University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank ranked 84th in compensation for top executives at 258 public universities in data compiled by the Chronicle for Higher Education.
Two UW sophomores are fed up the with racial hate and bias incidents at the University of Wisconsin and in the Madison area.
University of Wisconsin students with campus jobs will be limited to working 30 hours or less per week because of federal law changes under the Affordable Care Act.
UW alumnus Thomas Falk, CEO of Kimberly-Clark, helped UW earn this ranking. Falk said the Wisconsin School of Business gave him an important head start to his success, along with his own hard work and determination.
Construction projects across campus change traffic patterns, limit walking options and create noise pollution, but their purposes tend to be unclear. Tip toeing over gravel construction sites and dodging bulldozers, University of Wisconsin students carry on with their daily schedules, the delays from construction only slightly frustrating.
Noted: Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison journalism professor, said Walker’s visit with the Iowans, who host the first presidential nominating contest every four years, is a sign that he’s still interested in running for president again.
Slideshow: 20 athletes with Wisconsin ties will be competing in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
The stories appear on a new website, developed in part by UW-Madison, designed to help patients and doctors around the country learn about the range of patient experiences with various diseases.
The University of Wisconsin softball program announced on Monday the hiring of Danielle Zymkowitz as a new assistant coach.
UW-Madison is collecting donations for the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe after flooding in northern Wisconsin last week hit the band’s reservation particularly hard.
The University of Wisconsin’s Hancock Agricultural Research Station is celebrating 100 years of research, vegetables, farmer partnerships, education and innovation.
Four years ago while competing for the University of Wisconsin, Alev Kelter imagined herself as an Olympian.She just didn’t know which sport.
Noted: Increasingly, patients are coming to see Dr. Christopher Healy in distress. “They’re not happy when they come in to see me, they’re really worried, they’re anxious,” said Healy, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a practicing allergist.
Columnist ruminates on the UW-Madison’s Multicultural Student Center’s meetings to discuss fatal shootings of police and black men.
The photos drew the attention of emeritus professor James Bennett, a lichenologist at UW-Madison who just happens to lead a lichen field trip to Devil’s Lake annually.
Letter to the editor from Jeff Carroll: Six years ago, my daughter spent a semester in Cape Town, South Africa, through the UW-Madison Study Abroad program. She arrived to a shared house with one lock in the whole residence and a 2-foot-high wall surrounding the property, not the 10-foot security wall that was promised.
For many convention-goers, the upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. For UW-Madison political science professor Byron Shafer, the trip will be quite familiar.
Quotes from UW-Madison Ph.D. student Mehmet Ergun, whose family lives in Turkey, and retired UW-Madison professor Kemal Karpat, who taught Turkish politics and history at the school for 37 years.
One of the guiding principles of the University of Wisconsin volleyball program is to become comfortable being uncomfortable. No one embraces that approach more than senior setter Lauren Carlini.
Noted: After the June 23 vote, the British pound quickly fell by about 8 percent in relation to the dollar, said Joe Conti, UW-Madison assistant professor of sociology and law. A drop like that is cause for concern, he said.
Noted: “We had a couple of weather events affect the apples and cherries last year,” said Amaya Atucha, an assistant professor in horticulture for UW-Madison and the state fruit specialist for UW Extension.
Depending on how old you are and how long you’ve lived in Wisconsin, you’ve likely heard the dismissive phrase “When in doubt, Stout!” It’s an outdated reference to UW-Stout being a college choice of last resort.
Bush was an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and clinical practitioner teaching medical students and residents at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics from 1975-1998.
University of Wisconsin senior running back Corey Clement landed on the watch list for the Doak Walker Award on Thursday.
Among the new board members is R.D. Nair, a UW-Madison professor of accounting and information systems.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison 2015 graduate is being honored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association in a national campaign. Haley Frieler is one of ten people with Muscular Dystrophy who are featured in the “Live Unlimited” summer campaign.
UW-Madison’s Molecular Archaeology Group performed the tests for the Veteran’s Museum for free.
Noted: UW-Madison professors Constance Steinkuehler and Kurt Squire comment.
