Kendra Van Leeuwen, a freshman guard on the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team, has been selected to play for the Canadian under-18 national team that will compete July 13-17 at the FIBA Americas U18 Women’s Championship in Valdivia, Chile.
“Hamilton” might provide new material, but it isn’t pioneering the idea of using hip hop in the classroom. Next week, UW-Madison’s Office of Multicultural Initiatives will be holding its 11th annual Hip Hop in the Heartland conference.
Noted: “Any agency is free to impose a more demanding standard than what the law otherwise requires, but as far as I know that is rarely done,” said David Schultz, a UW-Madison law professor who teaches criminal law.
Noted: Recent mass shootings in Orlando and San Bernardino have pushed the issue back to the national forefront, said UW-Madison political scientist David Canon. He commented last week before a gunman shot and killed five police officers in Dallas and wounded several others — another event that could accelerate the debate over guns.
In 1968 he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, where he remained until his retirement in 2000.
Many of the tips UW-Madison officials give students to stay safe while they’re studying abroad probably sound familiar.
In an interview broadcast Sunday on WISC-TV’s “For the Record,” Riseling said she can separate her tenure into segments — the 10 years before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the nearly 15 years since.
Letter to the editor from Joe Robinson, who accepted but ultimately turned down a job at UW-Madison’s Odyssey Project due to concerns about the racial climate in Madison.
The festival, now in its 17th year, is presenting a full week of Elizabethan music at UW-Madison from July 9-16 to help mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death.
Obituary for UW-Madison student who died while studying abroad in Italy.
Letter to the editor from Eric A. Johnson, Madison, professor, Department of Bacteriology, UW-Madison
Three of UW volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield’s protégés — Julie Mikaelsen, Dominique Thompson and Deme Morales — spent much of the past year playing professionally in Denmark and trying to instill the Badgers’ approach to the sport.
Protesters filed down State Street from the UW-Madison campus to the state Capitol, waving signs and chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, these racist cops have got to go,” and “Black lives matter!”
The protest began at Library Mall, and the crowd then walked down State Street toward the Capitol chanting “black lives matter,” while some onlookers yelled “all lives matter.” Madison Police Department officers blocked traffic at intersections to allow protesters to continue walking on State Street.
UW-Madison campus broke ground on its remodel in the summer of 2012 with the first phases of the Memorial Union Reinvestment project.
Police at UW-Madison are investigating a strong-arm robbery that occurred on campus early Friday morning.
Officials with five local health care organizations are considering joining forces after leaders signed two non-binding letters of intent to explore potential collaboration. One involves UnityPoint Health – Meriter and UW Health, while the other involves Physicians Plus, Unity Health Insurance, and Gundersen Health Plan.
Leaders at UnityPoint Health-Meriter, UnityPoint Health, UW Health, Physicians Plus Insurance Corp., Unity Health Plans Insurance Corp. and Gundersen Health Plan have signed two non-binding letters of intent to explore a potential collaboration among the organizations.
As if winning a national championship wasn’t enough, former University of Wisconsin track and field athlete Kelsey Card felt like she had a lot more left in the tank.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter are pursuing a joint operating agreement and a merger of their health insurance plans, which could shift some patients from UW Hospital to Meriter, alleviate the need for new construction and help the longtime rivals adapt to payment changes in health care, officials said Thursday.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez first crossed paths with Kevin Plank back in the late 1990s, just a few years after the latter had founded Under Armour.
Noted: Professor Susan Paskewitz is the university’s expert on ticks and the diseases they carry. Her past advice for walking in the woods is to wear pants and light-colored socks, especially for anyone who will spend much time in shadier, cooler areas outdoors. Ticks — especially the recently arrived lone star tick — are not fond of hot, sunny areas.
A bacteria found in butterflies and bees can help prevent the spread of Zika virus, suggesting that mosquitoes could be infected with the bacteria and released into the wild to control Zika outbreaks, UW-Madison researchers said Friday.
The UW athletic department will be making a major change Friday when it moves from adidas to Under Armour for its apparel.
Wisconsin’s public university system has wasted more than $100,000 on airline tickets in recent years that ultimately were never used and allowed to expire.
According to one estimate, there are about 23-million pets in America that have no access to veterinary care. A non-profit associated with the University of Wisconsin is working to do something about that in Dane County.
Two nights after taking third place in a race at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, incoming University of Wisconsin transfer Cierra Runge finished fifth in her next attempt to qualify for this summer’s Rio games.
These are hardly the dog days of summer for the University of Wisconsin athletic department.
The event will celebrate the start of the contract between the athletic department and Under Armour. Starting at 10 tonight, fans will get to preview the new gear and have the chance to meet Barry Alvarez and others in the athletic department. Then at midnight, fans will be able to buy new Under Amour Badger gear from Bucky’s Locker Room at the stadium.
