When fans of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program would ask Jay Bilas if Bo Ryan was the most underrated coach in the country, the ESPN analyst never really knew how to answer.
The day after last Tuesday’s election didn’t exactly inspire confidence for backers of the University of Wisconsin System and its request for a funding boost of $95 million in the next two-year cycle. Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, who’s co-chairman of the state’s budget committee, called the request a “tough sell. ”At the same news conference, Nygren’s colleague Robin Vos, R-Rochester, who’s speaker of the Assembly, said faculty should focus on research that would benefit the state’s economy, not the “ancient mating habits of whatever.” The remark was seen as condescending by many at UW-Madison, a research giant that brings $1.2 billion a year in federal funding to the state. The same day, a different effort got no headlines but could be significant: UW-Madison emailed all of its in-state alumni with a plea. “Right now, UW-Madison needs your voice more than ever,” the email said.
Hundreds of urban children around the country will soon get injections of cockroach antigen and other allergens to see if it improves their asthma, thanks to a new grant at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
A developer is proposing a twin-tower, 185-unit apartment project rising up to 10 stories near the Kohl Center, but the redevelopment won’t include an intercity bus facility once eyed for the site.
A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh student was charged Monday in federal court with possessing the deadly toxin ricin.
Reporters ask Melvin Gordon about the Heisman Trophy nearly every week. The University of Wisconsin running back hears his name on college football studio shows and sees it slotted somewhere in the top five on nearly every Heisman projection.
UW-Madison law professor Donald Downs, associate professor of political science and legal studies Howard Schweber comment.
John Karl Scholz, dean of the College of Letters & Science, is launching a large new program to improve career planning and job outcomes for students in his college, by far the largest at the university with more than 16,000 undergraduates in 39 departments.
UW-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka has once again halted controversial flu research, this time in response to a White House request that researchers stop such work during a federal review of the risks and benefits.
What if you took the idea of a chair and stood it on its head?You might be inside the brain of Tom Loeser, professor of art at UW-Madison and considered to be one of the finest art-furniture makers in America.
The resolution, if approved, also would start making good on a “priority recommendation,” Verveer said, in a Downtown Plan approved more than two years ago by the City Council to build a park in the area of Downtown adjacent to the UW-Madison campus, west of North Broom Street and north of West Washington Avenue.
Michael Wagner, assistant professor at UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said the governor’s victory Tuesday was crucial for his political career, as he can now say he’s won three elections in a swing state that has backed Democrats in recent presidential races.
Dr. Greg Landry, a professor of pediatrics and orthopedics in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and team physician for UW Athletics, comments.
UW Poli Sci Prof. Barry Burden comments.
Gov. Scott Walker is touring the state’s technical colleges rather than speak at a meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Notes domestic abuse prevention efforts on campus, including the Lamba Beta Phi-Latin Fraternity Inc., and University Health Service collaboration with the School of Social Work, Domestic Abuse Intervention Services and fraternities to offer a for-credit class each spring called “Greek Men for Violence Prevention.”
The co-chairman of the Legislature’s powerful finance committee doesn’t sound too optimistic that the University of Wisconsin System will get the additional $95 million it wants in the next state budget.
Citizens against UW-Madison’s monkey experiments will hold a protest prior to the Board of Regents meeting Nov. 6 from 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. at the intersection of Johnson Street and Lake Street on the UW-Madison campus.
The metal sunburst chairs that color the Union Terrace at UW-Madison and announce the end of winter when they arrive in April began disappearing into storage this week with a different message: Winter’s almost here.Their departure brings a seasonal gloom and, this year, a mystery: Why did so many of the terrace chairs get stolen?
After graduating from UW-Madison, she began her teaching career in the children’s unit of UW hospitals. She developed her career and eventually became director of Orchard Ridge Nursery School.
Linda Reivitz, a UW-Madison faculty associate and former secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services, comments.
For the second time this year, the University of Wisconsin forward graces this cover of Sports Illustrated. And, this time, he’s not sharing space with any of his teammates.
Gov. Scott Walker won his third governor’s race in four years Tuesday, giving him a second term to overhaul state government with fellow Republicans — and setting the stage for a possible presidential run.
Now that the University of Wisconsin football team is bowl-eligible for the 13th year in a row, Badgers fans can only wonder where their team (will) be headed for the holidays.
Fifth-year senior goalkeeper Genevieve Richard was one of five University of Wisconsin women’s soccer players to earn All-Big Ten honors when the conference announced its season-ending awards Tuesday.
Alice worked for UW-Madison.
Sandy later worked as a research scientist in influenza and other animal viruses at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine until 1985.
At UW-Madison’s Union South Tuesday evening, about 50 students gathered to watch results, hear a professor’s commentary and discuss their views on politics.
The “Voices for Peace and Justice in the Holy Land” regional conference is at the UW-Madison Pyle Center on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7 and 8.
