A $6 million grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency will fund a Human Models for Analysis of Pathways Center at University of Wisconsin, to analyze how these chemical materials are affecting human physiology, according to a UW statement.
Badger fans who gathered at Union South to watch Thursday night’s game against North Carolina rose to their feet and cheered as the final seconds ticked off the clock and Wisconsin punched its ticket to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament.
Anna Johnson, marketing and communications coordinator for the Memorial Union reinvestment project, told News 3 that the west end of the terrace adjacent to the remodeled theater will remain open during the project, and the new terrace area will open early in the summer of 2016.
A native of New Berlin and a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad, Bown came up with the idea for Unplugged Events last summer during an outdoor-based leadership training session in California’s redwood forest.
In their matching gray #SaveOurUW T-shirts, members of the Associated Students of Madison traveled to the Joint Finance Committee hearing Thursday to vocalize their concerns over Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget.
2015 Wisconsin Film Festival preview. Screenings will be held at various campus locations April 9-15.
The state Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill that would order the UW System Board of Regents to require all Wisconsin students taking a UW System placement test in English or mathematics to disclose their high school. The bill is waiting for approval from the state Senate. … But James Wollack, director of UW-Madison’s Office of Testing and Evaluation Services, said problems with remedial courses might not exist.
Like it or not, professors have been thrown into the “deep end of the pool” of politics, state Rep. Terese Berceau told a group of academics at UW-Madison Wednesday.
The vaccine was created in the lab of campus virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka. It protected monkeys from Ebola virus infection in experiments conducted at a high-level containment facility in Montana, Kawaoka reported in the journal Science.
A group led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor developed an Ebola whole virus vaccine that has been shown to effectively protect monkeys exposed to the virus, according to a release from UW-Madison.
Junior forward Sam Dekker finished with a career-high 23 points and a season-high 10 rebounds, but he got plenty of help in the Badgers’ 79-72 victory over North Carolina in an NCAA tournament West regional semifinal on Thursday night at Staples Center.
Former Regent and Ambassador Loftus letter to the editor: Speaker Robin Vos and other legislators are right to question handing over control of the University of Wisconsin System to a quasi-public authority as called for in the proposed state budget. The danger is all too real that such a move would undermine the Wisconsin Idea by reducing public input into the university and the number of Wisconsin students who could attend. And that would fly in the face of the university’s underpinnings as developed by UW’s fifth president, John Bascom, the true founder of the Wisconsin Idea.
Letter to the editor from faculty member Daniel Greenspan: I strongly believe that the possible granting of public authority status to the University of Wisconsin System is an important opportunity.
State employees should pay more of their health care costs, but shifting from a competitive HMO model to self-insurance isn’t feasible next year, according to a consultant hired by the state.
Cross, facing withering criticism, told a UW-Milwaukee gathering of employees and students that he’d resign if he can’t substantially reduce the $300 million cut and preserve cherished employee protections including shared governance, tenure and academic freedom. He stood by his answer later, saying in an interview that “I don’t believe any higher education leader wants to be any part of an institution that doesn’t have tenure or shared governance.”
If we’re putting together a list of the most underpaid employees at the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department, mine would start in sports medicine where so many unsung do their thing.
Noted: This type of merger is not a big surprise, said Hart Posen, associate professor of management at the UW-Madison School of Business. “It reflects, in part, the need for bigger scale in this industry,” he said.
Richter joined the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation WARF, now Covance, on Sept. 1, 1949, as a chemist, and enjoyed a highly successful career in chemistry and leadership.
Rosemary was the tour coordinator at the UW-Madison Arboretum from 1965 to 1980.
The smallest four-year campus among 13 in the University of Wisconsin System has offered buyouts to older employees, becoming the second university to do so in the face of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut funding to the universities by $300 million the next two years, the steepest drop in history
Working in concert with athletic trainer Henry Perez-Guerra, (Eric) Helland leaves no stone unturned to get the Badgers ready for each practice and each game.
UW-Madison economist Laura Dresser said income growth in the state for decades has been concentrated among the top 1 percent. She said that would explain the decline in the percentage of families considered “middle class” by federal standards, even if incomes have risen recently.
The 2015 UW-Madison Writers’ Institute intends to show aspiring writers that there are many more out there, all grappling with the same things.
The 13-year streak of simultaneous NCAA (men’s basketball) tournament and (football) bowl assignments for the Badgers is the longest current run of its kind among Division I programs.
PROFS, a lobbying organization for UW-Madison faculty, will zero in on Scott Walker’s game-changing budget plans for the UW System at a free public forum Wednesday.
Why hasn’t there been more transparency by University of Wisconsin officials in the planning of a proposed public authority model? asks Noel Radomski, an education policy analyst at UW-Madison.
On college campuses nationwide, the intertwined problems of sexual assault and alcohol are under intense scrutiny as students increasingly speak up and the federal government cracks down. Pushed to a collective moment of reckoning, colleges and universities are trying a slew of solutions focused on education, environment and enforcement.
