Wherever they were, Bo?s Army was loud and proud when the Badgers clinched a spot in the Final Four with a 64-63 overtime victory over Arizona in the NCAA tournament West regional final at the Honda Center.
In part, this is the fault of college administrators who have failed to control the cost of education. But we as taxpayers are also to blame. The share of tax dollars used to support our colleges and universities is far less than it once was.
The state Senate is set to vote on a bill that would allow University of Wisconsin institutions to conduct classified national security research.
A University of Wisconsin football recruit pleaded not guilty Monday to a third-degree sexual assault charge stemming from the alleged rape of a woman in her campus dorm room in December.
The Madison School Board on Monday approved a $1.3 million partnership with the UW-Madison aimed at expanding training and improving diversity.
Unlike a Rose Bowl or other bowl games where Badgers fans have three weeks or more to buy a sweatshirt, T-shirt or cap, there is less than a week to gear up for the Final Four. Most area stores didn?t get Final Four apparel on their sales floor until Sunday afternoon, and even those who are not making the trek to North Texas are just plain excited and want to own a Final Four shirt sooner than later.
Bennett knows the buzz of the moment well. He lived the adulation and felt the euphoria while coaching UW to its last Final Four appearance in 2000.
A Kohl Center crowd approaching 10,000 greeted the Badgers, fresh off the plane from California. The fans patiently waited an extra half-hour for the welcome-home show that lasted about 20 minutes. Players and coaches stood on a midcourt stage and soaked in the adoration.
Getting tickets for the Final Four college basketball games in Arlington, Texas, could prove challenging and expensive.
He came to the UW-Madison Department of Mathematics in 1961 and retired in 1999 in order to focus more fully on his research on Noetherian Rings (an area of abstract algebra) and to work with colleagues around the world.
The peer-reviewed study, released March 21 and published online in PLOS ONE, was led by Christopher S. Jennelle, Ph.D., and Professor Michael D. Samuel at UW.
When the page turned and the latest tale about University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team came to a mournful end, the focus shifted to the future.
Hundreds of gleeful fans poured out of State Street bars Saturday night as soon as the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team?s nailbiter over Arizona was official, the crowd eventually growing to the thousands as fans celebrated the Badgers? return to the NCAA tournament Final Four for the first time since 2000.
Even under the new maps, three congressional districts currently held by Republicans ? the 1st, 7th and 9th ? still remain competitive, said University of Wisconsin political science professor David Canon who studies redistricting.
University of Wisconsin senior Cameron Warne sat in class early Tuesday morning and had a bright idea he decided to share with his two buddies, Isaac Wienkes and Brett Johnsen.
Noted: The event is held at four venues on campus.
Coming off a Saturday night of inadequate sleep, with voices still hoarse from screaming at their televisions, University of Wisconsin men?s basketball fans welcomed home their favorite team at a loud Kohl Center rally Sunday afternoon, the day after the squad played its way into the school?s first NCAA Final Four since 2000.
Final Four tickets won?t officially be available until Monday for UW-Madison students. But the frenzied maneuvering to secure them began not long after the final buzzer sounded in Saturday night?s Badgers? 64-63 overtime win over Arizona in the NCAA men?s basketball tournament West regional in Anaheim, Calif.
Around the country Thursday, coaches and administrators pondered the potential ramifications of the stunning decision by the National Labor Relations Board, which ruled the Northwestern football team ? up to now, referred to by the NCAA as student-athletes ? are actually university employees in everything but name. Therefore, they should be able to bargain collectively for their fair share of an industry worth billions.
A new state audit is questioning the handling of about $520,000 in federal aid received by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the state Department of Public Instruction.
The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse says a new report that ranks his school first in the country for alcohol arrests should send a message to students about the school?s tough stance against alcohol.
The U.S. military could save millions of dollars in transport and logistics costs when equipment returns from Afghanistan, based on a plan developed by a center headquartered at UW-Madison.
Truth is, says UW professor emeritus Andrew Reschovsky, Burke?s plan is long on feel-good lingo and short on substance.
Some Badgers fans left State Street Brats on Thursday night skipping, others with their arms thrust into the air in victory. They exited into a light rain still cheering or hugging, many going home or to another bar to continue the celebration.
There are certain givens for a team as it wends its way through the NCAA men?s basketball tournament.
No matter what happens to the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team over the next three weeks, it will go down as one of the most important teams in program history.
But UW-Madison political science professor emeritus Dennis Dresang argued that Republicans prioritizing local control is a fallacy dating back to “day two” of the party ? that is, the iteration following the abolition of slavery. From that point in the party?s history, Dresang said, it has been dominated by moneyed interests as opposed to those espousing small government philosophy.
Concrete work and a crane being dismantled will require two blocks of Downtown streets to be closed.
Former presidential candidate and Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. has been chosen as the speaker at UW-Madison?s combined commencement.
Phillips was honored Wednesday morning with a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association. She was the keynote speaker for “A Nation Still Under Construction,” a UW program observing the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act.
