A first-of-its-kind UW-Madison study has dug deep into the lives of transgender high school students in Wisconsin, finding both hopeful signs and dire circumstances.
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala is taking over as the head of the Clinton Foundation just as the charity’s fundraising practices are under the microscope ahead of Hillary Clinton’s likely presidential run.
Just page through Moda magazine, a rapidly growing student publication that showcases fashion, trends and the arts. This week Moda is going beyond its print and online editions to host “UW Fashion Week” — a series of events meant to get Madison thinking about peeling off the parkas and looking good for spring.
He was a professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
Career Corner is a monthly column written by staff members of the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies.
When it comes to entrepreneurship at the UW-Madison, John Surdyk is smack-dab in the middle of the action, right where the ideas start.
UW-Madison police this week seized nearly 600 bicycles — many believed to have been stolen — from four locations around Madison and in Muscoda, the culmination of an investigation that started in May with a letter from a prison inmate, according to search warrants filed in Dane County Circuit Court.
A committee working on the integration of UW Hospital and UW Medical Foundation plans to release a reorganization proposal by April, with the goal of approving it by July, said David Walsh, chairman of the UW Hospital board.
Regents and chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System vowed Thursday to push back against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to higher education.
This regular guy plays a show tonight in Shannon Hall at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union with countryman Vusi Mahlasela. It’s part of a major U.S. tour called “20 Years of Freedom,” referring to the end of apartheid and the establishment of multi-racial democracy in South Africa in 1994.
After his college education, he began his career teaching at UW-Madison in the Physical Education Department. From 1957 to 1958, he served as assistant basketball coach under Coach Harold “Bud” Foster. Al directed the required and elective physical education programs for men as coordinator from 1960 to 1980. He retired in 1985 after 37 years in the department.
An amber lager, created by a trio of UW-Madison students on a pilot brewing system in the Department of Food Science and the Center for Dairy Research, was selected Thursday as the winning brew in a competition to have a beer from the university commercially produced and distributed statewide by Wisconsin Brewing Co. in Verona.
The funding cuts are too deep. The flexibility is welcome, but the public authority model needs much more study. Shared governance and tenure must be preserved.
Nine UW-Madison professors have been awarded $50,000 grants for research from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
UW-Madison is now the second university in the state to be included in a growing probe of possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Republicans on the Legislature’s finance committee demanded assurances Tuesday from University of Wisconsin System officials that they won’t dramatically increase tuition if they’re uncoupled from state oversight under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plan.
Cross acknowledged the need created by Walker’s proposed budget for all state agencies to make “difficult decisions,” but said the level of the proposed cut is “serious.” UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt added that a $300 million cut to the system would be “too much and too fast.”
Madison has become a hub for creative entrepreneurs for a variety of reasons, such as a relatively low cost of living compared to big cities; the university, which attracts creative people; and resources for young families. “Artists have always been entrepreneurial in their nature,” agreed Sarah Marty, who teaches an arts entrepreneurship class, launched in 2008, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s very rare that an artist has been able to just exist and someone else takes care of figuring out their audience … who’s going to buy what they’re doing.
UW-Madison faculty are struggling to find a way to influence the plan to convert the university from a state agency to an independent public authority, as proposed in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross told the Legislature’s budget committee Tuesday that he endorses Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plan to turn the 26-campus system into an independent public authority.But Cross told the committee that the governor’s plan to cut $300 million over two years beginning in July is “too much and too fast.”
The Legislature’s finance committee began on Monday a months-long push to revise Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal for the next two fiscal years, grilling a handful of state officials on cuts to the University of Wisconsin System, plans for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena and the manning of prison towers.
A sexual assault was reported to UW-Madison officials Sunday, an assault allegedly by an acquaintance of the victim.
Five days after an open letter was posted online, the number of people at University of Wisconsin — now including not only faculty, but staff, students and alumi — demanding that UW System president Ray Cross oppose Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to restructure UW in his budget rose to 484. Some 88 of them were at, or graduated from UW-Madison, where faculty were scheduled Monday to vote on a resolution asking Cross to delay restructuring.
Barry Alvarez has first hand experience with concept of freshman ineligibility, which is one reason the University of Wisconsin athletic director is looking forward to talks that might resurrect it.
A UW-Extension paper estimates that workers in the manufacturing sector earn an average of $8,100 less in states that have right-to-work laws, and that right-to-work states have more poverty and fewer college graduates.
He worked for 35 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the University Hospitals, the University Physical Plant and the University Division of Information Technology before retiring in 2004.
Former University of Wisconsin running backs coach John Settle will be returning to the Badgers for the same position he held from 2006-10, according to 247sports.
The budget would change the UW System into the new University of Wisconsin System Authority, moving the university’s 34,648.44 full-time-equivalent positions off of the state’s payroll.
Harry worked for William Powell cleaning, Bob & Gene’s and the UW Hospital Physical Plant. After 29 years at the UW, Harry retired in protest at the age of 55.
Bernice worked for years at the UW Memorial Library in the binding department.