Noted: Although a handful of the singing protestors were disruptive and rightfully arrested, the Walker administration “swept too broadly” in ticketing many of the protestors, according to Donald Downs, a professor of political science, law and journalism at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Monkeys infected with Zika virus are protected from future infection, and pregnancy dramatically prolongs infection in monkeys, findings that could help fight the virus in people, UW-Madison researchers said Tuesday.
Dawn Dudley, a research scientist at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine and Public Health talks about the fight against the Zika virus and a real-time look at their research findings.
Joe Conti, assistant professor of sociology and law at UW-Madison, talks to News 3 This Morning about how Brexit could affect Wisconsin residents.
One of Madison’s leading couples is being honored at UW-Madison for their work in education and growing technology.
What universities produce the captains of industry and finance in America? Harvard is a given, but what about the University of Wisconsin?
University of Wisconsin senior Lauren Carlini has been named to the U.S. women’s volleyball team that will play in the Pan American Cup July 2-10 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
He retired after 10 years of working at the UW Madison as a custodian and continued to farm until 1987.
UW System President Ray Cross says he and other higher ed leaders need to do a better job partnering with industry to build support for the state’s colleges.
The Zika Virus has been a major concern among public health officials and world leaders in recent months, especially now that the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil are just a few short weeks away.
Monkeys infected with Zika virus are protected from future infection, and pregnancy dramatically prolongs infection in monkeys, findings that could help in fighting the virus in people, UW-Madison researchers said Tuesday.
UW-Madison sociology professor Joseph Conti is an expert in international trade. He says with a growing frustration in European countries it’s entirely possible others will follow in the UK’s footsteps.
Ivy Martin got things off and running for Badgers at the 2016 U.S. Swimming Olympic Team Trials with a lifetime-best performance in the 100-meter butterfly on Sunday in Omaha, Nebraska.
Those of us who have been around Madison for a while can be forgiven for not getting too excited about a recent front-page Wisconsin State Journal story with a headline noting the Mosse Humanities Building “could be demolished.”
Ryan Owens, a political science professor at UW-Madison, talks about how the Supreme Court’s abortion law decision will affect Wisconsin.
pon leaving UW Hospital, Don worked as an assistant to the Dean of Pharmacy School working with students in the new Doctor of Pharmacy degree program.
UW-Madison will not have to change its affirmative action policies after the Supreme Court last week rejected a challenge to the use of race in college admissions, officials said.
Noted: “The Seventh Circuit thought the state Supreme Court really dropped the ball in this case,” said Ryan Owens, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin who tracks federal courts.
He worked for Promega Corporation and then the UW-Madison Biochemistry Department.
Letter to the editor from Rep. Daniel Riemer: The UW is one of the best deals in the United States. UW-Madison’s in-state tuition is the third lowest of the top 50 universities in the U.S. Meanwhile, according to the Goldwater Institute, UW-Milwaukee, now a Carnegie top-ranked Research One (R1) university, has among the lowest costs to educate per student of any R1 or R2 university in the country. In short, both research universities are low-cost models for the nation, especially UW-Milwaukee. Both of these great research universities now also get less than 20 percent of their funding from the state budget.
Letter to the editor from Taggert Brooks, a professor of economics, and John Nunley, an associate professor of economics at UW-La Crosse.
Letter to the editor from emeritus professor Lee Hansen: After 50 years of minority student programs at UW-Madison, why has it suddenly become necessary to institute “cultural competency training” for entering students and initiate a “big brother is watching you” system for reporting to campus administrators “hate” or “bias” incidents?
The University of Wisconsin on Friday named junior women’s hockey goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens as the school’s Female Athlete of the Year and senior men’s track and field standout Zach Ziemek as its Male Athlete of the Year.
The cost in salary and research funding increases this year to keep University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty is nearing $16 million, says provost Sarah Mangelsdorf.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s practices are consistent with a Supreme Court ruling Thursday that narrowly upheld the use of race in admissions, campus officials say.
UW-Madison will not have to change its affirmative action policies after the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the use of race in college admissions, officials said.
Former Badgers Jeff Duckworth and Pat Muldoon have joined UW as graduate assistants for the 2016 season after former offensive lineman Al Johnson joined the staff in the same capacity this spring.
A visual artist who most recently taught arts education in Scotland has been named director of the Arts Institute at UW-Madison.
A UW-Madison virologist whose controversial work has sought to create more effective flu vaccines will receive a prestigious award from Japan’s scientific academy, officials announced Wednesday.
Noted: “There’s no doubt that that pond has produced some demonstrable changes,” said Dick Lathrop, a UW-Madison limnologist. “Pheasant Branch is a major contributor to the lakes.”
Life for Bo Ryan these days consists of a lot of time on the golf course.
