The students, most from Milwaukee or Racine, visited with legislators to lobby for support of a bill introduced by state Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa, D-Milwaukee, to offer in-state tuition at University of Wisconsin System campuses to permanent legal residents of the United States who graduated from Wisconsin high schools and have lived in the state for at least three years.
The University of Wisconsin System named five finalists for the position of vice president for university relations, including the president of a Milwaukee real estate group who is closely allied with Gov. Scott Walker.
UW-Madison has been fined more than $35,000 by a federal agency for seven violations of federal animal research treatment standards, the university announced Monday.
Maury joined the UW-Madison Department of Agricultural Journalism faculty, where he was radio farm director and professor. After earning his Ph.D. at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., he returned to UW-Madison as a full professor in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Six members of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team were honored Monday when the Big Ten Conference unveiled its inaugural all-league squad.
A prized University of Wisconsin football recruit was charged Monday with third-degree sexual assault for allegedly raping a woman in her dorm room on the UW-Madison campus in December.
In-state tuition for undocumented students became available here in 2009, after years of organizing by immigrant youth. Unfortunately, in 2011 it was repealed by Governor Walker, who effectively shut the door to higher education for undocumented students (called “Dreamers”) in the state. It has been three years since then, and we believe it?s time this door is blown wide open again.
Next month, the UW-Madison Writers? Institute will celebrate its 25th year of bringing together aspiring and established writers, along with agents, editors and others connected to the business of trying to write well and get paid for it, for two or three days of instruction and elbow rubbing.
Numerous scoring opportunities had come and gone in recent games for the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will require all of its licensees that source, produce or purchase goods in Bangladesh to sign and comply with the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh for the production of UW goods.
[S]he was employed by the UW-Madison (Department of Urban and Regional Planning), and UW Extension Center for Community Economic Development/Rural Sociology.
Mary was a librarian at Green Bay Public Library, Durham Public Library in North Carolina, and for 23 years at UW Memorial Library in Madison.
When the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team opened the 2004 NCAA tournament in Milwaukee, Josh Gasser was a 12-year-old growing up in Port Washington, wishing he was at the Bradley Center to cheer on the Badgers.
Police are asking for the public?s help in finding a missing UW-Madison student who was last seen Saturday afternoon at Union South.
The book was UW-Madison?s selection that year for its ?Go Big Read? community-reading project. It has only grown in popularity since then.
[C}andor is not the only characteristic that sets the 20-year-old UW-Madison astrophysics major apart from most politicians. He is a Pirate. Meaning, of course, that he is a member of the Pirate Party.
The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting and preserving the Great Lakes, has launched its “Eat Wisconsin Fish” campaign to capitalize on the seasonal uptick in demand for trout, whitefish and lake perch.
A 17-year veteran of the UW-Madison police department was fired Wednesday,the department said.
A daytime burglary of an apartment near the UW-Madison campus on Tuesday should serve as a reminder to students heading out on spring break to safeguard their homes and property before leaving.
Milwaukee real estate developer and UW-Madison alumnus Mark Irgens has made a $2 million gift to advance the academic mission of the university?s James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate.
The future of the influential UW-Madison-based Center for Problem-Oriented Policing is in doubt after federal officials pulled funding after 13 years.
Morris Davis shares some hard truths about the housing market in this recent story from the Wall Street Journal?s real estate section.
Carolyn Kelley, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at UW-Madison, said she?s not aware of any consensus among researchers on what kind of school calendar best meets children?s educational needs.But she doubted that adding a few minutes to each class period would spur changes in teaching methods enough to cover more content. She also pointed to the well-established finding that ?longer breaks are worse for kids,? especially poor or other ?at-risk? students.
Changes to the SAT college entrance exam announced last week ignore the bigger picture, Michael Apple, a professor of curriculum and instruction and educational policy studies at UW-Madison, told Wisconsin Public Radio.
The Afro-American Studies department at University of Wisconsin-Madison is being eyed for consolidation with other ethnic studies programs because of diminishing resources, campus newspapers report.
The 27-year-old will graduate from Madison Area Technical College this spring and will start work on her bachelor?s degree at UW-Madison in the fall. She wants to be a registered dietitian.
Not only was Frank Kaminsky one of the most improved players in the Big Ten Conference this season, the junior center on the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team did enough to be considered one of the best players in the league.
Ben Brust distinctly remembers the don?t-blink-or-you?ll-miss-it warning delivered by his upperclassman teammates on the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team when he was a freshman.
Justin Doherty, associate athletic director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says he wants to set the record straight on the question of how much money UW Athletics does ? or does not ? pitch in to support the UW-Madison campus.
