UW-Madison students had a gorgeous day to celebrate the annual Mifflin Street Block Party on Saturday, as thousands of revelers jammed balconies, front yards and porches for the annual rite of spring with few reported problems to mar the good vibes.
n Wisconsin, campuses have become increasingly lonely for American Indians. In the last half-decade, other minority groups have seen an increase in enrollment. American Indians, meanwhile, have declined across the University of Wisconsin System four-year campuses, from 982 students in 2009-2010 to 743 students in the 2013-2014 school year. That?s a drop of 24 percent. At the flagship UW-Madison, their numbers have dropped by nearly half, from 206 to 112.
n Wisconsin, campuses have become increasingly lonely for American Indians. In the last half-decade, other minority groups have seen an increase in enrollment. American Indians, meanwhile, have declined across the University of Wisconsin System four-year campuses, from 982 students in 2009-2010 to 743 students in the 2013-2014 school year. That?s a drop of 24 percent. At the flagship UW-Madison, their numbers have dropped by nearly half, from 206 to 112.
UW-Whitewater is one of 55 colleges and universities under federal investigation for their handling of sexual assault and harassment complaints under Title IX.
The Legislature?s finance committee is set to vote on the University of Wisconsin System?s new policy for reporting surpluses.
UW-Madison students have signed on to a diversity measure they rejected a week ago after helping to tweak the plan to hold university officials more accountable for taking steps.
The Forward Together plan is confusing because it uses two radically different definitions of diversity. One is the traditional definition that focuses on racial and ethnic diversity in students, faculty and staff.
He was involved in many Norwegian-American organizations. This included the Norwegian Luncheon Club Madison Torske Klubben Charitable Foundation, focusing on providing scholarships to Norwegian graduate students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Three years after an estimated 20,000 people descended on West Mifflin Street in a party marred by stabbings and sexual assaults, police, residents and the area?s City Council member say they don?t expect big crowds or serious problems as the traditional day of the spring block party approaches.
An account by Alice Goffman, assistant professor of sociology at UW-Madison, of the U.S. prison system?s impact on a circle of low-income African-American men has sold so well that its academic publisher has gone back to press three times and inked a deal with a popular publishing house.
The University of Wisconsin women?s golf team received one of 72 berths in the NCAA tournament for the second straight year on Monday.
Considering it?s the home of Wisconsin?s flagship state university, Dane County has the highest percentage of residents with at least a bachelor?s degree in the state, 45.8 percent.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police are investigating a rash of bike thefts on campus.
Despite comparatively low numbers of reported assaults, national research indicates that 1 in 5 female students is attacked. Occasional surveys of UW-Madison?s more than 43,000 students show similar rates, even though an average of only 16 campus sexual assaults were formally reported each year from 2010 through 2012, said Dr. Sarah Van Orman, executive director of campus health services.
SwedishAmerican Health System, which has two hospitals and a cancer center in or near Rockford, Ill., plans to merge with UW Health, the organizations announced Tuesday.
Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said sexual assault prevention and response is very much a collaborative effort on the UW campus. The Not Alone report was very well done, Van Orman said, adding that the findings will be useful for campuses.
Now financial editor for NBC?s Today Show, a blogger, magazine columnist, and author of eight books about personal finance, Chatzky returned to Madison last week to meet with students, faculty members and others as business writer in residence for the UW-Madison School of Business.
Tuition at UW-Madison is the topic of much scrutiny and debate, as the news of a second year of $1 billion fund reserves prompted Gov. Scott Walker to call for a second tuition freeze.
New policies to govern how both UW-Madison and other University of Wisconsin System campuses manage hiring and a range of other personnel dealings won legislative approval last week after hitting a legislative roadblock last summer, when some of the changes were scheduled to start taking effect.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police have arrested a student after a disturbance at a residence hall.
Zach Nyborg likes to say he wasn?t given a choice when it came to the decision of whether or not he would follow Gary Andersen from Utah State to the University of Wisconsin.
MIGHTY MEALworm, a startup company led by UW-Madison graduate students Rachel Bergmans and Valerie Stull, was one of six winners of a nationwide contest to improve global food systems held in Madison last Friday and Saturday.
Married people are generally happier and healthier than single people, but chronic marital stress may make people more vulnerable to depression, say UW-Madison researchers.
A small group at UW-Madison joined college students and labor activists across the globe Thursday in demonstrations urging further safety reforms in Bangladesh garment factories.
UW-Hillel decided to mix it up a little this year for Passover.
The rally kicked off the 80th annual Wisconsin Association of School Councils state student council conferences, which conclude Monday. The students involved were members of their schools? student council or student government organization.
