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.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team?s magical postseason ride came to an end Saturday night with a four-set loss to Penn State in the NCAA championship match.
For the University of Wisconsin volleyball players, the memories of a lifetime are coming so fast they can hardly remember them.
Madison area folks of my generation remember well the late Mary Louise Symon.
Glass artist Harvey Littleton, the man who took an ancient medium and launched an unprecedented glassblowing movement at UW-Madison a half-century ago, died Dec. 13 at his home in Spruce Pine, N.C.
A UW-Madison student was a victim of battery last night, according to police.
ext, she became the Assistant Director of Admissions at UW-Madison, where she spoke with over 225,000 students and their parents while in charge of the SOAR program. She retired in 1994, after 17 years of dedicated university service … Patricia was the first African American to chair the UW Roundtable Luncheon.
In 1982 and 1983, he was acting director of the Madison Academic Computing Center and from 1983 to 1985, and acting director of the UW-Madison Synchrotron Radiation Center. His textbook, Mechanics, has been a staple in physics classes since publication of the first edition in 1953. It has been published in multiple languages and is still in use around the world.
Before addressing graduates on Sunday, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank congratulated the commencement crowd at the Kohl Center for simply showing up.
Princeton University is letting students receive a meningitis vaccine not approved in the U.S., following an outbreak of a meningococcal bacteria strain that killed a UW-Madison student this year.
University of Wisconsin freshman Lauren Carlini was named Wednesday to the American Volleyball Coaches Association Division I All-American second team.
Prosecutors have added new charges against a former University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student accused of violating a restraining order.
Senior Chris Borland fell just short in his latest attempt to become the first University of Wisconsin linebacker to be named a first-team All-American.
One of Kelly Sheffield?s mantras in life is to dream big. But the first-year University of Wisconsin volleyball coach admits even he would?ve been hard pressed to dream before the season that his team would end up playing in the Final Four at KeyArena in Seattle.
Five groups of unionized state workers that negotiated their pay raises with Gov. Scott Walker?s administration are poised to receive the same 1 percent raise that non-union workers got in July.
Also featured: Union sponsors chair photos, urges membership for new UW-Madison grads
News of research at UW-Madison showing that living in poverty may slow early brain development is the latest piece in a growing body of evidence that poverty is linked to lower school performance.
A Verona woman has appealed a Dane County judge?s ruling upholding a $250,000 malpractice cap against UW-Madison doctors in a case the judge urged the state Supreme Court to take.
Hoping to make a point about “ridiculous” religious displays on public property, the Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics at UW-Madison (AHA) added their own display Monday to the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda.
Regarding several letters in Thursday?s paper, I understand and accept that some people object to animal research. But I?d bet that no neurologists or oncologists belong to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
The UW-Madison?s A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research conduct(ed) the study in September and October.
The student unions at UW-Madison will be closed for two weeks for the Christmas and New Year?s holidays, with one very notable exception.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board on Friday gave unanimous approval to a $3 per-seat increase for football season tickets in 2014.
He was a lifetime farmer. He also retired from the University of Wisconsin.
The WisTax study focused on the University of Wisconsin System. Among 2012 freshmen on the 13 UW-System campuses, about 18 percent were required to take remedial math and about 12 percent needed remedial English. Students who needed remedial math exceeded 40 percent at the Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Parkside and Superior campuses. Moving beyond the freshman year, the study examined retention rates. At the Madison, Eau Claire and La Crosse campuses, a combined 93 percent of new freshmen return for their second year. But at the other 10 campuses, a combined 80 percent return for a second year. However, that?s still higher than the national rate.
Even after three years of raises totaling more than $9 million, professors in the University of Wisconsin System still earn less than they could at comparable universities, according to a published report.
An internationally acclaimed stem cell researcher, a cartoonist and a fourth-grader walk into a building. What could sound like the setup to a joke is something else to staffers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery: just another day.
Donald Downs, a UW-Madison law, political science and journalism professor, said adding homelessness as a protected class could make it illegal to refuse to hire someone because he or she is homeless.
Wisconsin?s college savings plan, EdVest, is expanding its holiday marketing while banking on a law change to increase tax-deductible contributions and contributors.
Unions representing nurses, x-ray technicians, custodians, food service workers and other UW Hospital and Clinics employees aren?t any happier with hospital leadership than they were last week, when they held a large rally outside the hospital and walked into a meeting of the hospital board to voice their concerns about the pending expiration of their collective bargaining agreements.
Police have arrested a former university employee for felony theft for allegedly embezzling nearly $145,000 while working for UW SWAP in Verona, UW-Madison Police said Friday.
An accountant is accused of stealing more than $100,000 while working for a University of Wisconsin department.
Court documents state prosecutors lacked enough, unspecified evidence to prove a sex assault charge, and a felony false imprisonment charge, against a UW-Madison researcher.
UW-Madison students will vote in March on a proposed $200 million in facilities improvements that could nearly quadruple the recreational sports line item on their segregated fees statements, from $36.78 per semester to $144.78.
Kiplinger?s Personal Finance has named the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the eighth best value among public universities, the magazine announced Wednesday.
Poverty may have direct implications for important, early steps in the development of the brain, according to newly published research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin Athletic Department officials have hosted many NCAA tournament events over the years, but none as unusual as the one they secured Wednesday.
With final exams starting on Sunday at UW-Madison, the last thing a student wants right now is pneumonia. But that?s just what?s hitting the campus.
Madison Metro Transit shouldn?t apologize for running a new PETA bus ad showing us all what terrible things happen to animals inside the UW-Madison?s labs.
There are alternatives to using live animals for medical testing. Science has advanced so that tissues can be cultured and used. Computer modeling is also being used successfully.
A UW-Madison investigation of the program over the last four years shows participation in AVID/TOPS is correlated with higher attendance rates and grade-point averages and other measures of academic success.
During the height of the crackdown on the so-called Solidarity Singers over the summer, I ran into longtime state Sen. Fred Risser, who for the past several days had watched the Capitol Police arrest dozens of people, handcuff them and haul them off to jail.
UW-Madison is in the Top Ten again, not in sports but as one of the best values in higher education. Kiplinger?s Personal Finance annual survey of almost 600 four-year colleges and universities puts UW-Madison at No. 8, up five spots from the 2012 and 2011 rankings.
Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 students from around the globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence, starting what was widely viewed as a revolution in higher education, early results for such large-scale courses are disappointing, forcing a rethinking of how college instruction can best use the Internet.
A member of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee?s now-dissolved student government has sued three UWM officials and the Board of Regents after repeated denials of his public records request for specific emails.
The Wisconsin football regular season finale against Penn State this season was a recipe for thousands of no-shows.
I remember standing with Scott Abbrederis near the finish line at Veterans Memorial Stadium in La Crosse, both of us wondering what more his son Jared had to do to get the chance to play major college football or, specifically, football at the University of Wisconsin.
As President Barack Obama praised Nelson Mandela as a ?great liberator? at a massive memorial service in Johannesburg Tuesday, members of the UW-Madison campus community with ties to the Nobel Prize winning statesman shared their reflections with Inside UW.
Madison stem cell company Cellular Dynamics International will work with the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences in North Carolina?s Research Triangle Park in creating tests to see if chemicals and drug candidates will result in toxic side effects.
(Link) farmed and then later worked at the University of Wisconsin in the Agriculture Department until his early retirement.
