It took 105 days, 50 teleconferences, a team of UW administrators and one consultant to complete a fiscal year 2014 (FY14) financial report for the UW System, approved last week by the UW Board of Regents.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Deborah Blum is the editor of this year?s prestigious “The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014.”
The event, hosted by the University of Wisconsin, will have six of the top 10 men?s teams and six of the top 10 women?s teams as determined by the latest U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association rankings.
UW-Madison doctoral candidate Brad Jones created a model to estimate the levels of support for the candidates based on polling done in Wisconsin.
The interviewer who challenged Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella when he muffed a question about women?s raises will be speaking at UW-Madison on Friday.
University of Wisconsin senior center Frank Kaminsky was named the Big Ten Conference?s preseason player of the year, the league announced Thursday morning.
Small birds that once fled the snow and cold of winter are more likely to stick around thanks to warmer temperatures in northern climates, two UW-Madison researchers have found.
Letter from Dr. Ruth A. Decker, an alumna of UW?s Medical School.
On May 2, the University of Wisconsin men?s and women?s rowing teams will host a regatta at Devil?s Lake against crews from across the country.
His mother, Ann O?Brien, is a senior accounting lecturer at UW-Madison.
Deitz is a student at UW-Madison, where he plays with Richard Davis? Black Music Ensemble.
Bauer, a native of Durand, about 30 miles southwest of Eau Claire, was in Madison on Tuesday to speak to the UW-Madison E-Business Consortium?s annual conference and to receive the Distinguished Fellow Award from the E-Business Institute.
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team is the unanimous pick to win the Big Ten Conference in a poll of writers who cover the league.
The College of Agricultural & Life Sciences at UW-Madison has received funding to hire a specialist who will help operators of wineries and cider companies with microbial, cleaning and sanitation issues.
Two UW-Madison initiatives will receive a total of $7.2 million from Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Affiliates to help disadvantaged students complete degrees and pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
Betty spent 19 years working at the UW Resident?s Hall until the time of her retirement.
Comment from John Witte, a professor emeritus at UW-Madison who served as the state-appointed evaluator of the Milwaukee voucher program in the 1990s.
Capital Times has pulled together a group of expert panelists , including Brad Jones, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Political Science Department who has created a polling aggregation model for the paper to reflect the totality of polling in the gubernatorial race … and Michael Wagner, a professor in the university?s school of journalism who studies political communication.
UW-Madison police are working with federal aviation officials to identify the pilot of the unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, seen at Saturday?s football game against Illinois.
Babcock Hall ice cream, the brandy old fashioned and our love of the supper club may be tough to find in a science book, but not at the Wisconsin Science Festival.
It is the first time since March 5, 2012, UW is ranked No. 1. It?s the first time since then Minnesota is not ranked No. 1 in the in-season poll.
UW-Madison students, staff and alumni from across the country wrote last week to excoriate campus police about an article in an online newsletter headlined ?Shedding the Victim Persona: Staying Safe on Campus? that they said blamed victims of sexual assault instead of the perpetrators.
Holt served as public relations coordinator at UW-Madison?s School of Education, handling its communications and events, launched the school?s first online newsletter, wrote monthly education updates for Wisconsin legislators, and worked with the UW Foundation to develop fundraising publications.
The protest will start at 5:45 p.m. at 750 University Ave. Protesters will march from Chazen Art Museum to the Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall. The university?s public forum on the research will start at 7 p.m. at the Biotechnology Center in Room 1111.
Center on Wisconsin Strategy was a partner in the report.
More students from affluent families are going into debt to pay for college, reflecting a significant shift in the profile of student loan borrowers, the Pew Research Center reports.
In the coming months, a committee will form to oversee and manage project development. It will consist of representatives from Madison, Dane County, the state, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Madison Area Transportation Planning Board and other local entities.
UW-Madison police have revised a crime prevention tip sheet sent out earlier this week after readers were alarmed by language they said blamed victims for crimes such as sexual assault.
The lucky one, as it turns out, is that the injury is the reason she?s still around to enjoy one more season with the No. 6 Badgers as they try to build on last year?s success. And while her role on the court has been significantly reduced, she?s able to practice every day and has seen action in five matches.
She was a receptionist for UW Campus student housing.
Includes comments from Wisconsin Energy Institute research Gary Radloff.
Wisconsin high school students are outpacing national averages when taking the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) college entrance exams, according to data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. The data show Wisconsin students? mean scores on the SAT exams were the highest they?ve been in more than five years.
The union lost about 250 chairs to theft last year, which amounts to about $60,000 worth of the brightly colored metal chairs that students, alumni, tourists and others can?t seem to keep their hands off.
UW-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka has been awarded the 2014 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award for his work in understanding and preventing pandemic influenza.
UW-Madison gets prominent mention as a school that says no to plastic.
