The program, in place at six community centers throughout Madison including Vera Court, was developed by UW-Madison and Edgewood College and funded by a $330,000 grant from the Madison Community Foundation.
UW-Madison researchers dealing with human or animal test subjects will have a new tool for navigating ethical uncertainties.
?If there is no snow on the ground, there is the potential for deer ticks to be active, any place in the state,? said Phil Pellitteri, UW-Madison entomologist and deer hunter. ?Usually it has to be somewhat sunny and about 40 degrees.?
During the past several weeks, University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen has refused to lobby in an effort to boost his team?s Bowl Championship Series profile.
Maybe Paul Bunyan?s Axe needs to come with instructions.
A small electrical fire in a UW-Madison hall early Friday afternoon created large amounts of smoke, forcing an evacuation and a large response from the Madison Fire Department. There were no injuries.
Did UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank lose out on a key economic position under President Barack Obama in 2011 because of something she wrote 19 years earlier?
Two college students from Wisconsin with deep interests in science are among this year?s group of 32 Rhodes scholars from the United States announced Sunday.
Noted: Applicants from outside the department could include Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing at UW-Madison and a former Madison police officer, who said he is considering seeking the chief?s job and is waiting to see the commission?s application materials before making a decision.
For a few brief moments on Thursday afternoon, Wayne Valliere was communing with his ancestors.
From deep below a sheet of Antarctic ice, UW-Madison researchers have identified invisible cosmic objects they think traveled there from black holes or other unexplored places literally galaxies away. They named the 28 extremely high-energy particles ? called neutrinos ? after characters from children?s television.
If you want to find one of the greatest college towns in the world, look no farther than Bascom Hill and Camp Randall Stadium.
?This bill reforms government for the 21st century by providing a market-driven solution in helping startups raise the capital they need to grow and create jobs,? said Walker during the bill signing ceremony at University Research Park.
The Legislature?s Audit Committee wants more information from the University of Wisconsin System before it will vote on its plan for how much money it will keep in reserves.
He continued his work as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Medicine from 1988 to 1992 and then returned to USF until his retirement in 2007. He continued to serve as Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at USF and UW until his death.
Why does some blue-green algae found in lakes and streams turn toxic? It?s because of a lack of nitrogen, according to a study by researchers at the UW-Madison Sea Grant Institute.
Dear Editor: In Pat Schneiders recent story “Unwelcome: UW-Madison has work to do in building a comfortable workplace for minority faculty,” it states that faculty can bring allegations of discriminatory activity to the Office for Equity and Diversity.
Most everyone around here is fixated on the lower end of the Bowl Championship Series standings, which is understandable given how the University of Wisconsin football team has been sentenced ? quite unjustly ? to languish there week after week.
Learned a lot on the job but don?t have a college degree to show for it? If you can show what you know, you might be able to get academic credit for knowledge and skills picked up outside the classroom with the new UW Flexible Option program.
UW-Madison will give another round of targeted pay raises to some faculty and staff, the second such effort following an initial rollout of pay bumps in 2012.
University of Wisconsin officials launched their new online flexible degree program Monday, promising the initiative will help adults get college degrees and find better jobs faster.
A second study, reported by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, also is troubling for the passive strategy. UW-Madison research, yet to be published, found that prions ? the infectious, deformed proteins that cause CWD ? can be taken up by plants. The findings suggest crops and garden plants pose a previously unknown risk for exposure to CWD among deer.
University of Wisconsin System officials planned to spend a large chunk of their 2012 reserves on several items including scholarships, construction projects and staff salaries, according to a state report released Friday.
As a Badger football season ticket owner, I have heard the obscene chant game after game for years — regardless of what university leaders do to try to stop it.
One solution I haven?t heard discussed regarding the chant at UW football games is the most obvious and probably the most effective one.
With backing from UW-Madison, Terry Sivesind and Toni Sikes created MERLIN (Madison Entrepreneur Resource, Learning and Innovation Network) Mentors.
Part of the global effort to predict storm behavior is being conducted through the UW-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. With support from NOAA, university scientists will work with data from NOAA satellites, current and future. The team will collaborate to improve satellite-based products that monitor weather and climate while enhancing sensors planned for future spacecraft.
MADISON ? UW-Madison police made 16 arrests, issued 16 citations and ejected 40 people during the Badgers? 51-3 rout of Indiana on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
More than three-quarters of the $142 million in UW System fund balances for which state auditors say they could not document a spending plan is on the books for UW-Madison.
UW-Madison will give another round of targeted pay raises to some faculty and staff, the second such effort following an initial rollout of pay bumps in 2012.
