University of Wisconsin?s Chancellor Rebecca Blank got a taste of a second ?polar vortex? after accepting her nomination for the Ice Bucket Challenge Tuesday.
Wisconsin retains its number two spot among states on the ACT college entrance exam.
Rob Havenstein has long viewed leadership as a cut-and-paste process.
On Wednesday, the city Urban Design Commission will consider details on the proposed 60,000-square foot UW Health Clinic at 6th Street and East Washington Avenue. The clinic, which includes 245 parking spaces, 100 below grade, would be the first building constructed on the vacant 11.3 acre site.
The risk of a high school football player getting a concussion is no different when wearing an older helmet than a new one, and the brand of helmet doesn?t matter. That?s the conclusion drawn from a study by researchers at UW-Madison involving more than 2,000 high school football players at 34 high schools in Wisconsin during the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
Starting with the upcoming football season, the UW Athletic Department will no longer print full-color, magazine-style programs and sell them at Camp Randall Stadium. The same goes for the programs made available at the UW Field House for volleyball and the Kohl Center for men?s and women?s basketball and men?s hockey.
Plans by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers to resume maternal deprivation experiments on monkeys has prompted renewed opposition on the Dane County Board.
While Verveer said he?s been hearing fewer complaints from constituents about out-of-control parties than in years past, he said that?s been more a result of how police and campus officials have handled the problem.
After a mostly closed scrimmage Monday, the 14th-ranked University of Wisconsin football team has retreated behind closed doors for the rest of its fall camp.
Former investigative reporter Trish O?Kane wrote in The New York Times recently how focusing on the daily activities of sparrows helped her regain her footing after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans in 2005. … Today O?Kane is a doctoral candidate in environmental studies at the Gaylord Nelson Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches basic ornithology.
UW-Madison is accepting applications for a new online masters degree in environmental engineering, set to go live next fall. Plus … The UW System Board of Regents will meet Thursday and Friday in Oshkosh. At the top of the agenda will be the System?s initial budget request for the next two-year cycle, from 2015 to 2017. It?s due to the Department of Administration by Sept. 15.
A prominent UW-Madison scientist is studying the Ebola virus on campus.Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who is better known for flu research, is conducting two types of Ebola studies, said Rebecca Moritz, a campus biosafety manager.
The company was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert.
Her father, Tefera, did a medical residency at Howard University in Washington, and the family came to Madison when he accepted a position at UW Hospital and Clinics, where he?s a vascular surgeon.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point plans to go tobacco-free this month.
She loved her work at UW Hospital as a coordinator for a research project for Parkinson?s disease in the late 1970?s.
Dr. Nagle taught physiology at UW-Madison for many years.
Dr. Randall Brown, an associate professor at UW-Madison and director of the Center for Addictive Disorders, said he does not know if drug courts are necessarily ?avoiding? cocaine abusers. But, he said, ?it just seems like cocaine has faded into the background, and heroin and opiates have come to the fore.?
Ron Sliwinski, chief operating officer of UW Hospital, was named interim president and CEO Friday, following the announcement Wednesday that Donna Katen-Bahensky is retiring as president and CEO Sept. 1 amid restructuring of UW Health.
Ellenberg, who will speak Tuesday at Milwaukee?s Boswell Book Company, has been encouraging people to apply “the power of mathematical thinking” (to borrow his book?s subtitle) for years through his column for Slate, Do the Math, and other newspaper and magazine articles.
The 2011 Mifflin Street Block Party was a turning point in the event?s history, and figures released by the Madison Police Department this week show it.
The $53 million building, to be dedicated Saturday and open for classes next month, won?t only teach students differently. It will teach more of them, in an effort to help offset a projected shortage of nearly 23,500 nurses in Wisconsin by 2035.
Jordan Ellenberg is a former math child prodigy who has a PhD in mathematics from Harvard and is a current mathematics professor at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team was picked to finish third in the Big Ten Conference race, in a preseason poll of league coaches.
It?s time again for the annual mid-August moving days downtown, where thousands of students (and many others) move out of their current residences and into new places for the 2014-15 school year.
UW Health plans to combine its hospital and doctor group into one organization to more easily form partnerships with other health care systems, the leader of the doctor group said Thursday.
United Way board member Darrell Bazzell says the group?s delegation has seen the figures on minority unemployment and poverty. It has also followed the efforts to start a local conversation around race and decided to shift gears for 2014.
