UW-Madison Police on Saturday morning shut down Highland Avenue for about 30 minutes while a report of a beeping device in a trash can was investigated.
The NCAA track and field championships concluded Saturday with a pair of University of Wisconsin athletes earning second-team All-America honors.
Looking for ways to help women maintain a healthy weight before, during and after pregnancy led Anderson, the medical director of UW Health?s new Arboretum Obstetrics & Gynecology clinic on South Park Street, down a path that has brought the centering pregnancy approach to Dane County.
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna Becky Splitt joined StudyBlue as its CEO in 2009, when the online study service incorporated. Founded in 2007 by UW-Madison graduates Chris Klundt and Dave Sergeant, the service now has 5.5 million users.
UW-Madison and Oscar Mayer/Kraft Foods are hosting the international conference, which brings together the commercial, academic and governmental segments of the industry. This year?s event celebrates the 50th anniversary of AMSA, which was founded at UW-Madison.
In Sunday?s Business section, Tom Still?s column, ?Higher education still pays for itself,? cites studies that conclude ?going to college … still makes economic sense for many.” Still recommends college leaders remain publicly accountable and transparent. These leaders have been anything but accountable and transparent on one issue that causes many students to gain a degree yet fail to gain a good education. That issue involves the ability to write, speak and think.
The United States has a student debt problem. It?s a $1.2 trillion ? and growing ? problem, and its impact ripples far beyond the individuals paying back their loans. The burden of that debt on individual graduates and the U.S. economy has been the focus of legislation from both state and national Democrats, including a bill spearheaded by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.
The extended tuition freeze would mark another significant departure from recent practice at the System. Prior to the tuition freeze mandated by the Republican-controlled state Legislature starting with the 2013-2014 school year, the System had hiked tuition at four-year campuses 5.5 percent annually in each of the previous six years, the maximum annual increase allowed by law. System spokesman John Diamond said Wednesday that tuition now is viewed as ?a revenue source of last resort.?
For the second time in 12 months, the storied cross country and track programs at the University of Wisconsin have been jolted by a coaching change.Turns out the two moments are related.
The UW-Madison campus has a new landmark for graduation photos: Jim Dine?s sculpture ?Ancient Fishing,? a 1,500-pound, 6-foot-high work of bronze now outside the entrance to the Chazen Museum of Art.
The university was recently ranked as the second-most influential U.S. university on Twitter, according to a report by Times Higher Education on a study conducted by internet marketing firm Coldlime, reports UW-Madison News.
Dear Editor: The University of Wisconsin has exhibited a well-coordinated desperate backlash of attacks against Dr. Murry Cohen, who recently wrote against the cruel and regurgitated Harlow-type experiments of maternal deprivation being resurrected at the UW?s Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, with federal funding.
A major complaint by fans attending recent University of Wisconsin football games at Camp Randall Stadium is being addressed in a big way. UW Athletics announced Tuesday that it is collaborating with AT&T on a new high density Wi-Fi network and IPTV system ?that will bring greatly enhanced connectivity and content?? to those watching Badgers games in person.
As a psychiatrist and academic medical leader, I feel compelled to respond to the distortions and misleading claims in the May 21 column in the Cap Times by Dr. Murry Cohen.
The other day, a friend sent Bad Doug a recent newspaper story from the National Post in Canada that caused Bad Doug to slap his hand to his forehead and exclaim: ?Maybe it was all a mistake!?Bad Doug is given to brooding, and in recent years few things have caused him to brood more than the sculpture outside Camp Randall Stadium known as ?Nails? Tales.?
Eight UW-Madison professors have each been awarded $50,000 fellowships for research.
Gary Miller will start as the new chancellor at UW-Green Bay in August, leaving the same job at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington amid an urgent plea from some on that campus to stay put.
