Protesters agitating for a better climate on University of Wisconsin campuses for students of color have repeatedly asked to address the Board of Regents, but say they haven’t received a straight answer on why they have not been put on the agenda.
UW-Madison has one of the world’s largest and oldest collections of fungus, but it wasn’t until a week ago that fungi collected by one of America’s most famous scientists was accidentally rediscovered in decades-old cabinets on campus. George Washington Carver, an African-American scientist and educator best known for his research on peanuts, also studied and collected microfungi, a type of fungus that does not form a mushroom.
Former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan is among the finalists for the Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016, the organization announced on Friday.
Ticket prices for the University of Wisconsin’s football game against LSU at Lambeau Field on Sept. 3 will range from $91 to $118, the university announced on Thursday. Student tickets will cost $48.
University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Extension — the division that provides practical programming to farmers, families and youth in rural and urban areas across the state — estimates it will need to cut 80 positions to cover an annual $3.6 million cut in state funding.
Black Greek Letter Organizations are a small but powerful presence on the UW-Madison campus, according to a feature spotlight by UW News.
Outside linebacker Joe Schobert, offensive tackle Tyler Marz and quarterback Joel Stave were part of a list of 332 invited participants that was released Thursday.
Letter to the editor in support of the UW men’s hockey team.
University of Wisconsin junior point guard Bronson Koenig was asked about the challenges of playing on the road. Koenig’s shooting numbers are significantly higher in home games this season, so it was fair to wonder about the difficulty of playing in an unfamiliar environment and, of course, using a different ball. “I’d say it’s a little overblown,” Koenig said. “Out of the Big Ten, the Under Armour balls at Maryland is the only place I really, really didn’t like the balls.”
A unique organic agricultural research opportunity in the form of a $2 million endowment has been created for UW-Madison with help from two organic food companies.
UW-Madison researchers plan next week to start monkey studies of Zika virus, which has caused an outbreak apparently linked to birth defects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
University of Wisconsin sophomore Morgan McDonald, who broke the school record for the indoor mile at Saturday’s Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York, was named the Big Ten’s co-track athlete of the week on Wednesday.
A tossed winter coat on top of a toaster in a dorm room brought firefighters to the UW-Madison campus on Wednesday, with nobody injured in the blaze.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is the recipient of the nation’s first endowed chair focused on plant breeding for organic crops, representatives of Organic Valley and Clif Bar & Company said today at a ceremony at the State Capitol. The endowment will be funded in perpetuity with a $1 million gift from the companies and matched by a $1 million gift from UW graduates John and Tashia Morgridge.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents handed out annual awards Friday for university people and programs that “foster access and success in university life for historically underrepresented populations.” You can see and hear about the recipients and the work they are doing on the archived video of the last week’s meeting posted on the Board of Regents website. What you won’t see or hear on the footage are the protests of students, organized through United Council of UW Students, who came to the regents meeting to shout about how they are not being heard by university leaders on the issue of climate for students of color on system campuses.
Marjorie retired in 1987 from her position as office manager of the Molecular Biology Laboratory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Pat Schneider’s article “Regent committee endorses controversial UW tenure policies without debate” was fairly well researched but lacked what I feel is essential to journalism today. A viewpoint. It described the viewpoints of the UW Regents and some faculty, but I feel the story and ultimately what was voted on was not accurately reported.
Shaun Marcott, an assistant professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a co-author of a new article in Nature Climate Change that tracks the grim long-term effects of climate change on sea level, UW-Madison News reports.
UW-Madison University Health Services will spend an extra $400,000 next academic year for additional staffing and new or expanded programs aimed at reducing student-reported rates of campus sexual violence.
A UW-Madison alumnus and current board member of the UW Foundation has been selected to serve as interim vice chancellor for finance and administration. Michael Lehman, a 1974 graduate of the School of Business, will start work on March 7, the university said on Tuesday.
Lorna Jorgenson Wendt, a UW-Madison alumna, who was a champion for women’s equality before, during and after marriage, died at the age of 72 on Thursday.
Gard has UW (14-9, 6-4 Big Ten) on a roll as it reaches the stretch run of the regular season. The Badgers are 7-4 since Gard took over late on the night of Dec. 15 and have won five consecutive games heading into a matchup with Nebraska (13-11, 5-6) tonight at the Kohl Center.
Dr. Alan Kaplan, executive vice president and chief clinical transformation officer for Iowa-based UnityPoint Health, has been selected as the new chief executive officer of UW Health, officials said Tuesday.
James Rawlings, Brian Kelley and Adam Diedrich Steltzner are now members of an organization that’s part of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the science part chartered by Pres. Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
Former NFL and University of Wisconsin running back Montee Ball won’t face felony charges related to an incident early Friday in which police say he injured his girlfriend during an argument at a Downtown hotel.
Glenn worked for the University of Wisconsin as Assistant to the Vice President of Administration.
The finalists include Charles Hoslet, interim vice chancellor; Brent Colburn, former assistant to the Secretary of Defense for public affairs; and Richie Hunter, vice chancellor and vice president of university marketing, communications and media relations at the University of Houston.
About 30 students stood up in the audience of a Union South meeting room chanting “Power!” Two protesters read demands over the voices of regents as they discussed an agenda that included progress on increasing diversity on UW system campuses.
Campus officials would have greater authority to fire professors under new tenure policies approved Friday by a committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross says the system must do more to acknowledge and understand students of color.
The bill, which would provide $450,000 for emergency loans to students in state technical and UW System colleges, is headed to the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, having been endorsed by Gov. Scott Walker in the State of the State address last month.
