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.
Two University of Wisconsin-La Crosse employees have filed complaints against their employer alleging discrimination and retaliation.
Umhoefer, who died in a car accident Friday, was poised to graduate with a masters of science in industrial engineering from UW-Madison in December, 2014.
Publicly traded CDI was founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson in 2004 and manufactures large quantities of human stem cells for drug discovery, safety screening and for stem cell banks.
The UW System Board of Regents on Monday approved the appointment of Cathy Sandeen.
The center will work with the University of Wisconsin’s asthma and allergy research center to track kids’ development of allergies and respiratory infections for two years, starting before the babies are born.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Spring commencement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will return to Camp Randall Stadium.
Carmen worked for ten years as a docent at the Elvehjem Museum of Art.
A record crowd of 8,002 the UW men’s basketball team scrimmage.
Column notes that members of blue-collar and graduate employee unions at UW-Madison will march at 4 p.m. Wednesday from the Institutes for Discovery to Bascom Hall to ask for raises for all campus employees. Authors Eleni Schirmer and Michael Billeaux are graduate students at UW-Madison and co-presidents of the Teaching Assistants’ Association, Local 3220 of the AFL-CIO.
The difference between the Isthmus in Downtown Madison — an “urban heat island” — and collar towns outside the city can be as much as seven degrees on average at night in August, according to UW-Madison researchers. During the day the gap is smaller, at three degrees.
UW-Madison Police issued 24 citations, made 24 arrests and ejected 42 people during the Badgers’ 52-7 victory over Maryland on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
David retired in 1995 from the University of Wisconsin-Extension where he was a professor of theatre and music.
UW-Madison police are investigating a reported sexual assault of a female student.
Amy Alida, a UW-Madison student and a First Wave Urban Arts scholar, also is featured in the song.
Earlier this month, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The book that tells her dramatic story of standing up for education while being persecuted by the Taliban is this year’s selection for UW-Madison’s Go Big Read.
Story cites Center for Investigating Healthy Minds’ study of meditation and mindfulness.
Photo caption from story features UW-Madison students John Baynton, Tony Schmitz, Megan Jass and Katie Schultz slicing and packaging bacon at Bucky’s Butchery. UW meat specialist Sindelar also comments.
OSHKOSH, Wis. AP — Administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh are urging students to travel in groups, be aware of their surroundings and walk in well-lighted areas at night after a fifth assault or robbery in the last month.
The Ryans pledged to donate $10 for every free throw a student made and $1,000 for anyone who buried a half-court shot. There were 46 half-court shots made during the 4 1/2-hour event benefiting cancer research.
The spring commencement at UW-Madison?s Camp Randall Stadium in May went so well that the 2015 graduation ceremonies will return to the venerable football field.
A year after advancing to the NCAA championship game in its first season under Sheffield, UW is ranked fifth in the nation and is challenging for its first Big Ten Conference title since 2001. Not only are the Badgers fun to watch, their place in the toughest volleyball league in the country means local fans get to see Top 20 opponents on a regular basis.
Chancellor Joe Gow said the university?s vice chancellor for administration and finance, Bob Hetzel, and registrar Christine Bakkum were walking to work when they were struck.
Monday’s panel at the Pyle Center included University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor Michael Wagner and UW-Madison political science Ph.D. candidate Brad Jones.
Among the Republicans? priorities are “course correction” for the state Government Accountability Board, providing funding for free GED testing, expanding public school open enrollment and voucher school programs, increasing access to classes through a state-funded digital learning program for rural schools and extending a tuition freeze for the University of Wisconsin system.
UW-Madison Space Place is inviting the public to watch Thursday?s partial solar eclipse alongside the center?s astronomy experts.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund is suing the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents for release of notes made during oversight committee deliberations on controversial experiments with baby monkeys at UW-Madison.
Burke held a rally that drew about two dozen college students Monday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Also noted: Nicholas Lardy will return to UW-Madison this week to talk about his work as a China economist and his new book, ?Markets Over Mao.?
Cronon on Tuesday will trace the changing meanings of wilderness in American history and make the case for its ongoing importance today. Cronon?s 7 p.m. talk in Shannon Hall in the Memorial Union is the third installment of the Jordahl Public Lands Lecture Series named after the late Wisconsin conservationist, Bud Jordahl.
In a statement from Lions spokesman Bill Keenist he said, ?I spoke with Wendy Margolis from the UW Marching Band around 1 p.m. today and indicated to her that Dominic?s contribution to the UW Band will be sent to her attention via over-night mail either tomorrow or Monday and she will receive it early next week.?
In the first results of the ACO program, released in September, UW Health didn?t gain or lose.
He served as Elroy Hirsch?s deputy athletic director from 1983 until 1989 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As it happens, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor has been exploring that precise topic for the past two years. Michael Xenos, a professor and current chairman of the Department of Communication Arts, has been working with professors from Australia and England via a grant from the Spencer Foundation, which focuses on education research.
The Big Ten Conference standings hang on the wall during University of Wisconsin football meetings, a reminder that ? for now ? the team can still write whatever script it wants in the West Division.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Christopher Daly started reading every day. He would nag friends with information about environmental and social issues or the food they were eating, eventually spurring the question: So what are you going to do about it? His answer: Run for mayor.
Watt is a former University of Wisconsin athlete and his younger brother, Derek, currently plays for the Badgers.
Sponsored by the UW-Madison Political Science Department and moderated by Cap Times Managing Editor Chris Murphy, the free, public forum will feature discussion among the panelists, with time for questions toward the end. Audience members ? both at the Pyle Center and outside ? can take part on Twitter using the #ctpollchat hashtag.
Major research universities such as UW-Madison have developed their research bases over the course of a century and research parks over a span of 30 years. Leaders at UWM figured they didn?t have that kind of time.
UW-Madison didn?t experience the sharp drop in the number of rapes last year that a look at the campus police department?s latest report suggests.
Schleicher worked at the UW-Madison Department of Wildlife Ecology for 30 years.
Lacy taught for a number of years in the English department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her husband Edgar had been a professor.
Among the panelists were Dr. John Lucey, director, UW-Madison Center for Dairy Research and a food scientist, Kate VandenBosch, dean, UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, and Mark Stephenson, director, UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability.
Last weekend?s drone over Camp Randall Stadium wasn?t the only one spotted in Madison that day or even the only one to hover above an area football stadium that weekend.
During the debate, when asked if humans have a role in global warming, (U.S. Rep. Paul) Ryan answered, ?I don?t know the answer to that question. I don?t think science does either.? He may well be correct in his first response, but he is certainly wrong in his second.
Reeve Lindbergh was in Madison to deliver a ?Lindbergh Lecture? ? more on that serendipitous connection momentarily ? at UW-Madison?s Mechanical Engineering Department and to see, for the first time, the city where her father lived and attended school from September 1920 to March 1922.
In Oaxaca, Mexico, the Day of the Dead is ?the biggest party all year,? according to Carolyn Kallenborn, an associate professor of design studies at UW-Madison. ?… Now thanks to Kallenborn, there will be a celebration in Madison, too, on Nov. 1 ? the traditional date of Day of the Dead celebrations across Latin America.
Frank Kaminsky made his way through a crowded ballroom at the Hyatt Regency O?Hare Thursday morning and finally arrived at a table in the corner.
Though he?s one of the youngest players on an exceedingly youthful roster of 26, Dougherty is going to be asked to do a lot of heavy lifting as his freshman year unfolds.
In 1975, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Howard Temin was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology for discoveries he made in cancer research.