The partnership between UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, announced last November, is aimed at taking some of the most promising campus inventions and helping to speed their entry into the marketplace, boosting the economy and creating jobs.
The cost to police for the Mifflin Street Block Party fell for the second straight year in 2014, authorities said, with a total price tag of just over $94,000.
He worked for several private companies before he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979 as a steamfitter. He specialized in welding and then became a service steamfitter, working on campus which he enjoyed.
Though local UW schools received fewer applications than last year, representatives of UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stout and UW-River Falls said those schools are on track to meet this year?s admissions goals.
As thousands of leases on Madison homes and apartments turn over this week, organizers of a drive to reduce waste in the big move hope the bins at the Embassy ? and others at a dozen more high-rises ? will soon be full of those gently used and perfectly good items that are often thrown away
A UW-Madison student out for a run last week found an envelope filled with hundreds of dollars, and then did what the envelope loser probably thought wouldn?t happen: the finder turned it in to police.
Rieder was a president of the University of Wisconsin Orchestra.
Publicly traded Exact Sciences has 300 employees, about 200 of them in Madison, with headquarters in University Research Park, at 441 Charmany Drive, and a new lab in the Novation Campus, off Rimrock Road.
Few streets Downtown, near the UW-Madison campus or on the isthmus are easy to negotiate during moving week, but East Johnson is especially difficult this year, thanks to the road construction.
Construction of two new dormitories at UW campuses in Eau Claire and Whitewater was scheduled to be done this year but hasn?t started, and a state representative is asking questions.
The legislation introduced Tuesday has support from the Medical College of Wisconsin and the medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
School suspensions don?t just take children out of the classroom where learning takes place, they label kids as not fit to function in regular society, says Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair of Urban Education at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will open the 2014-15 season with four home games in a span of nine days before beginning what should be the most challenging stretch of its non-conference schedule.
Longtime Madison resident Robert ?Red? Wilson, a former University of Wisconsin football and baseball star who went on to success in the major leagues, passed away on Friday morning at Agrace Hospice in Madison. He was 85.
Greg Lampe, provost and vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at the University of Wisconsin Colleges, today named Joe J. Foy as associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at UW Colleges.
UW’s Cramer, Burden, Canon and Wagner quoted.
While at Wisconsin, he played baseball and football and was the Big Ten MVP in 1949 in football.
The DNA Sequencing Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Biotechnology Center analyzed the DNA, along with a private lab on the East Coast, and concluded it belonged to Gordon.
The commercial will be directed by David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams.
The Wisconsin Hospital Association’s Nov. 2011 report, ?100 New Physicians a Year: An Imperative for Wisconsin,” called on the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin to graduate 100 more physicians each year, especially in primary care and in rural areas of Wisconsin.
The state Department of Tourism is going to be filming a commercial with University of Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan.
DNA research, done at the UW-Madison identified the remains of Private First Class Lawrence Gordon back in February.
In Madison earlier this summer, the UW-Madison College of Engineering announced creation of a $25 million Grainger Institute for Engineering to attract clusters of top engineering faculty to define new research directions.
UW-Madison police say Robert E. Mueller, 48, was pulled over at the intersection of S. Park Street and W. Washington Avenue because his tail light wasn?t working.
Teresa Adams, a UW-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering, recently finished a three-year stint on a U.S. Department of Transportation committee that advises the secretary of transportation on ?intelligent transportation systems,? a broad field of inquiry that includes driverless cars.
To understand earthquakes, scientists have hatched an audacious plan ? go straight to the source.
University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Steven Durlauf says the data are no surprise and confirm what unemployment and other figures have already shown — Wisconsin is recovering slower than its neighbors.
The medical examiner said Wednesday morning that the woman who shot herself in a wooded area on Madison?s west side Tuesday has died.
Lower government spending reduces demand for goods and services and can add to unemployment, said Steven Durlauf, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist.
There is an increasing amount of scrutiny on the use of animals in research and testing, and for good reason. In addition to causing harm to millions of animals every year, animal research is slow, expensive and often does not accurately predict what will happen in humans. We can, and must, do better.
UW-Madison is not the only university opting for shorter MOOCs after disappointing course completion rates, Inside Higher Ed reports.
The Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12 will have the ability to implement some rules on their own, including a stipend for athletes that goes beyond currently allowed limits of tuition, room and board, books and fees.
The gap between the haves and have-nots in college football just widened considerably Thursday.