A former UW-Madison student received a suspended prison sentence Friday for trying to coerce women into having sex with him by threatening to post their nude pictures and contact information on the Internet.
He worked as head of the Planning and Construction Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison for over 40 years.
Column by Robert Wolfe, a UW-Madison sophomore and WISPIRG campaign coordinator.
A Storify compilation of the tweets from Friday morning.
At the UW-Madison College of Engineering, the state’s largest engineering school, the past few years have seen a dramatic rise in the number of engineering students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. There were about 4,850 students enrolled in the fall of 2014, which exceeded what the college predicted for the fall of 2015.
They’d gladly boot every fraternity off campus tomorrow if they thought they could get away with it. But for now they are content to pick them off one by one.
UW-Madison’s complete turnaround on monkey maternal deprivation experiments highlights the lack of ethical oversight on this issue.
I and the writers of a couple of rather unkind letters to the editor had the same reaction to a recent bit of news out of UW-Madison concerning music preferences among man’s and woman’s second-best friend:
Kat Vosters grew up in Wisconsin, graduated from the University of Wisconsin, has been a Badgers fan since basically birth and even used to have a little Badgers cheerleading costume when she was a kid.
A bracket-style look at the relative academic progress and graduation rates of the 68 teams in the 2015 NCAA men’s basketball tournament provides a glimpse at how well schools are supporting their athletes in their pursuit of a college education off the basketball court.
Cash-strapped Wisconsin school districts next year will have to cover costs of high school courses that earn students college credit after the University of Wisconsin System decided it could not continue to pay for them.
Thousands of young people are heading to the UW-Madison campus this weekend, but not for the state high school basketball tournament.
Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at MIT, will deliver the sixth Len Robock Annual Lecture on March 24 at 7 p.m., in the DeLuca Forum in the Discovery Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.
In what could be the safest political move of his career, Gov. Scott Walker is picking the Wisconsin Badgers to win it all in the NCAA basketball tournament.
The co-chair and another Republican member of the Legislature’s powerful budget committee panel said Wednesday that they don’t support giving the University of Wisconsin more independence from state oversight, in another sign of dwindling support for Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to do just that.
The Chi Phi fraternity chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been terminated as a student organization after a university investigation found the organization hazed members.
UW-Madison said Wednesday that it shut down a fraternity for the first time since 2006 after learning of a hazing weekend in December that included a freshman pledge suffering a concussion when an older member hit his head accidentally as the freshman lay in a closed crate meant to simulate a grave, a university official said.
UW-Madison’s decision to halt plans to remove newborn monkeys from their mothers as part of a controversial experiment is a step in the right direction. However, the 40 monkeys involved will still face tremendous suffering and distress for their short lives before being killed for questionable human benefit.
Ryan, who has led the University of Wisconsin to Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, is among a group of finalists that includes Kentucky’s John Calipari, Villanova’s Jay Wright and Virginia’s Tony Bennett, a former assistant of Ryan’s at UW.
The state Assembly has passed a Republican bill that would require the University of Wisconsin System to complete a report tracking the origin high schools of students taking remedial courses.
As the lead author on a recent study on music for cats, I’d like to address concerns expressed by some readers in the State Journal.
When does a 13 percent cut in the University of Wisconsin System’s budget become a “modest” 2.5 percent? When this cabal of truth-challenged Republicans running Wisconsin government says it is.
Other Republicans — and some Democrats — joined Joint Finance Committee co-chair Rep. John Nygren in saying that Walker’s plan is in serious jeopardy as faculty, staff and students at UW-Madison, for example, are opposing the reorganization of the UW System as a public authority.
The Republican co-chairman of the Legislature’s budget committee says Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to detach the University of Wisconsin System from state oversight appears to be on life support.
After a promising rookie season in the NFL, one of the University of Wisconsin’s most beloved former athletes is retiring from football. San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland informed his team Friday and told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” on Monday that he’s calling it quits because of concerns about the long-term effects of repetitive head trauma.
The Badgers just finished a regular season for the dark ages. It started and ended with a shutout loss. It started and ended with a winless streak that required two hands to monitor. It started and ended with concerns about the overall level of talent on hand.
University of Wisconsin basketball fans on Monday quickly bought up the school’s modest allotment of tickets for the Badgers’ NCAA tournament game Friday in Nebraska, sending many fans scurrying to the pricey secondary market.
Former University of Wisconsin linebacker Chris Borland has shocked the football world by announcing his retirement from the NFL after one season.
Police have issued a warrant for Feng, who was also a UW-Madison student at the time.
MVI-816 is aimed at men who have been treated for prostate cancer and show a high risk that it will spread. The trial is underway at UW-Madison; now, The Johns Hopkins University and the University of California-San Francisco will participate, too.
Scott worked at the UW Medical Library
Hunt worked in the Clinical Laboratory at University Hospital for 37 years.
In 1970, Bill returned to the UW to complete his medical residency in internal medicine and then a fellowship in the newly emerging specialty of infectious diseases. He joined the UW faculty in 1973, as a founding member of the new infectious disease division.
