There are many questions surrounding the Badgers as they begin practice today, not the least of which is whether this will be Ryan’s final season at UW.
UW-Madison wants to lift the cap on the number of students from outside of Wisconsin who can enroll at the university, though officials said Thursday they will make sure the state’s flagship campus stays accessible to its residents.
Photo gallery of Leon Varjian, former UW–Madison student and prankster, who was found dead Tuesday at his residence in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey.
She retired from UW-Madison Housing in 2003 where she worked for 16+ years. Barbara loved the students she worked with in Ogg Hall and enjoyed telling stories of her experiences.
Leon Varjian, who came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s to study in “the graduate school of fun” and ended up masterminding such famous pranks as the 1,000 plastic pink flamingoes on Bascom Hill and the Statue of Liberty head on frozen Lake Mendota, has died at age 64, a relative said.
Landry, who first rose to prominence as a mainstay for the University of Wisconsin from 2005-09, was back on the practice floor this week in the Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion wearing the uniform of his favorite childhood team, the Milwaukee Bucks.
We all thought it was a miracle when the Badgers beat Kentucky in the Final Four. Legislators — both Republicans and Democrats — couldn’t wait to honor the University of Wisconsin basketball team. But the real miracles are happening in the labs at UW, at the Waisman Center, at Research Park, and across Wisconsin.
A growing appreciation for the value of learning how to code has led to skyrocketing enrollments in computer science courses at UW-Madison that are stretching resources, says department chairman Mark Hill.
A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling against the NCAA saying its use of college athletes’ names, images and likenesses violated antitrust laws but struck down a plan allowing schools to pay athletes up to $5,000.
The first of three listening sessions on the faculty layoff protection proposals was held on Tuesday at the Health Sciences Learning Center near UW Hospital. The Faculty Senate approved on the new report earlier this month.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank launched the first issue of a new e-newsletter Tuesday that focuses on the university’s research projects that have a positive impact on Wisconsin communities, according to Blank’s blog, Blank’s Slate.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., joined three other members of Congress Tuesday in a letter questioning the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ policies regarding the sale of fetal tissue.
After spending decades helping many UW-Madison students pay for a college education, director of the Office of Financial Aid Susan Fischer will retire this week, ending a career that started by chance in 1979.
According to reporting by The New York Times, Donna Shalala, 74, who is also a former cabinet secretary under President Bill Clinton, fell ill after closing ceremonies of the Clinton Global Initiative’s fall meeting in Manhattan.
Mary Carbine is leaving her job as director of Madison’s Central Business Improvement District to become managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Alumni Park.
Kevin Hart, one of the biggest comedians in the world (if in stature if not in height), will play the Kohl Center next Tuesday, Oct. 6.
Account of a football game (Badgers vs. Troy) at Camp Randall through the law enforcement prism.
Donna Shalala, a former UW-Madison chancellor and a cabinet secretary under President Bill Clinton, has suffered a stroke. Clinton and his daughter Chelsea Clinton issued a statement saying the 74-year-old Shalala was stricken Tuesday evening following a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, the foundation’s spinoff organization which seeks solutions to international problems. Its 2015 meeting began Saturday in New York.
A former UW-Madison student was charged Tuesday with giving another student the hallucinogenic drug LSD in June, before the man fell or jumped from the third floor of the Downtown apartment building where he lived.
A Madison Gas and Electric outage at 11:15 a.m. knocked out power to several UW buildings, including the one that houses its primary data center, said Brian Rust, spokesman for the university’s Division of Information Technology. The outage was resolved in less than an hour, but the headaches for DoIT and others on and off campus lasted much longer. Also: UW-Madison faculty who want to weigh in on new layoff protections for tenured professors will have the opportunity to do so at three public meetings about the proposal this week.
A bill co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, a Madison-area Democrat, would extend funding for the need-based Perkins Loan Program for one year that is expected to be approved by the House, but it is uncertain whether the Senate would advance it, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Noted: comment from Charlie Trevor, a professor of management and human resources at UW-Madison.
The Milwaukee NBA team’s training camp kicks off today University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team was picked to finish last in the 2015-16 Big Ten men’s hockey preseason coaches’ poll released on Monday.
The gap in graduation rates between Pell grant recipients — students from low-income families — at UW-Madison and students not receiving the grant is 11 percent, significantly larger than the average gap at 1,149 colleges, according to a report by The Education Trust.
Feature on Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, the UW Arts Institute’s interdisciplinary artist in residence for fall 2015.
Efforts to retain and improve retail space along the State Street corridor, around the Capitol Square and on King Street could soon get a boost from the city.
After raising their three children, Helen returned to the work force at the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, and later worked in the Registrar’s Office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Research using fetal cell lines has been going on since the 1940s. The cell lines — samples of cells from fetal tissues that can reproduce themselves in labs, making them essentially immortal — are essential to research toward medical treatments, said Dr. Bob Golden, UW-Madison’s vice chancellor of medical affairs.
She worked in the food service department at UW Hospital for 26 years, retiring in 1988.
New York art collectors Jerome and Simona Chazen, both of whom attended UW-Madison in the 1940s, have made a “firm commitment” to donate 30 major artworks by contemporary and modern masters, museum director Russell Panczenko said. Many of those artworks were on display in Madison in the museum’s 2005 exhibition “Dual Vision: The Simona and Jerome Chazen Collection.”
Recap of college affordability talk Saturday with U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts and former Sen. Russ Feingold.
Q&A with Jackie Davenport, the University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic department’s new community relations director, meaning she’s responsible for coordinating service activities for the hundreds of Badger student-athletes.
UW-Madison is one of 15 universities that Koch Industries, led by conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has signed with as part of an image rebuilding and employee recruitment program, according to news reports.
