Gordon had a career-best 253 yards rushing on 13 carries ? the most productive outing by a Football Bowl Subdivision back this season ? and set a single-game program mark with a staggering average of 19.5 yards per attempt.
A recipient of multiple teaching award nominations, University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor Hart Posen did not think he had much to learn about the craft.François Ortalo-Magné, however, thought differently. Ortalo-Magné, dean of UW?s School of Business, asked Posen ? “forced” is the way Posen puts it ? to participate in training workshops aimed at helping the school achieve the right outcomes.
Starting at about 3 a.m. at Times Square on a June morning, the UW-Madison graduate students took their sweet science backgrounds in a new direction, starting an international odyssey as teammates on ?The Amazing Race.?
Anxiety and depression are serious. I?m well aware of the despair it can cause. I don?t believe harming monkeys will lead to a treatment so novel it will have a major impact on humanity.
The upper level has been closed for a number of years because of code problems regarding the height of railings and the need for kickboards to fill the gaps between the seats and floorboards, according to Jason King, UW-Madison associate athletic director for capital projects and operations.
These days, Ben Miller talks higher education issues and multi-million-dollar research with Washington policy-makers as a lobbyist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But as a kid growing up in upstate New York near Cooperstown, Miller dreamed of a career as second baseman for the Mets and was the first in his family to attend college, he recalls. But when, in his junior year at tiny Union College in Schenectady, he landed an internship with U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, it set a course for his professional life.
UW-Madison Police made 36 arrests, issued 36 citations and ejected 61 people during the Badgers? 68-17 romp over Bowling Green on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
Fritsche worked in the Physics Department at Sterling Hall for 30-plus years.
Food science Ph.D. students Amy DeJong and Maya Warren will compete against 10 other teams in various physical and mental challenges as vie to be the first to arrive at the final destination and win $1 million.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke highly of the university?s long-running research partnership with GE Healthcare during her first visit with the company?s top Milwaukee-area executives.
Created through a broad partnership between the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, the Center for Patient Partnerships, Health Innovation Program, Access Community Health Centers, Group Health Cooperative and UW Health, patients now are being asked to join the conversation.
Wisconsin officials have until Tuesday to respond to a request that a federal appeals court reconsider its decision to reinstate a requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls.
UW-Madison students should be able to pick up the new cards beginning early next week, spokesman John Lucas said. The university recently launched a website to help students understand the new state voting regulations.
Police are investigating a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee fraternity where they say members may have slipped date-rape drugs into partygoers? drinks.
The Big Ten Conference released a full schedule of ESPN/CBS games for the 2014-15 season on Thursday, and the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will be featured prominently.
The 2014 QS World University Rankings survey named the University of Wisconsin-Madison first in the world for media and communications studies, according to a university release.
Among the 6,279 freshmen the University of Wisconsin-Madison ushered in this fall, the campus also welcomed a newcomer of a different variety in academic leader Sarah Mangelsdorf. The newly appointed provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs arrived in Madison months before the start of the 2014-?15 school year, after serving as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University since 2008.
UW-Madison ranked first in media and communications among 100 universities worldwide in the QS World University Rankings, which assess international reputation and draw, the Guardian reports from London.
Students at University of Wisconsin System campuses will be able to request free voter ID cards from their schools to meet new photo ID requirements at the polls, System spokesman John Diamond said Wednesday. At UW-Madison, the cards will be available for pickup starting early next week at Union South, spokesman John Lucas said.
The typical general public season ticket-holder for University of Wisconsin football games is male, age 55 to 64, married and an empty-nester. He has a college degree, an annual household income between $100,000 and $149,999 and travels less than 25 miles to Camp Randall Stadium for games.
Aaron Olver, the new director of University Research Park, nearly had his promising career cut short, but for a little luck and his new wife?s unwavering support.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students without an acceptable form of identification to vote this fall may soon have a new option.
Researchers at UW-Madison are preparing to use maternal deprivation to create a primate model of adversity-induced anxious and depressive disorders in human children. Led by Ned Kalin, they hope to discover new therapies by dissecting and analyzing the brains of baby monkeys who have been intentionally traumatized.
?We want to enrich the public discourse around what science is and why it matters,? says Laura Heisler, director of programming for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. WARF produces the festival, now in its fourth year, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research.
DIY Science is just one of an array of programs at UW-Madison designed to inform the public about scientific research on campus. Roughly 375 academic staff members work in science outreach, which helps fulfill the Wisconsin Idea, UW-Madison?s guiding principle to share the university?s resources to improve the lives of state citizens.
Samples from one UW patient with suspected enterovirus D68 were sent to the CDC late last week, said Dr. Nasia Safdar, an infectious diseases specialist at UW Hospital.
Starting next fall, researchers at UW-Madison will have access to a bigger and deeper pool of data about people?s jobs, salaries, educational levels and other factors.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team remained No. 4 in this week?s American Volleyball Coaches Association poll.
