Dennis Dresang, professor emeritus of public affairs and political science and founding director of the UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs, said he would be surprised if her controversial argument held up in court.
A lieutenant with the police force for the University of Wisconsin?s Madison campus is the new chief of public safety at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Concerned about increasing pressure for development, a group of UW-Madison students is asking the city to consider creating a local historic district in the Langdon neighborhood near campus.
Founded in 2008 based on UW-Madison research, NeuWave?s minimally invasive Certus 140 thermal ablation system attacks cancerous lung, liver or kidney tumors with microwave energy.
There?s nothing new or even unexpected about the love-hate relationship between religion and science.
UW-Madison officials weren?t thrilled to see someone in a Bucky Badger costume appear in pictures from the Solidarity Sing Along last week.
Spatula&Barcode is actually UW-Madison profs Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson, whose legendary Madison food parties and collaborations in the kitchen have led to some deliciously strange and enlightening international encounters.
“It is a bit of a trend,” says Jerry O?Brien, executive director of the Center for Retailing Excellence at UW-Madison. “The concept really is that malls are becoming more of a place to go for an experience rather than just to have the transaction of shopping.”
When it was over, or at least when the officials said it was over, the University of Wisconsin football players lingered on the field at Sun Devil Stadium.
Susan Nitzke, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of nutritional sciences, similarly dismisses the notion of a hard-and-fast figure for daily water intake.
A Dane County judge upheld a $250,000 malpractice cap against UW-Madison doctors but urged the state Supreme Court to take the case, saying the cap set in 1979 is equal to $72,000 today.
UW-Madison is warning of a Bucky Badger impostor.
Republican legislative leaders are suggesting that University of Wisconsin faculty have too much say in policies related to finances and personnel, according to a report in The Daily Cardinal.
The way that Nathaniel Stampley and Jamie Schmidt started making music together almost sounds like the subplot of a Broadway musical.
Graduates trudging through life post-college with student loan debt could see the millstone lightened a bit.
Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are bracing for a full-out attack on shared governance after a Republican legislative leader called for empowering campus chancellors to ?truly be the chief executive officers.?
Scientists based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have started a slew of studies to determine how dairy farms can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Despite last year?s successful hunt and plans for another this year limited to 251 wolves, a UW-Madison survey found public opinion remains entrenched.
We have long associated football with military combat, which helps explain how blitzes, bombs and trenches have become part of our gameday vocabulary … So it wasn?t a surprise to read the following quote from Arizona State coach Todd Graham heading into a non-conference meeting Saturday night with the University of Wisconsin: ?It?s going to be a war.?
UW-Madison has maintained its high standing among the nation?s 270 doctoral universities, tying for 41st overall once again.
She went on to work as an Interior Designer for the Department of Planning and Construction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for many years.
A new Legislature-mandated policy to set guidelines on how much cash reserves each state campus can carry forward met significant resistance at a Friday meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
The University of Wisconsin System budgeted $1.63 billion in salaries for the 2012-13 academic year, a 1 percent, $16.3 million increase over the previous year, according to a State Journal analysis of System data.
?The issue is that grapes, in particular, are very sensitive to growth regulator herbicides,? said Jed Colquhoun, UW-Madison horticulture professor. ?So it only takes a very low dose to cause damage and ? that can be quite expensive when it does happen.?
A UW-Madison Police officer was injured in a crash Saturday while on his way to escort the Tennessee Tech football team to Camp Randall Stadium.
?People are going to scream about the insider politics, but every administration has insider politics,? said John Witte, professor emeritus of political science and public affairs at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.
It?s a valuable natural resource right in the middle of Madison ? the Lakeshore Nature Preserve on the UW-Madison campus. The area protects 300 acres of undeveloped land along Lake Mendota, including Picnic Point, Lakeshore Path and Muir Woods.
Libby Lewis died in 2012 after serving on the Dane County Park Commission for 26 years but her husband, UW-Madison professor emeritus Phil Lewis, is going strong at age 88.
UW-Madison police arrested nearly twice as many people for underage drinking at Saturday?s football game than they did during the Badgers? opening game Aug. 31.
The fiasco with the new concessionaire at the Badgers? first football game this season served to underscore just how low on the totem pole the fans in the stands have fallen.
The University of Wisconsin football team has opened the season with consecutive shutouts, which is uncommon.
This database contains the budgeted salaries for all University of Wisconsin employees for the fiscal year 2012-13, released annually by the university as part of the universitys Redbook budget publication.