With an average starting salary of $59,600, graduates of the Milwaukee School of Engineering earned the most among alums from 10 Wisconsin schools in a ranking by SmartAsset, a New York financial asset company. University of Wisconsin-Platteville, also known for its engineering program, ranked second with an average salary of $48,800; Viterbo University, a private Catholic school in LaCrosse with a strong nursing program, was third at $47,400; and UW-Madison came in fourth at $46,400.
“What History Tells” plans to recreate the experience of sitting in the iconic Mosse’s classroom, according to UW-Madison News. Participants will listen to recordings of his lectures from 1969 and 1982 on European cultural history, and read works by Mosse and others.
The theatrical version of “Learning to Stay” is set to have its first staged reading on Saturday, Oct. 3, in the Fredric March Play Circle in the Memorial Union. (The author, Erin Celello, is a assistant professor at UW–Whitewater and is married to Aaron Olver, managing director at University Research Park.
ive of the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s regular-season games will be broadcast on the Big Ten Network, beginning with a game at Penn State on Jan. 16.
Kapoi, who made his first career start last week during UW’s 28-3 victory over Troy, orally committed to Hawaii before changing his mind and choosing the Badgers. Aloha Stadium, where the Rainbow Warriors play their home games, is about a 20-minute drive from where Kapoi played high school football in Kapolei, Hawaii.
Associated Press synopsis of the bill forwarded by Wisconsin Republicans that would outlaw research on tissue from aborted fetuses. A public hearing on the measure was held Tuesday.
He can start by rejecting an unnecessary and purely ideological attack on UW-Madison research that Chancellor Rebecca Blank warns would be a “direct hit” to her institution’s reputation — much worse than the $250 million the governor and Republican-run Legislature cut from the Madison campus and other University of Wisconsin System schools this summer.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation added its voice Tuesday to those opposing legislation that would criminalize the use of fetal tissue in biomedical research.
The free course, from Sept. 30 to Oct. 28, is open to the public and entitled “Forests and Humans: From the Midwest to Madagascar.” The course will focus on an exploration of forest ecosystems from the Midwest to Ecuador and Madagascar. Participants will learn about the ecology, geography and economic significance of the world’s forests, and how humans interact with these environments on a daily basis, according to a description from the university.
The film, directed by UW graduate Chad Garcia, won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It follows an eccentric Ukrainian artist named Fedor Alexandrovich who is investigating a conspiracy surrounding the Chernobyl disaster. Alexandrovich’s exploration of Soviet-era secrets and brutality mirrors the present day strife in his own country, as Russian Premier Vladimir Putin threatens Ukraine’s sovereignty. Indie film distributor FilmBuff has bought the rights.
A survey of thousands of UW-Madison students found more than 25 percent of undergraduate women at the university say they have experienced some form of sexual assault, a slightly higher rate than female college students nationwide reported.
Service workers are proud to work at UW and strive to do excellent work, but are easily forgotten. They, too, would like to receive some acknowledgement and reward for their work.
University of Wisconsin law professor Howard Schweber said in an email to News 3, “By any reasonable standard, Justice Crooks must certainly be remembered as a conservative judge. But unlike some of the more recent generation of conservatives he was eminently capable of forming coalitions with his more liberal colleagues on issues where they found points of agreement. Whether one is a conservative or a liberal, we should mourn the loss of a jurist who was capable of having strong beliefs without being narrowly partisan.”
The $22 million, 50-bed rehab hospital will replace a 21-bed inpatient rehab unit at UW Hospital. It’s a joint venture between UW Health and Kindred Healthcare, based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Three-dimensional “tissue chips,” grown from stem cells on tiny scaffolds, could become a new way to screen drugs and chemicals for toxicity, UW-Madison researchers said Monday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked pretty far down the list — 116th of 179 — on the New York Times College Access index, which seeks to measure economic diversity at top U.S. colleges. But don’t look for a university press release on this college ranking, said Noel Radomski, director of UW-Madison’s WISCAPE, a think tank on educational policy.
More than 1 in 4 female undergraduates at UW-Madison said they have been sexually assaulted while enrolled at the university, but most of them decided not to report those assaults to officials, according to survey results released Monday by campus officials.
Fact checking statement by state Rep. Dale Kooyenga: He’s right when you consider employment within Wisconsin, which is the most obvious way to make such a comparison. By other measurements, such as annual revenue, there are many Wisconsin-based companies that are larger than UW. But that creates more of an apples-and-oranges comparison.
Following World War II and his recuperation he attended Michigan State and was awarded his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in horticulture. He was then hired by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to build their floriculture program, where he simultaneously obtained his Ph.D. in Horticulture.
Claudia was an Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught nearly 50 years.
In his column last Sunday, Rep. Joe Sanfelippo, R-New Berlin, proposed replacing the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board with a partisan model based on the Federal Elections Commission … Whether the state’s campaign finance laws or election rules ought to be changed is separate from the structure of the GAB, but they have unfortunately been conflated. Now that the busy budget season is complete, the Legislature has an opportunity to consider some helpful reforms to state election laws.
A University of Wisconsin System policy on tenure has to include a policy for post-tenure review of faculty if it is going to satisfy concerns about accountability of the university, Regent John Behling said Thursday.
Progressive folk hero Elizabeth Warren will campaign in Madison with Russ Feingold later this month, promoting college affordability measures.
No charges were filed against Jim Villa, the UW System’s vice president of university relations. But sworn statements released this week show investigators sought a search warrant for Villa’s home and office. At the time, he was president of the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin, and he was previously Walker’s chief of staff.
Marjorie was an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UW School of Nursing.
JoAnne … worked for the UW Personnel office until her retirement in 1998.
