University of Wisconsin junior running back Melvin Gordon was named Monday to the watch list for the Maxwell Award, which is presented annually to the national player of the year in college football.
A June 25 editorial in the journal Nature should give Madisonians pause. The editors voiced serious concern over influenza research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Many homes in the Greenbush neighborhood south of UW-Madison have long been carved into student housing, and some have deteriorated and become harder to rent due to competition from new apartment buildings rising closer to campus.
A fisherman pulled an allegedly drunken young man in distress from Lake Mendota on Monday night, saving him from harm, UW-Madison police reported. He had set out to swim across the lake but fell far short of the goal, ending up clinging to a buoy and calling for help.
UW-Madison announced the launch of three new research projects last week relating to the state?s water supply and use.
A major shift is underway in UW-Madison?s approach to pushing innovations from its campus into the private sector. With its new Discovery to Product Program, or D2P, UW-Madison will incubate about 10 projects until they?re fully prepared to become a startup or be licensed to others. Helping them with funding and mentoring, D2P will be a ?finishing school [for the projects], hopefully trying to get them dressed up and ready to go out the door,? said D2P Director John Biondi. D2P marks a much different approach to technology transfer from the university, actively seeking innovations across campus and commercializing them, said UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the state Department of Natural Resources have started updating the state?s land cover map.
Betty then worked as the assistant to the chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from September, 1969, to July, 1987, where she was the first non-faculty member to be tenured.
Susan then joined the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor. She was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and to professor in 1996. She served as associate chair of the CS Department from 2004 to 2007. She retired and became Professor Emerita in April, 2014.
By March, our landscape is brown. Our moods are gray. Things start to change when signs of spring emerge. In Madison, chief among them is the metal sunburst chairs reassuming their position on the Union Terrace at UW-Madison in late April.
For-profit colleges seek to fill their coffers with the benefits our veterans have earned from their service and sacrifice.
During her nursing and teaching career, she taught at many schools including UW-Madison,
he served as vice president and president of the Beth Israel Sisterhood. After her tenure, she went to work at the UW School of Agriculture and later became the administrative assistant to the Nursing School dean. She retired in 1974.
I have more than 25 years of research experience with swine, avian and human influenza, and I appreciate and support the pioneering research of Yoshihiro Kawaoka and his colleagues.
When Burke unveiled her jobs plan in March she made a point of saying that she would veto any legislation banning stem cell research ? which is vitally important at UW-Madison.
As a UW Health hospitalist, or doctor who specializes in treating patients in the hospital, Ann Sheehy sees a growing problem: patients whose hospitalizations are considered observation stays.
Shortly after his marriage to Sylvia Smith Vaccaro in 1961, they moved to Madison, where he taught in the UW-Madison French Department while pursuing a master?s degree.
The Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District is working on becoming more energy independent by transforming table scraps from UW?Madison into an energy resource.
The Higher Education Video Game Alliance was launched Tuesday at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo. It is comprised of video game design programs at 13 universities that will act as a forum to align efforts and information in a “drastically growing sector,” says Constance Steinkuehler, the alliance?s first executive director.
At UW-Madison, we do not take lightly our responsibility for its safe and secure conduct. The Influenza Research Institute is a high-level biosafety facility designated Biosafety Level 3 Agriculture, the highest in the Level 3 category. It operates under conditions very different from most other Biosafety Level 3 labs and was constructed expressly for the influenza work performed there.
So, which of the sports programs at the University of Wisconsin will be the most challenged in the newly expanded Big Ten Conference?Several, most notably women?s basketball and men?s and women?s soccer, should be on high alert now that Maryland and Rutgers are in the mix.
The UW-Madison Center for Investigating Healthy Minds will start a three-year project this year with 700 fourth- and fifth-grade students in the Madison School District to see if centuries-old mindfulness techniques can improve grades, attitudes and behaviors.
Meriter-UnityPoint Health and UW Hospital and Clinics have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to strengthen their cooperative relationship around mother and baby health.
Among other libraries, Jean worked in the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md., the University of New Hampshire Library, in Durham, N.H., Northwestern University Library in Evanston, Ill., and her favorite by far, the School of Library Science Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from which she retired in 1983 as associate director. After retirement, Jean was asked to organize a library in the UW-Madison Arboretum where she worked as a volunteer for ten years. She also organized the first Annual Native Plant Sale for the Friends of the Arboretum.
The spectacular view was a matter of the sun setting at just the right time, said Jordan Gerth, post-doctoral research associate with the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.
UW-Madison will add six free online classes starting in January, a follow-up to its initial rollout of four massive open online courses, or MOOCs, last school year. The new offerings, free to anyone with an Internet connection, will be led by 10 UW-Madison faculty and staff members joined by one faculty partner from the University of Colorado.
While the record $1.2 trillion in student loan debt has attracted election-year calls for reform in Madison and Washington, D.C., Wisconsin is ending a program that has helped students like Toshia Spindler go to UW-La Crosse.