UW-Madison should have a short list of diversity initiatives to complete over a year or two in place by early 2015, Chancellor Rebecca Blank told the Badger Herald last week.
Also noted: A $3 million donation will be shared by top UW-Madison law school faculty members for research projects on a competitive basis, the university announced last week.
Two years after a public outcry over high cash balances kept by the University of Wisconsin System and its campuses, a report released Monday indicates they are carrying about the same amount of money ? just being much clearer about its purpose.
Campuses across the University of Wisconsin System collectively held $175 million in reserve funds as of June that aren?t tied to specific programs or projects, a drop of $40 million from a year ago as schools tapped into those funds to cover expenses as called for by the state Legislature.
Clark designed the University of Wisconsin Research Park on Whitney Way and the Old Sauk Trails Park.
Susie was a sophomore at the UW and a student leader of Chi Alpha and anticipated enrolling at University of Washington at Seattle in the fall.
The trend is worrisome for leaders in some of Wisconsin?s leading research institutions, which starts with UW-Madison. In 2012, according to the NSF, UW-Madison ranked third among all U.S. universities in total academic R&D spending at $1.17 billion. Half of that investment ($581 million) came from federal sources … ?Federal research dollars are an investment in our nation?s economic future,? UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote recently. ?Cutting these dollars in the short-run may seem easy, but the long-term effects are large and negative. ? If federal support for basic research declines, our opportunities for economic growth through innovation will decline.?
Schilling specialized in hematology at the UW School of Medicine, and in 1953 developed a test for pernicious anemia, a treatable but often undetected condition. To this day, the “Schilling Test” is utilized occasionally … In 2014, Schilling received the Folkert Belzer Award, a “lifetime achievement” recognition for contributions to the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and to the nation.
UW-Madison police are investigating a sexual assault that took place in a university residence hall early Saturday morning.
He served as president of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, chairman of both the University of Wisconsin Foundation and its Hospital and Clinic system, and chairman of the University?s School of Business Board of Visitors.
Four finalists have been chosen for the open job of chancellor of the University of Wisconsin?s two-year colleges and UW-Extension, a job that for the last two occupants led to running the University of Wisconsin System.
If the deep cuts to the UW System in the state?s last budget are maintained, education programs at UW-Madison will be cut 4 percent across the board, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in a meeting with student media Thursday.
UW-Madison police are investigating a sexual assault that reportedly happened early Saturday morning.
UW-Madison?s Wisconsin School of Business and Baird, a Milwaukee-based wealth management firm, are teaming up to prepare undergraduate business majors for careers in wealth and financial planning.
The UW-Madison Applied Population Laboratory released data on Wednesday showing that the Latino population increased by 74 percent from 2000 to 2010, with 336,000 Latinos living in the state 10 years into the 21st century, compared to 193,000 living in Wisconsin in 2000.
UW-Madison poli sci doctoral student Brad Jones developed a model of polling for the gubernatorial election for The Capital Times to show the level of support for the candidates as the election cycle goes on.
About 800 fewer students are on campuses that make up the sprawling University of Wisconsin System this fall, a drop of about half a percentage point from last year, the System announced Wednesday. Among freshmen, the drop is more dramatic, at 2.2 percent.
Technical colleges throughout the state will share $20 million in new federal funding, money that will help train nearly 2,500 health-care workers in three years. The new grant was announced Monday by U.S. vice president Joe Biden?s office.
Burt, who went to UW-Madison for the rowing and gravitated instead to radical politics, has been sought by the FBI for 44 years, since J. Edgar Hoover was the bureau?s director.Leo Burt could be here or abroad. He could be alive or dead. He could be lucky or smart. All authorities know for sure is that he has eluded their grasp.
For its next chancellor, UW-Oshkosh has picked a Georgia administrator known as an effective fundraiser and, prior to that, an award-winning chemistry professor.Andrew Leavitt, 50, will take over the top job at Oshkosh, the third-largest university in the University of Wisconsin System, in November.
Universities have been expecting the rules since last year, and depending on how much research they do, evaluating what meets the criteria “can be a lot more work,” said Rebecca Moritz, manager of select-agent research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A bigger question, she said, is whether the policy expands beyond the current 15 targeted agents.
Ron is professor emeritus in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, following a professional life with Miles, Inc. in St. Louis, Mo., and Elkhart, Ind.; and, Rhone Poulenc, Inc., and the Food Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison.
There is an annual belief in the UW women?s hockey program that its trophy case looks a little light. Its followers have that sense as well.
The UW-Madison is proving to be a good supplier of the raw talent. Zendesk supports a program through the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) where students work at the UW?s help desk using Zendesk?s customer service platform. That makes for an easy transition to the private sector.
The Class of 2018 at UW-Madison could be huge, if incoming freshmen stay in school and graduate.
