There are legal grounds for placing a hold on offenders if they cannot meet conditions of their release, such as finding housing in compliance with city laws, said Cecelia Klingele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor, who has researched the collateral consequences of sex offenders? sentences.
Edgewood College has narrowed its list of presidential candidates to three finalists.
A unique way of adding color to 3-D created products was the winning entry in the 20th annual Innovation Days competition at UW-Madison.
An annual forum at UW-Madison this week will feature speakers who explore black men and their relationships with family, friends and lovers. The Black Men?s Initiative forum occurs Friday and Saturday and is free and open to the public.
Repair crews were working on a frozen water main at Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus Monday afternoon. Users of the union were asked not to use any water in the facility from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
A community college education ought to be free, University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor Sara Goldrick-Rab tells NPR for a report on the funding challenges confronting the schools nationwide.
David worked as a truck driver for many years and as a custodian at the University of Wisconsin.
I for one will no longer call myself an alumni. Can I get my tuition back?
Comments from UW?Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton.
At the time of his death, he was Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Department of Family Medicine. His affiliation with UW-Madison began in 1973 as a family practice resident, and continued on as faculty member, professor, and recently emeritus professor. He maintained a busy medical practice at UW-Madison Northeast Clinic for over 35 years, caring for thousands of patients.
Andrew was employed at UW-Madison until his retirement in 2013.
In 1970, the UW-Madison Anthropology Department offered him the position of associate professor, and then full professor in 1975. Among his many credits are producing nine Ph.D. students, authoring “The Fundamentals of Biological Anthropology”, “The Field Guide for Human Skeletal Identification”, and a nomination for the Distinguished Teaching Award.
She worked at the UW-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, retiring in 1984 after 20 years of service as the payroll and fringe benefits supervisor.
Patrick Sims, interim vice provost and chief diversity officer at UW-Madison, said the university is committed to partnering with the coalition?s efforts
Richard Monette, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor of law, is one of the top experts on tribal law and the legal relationship between Native American tribes and government.
As a young man, Ray Cross survived Vietnam. Now at the other end of his career, he figures he can handle the state Capitol in his new role as president of the University of Wisconsin System, which he officially starts this week.
Story highlights research by Dr. Margaret ?Gretchen? Schwarze, a UW-Madison vascular surgeon and bioethicist.
?I haven?t encountered anything quite like this before, and it does make me queasy,? said Robert Drechsel, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison. The arrangement triggers a host of questions, he said.
?This is the dairy farmers? year to enjoy,? said Mark Stephenson, the director of the UW-Madison?s Center for Dairy Profitability.
Joel Rumpel is such an easygoing, uncomplicated person it?s easy to see how the junior goaltender for the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team could be somewhat misunderstood.
Is there a better feeling in the world than knowing you took a tremendous risk, made a dream come true and did so giving every ounce of your being?
The University of Wisconsin System is partnering with the state?s chief jobs agency to create a $2 million seed fund to help bring technology ideas developed at UW campuses to the marketplace.
Why does a couple become a couple? Love? Friendship? Security? Someone to talk to? Economics?
It?s a brotherhood nearly 40 years in the making and Joe Pavelski is thrilled to be a part of its exclusive ranks. Since 1976, every U.S. men?s hockey team to take part in the Olympics has included at least one player from the University of Wisconsin. That streak of 11 consecutive Winter Games will come to life Thursday when Team USA ? which has six former UW players serving in some capacity ? will open the tournament against Slovakia (6:30 a.m., NBC Sports Network) in Sochi, Russia.
Mike Cerniglia has worn a badge as a Dane County sheriff?s deputy, worked for two of the most accomplished coaches at the University of Wisconsin and been a face of the Badgers on radio and television. Somewhere along that career path are lessons that should help him now. Cerniglia is six weeks into his role as executive director of the National W Club, a nonprofit that represents men and women who have won varsity letters competing in sports sponsored by UW Athletics.
Boosting Wisconsin?s economy will take more than just adding jobs ? it will require luring more young college graduates to move here, a UW-Madison expert told a conference in Madison on Wednesday .One way to do that could be to set up a two-tiered tuition system, with lower rates for those who promise to stay in Wisconsin after they earn their degrees, said Morris Davis, associate professor and academic director of the James Graaskamp Center for Real Estate.
Roads often get bumpy in winter because moisture in the gravel and other materials below the surface freeze and swell, said Michael Oliva, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UW-Madison. ?If that moisture keeps getting in there and keeps swelling up, you build up this ice lens, and the ice lenses lift the pavement up,? he said.
Richard Brown, a UW-Madison medical professor who specializes in substance abuse, does not believe that pot-smoking is more dangerous than drinking and says the theory that weed is a ?gateway? to more perilous poison has been discredited.
The operating budget for the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department will drop to just under $100 million for 2014-15 under a proposal unveiled Tuesday.