I guess when you?re 76 years old and on the verge of retirement after more than 50 years in the same field, there?s really no need to pull your punches. Madison East High School biology teacher Paul du Vair proved that in a Sunday story in this newspaper, where he says the ?greatest failure in education? is how little experience professors of education have in the classroom. ?They have no idea what goes on in our schools,? he said. … No doubt plenty of education professors, especially researchers, at UW-Madison lack teaching experience and haven?t logged significant time in the classroom. But plenty of them have, too.
In late April, the CBS program ?60 Minutes? aired an extraordinary report titled ?Saving the Children,? about Sir Nicholas Winton, a 104-year-old (now 105 ? his birthday was May 19) Englishman who in 1939 helped 669 children, mostly Jews, escape Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia through a program called Kindertransports. Renata Laxova was one of those kids. Laxova, 82, is an emeritus professor of genetics at UW-Madison.
Last summer Madison College (Madison Area Technical College or MATC) welcomed a new president, Jack Daniels, to lead the community of 40,000 students after the retirement of former president Bettsey Barhorst.
Jeffrey Novak will become university housing director on July 21, taking over for Paul Evans, who is retiring after working in the division at UW-Madison for 36 years.
Professor Klausmeier?s major achievements while at the University of Wisconsin include the following; writing successive editions of three widely acclaimed college textbooks for educators, founding and procuring funding for the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and developing it as a leader in improving elementary and secondary education and with his colleagues at the Center, developing Individually Guided Education, an alternative to traditional elementary schooling. He directed the royalties that accrued from the sale of IGE materials to be used in establishing a Professorship in Education in the UW School of Education.
If the NCAA votes this summer to give its five biggest conferences autonomy on addressing student-athlete welfare issues, then University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez might have to act quickly.
The University of Wisconsin sophomore finished second in her heat in the women?s 1,500 meters at the NCAA West regional preliminary round track and field meet in Fayetteville, Arkansas, taking fifth overall to advance to the NCAA championships later this month.
Wisconsin continues to boost exports, which opens opportunity. So will fast and reliable Internet service in rural communities. Wisconsin?s universities are stressing an entrepreneurial spirit in all fields.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is bringing its personnel management system into the 21st century to remain competitive and efficient ? a tactic that HR consultants say is being replicated by other higher learning institutions across the nation.
Otto Puls didn?t wear his Yankees gear to Miller Park. How could he? The Brewers were his host, the night of May 9. Puls, 81, is assistant equipment manager for University of Wisconsin men?s basketball. He is also the official scorer at home games, a post he has held for 50 years. Puls is as much a Kohl Center fixture as Bucky Badger or Mike Leckrone. But make no mistake, he?s also a Yankees fan.
He worked for the University of Wisconsin for more than 31 years
Tenzin Khangkar and the University of Wisconsin?s women?s lightweight four rowing team enjoyed what has become an annual rite of spring.
The report is based on a survey of 530 college students from 11 UW campuses, Milwaukee Area Technical College and Marquette and Cardinal Stritch universities. The most striking finding is that 84 percent of the respondents said it was ?very important? or ?somewhat important? to have transportation options other than a car.
UW-Madison officials are considering changing the traditional recruitment drive by fraternities and sororities early in the fall semester, either moving it deeper into the fall or eliminating it altogether. Some in the Greek community say the proposed changes would significantly threaten their existence.
Is economic inequality growing in American higher education? A report just issued by the Institute for Policy Studies ? The One Percent at State U ? indicates that it is.
Robert M. Meyer was named the school?s next chancellor Tuesday. Meyer currently is president of Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College in Shell Lake.
Margaret worked various jobs, eventually taking a job in the food service division for the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin is looking again at self-insuring state employees, as the state Department of Employee Trust Funds seeks a consultant to study switching more than 200,000 state workers and family members from an HMO model to self-insurance.
Checks totaling nearly $1.1 million have been sent to 83 area nonprofits and to 25 project managers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times.