Olivo has shared her expertise as a director at UW-Madison’s University Theatre, served on Forward Theater’s advisory committee, worked on Theatre LILA productions and been involved in the Overture Center’s Tommy Awards for high school students in musical theater.
The office responsible for tuition and student fee revenues at UW-Madison has a new leader.
UW-Madison added another high ranking to its dossier, and it wasn’t for an athletic achievement.
The Republican state senator from Whitewater, Steve Nass, could use a refresher course on the Wisconsin Idea.
UW-Madison administration selected a new bursar to head the office that collects student tuition and fee revenue, according to a Wednesday release from the university.
Pokemon Go has swept the nation and become the newest craze this week. So when Instagram user dongruibai posted a photoshopped image of Bucky Badger in the world’s hottest mobile app, the University of Wisconsin’s Twitter account picked up the image and posted it.
A Wisconsin Republican is threatening UW-Madison’s funding because he doesn’t want racism on Grindr talked about in classes.
Noted: UW-Madison professor and constitutional expert Howard Schweber didn’t think Steffen’s proposal was likely to run into constitutional problems, though.
She very much enjoyed her job at Camp Randall with the UW Athletics Department. She retired in 2009.
UW-Madison has maintained its standing among the world’s best universities, according to a Saudi Arabian firm that started ranking universities in 2012.
Letter to the editor from Emily Auerbach, UW-Madison English professor and director of the UW Odyssey Project.
The University of Wisconsin women’s tennis program announced Tuesday the hiring of Megan Falcon as an assistant coach.
Wisconsin’s open records law requires the release of public documents “as soon as practicable and without delay.”
A person walks into a brewpub with no idea of what they want to drink. What’s the quickest possible way for a bartender to figure out what beer they’ll like?
A group from UW-Madison’s Department of Life Sciences Communication is in Ashland County working on a month long outreach program. They weren’t expecting their travels to take such a dramatic turn.
In response to last week’s series of fatal shootings, a department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison looked to give students and faculty space Monday to discuss the incidents.
UW-Madison’s Multicultural Student Center separated attendees by race to discuss a violent week of news that stirred debates about racism and law enforcement, prompting criticism from conservative news outlets that the arrangement amounted to segregation.
Video: David Gagnon is an expert on mobile educational video games at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison has chosen the assistant director of an on-campus education research group to lead its office of community relations, the university announced Monday.
UW-Madison has selected Leslie Orrantia as the university’s next director of community relations, according to a Monday press release.
Having graduated from the UW-Madison and being a veteran of American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Carrie Coon can probably do a pretty good Wisconsin accent. Now it’s time to work on her Minnesota accent.
State Sen. Steve Nass is pointing to an essay on gay sexual preferences assigned in a UW-Madison sociology course as evidence of what’s wrong with the state’s premier system of higher education and why it might need to be supplied with even fewer taxpayer dollars during the next round of budget-making.
“Thankfully we haven’t seen any serious accidents here, but we have heard some complaints,” UW-Madison Police Spokesman Marc Lovicott says.
On the UW-Madison campus, players have had at least three close calls this past weekend.
Despite all that classic college fun, and despite the fact that we all know how lucky we are to be in college receiving an education, let’s face it: College can be really hard.
University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Jonathan Tsipis completed his coaching staff with the hiring of Craig Carter as an assistant coach, Tsipis announced Monday.
Nass has written a letter to the UW Chancellor, the President of the UW System and each member of the Board of Regents demanding they justify this course offering, and threatening the legislature could withhold funding for higher education throughout the state if he doesn’t like their answers. Who made this guy the chief of the morality police?
A Republican legislator said Thursday that the entire UW System could face consequences for an article on gay men’s sexual preferences assigned to a class of UW-Madison sociology students this week.
Classes typically offered at Madison Area Technical College’s campus on the city’s west side will be scattered among other facilities this fall while a new facility is prepared for occupancy in spring, staff members say.
It is perhaps inevitable that the members of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team’s 2017 recruiting class would form strong bonds over the course of their careers.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education has merged WISCAPE, a think tank on post-secondary education policy, into its Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, officials announced Thursday.
University of Wisconsin seniors Vince Biegel and Dan Voltz were added to preseason watch lists for major awards Friday.
