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.
University of Wisconsin ? Madison has been hailed as one of the friendliest university for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students.
People are responsible for the pollutants, but how much gets in and how much trouble they cause are ?largely driven by weather,? explained Trina McMahon, a UW-Madison civil engineering professor who studies the lakes, for a story in the Murky Waters series.
he DNA lab at the University of Wisconsin may help bring the final member of a World War II unit home.
University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross says he wants to grow university-based research and design at UW System institutions.
?It leaves us with kind of a hollow feeling when we can?t help somebody, when we can?t get them the medical help, psychiatric help that they need,? University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling said.
UW Health is joining health care systems across the state to form a one-of-a-kind partnership.
UW-Madison Police said S. Jean Gibson died at a local hospital from her injuries.
More than 69,000 tickets have been sold for the University of Wisconsin football team?s season opener with LSU at the AdvoCare Texas Kickoff at NRG Stadium in Houston.
It?s spectacularly appropriate that Brian Rafalski and Jeff Sauer are going into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame together.
The legendary University of Wisconsin men?s track and field coach, who retired a year ago, was selected as part of the 2014 Hall of Fame class, the USTFCCCA announced on Wednesday.
Shortfalls in state funding meant that more than 41,000 Wisconsin students did not receive need-based financial aid for which they were eligible, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau reports.
UW-Madison students will have access to the ?Shell? while other recreational sports facilities on campus are renovated, says Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for finance and administration.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is expecting its second-largest class of state-resident freshmen in nine years this fall.
A woman shot herself on Madison?s west side Tuesday afternoon six hours after police put out an alert for residents to avoid the area.
UW-Madison is among the nation?s most LGBT-friendly college campuses, says The Princeton Review. The campus ranked 7th in a list of the 20 most LGBT-friendly campuses, LGBTQ Nation reports.
The three candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin?s attorney general debated at the University of Wisconsin Law School on Tuesday.
A woman who led police on a day-long search through fields and woods on Madison?s West Side after causing a disturbance at a nearby clinic shot herself Tuesday afternoon as authorities closed in, UW-Madison police said.
Total applications for incoming freshmen increased by about 400 for Wisconsin residents from the previous year, the university announced Tuesday. In-state freshman enrollment is expected to hit about 3,700, down slightly from last year but still the second-highest it?s been since 2005. Total freshman enrollment won?t be released by the school until after classes begin.
American Family Insurance has gifted $675,000 to the UW-Madison School of Business to create a distinguished chair in risk management.
For the past three years, we have been members of a new student Trout Unlimited organization on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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The University of Wisconsin football program will no longer let freshman players serve as student hosts for recruits after an incident in December 2013 led to sexual assault charges.
Outdoor learning takes to Lake Mendota for two more sessions this summer in UW-Madison?s ?paddle with a professor? lecture series. The guided trips offer people a chance to learn more about the history and topography of the lake while taking in its dreamy sunset views.
A UW-Madison conservation biologist and fellow is among a group of researchers to publish a report on how little is known of the booming fracking industry?s impact on the wildlife and the environment.
While algal blooms are common in Madison lakes, UW-Madison?s Center for Limnology director Steve Carpenter said in a question-and-answer interview it is ?exceedingly unlikely? the blooms would lead to contaminated tap water around Madison.
Jefferson County District Attorney Susan Happ, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne and state Rep. Jon Richards of Milwaukee are scheduled to meet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s law school on Tuesday (at noon).
Wisconsin came in No. 8 in the annual Top 20 listing of the best party schools by the Princeton Review, one of four Big Ten Conference schools to make the list.
Back home in America, a UW-Madison PhD candidate is watching the situation very closely.
A man who was convicted of two home invasion robberies in the Downtown and UW-Madison areas last year, and implicated in others, was sentenced Monday to six years in prison.
Researchers at UW-Madison are poised to begin a study that involves depriving newborn rhesus monkeys of their mothers and then comparing their brains with the brains of rhesus monkeys who were not deprived of their mothers. The idea is to see how early deprivation ? in this case, the lack of motherly love ? affects brain growth and may contribute to the development of anxiety and depression.
?Bringing people back to this country makes sense because of the resources that are available to treat that aren?t there.? said Dr. Nasia Safdar, Medical Director of Infection Control at the UW-Madison hospital.
Fears over the deadly Ebola virus are growing, and those fears hit home for a group of UW-Madison students.
A UW-Madison staff worker was bilked out of more than $4,000 by scammers who threatened him with arrest if he didn?t pay unpaid taxes, police reported.
No one knows yet how Walker?s administration will react to the court?s order, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and expert in voter ID laws who testified at the federal trial.
He was employed by the University of Wisconsin Physical Sciences Laboratory.
He was a clinical faculty member of the UW and an active member of the Wisconsin Medical Society and the Interstate Family Medicine organization.
Graffiti is a foreign concept to the surroundings of the serene, secluded setting of Picnic Point on the UW-Madison campus, but police investigators are trying to find who is responsible for tagging the surface of a fire circle at the location.
BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation is creating a fund within its investment portfolio that will let donors specify that their money will go to companies directly tied to the UW-Madison.
The UW School of Music, which in recent years has annually presented hundreds of concerts by top-notch musicians for free, will begin charging for its most high-profile performances in 2014-15.
Bruised but not broken by losses at the ballot box and in the courtroom, labor unions will find new ways to organize and ratchet up their influence to the point where legislatures and courts will be forced to recognize that workers? rights need to be respected, predicts Barry Eidlin, a post-doctoral fellow in sociology at UW-Madison.
She taught at levels from elementary (St. Joseph School, Racine, Wis.) to college (Business Institute at UW-Madison).
He spent most of his career working in information technology for the State of Wisconsin and UW-Madison, retiring from state service in 2012.
Barley research is being conducted by UW-Madison in collaboration with UW Extension and the University of Minnesota at the Peninsular Agriculture Research Station just north of Sturgeon Bay. Work there has been ongoing for 10 years, but this year?s crop of more than 30 varieties on three acres was wiped out, along with other crops, during a July 14 hail storm.
Kyle Stiegert, an agricultural economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the law, which allowed small farmers to collude to combat large agricultural businesses in the early 1900s, was ?a good law at a good time period.?
The vandalism was reported on Wednesday, and most likely happened between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon, UW-Madison police said in a news release.
The Badgers, who finished the 2013 season at No. 21 in the coaches poll, will open the 2014 season at No. 14 in the preseason rankings released Thursday by USA Today.
Seely left the State Journal in 2013 after 34 years to teach journalism at UW-Madison and to work part-time at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, will wade further into the escalating student loan debt crisis by introducing his second bill to lessen the financial burden on borrowers Tuesday.
A state appeals court has rejected a lawsuit filed against the University of Wisconsin-Stout heads groundskeeper by a student who fractured her ankle after slipping on ice.