Tree and grass will take precedence over bricks and mortar in the new master plan for the UW-Madison campus. Work is starting on the 2015 campus master plan, updating the 2005 plan in a once-every-decade project to guide future development on the 936-acre main campus.
The senior center for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team was named to the Associated Press preseason All-America team Monday, joining Michael Finley 1994 and Jordan Taylor 2011 as the only Badgers to receive that honor.
Report from the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, collaboration with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Campus police issued 29 underage drinking citations over the weekend. They transported 13 people to detox facilities and took numerous others to area hospitals because the Tellurian Detoxification Center was full by early Saturday evening, said Marc Lovicott, a spokesman for UW police.
Many props to UW Health for deciding to stop selling soda and other sugary drinks … (but) … UW’s decision to ditch the cafeteria deep fryers, on the other hand, feels rash.
Following the lead of attorneys general in different states, outgoing Wisconsin attorney general J.B. Van Hollen has sued a now-closed for-profit college in Milwaukee for misleading students about job placement rates and other outcomes. Also: UW-Madison English professor Emily Auerbach’s work with nontraditional students for more than three decades won her a distinguished service award from a division of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.
When it was announced that author Danielle Evans would join the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s creative writing program, one new UW colleague noted she’d have to up her “shoe game” to match the Washington D.C. writer’s penchant for fashionable footwear.
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s upcoming lecture at UW-Madison … is part of a larger event, “The Anthropocene Slam: A Cabinet of Curiosities,” a three-day event sponsored by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
For the University of Wisconsin men’s cross country team, Sunday brought a measure of revenge.
Being homeless adds another layer of challenges on top of the rigors of academic work at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison’s Constance Steinkuehler, an associate professor of education and an expert in digital media and gaming, and Janet Hyde, a UW-Madison psychology professor, comment.
A lawsuit against the NCAA and major conferences now includes University of Wisconsin athlete Nigel Hayes as a plaintiff, CBSSports.com reported Thursday night.
An emerging dilemma at UW-Madison involves the state government’s two-year ban on raising tuition, not only for in-state undergraduates, but for out-of-state students of all descriptions including professional school students in fields such as medicine, veterinary science, business and pharmacy.
Janet Hagen, 65, is a retired UW-Madison office assistant.
The point of the tombstones, erected by a group of UW-Madison atheists, is to suggest that one person’s god centuries ago may be another person’s myth today.
She worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison at Academic Personnel in Bascom Hall.
One could argue that sports is the biggest business at the UW-Madison these days, after looking at the new database of UW salaries from the Milwaukee Business Journal.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison employees, ranging from graduate teaching assistants to custodians, gathered on campus on Wednesday to protest for higher wages.
UW Health plans to stop selling sugar-sweetened beverages by the end of the year, becoming one of the first health care organizations in Wisconsin to eliminate sugary drinks as a way of encouraging patients, employees and visitors to consume healthier alternatives.
“Habitat loss is a big issue with honeybees. So the ability to produce more resources for them will certainly help them out,” said Patrick Liesch, a UW-Madison entomologist.
It’s too early to say the Badgers have come full circle as dual Big Ten title contenders, but the performance arc looks encouraging.
UW-Madison will use a $975,000 federal grant to partner with five American Indian tribes in Wisconsin in hopes of guiding more young tribemembers into health-care careers, the university announced Wednesday.
The National Institutes of Health has given $8.3 million to UW-Madison to create the center, the university said in a news release.
When Sara Goldrick-Rab first began delving into college affordability for her graduate school research 15 years ago, she recalls, people said she was making too big a deal out of it. “I was told as an academic to pick a more important topic,” said Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. College affordability is a really big deal now.
The Madison-based group, founded by UW-Madison ophthalmology professor Suresh Chandra, treats people in the developing world and has helped fund free community eye care clinics in Madison
Oscar Mayer’s roots date to 1883; the company opened in Madison in 1919, 95 years ago, and the first Wienermobile debuted in 1936 when UW-Madison graduate Carl Mayer, nephew of the company’s founder, Oscar F. Mayer, suggested using a 13-foot metal hot dog on wheels to transport the company spokesman around Chicago.
UW Hospital and American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison are among four hospitals that would care for any Ebola patients in Wisconsin, though other hospitals might be added to the list, health officials said Tuesday.
Dorothy was Registrar for the School of Nursing at UW-Madison from 1969 until 1985.
Schneider, 87, who taught mathematics at UW-Madison from 1959 to 1993, died Tuesday of cancer.
Alex Wehrley — Wisconsin native, 2009 UW-Madison graduate — was working on-air for an entertainment and lifestyle television show called “Oklahoma Live.”
In the video posted on Facebook, Gregg Mitman, a UW-Madison professor of medical history and bioethics, tells of learning that the outbreak had reached Monrovia, Liberia, while he was there in June filming a documentary with UW-Madison graduate student and Liberian native Emmanuel Urey.