As editor-in-chief of the Badger Herald, one of the largest independent student newspapers in the country, Katherine Krueger has a unique perspective on the future of journalism in the digital age. Last year the Herald, which had long been the larger and wealthier of the two UW-Madison campus newspapers, decided it could no longer continue to print a daily broadsheet newspaper.
How does UW-Madison make you feel? UW officials asked that question of some 25 community members, faculty and staff ? many of them African-American ? who gathered Wednesday evening for the second of four scheduled community listening sessions on diversity and inclusion at the university.
New rules that restrict public comments on personnel and contracts before the Madison Area Technical College district board have drawn a furious response from some college staffers and a former board member who say they unfairly limit free speech at the publicly funded college.
Chris Gill has managed to cram a lifetime of hopes and dreams into seven or eight plays this season for the University of Wisconsin football team.
In 1972, she was hired by UW President Weaver to provide leadership for improving and expanding educational and employment opportunities for women, minorities and people with disabilities. Marian was highly motivated by the goals she believed in, and one of these was equity. Many of her publications on women?s issues went national and international and she traveled to foreign countries to introduce the achievements made on the University of Wisconsin campuses. She was a member of the teaching faculty of the UW-Madison and Whitewater, lecturing on women?s studies.
Former UW-Madison athletic director and hall of fame member Pat Richter was the keynote speaker at last Thursday evening?s Community Expo.
An Affordable Care Act ?teach-in? Monday at UW School of Medicine and Public Health will be simulcast to more than 20 UW System campuses, technical colleges and private schools.
A new partnership focusing on entrepreneurship has been launched on the UW-Madison campus.
Kaleem Caire has been pushing to get a good turnout for UW-Madison?s second community meeting on diversity and inclusion, to be held Wednesday at the headquarters of the Urban League of Greater Madison, where Caire is president and CEO.
Michael Ramsey-Musolf recalls a time that his colleagues in the UW-Madison physics department, entertaining seminar visitors, walked past his door on the way out to dinner without inviting him to join them.
Are you fit to be flexed? Let the University of Wisconsin help you find out.
The Fall edition of the Badger Insider, one of the slick publications produced by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, has a great story about one of Badger football?s all-time legends, the Portage Plumber.
Over 2,000 UW-Madison students studied abroad in the 2011-2012 academic year, ranking it sixth among peer universities and colleges in the U.S.
Members of the Classics Society at UW-Madison grew up loving mythological stories and hope to instill that appreciation among elementary students.
Peg thrived on involvement and was, among other things, past president of the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology Alumni Board, the Monroe Jaycettes and Church Women United in Green County. She was a docent at the Elvehjem Museum of Art and a member of the UW Choral Union, Memorial Union Building Association and Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for the Arts.
The U.S. Census Bureau tracks how people move from county to county in each decennial report, but a UW-Madison laboratory has taken that to a visual level.
Farley was an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and served as chair of the Department of Family Medicine from 1982 until 1992.
University Police released their statistics on arrests at the Badgers vs. Brigham Young University, including twenty three arrests, fourteen of them students.
We recently returned to Ohio to attend the Ohio State vs. Wisconsin football game. When we arrived at the motel, we discovered our room was surrounded by UW-Madison students, who may have been shocked to see grey-haired OSU fans in their midst.
Darren came to the UW-Madison as an undergraduate where he earned a bachelor?s degree in political science, a master?s degree in education, concentrating on educating culturally diverse populations, and doctorate in interdisciplinary media education, concentrating on uses of video for social change. Despite sojourns in Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., he always returned to Madison. His award winning documentaries include Stalemate Kapuchea; Strategic Trust: The Making of Nuclear Free Palau; and Healing: The Human Factor.
Does UW-Madison have a snobby image to overcome before it can connect with parts of the greater Madison community?
The UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has laid off all 60 employees from a nationally known eye research center after learning the center had run up a deficit of $4.6 million.
Ron was in private practice for 13 years before joining the UW medical faculty, specializing in maternal-fetal medicine.
When it comes to the unimaginative four-word, two-profanity chant common to the student section during UW-Madison football games, I can?t help but think: So what else is new?
In my wildest dreams I cannot imagine being offended by harmless, boisterous, crude-but-entertaining chants at football games.
The comments by UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez in Thursday?s guest column, “We?re concerned about profane chant, too,” were spot on.
We can fix the UW student chant dilemma, but it will take everyone?s help.
A Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a UW-Madison researcher?s documentary film on how exercise plays a role in combating multiple sclerosis has hit its funding target, and then some.
A fire at a three-story apartment building on Madison?s Near West Side late Saturday night injured three people and displaced dozens of residents, many of them UW-Madison students.
The University of North Dakota and the University of Wisconsin are renewing their decades-long hockey rivalry.
