Melanie Matchett Wood, assistant professor of mathematics, has been named a Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering, one of 18 early-career scientists in the U.S. to win the award this year.
Three Democrats introduced legislation Wednesday to ban weapons on college campuses, two days after Republicans proposed their own bill to allow concealed carry license holders to bring guns inside the buildings of Wisconsin’s public colleges and universities.
In a sign of the times, UW police are circulating two graphic videos with tips on surviving an “active shooter,” that is, someone in the process of killing or trying to kill people.
Lawyers for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation wrapped up their case for damages on Wednesday against computer maker Apple, a day after a jury found that Apple had infringed on a technology patent that WARF manages.
UW-Madison is touting the results of a survey that show only 5.9 percent of the liberal arts class of 2012-13 is unemployed and that a plurality of those in the workforce make between $30,000 to $40,000 a year.
Multiple streets around Langdon and State Streets will be temporarily closed so the Homecoming parade can take place, part of the festivities culminating in the Badgers football game Saturday against Purdue at Camp Randall Stadium.
She worked in student admissions for the University of Wisconsin and became the registrar for the UW Centers when it began in 1964. She was employed by the University of Wisconsin for 39 years, retiring in 1985.
Nigel Hayes is on the watch list for the Julius Erving Award, which recognizes the top small forward in the nation. Bronson Koenig is in the watch list for the Bob Cousy Award, which recognizes the top point guard.
The leaders of Wisconsin’s public universities and technical colleges Tuesday lined up against a bill that would allow anyone with a concealed carry license to bring guns into campus buildings, classrooms, dormitories and stadiums.
A federal jury has found Apple Inc. infringed on a technology patent held by the foundation that protects the University of Wisconsin’s intellectual property.
Social media reaction roundup.
The Republican-controlled committee is slated to consider the bill Tuesday in the state Capitol. Passage looks all but certain and would clear the way for a vote in the full Senate.
The UW-Madison College Democrats and the College Republicans of UW-Madison issued a joint statement this weekend urging officials to gradually replace student ID cards, known as the Wiscard, with one that complies with state voter ID regulations.
A pair of UW-Madison studies found graduates of the university’s largest college are faring well in the job market, with close to 90 percent of the liberal arts alumni who responded saying they have found full-time work or continued their education.
People with concealed weapon licenses would be allowed to carry guns inside the buildings and classrooms of Wisconsin’s public universities and colleges under a bill introduced Monday by two state legislators.
The Badgers (12-4, 4-2 Big Ten) moved up to No. 15 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll after sweeps over Rutgers and Maryland last weekend.
What began last year as a White House campaign has spread to college campuses. Some UW student-athletes, including Brown, Corey Clement (football) and Sydney McKibbon (women’s hockey), along with UW athletic director Barry Alvarez, men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves and other staff, will appear in videos that will be shown at UW home games at Camp Randall, the Kohl Center and LaBahn Arena and shared through social media.
Chin Ups, an organization dedicated to fostering relationships between athletes and kids, was founded by Israel Lopez, a UW Law School grad. When Lopez was in middle school, Wisconsin Badgers football star Donnel Thompson sent him a box around Christmastime. That box included an autographed picture. “I never lost it. It had a tremendous effect on my life. Someone like that, someone who I was watching on TV, believed in me, for whatever reason … it changed my life.”
Column form Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now, a liberal research, advocacy and communications organization dedicated to fighting for a state with equal economic opportunity for all.
Each University of Wisconsin System campus has a so-called “all-hazards” plan that details how to handle crises including active shooters. The campuses share the plans with faculty and staff several ways including posting the plans online, presenting them during student orientations, text messages and campus-wide email alerts.
UW-Madison is poised to enroll hundreds more out-of-state students, starting with next year’s freshman class, after the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Friday approved a request to waive the limit on nonresident students at the campus.
The inaugural Giant Pumpkin Regatta was held in 2005, but some years have been skipped due to poor pumpkins. The event is organized by UW-Madison horticulture professors Irwin Goldman and Jim Nienhuis, with help from the UW Hoofer Sailing Club.