Classified national security research could be done by University of Wisconsin System professors if a bill currently before the Legislature passes.
Barbara Wolfe, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said Ryan?s paper simply misstates the findings of one of her papers studying the effect of housing assistance on labor outcomes.
Sean Lee, 44, was arrested while walking on Brooks Street at about 2:30 a.m., UW-Madison police said in a news release.
When Marcus Higgins relocated from South Carolina to become vice president of sales at EatStreet, the local online restaurant ordering start-up, one of the first challenges was finding housing with his wife and young daughter.
Lin had a long career working in many different departments for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“With plenty of emerging technology, Madison is a great place for women in STEM to make a good living, while also taking advantage of the University of Wisconsin?s many academic forums and opportunities. Wisconsin Women in Government also does great work to advance the number of females serving in political office,” Estately writes.
Instead, Grothman commented on the high-level economic courses Rickman said he had taken while earning a UW-Madison degree by making disparaging comments about the university, which Grothman also attended. ?I took a few classes in economics at UW,? Grothman said. ?And I?d almost consider that a minus.?
Jonathan Martin ? a professor in the UW-Madison atmospheric and oceanic sciences department and one-half of the ?Weather Guys? who pen a Monday column in this newspaper ? said this most recent December through February period is likely to be the 11th coldest on record.
The man brought in to fix glitches in the deeply flawed payroll and benefits system used by about 75,000 employees in the University of Wisconsin System has stepped down from his job after two years, the UW System announced late Monday night.
Ask any major college athletic administrator what his or her greatest long-term concern is and the answer is likely to be attendance at games.
Julie Allen, a UW-Madison professor of Scandinavian Studies, noted that standards of ?cultural familiarity? are already low for U.S. ambassadors, but that the case of George Tsunis demonstrates the opportunity that presidents squander by not appointing more knowledgeable diplomats.
A small chemical leak at UW-Madison forced the evacuation of Engineering Hall Thursday afternoon, but the “all clear” was given about an hour after the incident.
A $50 million electron accelerator in Stoughton will make its last loops next Friday after federal funding cuts in 2011 gouged the UW-Madison research center of $5 million a year. The Synchrotron Radiation Center?s already diminished staff, estimated at a dozen, will lose their jobs.
University of Wisconsin junior Michael Lihrman was the NCAA record holder in the weight throw for about 10 minutes before he realized it.
When the staff of the Daily Cardinal, a student newspaper at University of Wisconsin-Madison, started tossing around ideas for ?unreported stories important to the campus community,? it wasn?t long before they hit on diversity as an issue, says editor Abby Becker.
A campus-wide email blast by the Teaching Assistants? Association calling on the UW Athletic Department to pick up half the cost of a $223 million upgrade to recreational sports facilities was forwarded 600 times on Monday, the first day it was sent out, says the TAA.
Three candidates selected as finalists for the UW-Madison Arboretum director post will be meeting with the campus community over the next two weeks.
A material developed at UW-Madison could lead the way toward cheaper, faster cleanups of oil spills and other environmental hazards.
Would you be OK with the University of Wisconsin football team playing an occasional home game on Friday night?
From a grain of Australian crystal that measures the width of two human hairs, a UW-Madison researcher has unlocked important discoveries about the Earth?s crust ? namely, that it?s at least 4.4 billion years old, meaning Earth cooled enough to be lived on earlier than previously believed.
Lorya-Ozulamoi learned about Little Free Libraries while a student in UW-Madison?s Odyssey Project, a humanities program for low-income adults.
More than half a million Wisconsin workers ? or, one of every five in the state ? would get bigger paychecks if Wisconsin increases the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour from the current $7.25 an hour, according to a report released Monday by the UW-Madison?s Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS).
Emily and Kenneth found employment at the University of Wisconsin as building maintenance helpers until 1979.
Mike Eaves reached a nice plateau over the weekend when the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey coach picked up his 250th career victory.
A committee to select the next dean and campus executive officer of the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County met for the first time Thursday.
A new show opening this week at the Chazen Museum of Art focuses on the historical equivalent of doodling in the margins.
A path to Milwaukee has been cleared for the Badgers, though they?re understandably leery of any speed traps that could pop up along the way.
Some day, putting your smartphone on the car seat next to you while driving could recharge the phone?s battery.
Robert Drechsel, the director of the UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics, said it?s not as if Novak is covering high school sports.?It just seems to me the kind of conflict that really isn?t the appropriate thing for journalists,? he said of Novak?s second job at city hall.
Qian, 36, an associate professor of statistics at UW-Madison, founded Metamodeling Analytics, a Madison company developing software to speed the process for designing new industrial products.
UW?Madison experts Downs, Drechsel, Mayer comment.
