The UW-Madison grants, which include a $29,800 grant for the university’s Odyssey Project that gives low-income adult students a chance to attend college, totaled $300,000. The 94 community grants totaled $930,500.
New University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Jonathan Tsipis will get a chance to coach against his alma mater this season, as the Badgers will play host to North Carolina on Dec. 1 in the 10th annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
Prof. David Canon will be a guest on WPR program “Central Time” today.
Column by Gov. Walker: As the parent of a junior at UW-Madison, I want my son to have a great education for a reasonable price. As governor, I want that for every college student in Wisconsin.
Twenty years after UW-Madison scientist Jamie Thomson began work to isolate human embryonic stems, research has advanced so far that the field is now poised to boom and create Wisconsin companies that could rival Epic, the Verona-based electronic healthcare records company with more than 9,000 employees.
Noted: Witnesses include Barry Burden, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Director, UW Elections Research Center.
What’s The Real Cost Of Budget Cuts In The UW System?MAY 24, 2016 BY A PUBLIC AFFAIR2With the state cutting funding to the UW system and the restructuring of the tenure system, APA asked, “What are the effects?”
Former Badgers Brianna Decker, Meghan Duggan, Hilary Knight and Alex Rigsby along with current UW sophomore Annie Pankowski were invited to the camp, which is primarily focused on strength and conditioning, nutrition and mental skills.
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels, who served as Indiana’s governor from 2005 to 2013, just launched “Back a Boiler,” which is accepting applications for the fall semester in West Lafayette. The innovative program lets students avoid borrowing tens of thousands of dollars in loans — debt that forces many young people to put off buying homes and getting married.
Two UW-Madison students have created a new fitness tracker that’s quickly being adopted by local football coaches.
UW-Madison took the top spot because of its famous party atmosphere in and around Camp Randall, Jump Around and Fifth Quarter, according to the ranking.
Former Badger and Hobey Baker Memorial Award-winner Blake Geoffrion will host the third annual Blake Geoffrion Hockey Classic on Saturday, June 18 at LaBahn Arena. The event will raise money to benefit the UW Health Burn Center.
Hundreds of low-income high school students across south-central Wisconsin could attend Madison Area Technical College without paying for tuition under a new program that officials hope will help more young people see that college is open to them.
Votes of no confidence by faculty at several University of Wisconsin campuses were “a big mistake,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said earlier this month.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will host Syracuse at the Kohl Center in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge during the 2016-17 season.
He worked for UW-Madison Housing as a building superintendent.
With the aim of helping make electricity more available in rural parts of India, a team of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has designed a wind turbine that could provide power to cellular phone towers.
Two men who were sought by UW-Madison police after vandalism was discovered at a construction site at the Memorial Union were charged Monday with four misdemeanors each.
Faculty from the University of Wisconsin System’s two-year colleges joined their peers at several four-year campuses Friday by approving a resolution declaring they have no confidence in the System’s president and Regents.
The development by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka follows research he did last year suggesting another way to improve flu shots: manufacturing them with dog or monkey cells instead of the current, lengthy process using chicken eggs.
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Department of Natural Resources researchers hope to place as many as 6,000 motion-activated trail cameras across the state. Photos will be uploaded to a crowd-sourcing website; viewers will be asked to view them and try to identify the animals in them. The project, dubbed Snapshot Wisconsin, should provide the best idea yet of the size of animal populations and their movements, said Phil Townsend, a UW-Madison forestry professor and one of the project leaders.
Laura worked as an editor at the University of Wisconsin Press and later at the UW Oral History Project.
It would be a mistake to believe higher education’s financial woes in Wisconsin began the day Gov. Scott Walker took office in 2011.
Democrats have spent recent weeks drawing attention to budget cuts that have led to reduced services and layoffs on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Column by Lisa H. Cooper, an associate professor in UW-Madison’s English department.
Column by state Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison: “Oh, he’s been gone for a year to the private sector. They waited for the real estate market to get better and when the house sells, they’ll join him.” This was the explanation from a constituent when I mentioned all the For Sale signs in front of houses owned by UW-Madison employees.
Members of a fraternity that was suspended at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this week for race discrimination told a campus investigator that they did not use the word “nigga” in a derogatory way, but as slang or a term of endearment, according to records released by campus officials.
Column by Paul Wilson, a professor of nuclear engineering at UW-Madison’s Engineering Physics Department, and the interim chair of the Energy Analysis and Policy program of the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies
The series is a partnership between the UW Arts Institute (which sponsors the Wisconsin Film Festival) and the UW School of Nursing, the UW School of Medicine and UW Health. Called “Through the Hollywood Looking Glass: PTSD and Beyond,” the series features three movies looking at soldiers coming home from three wars.
Letter to the editor: While UW-Madison professor Caroline Levine’s (Enough With Scott Walker and the GOP — I’m Leaving) concern about the erosion of state financial support for UW-Madison is justified, her narrow solutions are problematic. She suggests large increases in student tuition at the same time another article in Cap Times states that the average student graduates from the UW System with $29,000 in debt. She bemoans that only 27.5 percent of students can be admitted from out-of-state (who pay significantly higher tuition).
