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.
For the fifth consecutive season, the University Wisconsin women?s rowing team earned a top-three finish at the Big Ten Conference rowing championships at Eagle Creek Park on Sunday.
Video story of grand opening on campus Thursday.
Am I alone in noticing that the UW Badger football schedule this year, for home games, is the worst I have seen since having season tickets for over 30 years?
Zach Ziemek readily admits he has a problem and the junior multi-event standout for the University of Wisconsin men?s track and field team is trying to address it.
It was a bit of a shock at first when the NCAA tournament-bound University of Wisconsin softball team learned it was headed back to a regional in Eugene, Oregon, for a second straight year.
Jeanne worked at Central Wisconsin Center for many years and retired from the University of Wisconsin.
When she started at UW-Madison in 1979, Susan DeMerit remembers her dormitory mates arranging their class schedules so they wouldn?t miss ?General Hospital.?… Thirty-five years later, DeMerit?s classmates watch ?Game of Thrones? on their smartphones.
Gov. Scott Walker will be giving his first commencement address when he addresses graduate students at Concordia University in Mequon.
The project, called Yahara 2070, will test various scenarios of how potential societal, governmental and technological changes could affect the watershed.
Isn?t anyone else disappointed with UW-Madison?s commencement ceremony plans?
A senior vice president of the University of Wisconsin System is leaving to become the chancellor of Montana State University Billings.
Listening to Chris Clark address the local media earlier this week, one couldn?t help but wonder if the University of Wisconsin men?s rowing coach was seeing a therapist. Turns out, he is … It?s good that Clark gives voice to his inner angst. It?s also good he has an in-house therapist in Bebe Bryans, the UW women?s rowing coach whose Porter Boathouse office is within earshot of Clark?s.
Agrace, Wisconsin?s largest nonprofit community hospice and palliative care agency, is adding Michael Johnson and Everett Mitchell to its board, effective May 1, 2014.
A UW-Madison graduate student has launched a business she hopes will propel college rideshare boards into the mobile world.
The University of Wisconsin will play two homecoming games during the 2014 college football season.
UW-Madison Professor Jason Fletcher looked at data before and after the attacks and compared the data to DNA information reported by respondents in a survey. The aim was to get an objective rather than self-reported look at stress.
Police officers from around Wisconsin want to open a museum in Madison dedicated to efforts by men and women in law enforcement, and they have the support of University of Wisconsin men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan.
As the college class of 2014 prepares to receive its diplomas, NPR took a look at the national mix of bachelor?s degrees awarded over four decades and graphed them.
UW-Madison entomology professor Susan Paskewitz said she and co-workers collected 250 ticks during three trips to the Sandburg Woods park near East Towne Mall starting on April 19.
UW-Madison officials said Friday that the House of Pain song, traditionally blared between the third and fourth quarters of football games as fans jump to the beat in a wild frenzy, will be played at next Saturday?s graduation ceremony.
Chuck was a well-respected and distinguished emeritus professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In 1974, he accepted a position as professor in the Child and Family Studies Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Joe was the director of the UW Pre-School Laboratory, and he was recognized as a national expert in the evaluation of pre-school education models.
From 1961 to 1966, she was a UW Economics Department Project Assistant to Professor Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush, serving as the staff member of the fledgling Governor`s Committee on Migratory Labor of which Raushenbush was chairwoman. Helen was later appointed by Governor Knowles and reappointed by Governor Lucey to the Governor`s Committee on Migratory Labor and served as the Committee`s secretary. University President Weaver appointed Helen to represent the University on the Latin American Council.
Jim joined the staff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the Division of Student Affairs, later with the Office of Academic Services/Dean of Students, and then the Division of University Outreach. He retired in 1995.
The University of Wisconsin softball team will be in familiar surroundings when it plays in the Eugene regional of the NCAA tournament, but the selection committee didn?t do the squad any favors.
Due to medical advances and lifestyle improvements, more and more of us will discover what it means to be very, very old, said Alberto Palloni, a UW-Madison sociology professor who studies longevity and mortality.
In Wisconsin, he will perhaps be remembered most for pushing to merge the University of Wisconsin in Madison with the state college system, a fierce battle that created today?s system of 13 four-year state colleges.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who conduct an annual study of poverty have found jobs and earnings are beginning to rise again as the Badger State recovers from the recession.
Posted today by UW-Madison student Francesca Moroni, the petition already had 673 signed on by 1 p.m.
After a tough 10-1 loss to Michigan in six innings on Saturday, University of Wisconsin softball coach Yvette Healy gathered her players around her and urged them to “act like you?ve been here before.” The only problem, as some of the players were quick to point out, a good portion of them hadn?t.
A search committee has selected five finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chancellor position.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank will deliver a keynote speech at the local celebration of Founders? Day, hosted by the WAA: Chequamegon Bay Chapter and held at the Best Western Hotel Chequamegon. The chapter will also honor Ashland?s Carol B. Lindsey, a 1987 UW-Madison graduate, with its Badger of the Year award.
A Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban and became an international figure of courage and human rights has been selected as the next featured author for Go Big Read, UW-Madison?s common reading program.
No one knows for sure how long Bo Ryan will continue as the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball coach. By the same token, no one has a handle on how long Barry Alvarez will remain as UW athletic director. But if Ryan were to step down, Alvarez suggested that he would not be far behind.
The Legislature?s finance committee approved a new policy governing University of Wisconsin System surpluses on Tuesday, wrapping up a nasty clash between Republicans and UW officials over the system?s massive balances.
A new on-campus competition pool that will benefit the University of Wisconsin men?s and women?s swimming and diving programs is moving forward.
This idea that the pathway from sewer pipes to storm drains might be a significant source of contamination even in areas with separate systems is new, as is the ability to track it.Whether it is happening in Madison is unknown, said Trina McMahon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of civil engineering who studies the area?s Yahara lakes.
Bags of milk, $1 corn dogs, and bananas, potatoes and onions at rock-bottom prices are about to become staples for some students at UW-Madison. But they?ll need to find gas elsewhere.
A new partnership between Johnson Controls and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will explore how the next generation of car batteries will fit into the nation?s overall energy picture.
A neighborhood group effort to limit development along University Avenue is facing an uphill battle.
The University of Wisconsin System?s decision to hire a confidant of Gov. Scott Walker to a newly created, high-paying job raised concerns among at least two members of the Board of Regents, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press under the state?s open records law.
The University of Wisconsin Department of Athletics is joining hundreds of college athletic departments, professional sports teams, high schools and other sports organizations around the country in supporting the ?You Can Play? project.
Seeking to replace scores of aging IT systems, state officials are proceeding with a $138.7 million overhaul of the state?s financial, payroll and purchasing systems.
Wainwright informed Badgers coach Bo Ryan following the team?s Final Four run last month that he?d be stepping down. Friday was Wainwright?s final day in a position he held for four seasons.
UW ranked No. 2 nationally among public schools in both revenue generated in 2012-13 ($149 million) and expenses ($146.7 million). The Badgers trailed only Texas in both categories.
A student team that?s figured out how to inject color into plastic items made by 3-D printers took the top prize at the UW-Madison?s annual G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition.
In 1980, she returned to Madison to practice at the University of Wisconsin Health Services where she remained until her retirement in 2004.
He worked for many years with the University of Wisconsin in experimental farming until his retirement in 2000.
I can?t tell you how many student-athletes I?ve spoken with during my time covering the University of Wisconsin sports ? hundreds for sure over 30 years ? but I know I didn?t come across Bram Dorresteijn. I so regret that now.