A smartphone app for recovering alcoholics that includes a panic button and sounds an alert when they get too close to taverns helped keep some on the wagon, UW-Madison researchers who developed the tool found.
Photo caption: State workers wash windows at Helen C. White Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
UW-Madison students from a variety of cultures and backgrounds have taken to the blogging website Tumblr to share these and other insensitive comments they?ve heard on campus or near it. The project, “I Too, Am UW-Madison,” comes with inspiration from a similar campaign by African-American students at Harvard.
She returned to Wisconsin to be near family and friends, and spent 30 years working at the University Hospital, serving in various roles in nursing administration.
A UW-Madison police captain was fired after an internal investigation revealed he used department equipment to take hundreds of inappropriate photos of department employees and members of the public.
Thomas Brown made a significant impact at running back in the 2005 Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla.
A former UW-Madison student and rocket maker was charged Tuesday with possessing an explosive compound that was found by police after an apartment maintenance crew discovered usual lab equipment in a closet.
A program to turn UW-Madison discoveries into commercial companies, created just four months ago, already has more than five dozen prospects to consider.
In college, Scott Flanagan figured he?d end up coaching a basketball team through a March Madness tournament run each year. Instead, he now finds himself running a college, after being named the next president of Edgewood College on Tuesday as his old team, the University of Wisconsin, prepares for its Sweet 16 appearance in the NCAA tournament.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Michael Lovell is expected to be named the next president of Marquette University on Wednesday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
In Madison, Araceli Alonso opened the envelope. Alonso, a native of Spain, is an associate faculty member of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, and a senior lecturer in Gender and Women?s Studies.
UW-Madison graduate and civil rights pioneer Vel Phillips will be honored during a daylong celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Right Acts on Wednesday. Attendance is open and the event will be live-streamed online.
UW announced on Monday that the Board of Regents approved a new compensation package for Andersen, adding an additional $300,000 to his annual salary.
Noted: As for other professional development opportunities for Madison schools staff, district spokeswoman Rachel Strauch-Nelson said the board is set to consider a partnership with UW-Madison?s School of Education. Gloria Ladson-Billings ? a black education professor who was on the board of the proposed Urban League school ? would be the ?lead? in that effort, Strauch-Nelson said, ?so that we can ensure that issues of equity and diversity are the center of all of our core professional development as a district.?
Steven Swanson is the new dean of the UW-Madison pharmacy school, the university announced Friday.
Gov. Scott Walker on Friday named three people to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents and one to the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
After moving back to Wisconsin, she worked as an administrative director in the Electrical Engineering Department at UW-Madison until her retirement.
The couple stayed in Washington, D.C., until 1965, upon which time Al joined the faculty at the UW-Madison School of Business. His daughter, Michele, was born shortly after this, in 1969. Throughout his 33 year career at UW-Madison, Al was the chair of the Management Department, founded The Bolz Center for Arts Administration, and launched the weekend Executive MBA Program as director.
World-class computer science and electrical engineering schools at the UW-Madison and other colleges are a part of that picture, as well as the availability of former Epic and Sonic Foundry employees who leave and wind up working for young companies.
As UW-Madison students packed up to go home for winter break in December, the crime analysts at the Madison Police Department?s Downtown offices knew what was coming next: A wave of burglary reports as students returned to campus in January, finding their apartments broken into and valuables stolen.
The gathering draws ridicule and outrage from some, especially political conservatives, who question the need for it and the amount of tax money helping to stage it. Among the two dozen co-hosts of this year?s conference are Madison Area Technical College, UW-Madison and the city of Madison?s Department of Civil Rights. Most co-hosts are paying a fee between $500 and $3,000, according to organizers, although UW-Madison is kicking in $5,000.
Toma is an associate professor of communication science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies how people relate to each other online, using Facebook, Twitter, OK Cupid and Match.com to analyze what we share, alter, inflate and lie about when we can?t be seen face to face.
To reach the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2005, the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will have to beat Baylor.
The joyous bus ride home was punctuated by messages of congratulations, which is what one would expect for members of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team late Saturday night.
Larry Shapiro isn?t interested in arguing over whether there is a God or not. But if you ground your belief in God on a belief in miracles, then the UW-Madison philosophy professor has a problem.
Wisconsin?s largest used book sale is coming this week to UW-Madison.
Three University of Wisconsin wrestlers continued their push through the championship bracket and three more are still alive in the consolation rounds after their performances in Session II of the 2014 NCAA wrestling championships at the Chesapeake Energy Arena on Thursday night in Oklahoma City.
Noted: The story’s subject is a cousin of Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney.
It?s too early to be talking about restructuring ethnic studies programs at UW-Madison, but greater collaboration could broaden and update scholarship, says professor Craig Werner, chairman of the Department of Afro-American studies.
A team from The Associated Press has won the 2014 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics for a story that revealed the CIA ties of an American who vanished in Iran.