A controversial set of policies governing tenure at University of Wisconsin System schools that critics say threaten academic freedom were endorsed without debate Friday by a Board of Regents committee.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are planning to study the messaging around concussions, using $400,000 in funding from the NCAA and the U.S. Department of Defense as part of the Mind Matters Challenge.
Seven executives met for a recent roundtable discussion at Wisconsin State Journal offices, one year after they gathered for a similar exchange, to see if conditions in the area’s tech industry have improved or slid backward.
Sophomore Morgan McDonald took to the spotlight Saturday, breaking the University of Wisconsin record in the mile en route to a fourth-place showing in the invitational section at the Armory Track Invitational. The native of Sydney, Australia, clocked in at 3 minutes, 57.83 seconds, one tenth of a second faster than Austin Mudd’s 3:57.93 set in 2013.
Capitol Times Editor Paul Fanlund’s interview with Darrell Bazzell, who is departing in April as UW’s vice chancellor for finance and administration to assume a similarly high-ranking post at the huge University of Texas campus in Austin.
Former University of Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson will return to Camp Randall Stadium this spring to deliver the commencement address to UW-Madison’s class of 2016.The university announced Wilson will address the graduates at the May 14 ceremony in a video posted online Wednesday afternoon.
Allowing student loan borrowers in Wisconsin to refinance their loans, just like you can a mortgage or an auto loan, would not cost taxpayers a dime.
“Investigators cannot rule out the possibility of a pipe fitter’s hot work in the area of the origin, or an unspecified electrical fault,” said spokeswoman Cynthia Schuster.
He was employed by the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and was the Shepherd of the UW Sheep Research Center in Arlington, Wis.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Thursday is scheduled to consider amended compensation packages for head football coach Paul Chryst and Joe Rudolph, UW’s associate head coach/offensive coordinator.The board is also scheduled to consider the proposed compensation package for Justin Wilcox, who was recently hired as UW’s defensive coordinator.
Coach Paul Chryst is set to unveil Wisconsin’s 2016 freshman class Wednesday, and although it is too early to project the level of success the players will enjoy on the field, UW officials are encouraged by their academic résumés.
Demographers forecast that more college students in the future will be low-income adults returning to school. And President Barack Obama is pushing to make college more affordable with a package of proposals that includes providing two free years of college to all high school graduates, expanding the low-income Pell grant program for older students like Atkinson, and giving bonuses to colleges that enroll and graduate significant numbers of low-income students. Meanwhile, student activists pushed for more affordable college on campuses across the country during the Million Student March in November.
While budget cuts are occurring on campuses across the University of Wisconsin System this year, the system’s own annual report released Monday said its financial standing “remained relatively strong” as of June 30, the end of the last fiscal year. That’s just a snapshot in time, UW System officials said, and it does not account for $250 million in state budget cuts that will come into play between this fiscal year and next.
Madison firefighters were sent to the UW-Madison campus for the second time in two days on Friday, after a burning smell was reported on the 16th floor of Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive.
The University of Wisconsin System said Monday that its net worth has increased to $6.68 billion, but school officials warned that the financial outlook is uncertain.
Letter to the editor from Michael Kissick, Madison, assistant professor and faculty senator: In terms of written law, 100 years of faculty policy that had historically national influence is being reversed by the UW Board of Regents for no good reason.
Waaaaaa. I’m sick of seeing UW-Madison professors with tenure, $200,000 salaries and thousands of hours of sick leave they get to turn into cash payments for health care payments when they retire.
The Wisconsin athletic department is considering “major renovations” to Camp Randall Stadium, according to an email sent to supporters last week.
Alvarez stopped short of speculating about the future of the program on Monday, but he made it clear that Gard has made a solid first impression in the 10 games since he took over for Bo Ryan on Dec. 15.
Inspired by other popular podcasts that bring science to the masses, such as Radiolab from New York Public Radio, UW-Madison’s “Science Narratives” is aimed at “people who aren’t going to be interested in sitting down and reading an academic article,” said Lika Balenovich, who oversees the project.
For almost a decade, Justin Wilcox was a rising star in the college football coaching ranks. … Then USC happened.
Six business students or graduates of UW-Madison have also entered guilty pleas for their roles with the ‘investors group’ that included arranging the purchase, transportation and sale of 19 loads of marijuana from California. The packages ranged in size from 5 to 50 pounds.
The Badgers officially spent $311,013 on (football recruiting) expenses in 2014, which ranked 12th out of 13 Big Ten programs according to documents obtained by the State Journal via open records requests.
University of Wisconsin-Extension officials want to absorb Gov. Scott Walker’s budget cuts by reducing the number of agents and researchers helping people with everything from growing crops to family finances.
Letter to the editor from Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, and Sen. Chris Larson, D-Milwaukee.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has backed Gov. Walker’s plan as “a good first step,” and in an interview broadcast Sunday on “UpFront with Mike Gousha,” he addressed what he called a “delicate balance” between tackling debt and making college more affordable for future students.
A UW-Madison student told campus security she had been sexually assaulted in a dormitory last weekend, but since she didn’t report it to local or school police, no criminal investigation is being done.
Noted: Comment from UW-Madison telecommunications expert Barry Orton. “At that rate, it will only take another 13.5 years to get to the $23 million level of federal broadband funding he rejected in 2011.”
[A]t the University of Wisconsin, it is business as usual for coach Paul Chryst leading up to college football’s signing day Wednesday. The Badgers will quietly assemble their typical class, one that consists largely of 3-star recruits with a few 4-stars sprinkled in, one that ranks in the 20s or 30s nationally, one that with time and development likely will put UW in contention for a Big Ten Conference title.
