rural Wisconsin are stepping into the shoes of UW Madison scientists for the week. They’re working hands-on with projects related to research projects that are currently going on at the university.
The group — which includes University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, Urban League president Ruben Anthony Jr. and local NAACP head Greg Jones — filed official complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin Tuesday via John Vaudreuil, the district’s U.S. attorney, to challenge the “systemic use of excessive force and to create fundamental change” within the MPD.
If you don’t think that Madison history doesn’t feature a whole lot of mystique, let it be known: There’s a “Lost City” hidden in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum.
University of Wisconsin–Madison doesn’t just stand alone as our state’s only representation among the 120 most Jewish schools in the nation, it’s got the seventh-largest Jewish population on the nationwide public schools list. With an estimated 4,200 Jewish undergraduates, about 13 percent of students are Jews.
“If you close your eyes, and I say ’Seattle,’ you’ll probably be able to come up with a few words to describe the business community there, and the quality of life there,” said Brandon, the president of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce.
The departure of the video gaming scholars Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler from the University of Wisconsin-Madison won’t just result in the university losing two of the leading academics in the field of games and learning.
Public service researchers at UW-Madison will vie for $1.5 million from the foundation of former U.S. senator and UW-Madison graduate Herb Kohl.
Letter to the editor from Russ Castronovo and Lisa Cooper, two members of UW-Madison’s English Department faculty.
Based on research by UW-Madison scientists Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann and licensed exclusively to FluGen by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the vaccine deletes a key gene in the influenza virus so the virus can infect the body’s cells and replicate once but cannot spread through the body and produce the flu infection.
Research shows lakes with no shoreline development generally produce bigger, faster-growing fish. Lakes with heavily developed shorelines, full of homes, lawns, beaches, and docks, have the opposite effect. Researchers at the UW-Madison Trout Lake Station in Boulder Junction want to know more about that dynamic.
Rebecca Klongland, a Stoughton High School product and University of Wisconsin golfer, won the Wisconsin Women’s State Golf Association State Amateur Championship on Wednesday at Riverside Golf Club in Menominee, Mich.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation needs to explain to the public that it is not the patent troll it was made out to be in news reports about a whopping award in a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple last year, said WARF’s new managing director Erik Iverson.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will be providing about $5 million for 14 research and infrastructure projects at UW-Madison, the university announced on Tuesday.
Ole worked for Ryser Brothers as a cheese maker, AMPI milk plant in Mount Horeb, UW Babcock Hall from where he retired.
A transgender researcher has filed a complaint against the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Wisconsin and an insurance company for denying her coverage of gender confirmation surgery.
During a summer of racial tension and violence across the country, Dare Ogunbowale felt, even more than mad or upset, disappointed in society’s inability to see through the differences in each other.
A professor of Quantitative Genetics and Genomics in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has earned some national recognition. Dr. Guilherme J. M. Rosa was named the recipient of the 2016 American Society of Animal Science’s Rockefeller Prentice Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics during the group’s annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A transgender researcher at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has filed a complaint against the state, the medical school and an insurance company, saying she was unfairly denied coverage of gender reassignment surgery.
Video: UW running back Dare Ogunbowale says differences should bind society together like it does for athletes on the playing field.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said Tuesday at Big Ten Media Days he has visited with the Green Bay Packers and the organization would have interest in hosting another football game at Lambeau Field.
Dr. Abrahamson joined the UW-Madison faculty in 1961, teaching courses in zoology and genetics, and was recognized by his students as an outstanding teacher.
Editorial from WISC-TV’s Neil Heinen.
UW-Madison spokeswoman Meredith McGlone said the university has been working to improve its programs for sexual assault prevention, and makes help and resources available to victims.
Noted: “With the rain that we’ve been getting, that does set things up for mosquito activity,” said UW-Madison entomologist P.J. Liesch. “Anytime you get rain, you can have this lag period of about two weeks or so.”
But in the fields of zoology and genetics, Abrahamson, who died Saturday at the age of 88, was a towering figure, particularly during his years as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Corey Clement has been recognized as one of the Big Ten’s top players for the second straight preseason.
A Bassett Street resident called Madison police to report an intruder in their house early Monday morning—just blocks away from the Southeast part of UW-Madison’s campus.
The dean of the Wisconsin School of Business will leave UW-Madison next summer to lead a business school in London.
Serotonin is best known for eliciting feelings of happiness in the human brain, but scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have learned the hormone plays a role in milk production in dairy cows — and may have health implications for breastfeeding women.
François Ortalo-Magné, dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, will end his tenure at UW-Madison in the summer of 2017 to assume his new role as dean of the London Business School.
The deaths of Nebraska punter Sam Foltz and former Michigan State punter Mike Sadler on Saturday affected the entire Big Ten Conference, and the University of Wisconsin was no different.
W-Madison gaming pioneers Constance Steinkuehler and Kurt Squire are headed to University of California-Irvine’s Informatics Department.
Over the years, Tony worked in the areas of HVAC and maintenance including at the University of Wisconsin.
In the fall of 1966, he moved with his family to Wisconsin, Madison, where he became a Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: UW-Madison law professors Howard Scheweber and Walter Dickey comment.
The large majority of media members who cover the Big Ten don’t believe the University of Wisconsin will be able to navigate a tough schedule well enough to end the season in Indianapolis.
Haggerty, a 6-foot-1 outside hitter, joins the University of Wisconsin volleyball team after one of the most successful prep and club careers ever.
Not only was Seymour Abrahamson an internationally known geneticist, he also had amazing people skills, said friends and colleagues Sunday, the day after Abrahamson died from cancer. He was 88. The UW-Madison professor was also the husband of Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson, the longest serving justice on the bench and a former chief justice. The couple would have been married 63 years in August, Shirley Abrahamson said in an email.
A familiar expression, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” can explain the infinite spectrum of artwork in the world. “Catching the Eye [of McPherson Eye Research Institute Members]” is an exhibit that brings together art whose beauty caught the eye of UW-Madison’s McPherson Eye Research Institute (ERI) members. Some of the artwork is on loan from members’ collections, while other pieces were created by the members themselves.
University of Wisconsin-Madison political science and journalism professor Mike Wagner said it was “striking” to see them follow different strategies.
A UW-Madison astrophysicist has been named winner of a prestigious award for her research in astrophysical plasma.
Officially, first-year coach Jonathan Tsipis has six freshmen on his University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team roster.
Wisconsin’s two pages this year are Benjamin Kind, 21, a UW-Madison student from Neillsville, who was a last-minute substitution after serving as a page at the 2012 convention in Tampa, Florida, and Regan McCoshen, 21, a University of Iowa student from Madison.
The University of Wisconsin Law School is launching a new program to help exonerate Latinos who have been wrongly convicted.
UW-Madison’s medical school became a victim of its own popularity this year, officials say.
He retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002.
The focus on Pence from Kleefisch and other party leaders allows them to take a careful approach with a controversial candidate, said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science and journalism professor Mike Wagner.
A man regarded as a person of interest in a double shooting early Tuesday morning outside a West Side sports bar was captured by police near UW Hospital around 9 a.m. after a short chase, authorities said.