A UW-Madison Police Department captain took thousands of photos and videos of unsuspecting women over more than six years before he was fired in March, according to an internal investigation, and could face criminal charges.
University of Wisconsin men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan didn?t need to search too far to fill the director of basketball operations position on his staff. Ryan on Friday announced the hire of Katherine Vosters, who has been part of the program in various roles for five years, to replace Luke Wainwright in a crucial behind-the-scenes role.
Three Madison-area patients and two UW Health doctors are among nearly two dozen patients and doctors in the film.
A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin is taking on deer ticks ? with hopes of giving people a tool to protect themselves from the bugs that can transmit Lyme disease.
Nancy earned a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. at Ohio State University, and taught at the college level at Ohio State, Wichita State, and UW-Madison.
Last month?s forum on race had just begun when moderator Keith Woods asked the eight panelists what really gets in the way of honest conversation about the racial divide in Madison. Everett Mitchell, with jarring honesty, set the tone for the rest of the evening. Mitchell, an African-American, is Director of Community Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and pastor at Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church. At 37, he?s a dynamic leader with a growing record of selfless community service, one already too long to catalog quickly.
Writer attacks idea of “trigger warnings.”
She enjoyed working with her colleagues at the Waisman Center and pioneered research into genetic diseases such as the Kaveggia-Neuhauser and Opitz-Kaveggia Syndromes.
Four years after Geoffrion became the first Hobey Baker Award recipient for the Badgers, it was announced his name will grace a charity game that will raise money for the UW Health Burn Center.
Everyone is looking for that cutting edge in customer service and UW Athletic Department officials are no different.
From my vantage point (higher level seat), it seemed that there were no students of color among the band members. I would like to be wrong on that and would welcome a correction, if I am. I assume that the Varsity Band reflects the diversity of the student body. If that is truly the case, the UW has significant issues to address.
Peter Tong, a WARF board member since 2005, has been appointed to succeed John Rowe, who will remain on the board.
The CEO of a Madison-based economic consulting and research firm will become interim senior vice president for academic and student affairs for the University of Wisconsin System, UW System President Ray Cross announced Friday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are preparing for Saturday?s graduation ceremony by decorating their mortarboards and sharing photos of their handiwork on social media. Check out this collection of painted, bejeweled and bedazzled graduation caps.
The strong social media community on the UW campus is exhibited in full force in the weeks leading up to graduation ? and this year, for the first time, it will play a part in the atmosphere of the day itself.
After a few years, she came back to Madison and served at the Space Science and Engineering Center, as the librarian of the Schwerdtferger Library. On May 7, 1991, the McBurney Disability Resource Center recognized her work with an Outstanding Staff Award.
Wisconsin needs to think big so young people here can get the training and education they need to compete globally ? without being buried in debt.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announced Zoey Brooks, of Waupaca, has been chosen as the state?s 67th Alice in Dairyland.
Kim, now 33, is among 22 students awarded a doctorate this month from the UW-Madison School of Music. At the core of the dissertation that helped her earn a Doctor of Musical Arts degree is Kim?s development of a ?Tactile Stave Notation? system for reading music.
In March, Indianhead Community Action Agency, Inc. (ICAA) offered eight students from UW-Madison an opportunity to experience the programs and services provided by ICAA, Inc. and to learn from the staff about how they strive to help clients to achieve self-sufficiency.
According to a report from the American Academy of Family Physicians over a three-year period, one in six UW medical grads ? roughly 16 percent – entered family practice.
With blue skies and billowing clouds contributing to a contagious, upbeat vibe, UW-Madison held its spring commencement outside at historic Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday for the first time in a quarter-century.
The Badgers advanced to the championship round of the NCAA tournament?s Eugene Regional for the second straight season and met a familiar fate, falling 6-0 to Oregon.
Just as they had done in the Big Ten?s indoor meet, Ahmed, Connor and Schrobilgen swept the top three spots in the 5,000 to clinch the program?s 44th conference title.
