When Dr. Katherine O?Rourke started her residency at UW Hospital, one of her first patients was an uninsured woman in her early 50s. The woman, who had advanced cervical cancer, died within weeks.
Three years into the scorched-earth regime of Gov. Scott Walker and his ruling Republican allies, a first reaction by progressives and moderates to the new president of the University of Wisconsin System might be suspicion.
AJ Cochran, one of the most decorated players in University of Wisconsin men?s soccer history, has an addition to his resume after being selected Thursday in the Major League Soccer draft.
UW-Madison has pledged a renewed focus on recruiting and keeping low-income students, with chancellor Rebecca Blank visiting Washington, D.C., for a Thursday summit on college access headed by her former boss, President Barack Obama.
At the same time, the UW Police Department last year decided to ramp up how often it issues warnings about crimes that happen near campus, spokesman Marc Lovicott said.
A UW-Madison employee died Thursday morning after she was hit by a campus truck backing up near Lake Mendota, police said.
Two students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are suing the UW System?s board of regents, accusing officials of refusing to recognize the results of student elections.
Are you kidding? Of course, Whitney Hite would love to have a new competition pool for his University of Wisconsin men?s and women?s swim teams.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has persuaded the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Madison to remove Gideon Bibles from its 137 guest rooms.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced (Hazel) Symonette, a program development and assessment specialist at UW-Madison, will receive the award at the 29th annual City-County Martin Luther King Jr. Observance on Monday.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is committed to making the university accessible for low-income students, and is in Washington, D.C. to talk about it.
In a post on the UW chancellor?s website, Chancellor Rebecca Blank writes that she?s opposed to academic boycotts like the one suggested by American Studies Association of Israeli higher education institutions.
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team moved up a spot to No. 3 in this week?s Associated Press Top 25 poll.
He lived in a small upstairs apartment on Douglas Avenue near the old Devine?s Sporting Goods, but the exact location escaped him when he was asked several years ago.
Strong returns for the Wisconsin Retirement System trust funds mean retired public employees will finally get an increase in their pensions, for the first time in six years for many.
Madison is a ?nice? place to live. I should know. I grew up in Philadelphia, lived in Baltimore, Seattle, and the San Francisco Bay Area before moving here almost 23 years ago. However, nice Madison, like nice people, is in perpetual denial about those aspects of itself that are not nice.
On Friday ? Cross? first day after being chosen by the Board of Regents ? UW-Stout in Menomonie announced it convened a committee to search for its next chancellor. And in time, a replacement for Cross will need to be found to lead UW Colleges and UW-Extension.
The technology was developed in the lab of UW-Madison medical school professor Douglas McNeel and the patents have been licensed from WARF.
A long-time Madison resident, he received a bachelor?s degree from the University of Wisconsin, his medical degree from the UW Medical School and in 1953, began his practice in general pediatrics at Wisconsin General Hospital. In 1968, he left Madison to take a fellowship in adolescent medicine at Harvard University. It was during this period that he developed an interest in child psychiatry, finally returning to Madison in 1970 to continue his training. He soon joined the faculty of the UW Medical School with a joint appointment in pediatrics and child psychiatry.
Interim University of Wisconsin System President Richard Telfer has appointed a search committee to help find the next UW-Stout chancellor.
Stemina?s technology grew out of research by former UW-Madison stem cell researcher Gabriela Cezar.
He went to UW-Madison and continued to work as the Art Director at the university until his retirement.
Madison can watch local jazz legend and UW-Madison music professor Richard Davis receive the nation?s highest honor in jazz on Monday by webcast.
UW-Madison routinely hosts thoughtful events on all aspects of religious life, often free to the public. One such opportunity arrives Jan. 29.?A Polite Bribe? is a new film by noted director Robert Orlando that is getting a lot of buzz nationally. It uses creative animation and interviews with top scholars to discuss the Apostle Paul.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents went with a more traditional choice for System president in former UW-Extension chancellor Ray Cross, and there?s no reason to believe he won?t end up being an excellent hire.
The term student-athlete is most often used by the NCAA and its member schools as a subtle reminder that those who compete under a university?s banner are supposed to be students first and athletes second. Debate the merits and legitimacy of that as you will, especially in the wake of a CNN investigation of aptitude test scores of incoming freshman athletes at major universities around the country.
New UW System president Ray Cross plans to visit campuses and communities statewide soon but his first stop will be to key lawmakers in Madison, he said at a Milwaukee press conference Friday morning.
I hope Bo Ryan is cognizant that he is experiencing one of his finest hours as a basketball coach now that his University of Wisconsin men?s team has set the university?s all-time beginning win-loss record of 16-0.
