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.
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.