After a year of intense conflict and scrutiny, the Legislature?s audit committee on Thursday unanimously approved a new University of Wisconsin System policy for managing and clearly explaining year-end fund balances and rainy day cash reserves.
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will be acknowledged on the field prior to the Milwaukee Brewers? game against the New York Yankees on May 9.
It started nearly 10 years ago, after Gillian Eccles had her first child. She?d cough, sneeze, laugh, run or play soccer, and urine would leak.
The Legislature?s audit committee is set to vote on the University of Wisconsin System?s new policy for reporting surpluses.
Motorists will be detoured around Downtown Madison Saturday morning for the annual Crazylegs Classic run and walk.
State Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, wasted no time after the U.S. Supreme Court struck a blow to affirmative action Tuesday, promising to resurrect his effort to ban such policies in Wisconsin.
Far be it from me to diss two free years of college for every American student. And there are some decent reasons to support a recent proposal from a pair of UW-Madison faculty that would provide just that. The problem is that students could get their free rides only at public institutions, and only if the federal government agreed to start stiffing the private ones. That?s as much an ideological shot across the bow as a way to solve problems plaguing higher education.
Steenbock?s on Orchard, the serene fine-dining restaurant hidden inside Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, has a new chef, a new menu and a new look.
Moser, an acclaimed UW-Madison emeritus music professor and opera conductor, has been standing the whole age thing on its head his entire life. He started on the piano at 4. He entered Princeton at 16. He began doing yoga at 70.
Hornes worked at the UW Hospital and Clinics for 19 years before retiring in 2010.
He received a master?s degree from UW-Madison and served as an instructor in the Veterinary Science Department at UW-Madison.
She was a long time employee of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Biochemistry Department.
In 1985, Ellouise earned a master?s degree in epidemiology from UW-Madison and worked as a programmer and database manager in the UW Department of Medicine until her retirement in 1992.
For the first time in 33 years, prize money will be awarded to the top three men?s and women?s finishers in the 8-kilometer race that starts on Capitol Square and ends at Camp Randall Stadium.
Includes quotes from UW prof Steve Carpenter.
Members of 350 Madison will join University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty and others supporting the university?s divestment from corporations that profit from fossil fuels in a march and rally Tuesday to mark Earth Day.
UW-Madison hopes that new course offerings will bring more students ? its own and others from different colleges ? to campus this summer, boosting enrollment at a time when it typically declines significantly.
University health officials are warning students about a rise in confirmed cases of mumps at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said that generally, adjunct positions at UW System schools require a bachelor?s degree. However, departments and deans can make exceptions, he said, and ?the university would most likely make that exception for non-degreed individuals with significant real-world accomplishments.? Given that UW System faculty and officials weren?t shy about signing the Walker recall petition, though, that still might be a tough nut for an aspiring Professor Walker to crack.
To any thoughtful observer of politics, one of the biggest frustrations is watching is just how politically popular some really bad ideas can be. A perfect example is Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to freeze tuition increases within the University of Wisconsin System for four straight years.
worked at the UW Hospital and Clinics for 19 years before retiring in 2010.
The festival, an all-day conference organized by UW-Madison?s Distinguished Lecture Series, will showcase “some of the best and brightest ideas and collaborations happening on campus.”
References the 1,500 people in UW-Madison?s Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer?s Prevention, or WRAP. It?s the country?s largest study of children of parents with the disease, who face a greater risk of acquiring it.
New feature on the regional dialect dictionary started by a UW?Madison prof.
Members of the Open Source Seed Initiative rallied on the UW-Madison campus Thursday, pledging to preserve plant diversity by keeping seeds from their cultivars patent-free and widely available.
Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that will allow University of Wisconsin institutions to perform classified national security research.
A UW-Madison engineering professor is the recipient of the highest honor the U.S. government can bestow on science and engineering professionals.
Find the budgeted salary for any staff member of the University of Wisconsin.
Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to extend his tuition freeze on all universities within the UW System threatens the survival of one of Wisconsin?s most cost-effective universities, the UW Colleges.
A $32.6 million expansion of the University of Wisconsin Hospital parking ramp approved Wednesday by the state Building Commission completes current parking projects for the campus? west side, a university official said.
The mix of loans greatly affects total payout, says Susan Fischer, UW-Madison financial aid director. While interest on federal student loans varies from the 3.8 to 6 percent this year to as much as 9 percent, private loans can carry interest rates of 15 to 18 percent, she says.
The first two years of college should be free at public schools and the federal and state governments should work together to change funding models and make it possible, according to a new paper by two UW-Madison professors.
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus works toward a new diversity plan, the latest Data Digest shows that the campus has made progress in that area in the last decade, if slowly.
If you start feeling better mentally when spring comes, you are not alone.