It appears Gary Andersen still has a thing or two to learn about being the football coach at the University of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen interviewed recently for the Cleveland Browns head coaching job, a UW spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
Three finalists have been selected to be interviewed to lead Discovery to Product (D2P), a new venture at UW-Madison to boost the entrepreneurial efforts on campus.
Whenever major sports headlines are made at other colleges, good or bad, it?s natural to wonder how the details would play out at the University of Wisconsin.
Democratic authors of a bill that would create a new state authority to allow roughly 753,000 Wisconsin residents to refinance their federal student loans, were met with tough criticism and concerns Monday.
Iowa?s system avoids gerrymandering and fat legal fees while encouraging more competition for seats and cooperation from leaders, said UW-Madison political science professors Ken Mayer and David Canon. The two redistricting experts insisted Iowa?s process would not undermine the Wisconsin Legislature?s constitutional authority, as GOP leaders here have suggested. Wisconsin?s current way is ?divisive, polarizing, expensive, litigious and undermines basic notions of representation,? Mayer said.
A controversial measure to shield University of Wisconsin research from public records requests died a sudden death Monday morning before its first scheduled legislative hearing.
UW-Madison has gone back to the top of the list of schools and universities producing the most volunteers for the Peace Corps.
After Act 10 went into effect, schools throughout the state were given more flexibility on an array of human resources decisions, including the ability for more teachers to receive merit-based pay
UW-Madison?s new chancellor, Rebecca Blank, came out last week in favor of raising tuition for out-of-state and professional school students, and the administration is making the case for quadrupling a student fee to pay for an overhaul of recreational sports facilities.
When you?re 6,200 miles from home, about to climb onto the world?s largest stage, it?s nice to be able to look around and feel a connection to family.
In 1950, he accepted a professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Social Work and began his distinguished scholarly career
She won two WIAA state golf titles, played on the University of Wisconsin?s 1994 Big Ten Conference championship team and twice won the Madison City tournament.
Scientific research at University of Wisconsin campuses would be shielded from public records requests until it?s published or patented under a controversial bill scheduled for a first hearing on Monday before the state Assembly?s higher education committee.
University of Wisconsin System campuses are Nos. 1, 4, 10, 17, 19, 23, 30, 36, 39 and 41 in a national ranking of the most on-campus alcohol arrests per 1,000 students.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation isn?t the only organization accusing Apple Inc. of infringing on a high-tech patent. A few days after WARF filed suit against the technology giant, a Texas-based company did the same based on a different complaint.
The main trigger for the rapid expansion of gay marriage was a June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that raised questions about all same-sex marriage bans, said Andrew Coan, a UW-Madison associate law professor.
Clad in limestone, brick and stucco with a pitched tile roof, the elegant new Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house on historic Langdon Street catches the eye.
A month without alcohol was the challenge. For UW-Madison alumna Sarah Probst, “Dry January” tested her more than she anticipated.
Other speakers include UW-Madison professors Ken Mayer and Barry Burden
No gold medal was at stake, but the sunshine was golden Sunday as hockey players competed on Lake Mendota during the final day of Hoofers? weeklong Winter Carnival.
Last week was really something for UW-Madison sophomore Chandler Davis, who picked the sport of boxing off the mat and got it going again on campus, to the delight of some and dismay of others
With Ray Cross soon leaving the top job at UW Colleges and UW-Extension, two administrators have been promoted to fill vacancies.
The family settled in Madison and Don worked for a number of years in journalism and public relations for UW-Madison and CUNA
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation sued Apple on Monday, claiming that the gadget giant infringed on one of WARF?s computer technology patents.
Both Apple and Julie Underwood, dean of the School of Education at UW-Madison, share Slekar?s concern over the systematic privatization of education and recognize a role for scholars in the public debate about it.
Look, an organized attempt by student-athletes to unionize appears flawed and a major long shot for implementation. There?s a strong argument to be made they aren?t employees ? they receive grants in aid ? and their status at a school, both as a student and as an athlete, is voluntary. But the College Athletes Players Association, introduced last week by former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter and lauded by his athletic director, James Phillips, raises a lot of issues that need to be explored.
A new project based in Madison aims to root out software vulnerabilities that can leave the door open for viruses, website hacking or other forms of cybercrime, estimated as a $100 billion industry. The SWAMP, or the Software Assurance Marketplace, is a collaboration of the private, nonprofit Morgridge Institute for Research along with UW-Madison, Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Even though thousands of schools have adopted single-sex classrooms, there is little evidence of any benefit to the practice, according to a study done at UW-Madison.
Tess Hauser was a senior scientist at the UW-Madison until her retirement in 2009. She played key roles for 40 years in the design, operation, and management of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which has followed the life course of more than 10,000 members of the Wisconsin high school graduating class of 1957.
Supporters, including UW-Madison students who have long pushed for the ?good Samaritan? legislation, say it will make young people more likely to call 911 for someone who needs medical care, rather than avoiding authorities because they fear costly underage drinking tickets.