She?s only been tweeting with the handle @BeckyBlank for 10 days, but new University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank had racked up 1,532 followers by Thursday.
UW-Madison grad Tom Werner is returning to his college roots this weekend with a dual purpose: to see the Badgers win a football game and dispel some myths about solar energy.
Following state budget negotiations in the spring that were variously described as ?a few bumps in the road? by Sen. Sheila Harsdorf to ?a big blowup? by Sen. Alberta Darling, lawmakers and state university officials spent Thursday afternoon talking out their problems in surprisingly blunt terms.
In wake of the poor concession service University of Wisconsin football fans received during the season opener at Camp Randall Stadium last week, a popular refrain has focused on why a new vendor was brought onboard in the first place.
When artist Romare Bearden set out to create a series based on Homer?s epic poem ?The Odyssey,? he recast the myth of the Greek warrior as ?happening possibly in Africa.”
He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was employed for 35 years with the UW West Madison Agricultural Research Center, enjoying the work he did, his co-workers, and most proud of his perfect compost rows. He retired in 2010.
He graduated from UW-Madison in 1949 and the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1951.
Despite strong improvements in manufacturing hiring, Wisconsin still lags the nation as a whole in recovering from the 2007 recession, says a new report from a UW-Madison economic think tank.
UW police are warning students about excessive drinking after a high number incidents involving alcohol ? including some dangerous levels of intoxication and incapacitation ? in their first week back on campus.
McLimans is the digital services librarian at the UW Digital Collections Center, which since 2000 has scanned images and documents so they are available for free to researchers and Web surfers worldwide.
As the University of Wisconsin athletic department looks for solutions after an inauspicious start with its new concessions manager, the group that used to run game-day food services is experiencing a change at the top.
A UW-Madison professor?s work tracking how muriquis ? a species of monkeys found in the coastal forests of Brazil ? are adapting to population growth is featured in the current issue of Smithsonian magazine.
Wisconsin Badgers fans can expect “a substantially larger number of vendors in the stands” at this Saturday?s game, a UW-Madison athletic department spokesman said in an email late Tuesday. It?s not yet clear where the new vendors will come from or how they?ll be trained.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin is proposing a $225.3 million capital budget for 2014 that advances major initiatives and addresses some acute problems.
When dusk falls, Phalen Pierson, 53, puts down a couple of layers of cardboard with a thin foam pad in between and settles in to spend the night on the steps of Madison?s City-County Building.
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He began his career as an electron microscopist at the University of Chicago in 1978. He then worked at the University of Illinois and later at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a research technician in various fields ranging from cancer research to plant pathology.
UW-Madison has hired a former Capitol Hill staffer and university administrator as interim director of federal relations, a job vacant since the July retirement of longtime director Rhonda Norsetter.
UW-Madison Police made 13 arrests, issued 13 citations and ejected 27 people Saturday at the Wisconsin Badgers? 45-0 blowout of UMass at Camp Randall Stadium.
From his sun-drenched perch in the top row of Section KK in the upper deck of Camp Randall Stadium, Jeff Tracy kept one eye on the action on the field between the University of Wisconsin Badgers and their opening game opponents from UMass, and one eye on the lookout for a vendor bringing some liquid refreshment.
Founded in 2006, AquaMost?s technology grew out of research in the laboratory of UW-Madison engineering professor Marc Anderson.
Currently, with certain exceptions, the Department of Administration, with the approval of the Building Commission, may sell or lease state-owned property if DOA determines the sale or lease is in the best interest of the state.
College presents a lot of choices. Pick your classes. Pick your friends. Pick your name.
There?s a case to make that raising the minimum wage will hurt the people it?s supposed to help. If you go above $9 or $10 an hour, said Tim Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty, employers start cutting jobs. They also might start automating jobs out of existence.
If ever there was a need for a ?can?t we all get along?? moment, this is it.
The Veterans Administration has given a $1.9 million grant to the UW-Madison integrative medicine program to work with doctors to improve the whole health of America?s veterans.
The city of Madison has proclaimed Friday to be John ?Vietnam? Nguyen Day, which marks the one-year anniversary of the death of the 19-year-old UW-Madison student and Chicago-raised hip-hop artist who drowned in Lake Mendota.
Hiking the minimum wage too much might actually hurt workers, in part by reducing employment opportunities, said Tim Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty, but actions like this are ?worth doing.?