Hazardous materials handlers and firefighters responded to Mentor Biologics in University Research Park Thursday evening where chlorine dioxide had spilled.
If you missed ?The Poisoner?s Handbook? Tuesday on public television, you still have several chances to catch the documentary based on the book by University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor and author Deborah Blum.
The 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson?s famous declaration of an ?unconditional war on poverty in America? this week has media sizing up how far the country has come in battling poverty in the last half century.
After a national search, the University of Wisconsin System chose a new president from inside, elevating Ray Cross to be the seventh person to lead the System in its history.
When the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department got approval to institute a uniform discipline policy for student-athletes in 2003-04, it got an almost instant workout.
Flight problems at Chicago O?Hare forced more than thirty UW-Madison students to scrap their participation in a long-planned medical mission to Honduras.
Robert King is out as a candidate for the job of president of the University of Wisconsin System, leaving Ray Cross and Peter Garland as the only known finalists.
She retired from UW-Madison Memorial Library in 2008.
Noted: UW Colleges, the two-year campuses across the state that tend to enroll more adult and nontraditional students, will allow students to earn up to six credits for knowledge and skills gained outside the classroom.
It?s clear, said George Koepp, that individual farmers get professional education and improved profits from a University of Wisconsin-Extension Columbia County program designed to help producers plan how much fertilizer, and what kind, goes on their fields.
The three finalists for University of Wisconsin System president visited Madison on Monday and sounded the same themes over and over: rebuilding trust, reaching out across the state to politicians and the public and opening their financial books in a more transparent way. In computer terms, they suggested a total System reboot.
Tom worked part-time as a business counselor for the Small Business Development Center at UW-Madison.
. Peter retired in 2007 from the University of Wisconsin – School of Veterinary Medicine after teaching Pathobiological Sciences and from Marshfield Clinic in 2011.
His academic excellence and passion for science won him a fellowship to continue his studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and worked as a researcher in the field of molecular genetics.
To Matthew Newcomb, a veteran of UW-Madison?s South Pole-based Ice Cube observatory, it will be a reminder of the warmer times he spent at the bottom of the world.
Ginny worked at several part-time jobs before working in the College of Engineering?s Dean?s Office and Materials Science Program, UW-Madison, retiring in 1982 after 26 years of service.
Following his retirement, he served as a Clinical Professor in Programs in Health Service Administration within the UW Madison Medical School until 1997.
Nearly every medical advance from the last century is a product of responsible animal research, and animal models will continue to be important to medical progress.
He was a drywall taper and finisher from 1964 to 1986 and was employed as a custodian at the University of Wisonsin-Madison from 1987 to 1998.
Students at UW-Madison don?t have to go back to school until Jan. 21, but that doesn?t mean the campus is shut down.
Juston Edwards has a practical if unusual approach when it comes to choosing which University of Wisconsin bowl games to attend: Skip the Rose Bowl, hit the Capital One Bowl.
Chloe Smith?s college coursework will include mastering machines known as the Reformer, Cadillac, Low Chair and High Barrel. There will be deep breathing, intense stretching, a lot of sweat and healthy dollops of both pain and pain relief.
The ordeal came as Dr. Nick Haun worked long shifts as an internal medicine resident at Meriter, UW Hospital and Madison?s Veterans Hospital. He?ll be chief resident next year, imparting lessons to less experienced doctors.
The human brain may function like a computer, but humans can get caught up in contextual information, even when the rules are as clear-cut as separating even numbers from odd numbers, according to research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A record 167 businesses participated this year in the “green masters” program coordinated by the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That?s up 46% from last year.
President Obama on Monday named 102 researchers — including two from the University of Wisconsin-Madison — as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on promising science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
Temperatures in the low 70s greeted the University of Wisconsin football team as it landed in Orlando on Christmas Day to begin preparations for the Capital One Bowl on New Year?s Day against South Carolina. (Look at Badger football trip via Storify.)
Tuition experts with the University of Wisconsin System have studied fixed-rate programs, also known as cohort tuition, but there are no immediate implementation plans, System spokesman David Giroux said.
She worked for many years in the Registrar?s Office at UW-Madison.
And governments use bonds to compete with neighbors for investment that creates jobs and tax base, said Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of public affairs and applied economics at the UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs.
UW-Madison?s medical school has awarded $3.65 million to 16 communities for projects designed to improve the health of the citizenry.
A partnership between Madison School Community Recreation and UW-Madison is engaging elementary students in science with the hope that they see it as fun.
