The University of Wisconsin Badger football coaches and players swapped their red and white out for pink on Wednesday. They partnered with the Susan G. Komen Foundation in south central Wisconsin to host the seventh annual Football 101.
UW-Madison hopes to get approval from the Board of Regents on a couple of projects later this week.
UW scientists develop app that could help women get pregnant.
Jonathan Tsipis hasn’t been the head coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program for very long, but he’s made one thing very clear in the time he’s had so far.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling announced her retirement Wednesday.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling — the first woman and youngest person to lead a Big Ten university police force — will retire Aug. 7 after 25 years at the campus.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling will retire in August after being on the force for 25 years. Riseling plans to continue working, however, as head of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.
Kathie moved to Madison in 1978, where she began a 32 year career in medical research at the UW Clinical Science Center. She began work as a Research Project Coordinator in the UW Department of Human Oncology, working with breast cancer and pediatric leukemia research groups. In 1992, Kathie joined the Wisconsin Cystic Fibrosis Neonatal Screening Project in Pediatrics, where she worked for 15 years in pre/post-award grant management and cystic fibrosis clinical trials research. During that time she also held a part-time instructor position at Madison Area Technical College, where she taught microbiology and chemistry. From April 2007 until she retired in 2010, Kathie was a research program manager with the Department of Urology.
The Chazen Museum of Art on the UW-Madison campus is one of this city’s cultural gems. But it’s a lousy location for a bus depot.
Letter to the editor from David W. Cole, professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin Colleges.
Dr. Craig Kent, surgery department chairman for eight years at UW-Madison, starts Sept. 6., subject to trustee approval.
Fewer than two-thirds of students graduate within six years from 17 of Wisconsin’s 22 private, nonprofit colleges and universities, a new study says.
University of Wisconsin track and field standout Kelsey Card has been nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year award, the NCAA announced Tuesday.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student living in university housing said she was caught off guard when contractors began removing asbestos from the property.
It’s a college brochure cliché, the image of college student stretched out on the cool green grass of Bascom Hill. And it could be a more popular summertime sight in the future at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Public health officials ordered UW-Madison to address chipping and peeling lead paint at an on-campus apartment complex this spring after they discovered a child living in one of the buildings had suffered lead poisoning.
University of Wisconsin officials presented the final draft of the 2015 UW Campus Master Plan, which aims to reduce UW’s environmental impact, at a public meeting Friday.
Barry Alvarez, UW-Madison Athletic Director, said the university has a long history with the zoo and helped make the space possible.
They are some of the most architecturally infamous buildings on the UW-Madison campus.
ESPN has agreed to pay the Big Ten $190 million per year for half of conference’s media rights package beginning in 2017, according to a report by the Sports Business Journal. CBS will also renew its basketball-only package for $10 million annually.
Wisconsin football appears to be settling into a pattern when it comes to season ticket renewals.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board approved extensions for seven coaches on Friday.
Again the great state of Wisconsin has mothered a class through her university, and sends it forth to serve. The test of culture is not in how much you may know, but how much you may do with your knowledge.
New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found opioid addiction is related to the brain’s prefrontal cortex, the part responsible for self-control and planning.
Court records show investigators are now focusing on one UW-Madison student in connection with two, separate sex assaults at his campus apartment.
An essay by an incoming UW-Madison doctoral student suggesting that violence might be the proper response to Donald Trump is drawing concern within the university’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The team celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its championship in Madison this weekend, highlighted by participating in the Blake Geoffrion Classic.All proceeds from the charity game, now in its third year, benefit the UW Hospital’s Burn Center.
For the third year in a row, the puck was dropped at LaBahn Arena for the third annual Blake Geoffrion Hockey Classic.
Drew teDuits’ resume is already extensive: two-time All-America swimmer, All-Big Ten Conference selection, NCAA champion and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.This summer, though, he’s trying something new while looking to add one more bullet point to that resume: Olympian.
Noted: One UW-Madison insurance expert was willing to point out positives and negatives of the strategy in general, not specifically to the American Family plan. Peter Carstensen, emeritus professor of law, said forming a holding company makes diversifying the company easier and “allows the mutual to make acquisitions,” he said.