For nearly 30 years, through rounds of state funding cuts and tuition increases, the cost of attending UW-Madison increased at a higher rate than inflation each year. The main culprit has been tuition — the largest single cost college students pay and the one that has been rising at the steepest rate, now more than three times as expensive as it was in the mid-1980s. A tuition freeze in place since 2013 has kept that price nearly flat in recent years at about $10,400.
Nearly 50 years after the late Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary told people to “turn on, tune in, drop out” with psilocybin, LSD and other psychedelic drugs — which became illegal in 1970 — researchers around the country are testing the substances’ ability to reduce anxiety and depression in people with terminal cancer.
In major college football, the average compensation package for coaches has gone up 110 percent in the last 10 years, USA Today reported this week … But at Wisconsin, the head football coach position pays less now than it did in 2012, a rarity in the Power Five conferences, the driving forces of big-time college sports.
On Friday UW announced a 10-year, $96 million deal with Under Armour to provide apparel and footwear for the Badgers. The deal, which goes into effect next July, is one of the most lucrative in college sports. It surpasses Under Armour’s previous largest deal — a 10-year, $90 million contract with Notre Dame signed in 2014 — and is believed to be second only to Michigan’s 15-year, $169 million deal signed with Nike earlier this year.
How much more elite will UW-Madison become now that a cap on the number of nonresident students it can enroll has been lifted? It won’t, Chancellor Rebecca Blank assured the UW System Board of Regents Friday as they voted to approve her proposal to lift the cap and let UW-Madison take more out-of-state students.
Claudia Card, an internationally known UW-Madison professor and a leading expert in the philosophy of evil, died what she considered a “good” death. At a celebration of her life Sunday at the Pyle Center on campus, her niece, Melissa Card, 36, quoted from a post her aunt made on her online CaringBridge site four months ago, when she said that while everyone dies, not everyone is fortunate enough to have a good death.
A Democratic proposal that would allow student loan borrowers in Wisconsin to refinance their loans at lower interest rates was given a public hearing on Wednesday, but its future in the Legislature is unclear. The “Higher Ed, Lower Debt” bill would create a Wisconsin Student Loan Refinancing Authority, modeled after the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority.
The University of Wisconsin System regents are set to consider a contract that would make Under Armour the exclusive athletic uniform and equipment supplier for UW-Madison for the next decade.
A UW-Madison proposal to lift the limit on how many out-of-state students the campus can enroll is closer to becoming policy after a committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved the plan Thursday.
Madison Area Technical College officials are looking at taking another referendum to voters to develop a comprehensive campus in south Madison, even if they have money in hand for it from the sale of the MATC downtown campus.
The average time to get a degree dropped to 4.13 years during the last academic year, the lowest the university has on record, the Office of Academic Planning and Institutional Research said.
Column from W. Lee Hansen, professor emeritus, economics, UW–Madison
The UW Business and Finance Committee will vote Thursday morning to approve a 10-year contract with Under Armour that would give the university a significant boost in revenue. If approved, the UW Board of Regents would then vote on the resolution Friday morning.
UW-Madison’s student government and several professors are among those voicing their opposition to a plan that would lift the limits on how many out-of-state students can enroll in the university.
She was a senior lecturer in the School of Human Ecology at UW-Madison for over 25 years.
UW-Madison’s most celebrated philanthropists, John and Tashia Morgridge, are commemorating their 60th anniversary by hosting a party at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on Saturday.
Associated Students of Madison, UW-Madison’s student group, said in a letter Tuesday to Chancellor Rebecca Blank and system President Ray Cross the school can’t accommodate a larger student population and predicted ballooning class sizes and reduced academic services.
A controversial plan to lift the cap on the number of non-resident students — who pay substantially higher tuition — is about workforce development, not more revenue, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty Monday. But Blank also shared several ideas that are geared to increasing revenues in an era of diminishing state funds — including more summer school classes and continuing philanthropic giving — in an annual State of the University speech delivered to the Faculty Senate.