The end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th saw times of transition for the Wisconsin State Journal and the University of Wisconsin.
UW clinched a share of its first Big Ten regular-season title since 2007-08 with a 68-61 victory over Michigan State on Sunday at the Kohl Center.
A 19-year-old Madison woman was injured in a hit-and-run while crossing a street in the UW-Madison campus area early Sunday.
She joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 2001, retiring in 2014. She directed UW’s Chicana/o Studies Program, which became the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program under her leadership, and she also served as associate chair and director of Undergraduate Studies in the History Department.
Dr. Geoffrey Baer, a shoulder surgeon at UW Health, sees a problem in Wisconsin: too much shoulder surgery — specifically, a particular kind of shoulder surgery.
According to a report published on Jezebel Friday morning, “Scott Walker Wants Colleges to Stop Reporting Sexual Assaults.” As with most budget items, it’s more complicated than that.
Walker’s budget includes giving the University of Wisconsin System more autonomy while also cutting $300 million from it and freezing tuition … Walker has said he’s open to lowering the cut to UW, as well as putting more money into public education and other changes.
The UW Hospital emergency clinic in Madison will double in size to meet patient demand, with the expansion possible thanks to gifts totaling over $13 million from four prominent supporters of UW-Madison.
A phone scam is targeting international students and staff at UW-Madison, with scammers threatening deportation if money isn’t sent.
Seventy-four University of Wisconsin faculty members from campuses across the state signed an open letter to UW System president Ray Cross, “insisting in the strongest possible terms” that Cross oppose Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to restructure the university as a public authority.
A group of professors, staffers and students from University of Wisconsin campuses statewide urged UW System president Ray Cross to withdraw support for sweeping changes to the universities proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, calling for a two-year moratorium.
The Walker administration has focused more on offering tax cuts and credits to the traditional manufacturing sector. Gov. Scott Walker rarely mentions Epic Systems, the most successful tech firm in Wisconsin history, and its 8,000 employees, when touting the state economy. There are also hurdles due to the type of research being conducted at the UW. Of the roughly $1.1 billion in federal grants coming into the university annually, some $700 million is related to biotechnology or biomedical research – two areas that are expensive to commercialize.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team and staff spent the night in Pittsburgh after they were forced to make an emergency landing there due to an engine malfunction on their charter plane.
For years, as an associate professor of pathology at UW-Madison, the white-bearded no mustache Huntington was the go-to man for autopsies for many counties in Wisconsin, including Dane County, that had elected coroners instead of licensed medical examiners.
The proposed budget cuts and move to a public authority for the University of Wisconsin System will hurt low-income students, low-wage workers and low-enrollment campuses most, said a statewide students group that vowed on Monday to fight against the changes.
A new audit shows the University of Wisconsin System generated nearly $5 billion in revenue during the last fiscal year, down slightly from the year before.
The $300 million for UW that Gov. Scott Walker proposed in his state budget would be crippling to UW and our state. And really, this isn’t about partisanship, politics, your side or mine; it is about pride. The gutting of our UW campuses has nothing to do with either party; it has everything to do with protecting a pillar of Wisconsin.
Edgewood College forum last week was among several venues in which Walker’s attack on the progressive ideals of the Wisconsin Idea was dissected in light of his likely bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
Doug Erickson’s article in the Feb. 15 State Journal about kindergartners and the “kindness curriculum” developed by UW-Madison was great.
Comment from Sharon McCabe, associate director of the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at UW-Madison and a former city of Madison assessor of commercial real estate.
A CPA, Sue worked at a number of careers, retiring from UW-Madison, where she worked in the registrar’s office.
Bob was on the faculty at UW-Eau Claire, University of Minnesota, UW-Green Bay, UW-Madison, UW-Stevens Point, and the UW-Extension
Wire story from the St. Louis Dispatch, hometown paper of Maya Warren, who is completing her doctorate in food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Educational Approval Board will meet Friday morning to discuss Walker’s proposal, which the governor’s spokeswoman said will remove a costly and overly burdensome regulatory process for the schools and put in place enhanced consumer protections for students.
Wisconsin legislators should drop provisions creating a new UW System Authority from the biennium budget and take time to analyze the impact of such a drastic move, says Noel Radomski, director of WISCAPE at UW-Madison.
He also worked at UW Provisions and Woodmans until his retirement.
Democrats said Thursday it’s not UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank who’s bringing Washington, D.C.-style politics to the University of Wisconsin System funding debate. Instead, they said, Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP leaders of the state’s powerful budget committee are playing politics.
Saying that the university’s mission should be to serve Wisconsin’s workforce isn’t needed — the university already serves the state’s workforce. Anything less means crippling Wisconsin’s economy. To survive, Wisconsin manufacturers have to compete successfully in the global economy.
AJ Capital Partners is using part of $500 million in private investment funding to renovate and re-brand the Campus Inn, 601 Langdon St.
UW-Madison officials are turning to the workers to come up with ideas on how to cut costs, with $300 million in budget cuts staring them in the face.