Letter to the editor: UW English professor Caroline Levine’s opinion piece on UW brings to light a major challenge faced by public universities: the obligation to serve residents of the states that created and partially fund them versus maximizing the quality of their product.
Column from state Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison: I’m about to embark on a journey that parents all over Wisconsin celebrate. My oldest son, Devin, is graduating high school and will be attending UW-Madison this fall.
Q&A with Rebekah Paré, executive director of the L&S Career Initiative and of head L&S Career Services.
Letter to the editor: As UW-Madison updates its policies to further prohibit smoking on campus, the grocery store’s removal of nicotine products — including e-cigarettes — greatly supports the many students who want to live and attend classes on a campus where smoking doesn’t exist.
The letter in Tuesday’s paper “Phil Hands cartoon insulted trade workers” was comparing apples to oranges. It does take a lot of training in a trade or technical school to become a welder. However, this writer has no idea what it takes to maintain a world-class university such as UW-Madison.
More than 100 proposals for how to improve campus climate poured in from students, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after Chancellor Rebecca Blank called for an all-hands-on-deck approach this spring to curb hate and bias incidents.
After four years at Marquette University, Molly Mead is graduating Sunday with a bachelor’s degree in women and gender studies and history — and student loan debt totaling more than $28,000. In the fall, she plans to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where she expects to borrow another $20,000 as she pursues a master’s in social work.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison paid $3,100 for first class flights taking Katie Couric to and from New York.
For more than seven years, CoffeeBytes has been a steady presence for the UW-Madison community at University Square, serving up coffee, sandwiches, soups, salads and bakery. Now its owners are planning a second campus-area location.
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proposing everything from mandatory diversity classes to a board game to address issues of race and discrimination on campus.
He served as a county extension agent in Washington and Rock Counties, Minn. Professor Forest worked for 24 years as a faculty member in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the Department of Continuing and Vocational Education.
Slichter’s familial link to UW-Madison ran deep. He was great-grandson of Charles Sumner Slichter, a mathematician and physicist, and namesake for Slichter Hall on the UW-Madison campus. Slichter graduated from the university in 1980 with a degree in mathematics and having been first chair violist of the UW orchestra.
Offering mandatory courses in cultural studies, improving campus housing security and formally addressing the larger community about bias incidents are a few of the ideas put forth for improving the climate on the UW-Madison campus, according to proposals released Thursday by university officials.
University of Wisconsin women’s rowing coach Bebe Bryans was named the Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year, the conference announced on Wednesday.
Noted: Amaya Atucha, a UW-Madison assistant horticulture professor, said temperatures dipped below freezing in much of those areas late Saturday and early Sunday, wiping out grape shoots that had emerged early due to a warm spring. The cold turned the water in the shoots’ cells to ice, killing the tissue.
Letter to the editor from David Vanness, associate professor of population health sciences in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and president of the UW-Madison chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
The adversarial relationship between the University of Wisconsin and Gov. Scott Walker is perilous, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty Tuesday.
Professor Christopher Walker says the Wisconsin Idea — the revered notion that the University of Wisconsin should work to better the lives of this state’s citizens — is one of the main reasons he has stayed at UW-Madison for the past decade.
While there is much concern over the balance of retail and bars, restaurants and coffee shops on State Street, a big addition to the retail scene opened its doors Thursday.
UW-Madison sophomore Tyriek Mack was among those who introduced recommendations.
Roundup of Instagram posts using #uwgrad.
Continuing to cut higher education funding will hurt Wisconsin’s economy by reducing research and innovation on college campuses, according to a new report from the state organization that advises lawmakers on science and technology.
Former University of Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson delivered the commencement speech at UW’s spring graduation on Saturday, detailing a few instances where the Super Bowl-winning quarterback has overcome adversity in his lifetime.However, some of the details from his 18-minute speech at Camp Randall may have been exaggerated or embellished.
Another group of professors declared they don’t have confidence in the leaders of the University of Wisconsin System on Monday, as UW-Stout faculty members became the latest to rebuke the state’s top public higher education officials.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson showered UW-Madison professors with praise at a graduation ceremony last week, striking a different tone from the sharp criticism of faculty members fellow Republican Gov. Scott Walker has leveled in recent days.
Having earned the position of Dean in the Graduate Office she retired after 43 years and continued her support as a UW Alumni.
Despite overcast skies, chilly temperatures and an occasional raindrop, thousands of UW-Madison students celebrated their hard work and efforts Saturday.
Chris Borland never intended to be a spokesman for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when he retired from the NFL after one successful season with the San Francisco 49ers.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross said in a TV interview that a “war of words” between faculty and state lawmakers “is not advancing the university.” Cross, who has been the subject of no-confidence votes by faculty at five UW System schools, said on a Sunday broadcast of “UpFront with Mike Gousha” that the divisiveness can be damaging.
Imagine being a featured speaker at a celebration of historic significance, but most of the guests mingling in the room took a vote before the party and announced to the world they have no confidence in your ability to lead them.