Back in 1990, UW-Madison freshman Jen Rudin chose 53706 over 90210. Sort of.
UW-Madison professor Pamela Oliver, who has researched the impact of the criminal justice system on communities of color, said the harsher enforcement of drug laws in certain neighborhoods has been a by-product of the broader war on drugs.
In 1949, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Meat and Animal Science at UW-Madison.
After teaching at Princeton for two years, he relocated to Wisconsin and taught Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1970 until his retirement.
Plans include continuing the freeze on University of Wisconsin System tuition and expanding the Flexible Option.
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism checks at the UW System?s 13 four-year campuses turned up two additional sites ? UW-Stout and UW-Eau Claire ? at which officials also acknowledge using students arrested for drug activities to make controlled buys.
When Rebecca Blank moved into her corner Bascom Hall office last summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor also stepped into a state political environment rife with ill feelings and mistrust that, in recent years, had washed over onto campus affairs.
The importance of a second research hub for Wisconsin was part of a message delivered last week in Milwaukee by UW-Madison Chancellor Becky Blank, who spoke to a meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.
Ruth was a homemaker and had worked as a library aide at schools in the Appleton area and as a librarian at the Helen C. White Library at UW-Madison.
Farmers need to get around $5 a bushel for their corn to meet rent payments at 2014 prices, said Bruce Jones, a UW-Madison agriculture economics professor.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson is delivering the annual Paul Offner Lecture on Sept. 30, UW-Madison announced Thursday.
What?s so funny about the University of Wisconsin-Madison? UW grads went on to create two of the most influential comedy franchises of the last 30 years ? The Onion and ?Mystery Science Theater 3000.?
A California biotech consulting firm that pledged to create at least 103 local jobs by 2017 will get a $1 million low-interest loan from the state to help it buy an under-used pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in University Research Park where it plans to make cancer-fighting and other types of drugs for other companies.
Graphic of UW System campuses drug arrest rates.
He graduated from Madison East and later attended University of Wisconsin where he won a National Championship in 1977. Bob was a member of the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Hockey Team that won the gold medal. He returned to Madison where he opened Suter?s Gold Medal Sports and started his coaching career.
The researchers were led by Adrian Treves, a UW-Madison environmental studies associate professor who studies the interactions between humans and carnivores.
UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said he expects Burke will need strong national union support in order to defeat Walker, who has already appealed to voters and donors by saying that ?big union bosses? are backing Burke.
UW-Madison has finished building a backup website and changed some emergency communication practices in response to a power outage in June that darkened the university?s website and disabled nearly all electronic communication for a day.
UW-Madison was not among three public institutions that made the cut in a new ranking of colleges and universities for the economic diversity of their students.
He taught at UW-Madison?s School of Business for 40 years and was professor emeritus at the time of his passing.
Kinley McNicoll has been a driving force behind the ninth-ranked University of Wisconsin women?s soccer team?s strong start, and the accolades have begun coming her way.
The program is open to University of Wisconsin faculty, staff, students and Madison area entrepreneurs.
Bob Suter, a celebrated member of one of the best-known families in American hockey history, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 57.
Anne had a 32-year career at UW-Hospital and Clinics, eventually becoming the director of the respiratory therapy department at UW-Hospital.
Senior right-side hitter Courtney Thomas was named conference Player of the Week; junior libero Taylor Morey earned her second Defensive Player of the Week honor in as many weeks and sophomore Lauren Carlini was named Setter of the Week.
The state faces a nearly $1.8 billion structural deficit heading into the next biennial budget cycle, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Monday.
Last season, our Chris Murphy did a tour of the neighborhoods on game day and found prices generally between $10 and $40. Things haven?t changed greatly since then.
UW-Madison is the 13th best public university in America, according to rankings released Tuesday. The annual America?s Best Colleges rankings from U.S. News and World Report also pegged UW-Madison as the 47th best college overall.
University of Miami President Donna Shalala plans to step down in 2015 … She took over at Miami in 2001 after serving eight years as Health and Human Services Secretary under President Bill Clinton … She also has been the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the president of Hunter College.
The rosary beads next to the foosball table in Sam Gagliardi?s apartment suggest he has both fun and faith on his mind this school year. The UW-Madison junior is one of the inaugural tenants of Lumen House, the unusual campus housing project undertaken by three Downtown Madison Catholic congregations.
In 1967, he joined the University of Wisconsin?s Physical Sciences Lab scientific staff as a mechanical engineer.
Their views on education reveal deeper philosophical divides about the role of government, said Michael Apple, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies educational policies. Walker strongly advocates for increasing funding for private education, such as schools in the voucher program, which is consistent with his belief in the need to limit the size and roll of government, Apple said. That approach worries public schools, Apple said … Burke?s proposed policies would be more favorable for public schools and the University of Wisconsin System, but she needs to do more to get the message out to voters, Apple said.