A 15-year-old Iowa Hawkeyes fan wasn’t treated very well following the football game between Iowa and Wisconsin on Saturday, suffering facial injuries when he was punched by a Badgers fan.
The University of Wisconsin System’s tuition balance shrank last fiscal year and will drop dramatically over the next year as the system contends with a Republican-imposed tuition freeze and budget cuts, according to system financial reports and projections released Monday.
William C. Campbell, who shared a Nobel Prize in medicine announced Monday, said that his time as a graduate student at UW-Madison helped shape his career. Arlie C. Todd and Chester A. Herrick, the professors who oversaw his research as a veterinary science and zoology student in the 1950s, gave him the freedom to be intuitive in his work, Campbell said in an interview from his home in Massachusetts. “That was very valuable,” Campbell said. He said he was allowed to develop his interests and to be imaginative in his approach, something not all professors of the day encouraged.
Associated Press story on three scientists from the U.S., Japan and China — including a UW-Madison alumnus William Campbell— who won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering drugs to fight malaria and other tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year.
A bill that would make Wisconsin the first state to allow student loans to be refinanced at lower interest rates will be given its second public hearing in as many legislative sessions on Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin Colleges has named the four deans who will lead the 13-campus system’s transition to a slimmed-down administrative model in the wake of state budget cuts.
Last summer, 11 students … were chosen as the first cohort of T.E.E.M. Scholars. Throughout their high school and college years, the students will participate in summer and academic year coursework, job shadows and hold teaching internships. They will also meet regularly, work with MMSD and UW-Madison staff, and take part in school activities to gain experience working in Madison schools.
UW-Madison police are investigating a reported assault and strong-arm robbery that happened in a dorm room last week on the UW campus.
Milton was a South Dakota farmboy, a World War II veteran, a UW Poultry Science professor, a family man, and proud of his Norwegian heritage.
John received his Bachelor of Science and Arts degree at UW-Madison in Economics in 1961. He worked for IBM for two years, UW-Madison for 24 years and retired as a self-employed consultant after 10 years.
UW assistant professor Lori Kido Lopez has started “Asian-American Media Spotlight,” a mini-film festival of five movies playing for free on the UW-Madison campus this weekend.
Two new daily routes (departing campus at 4 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.) and a Friday-only route (departing at 11:30 a.m., and 1 and 4:30 p.m.) are now offered.
More than 500 students packed an auditorium at Gordon Commons on Thursday night — not just to scarf down the free hors d’oeuvres but to hear the stories of four UW-Madison alums who started companies that soared.The Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase was just that — a demonstration of what entrepreneurs can accomplish with a good idea, hard work and maybe a little luck.
UW-Madison isn’t the only university to find the fetal tissue research battle on its doorstep as legislators seek to prohibit the use of tissue from aborted fetuses for research in light of the fallout from the Planned Parenthood sting videos. Since the release of the videos this summer, five states – including Wisconsin – have introduced legislation around fetal tissue donation and research, Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health advocacy group, told ThinkProgress. Arizona is looking at an administrative rules approach.
The Babcock Hall’s famous frozen treat takes a turn in the spotlight of this ongoing series. “Why it defines Madison: The ice cream can’t be beat, whether you are a fan of the orange custard chocolate chip, a devotee of the mocha macchiato or a chocolate peanut butter enthusiast.”
Preview of “Black, White, and Color” exhibit that opens Monday in the Commons Gallery on the first floor of the Old Education Building on the UW-Madison campus. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Preview of the “Harmonious Spaces: Wei Dong and Feng Shui Culture” exhibition at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery on the UW-Madison campus through Nov. 15. Wei Dong is a professor of interior architecture at UW-Madison.
Q&A with Susan Fischer, who retired last week as director of the office of student financial aid.
Former Wisconsin and NFL player Chris Borland, who weighed the potential for brain trauma in deciding to retire from football after one pro season, will receive an award from a leading concussion research advocacy group.
Associated Press report on the proposal to lift the school’s cap on out-of-state students.