Long-time University of Wisconsin System Regent Charles Pruitt’s call to colleagues to set aside political allegiances for the good of the university last week rang with passion, but a look at state campaign finance records shows many of the group’s members are reliable partisan supporters.
Laurent Heller was announced as UW-Madison’s vice chancellor for finance and administration Tuesday, according to a campus press release.
Authorities say two UW-Madison roommates are under investigation for separate sex assaults.
Gene worked many years on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The head of financial planning and analysis at the University of California-Berkeley has been named the vice chancellor for finance and administration at UW-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student has filed a lawsuit alleging a school committee violated the state’s open meetings law when it closed disciplinary hearings involving him.
Former Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton tells the story of how she attended a recent gathering at which one of Gov. Scott Walker’s appointees regaled a group of young people about the give and take that is so much the bedrock of American democracy.
Open Government 101 is now in session. UW System officials — including the Board of Regents — please be seated.
Madison police are recommending a criminal charge against an unidentified person who allegedly set up a fake Twitter account to defame a woman who was romantically involved with former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan.
Nearly 120 youth gathered at the recent University of Wisconsin-Madison for Badger Dairy Camp. This year’s camp attendance was an almost 30 percent increase from previous years, which usually totaled 85 to 95 youth.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials and police are updating their active shooter tactics in response to the massacre in Orlando over the weekend.
The University of Wisconsin announced that 2016 student football season tickets for undergraduates sold out in approximately 90 minutes on Monday.
The Badgers will face Akron at 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 10, and Georgia State at 11 a.m. on Sept. 17 … They complete UW’s non-conference schedule after the Badgers open their season against LSU at 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 3 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
University of Wisconsin senior quarterback Joel Stave and senior thrower Kelsey Card were honored on Monday with the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor, considered the conference’s most prestigious award.
The “Night of the New Red Threads” will take place at 10 p.m. at Camp Randall on June 30. Fans will be able to purchase new Under Armour gear, see UW’s football facilities and interact with numerous UW head coaches.
Noted: Chuck DeMets, a professor of tectonics at UW-Madison, said the effects of blasts are site-specific and can vary widely based on soil composition. Soils heavy in water content especially serve to amplify seismic waves.
As former UW Athletic Director Pat Richter well knows, I wrote about the demise of the men’s varsity baseball team until I was blue in the face.
The University of Wisconsin System will increase student fees and continue tapping controversial reserve funds under a $6.2 billion operating budget that UW’s governing Board of Regents approved Thursday afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a $6.2 billion operating budget that hikes student services and housing fees without debate and only a smattering of questions Thursday, thanks to a series of private briefings.
University of Wisconsin System regents have approved a plan to allow their adult education arm to offer a business administration bachelor’s degree online.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents allocated an additional $4 million Friday for Memorial Union renovations after unforeseen problems for the project.
Noted: Kenneth Streit, a UW-Madison Law School professor who studies criminal justice systems, suggested the effects of low pay and staff shortages can put people in prison jobs on the defensive.
In an effort to address racially charged incidents at UW-Madison that officials say may be driven by ignorance rather than malice, the university will require about 1,000 new students to receive cultural competency training this fall, and plans to make the training mandatory for all incoming students by next year.
Letter to the editor: The kids playing baseball in Wisconsin deserve better.
Noted: David Canon, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin said, “If you have too high a percent African-Americans in a House district, it does dilute the overall representation of African-American interests.”
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has granted UW-Madison’s chancellor permission to spend an $800,000 donation as she sees fit to help the school’s budget crunch.
Stories of social injustice filled student newspapers’ pages throughout the previous academic term. Incoming students will not only be made aware of these issues, but they will also be provided with tools to discuss them and similar topics in order to diminish occurrences of discrimination. The university will attempt to instill a sense of acceptance in new students before they even step on campus.
The remnants of this town, nestled along a shallow bend in the Crawfish River, have generated many other fantastic myths over time — myths that researchers like University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropology professor Sissel Schroeder work to dispel.
The annual budget University of Wisconsin System officials withheld from the public this week on grounds it wasn’t completed had actually been finished and sent to members of the System’s governing board several days earlier.
Letter to the editor: Some of our UW faculty have moved to the University of Minnesota. Minnesota of all places! Good luck with the climate. It’s worse than ours.