That?s why, in the midst of all of the changes coming to college football for the upcoming season and beyond, the thing that grabbed Tolzien?s attention was the unlimited meals and snacks for approximately 900 UW student-athletes, which will go into effect Aug. 1.
Handler got her start in the earliest days of the Studio Glass Movement ? a chapter in contemporary art that essentially began in Madison in the 1960s through the vision of the late glass pioneer and UW-Madison art professor Harvey Littleton. Handler was one of his first female students, and became close friends and collaborators with fellow students Dale Chihuly and Fritz Dreisbach, two international names in glass art today.
The online science magazine The Why Files from UW-Madison has been named one of the 25 best teaching and learning websites.
Reading Sunday?s article “Biosafety expert: Work ?scary,?” about UW-Madison?s Yoshihiro Kawaoka?s research with deadly flu viruses, reminds me of old-fashioned vampire movies.
?This is the first complete genome sequence for an electric fish, in particular a strong electric fish,? said Michael Sussman, a biochemistry professor at UW-Madison who?s also director of the UW Biotechnology Center. Along with graduate students Lindsay Traeger and Jeremy Volkening, Sussman helped lead the 16 researchers from throughout the country who were part of the study.
Some fans came to the Memorial Union Thursday morning sporting the Stars and Stripes on their bandanas, scarves, shorts and socks. Others donned shirts emblazoned with the American flag and Declaration of Independence, or a bald eagle and bolts of lightning.
Bernice worked for the UW-Madison Computer Science Department, retiring after 17 years.
The tornado that struck the University of Wisconsin-Platteville last week damaged at least four buildings and an athletic stadium, and the repairs could exceed $10 million, Chancellor Dennis J. Shields said Wednesday.
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The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) system will get a performance upgrade as UW-Madison becomes one of the few institutions in the world to have an Intel Parallel Computing Center.
Like many UW students, Jordan Ebert found himself in Dallas this March, cheering on the Wisconsin Badgers for their Final Four match-up with the Kentucky Wildcats, adding to a list of memorable moments in his young undergraduate career.
And UW-Madison?s Sara Goldrick-Rab is at the center of media skepticism about the coffee giant?s tuition reimbursement offer for classes taken online from Arizona State University.
Noted: Philosophos and Great Oaks managing partner Andrew Boszhardt are UW-Madison graduates.
University of Wisconsin ? Platteville officials said they will be able to repair the buildings damaged in last week?s storms, and a fund has been established to raise money for those repairs.
Sixty-five Wisconsin hospitals, including Meriter and UW Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, are on a preliminary list of 750 hospitals nationwide that could be penalized by Medicare in October for high rates of infections and patient injuries.
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She had worked for many years at the University of Wisconsin.
Participants Wednesday will include University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor William P. Jones, Alder Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, Centro Hispano executive director Karen Menendez Coller, and Gee.
Yes, a few things have changed around here in the 10 years since Barry Alvarez assumed the role of University of Wisconsin athletic director.
Four mini-cars will be tooling around UW-Madison for the next year, fueled by electricity and available for short-term checkout by anyone with a university ID, including faculty, staff and students. The university is one of four campuses nationally and the only one in the Midwest to host the cars.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board met Friday afternoon and approved the following recommendations of the UW Department of Athletics regarding contracts for spring sports head coaches.
UW-Madison?s Memorial Union theater has reopened after its first major renovations in decades.
Brian Hellmer, director of the UW-Madison School of Business? Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis, said novice investors should be cautious about these opportunities . ? You should not confuse investing for retirement with providing yourself with entertainment,? he said.
At its first summer meeting of the 21st session Saturday, ASM representatives unanimously approved legislation asserting the group among fellow University of Wisconsin shared governance bodies.
The public can get an inside look Saturday night at the restored Shannon Hall ? formerly known as Union Theater ? at UW-Madison?s Memorial Union.
Patty worked at Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation before obtaining her dream job working for the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy as a marketing specialist.
Ben Miller, a former assistant to retired Sen. Herb Kohl, will be University of Wisconsin-Madison?s lobbyist in Washington, D.C., UW-Madison News reports.
Julie Underwood, dean of the School of Education at UW-Madison, sums up neatly why she doesn?t give much credence to the National Council on Teacher Quality rankings of teacher training schools.
Joe served as the President of the University of Wisconsin Law School Alumni Association,
UW-Madison professors emeriti Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden must be having a wonderful time researching and writing their mystery series. It certainly is a lot of fun reading their books.
Information technology staff at UW-Madison on Thursday were still putting together what happened to cause a 20-hour digital blackout on campus that left most students, faculty and staff without email, internet access or voice mail.
The university said by news release that Steven Cramer, associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Engineering, is the new vice provost for teaching and learning, and Michael Bernard-Donals, professor of English and former chair of the University Committee, is the new vice provost for faculty and staff.
Well before they became Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor recipients, Reed Connor and Mary Massei had unusually eventful careers as student-athletes at the University of Wisconsin.
