More than two decades of construction on the Near West Side’s main thoroughfare has finally wrapped up, a process that’s certainly added to commutes but is leaving the area better protected from intense flooding.
Column by Jessica Maki, a mass communications Ph.D. student at UW-Madison who earned her master’s at Louisiana State University, and Michael W. Wagner, the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal and professor of journalism and mass communication at UW-Madison.
Erin Warner is a Badger mom who learned the hard way how difficult the housing market can be to navigate.
Years ago, before Warner became the off-campus housing specialist for UW-Madison’s University Housing Division, her own daughter found herself accidentally locked into two different off-campus housing leases. It took months to resolve.
While living in Madison, Flo worked for the University of Wisconsin, Madison as an Account Specialist until her retirement.
She worked for many years for the State of Wisconsin and the UW Medical School until her retirement in 2013.
The state Legislature should consider splitting UW-Madison from the rest of the Universities of Wisconsin system, according to a panel of legislators and others making a list of recommendations about the future of the UW system.
UW Hospital, which last month opened the $465 million Eastpark Medical Center on Madison’s Far East Side, netted $79 million from patient care last year. That resulted in an operating margin, or revenue exceeding costs, of 2.9%, down from 4.1% in 2022.
It’s hard to come up with new accomplishments when you’ve won 54 Big Ten men’s cross country championships and six in a row, but the University of Wisconsin found a way Friday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a consultant to help boost bookings at the school’s event, lodging and conference spaces after experiencing a decline in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prior to attending a private screening last Friday of “A Road At Night’’ — a heartrending documentary on the Howard Moore family tragedy — Greg Gard took a precautionary step.
“I watched it on Thursday night just to prepare myself,’’ he said.
A 2023 UW-Madison survey of Wisconsin dairy farmers found that nearly 40% of farms have at least one foreign employee; other studies have estimated that immigrants account for up to 90% of the labor force in the dairy industry.
There is no state program that pays student teachers, DPI spokesperson Chris Bucher said. Grant funding may be available through individual colleges or universities, such as the UW-Madison teacher pledge program.
The wound-healing film was invented in 2008 by a team at UW-Madison that included Ankit Agarwal, co-founder and chief scientific officer of the company.
With increased visibility of women’s volleyball and the success of the University of Wisconsin-Madison women’s volleyball team, the sport has flourished among girls too, said Franco Marcos. He anticipates Madison’s new professional women’s volleyball team, which launches in January, will continue to bolster the popularity.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is, once again, considering whether to light and pave a portion of the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path along Lake Mendota.
Universities of Wisconsin campuses have 1,177 more students this fall than previously projected, according to enrollment data released Tuesday.
Jim joined the Orthopedics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and eventually became a partner at Bone and Joint Surgery and Associates. In addition to patient care, he was a highly regarded teacher, earning the student-given UW Medical School teaching award twice. Jim also cared for and mentored student athletes on the UW football, basketball and hockey teams. The UW Hockey team won the NCAA National Championship in 1973, while Jim was the team physician.
“Top Chef: Wisconsin” finalist Dan Jacobs was chosen as the keynote speaker for UW-Madison’s Dec. 15 winter commencement.
Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, a librarian at UW-Madison’s Ebling Library for Health Services, has culled nearly 30,000 such ads from 1923 to 2007 into the digital Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources, or HADES. Former colleague Amanda Lambert and several students helped her compile the database, which continues to grow.
Camp Randall Stadium sells between 8,000 and 10,000 of each on every football game day, with a complex path from supplier to buyer that involves scheduling, delivery and warehousing in addition to cooking and selling.
Cases against three of five people charged in connection with a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on UW-Madison’s campus last spring have been dismissed, while one paid a fine and another has the chance to see his case dismissed next year.
Ateam of UW-Madison current and former biomedical engineering students sliced through the competition at a national collegiate inventors competition to win first-place with their combined forceps-scalpel device.
More than a year after the school’s current president announced his retirement, Madison College is starting over in a search for its next leader.
At UW Health, which took part in the clinical trial for Trikafta, nearly all 350 or so patients with cystic fibrosis are on Trikafta or similar drugs, and four of them are in their 70s.
Ordinarily, Ferda and Ali Guctekin watch their daughter’s University of Wisconsin volleyball matches on replay. That’s because most of the Badgers’ matches are played around 3 a.m. local time in Istanbul, Turkey.
Ricardo Hallman can laugh about it now, but two years ago this week was a low point in his football career.
Meanwhile, college students in Wisconsin, another swing state, allegedly received mass texts last week that advocates say could dissuade them from voting. The claim came in a Tuesday letter from a free-speech-advocacy group writing on behalf of Wisconsin’s chapter of the League of Women Voters, which supports expanding voting access but does not endorse specific candidates.
Some art projects are still in the works, Wolf said, like a collaboration with UW-Madison Design Studies teaching professor Monika Thadhani and her class to make an engaging “food culture” wall of historic images.
UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt will step down at the end of the school year and return to the faculty after a turbulent 12 months during which 20% of employees were eliminated, two branch campuses were slated for closure and faculty rebuked his leadership.
Less than two weeks after he signaled he would pursue an insanity defense, a man accused of a violent rape of a UW-Madison student last year in the city’s Downtown says he will plead guilty.
Some say the federal government should be allowed to appropriate products patented by universities and developed with private money if the underlying research received any federal funding and if the products are deemed unreasonably priced. In patent law-speak, that’s called “march-in” rights. It would be a major departure from the bipartisan 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, which was silent on what constitutes “reasonable” price and which has been credited with spurring innovation at major universities nationwide, including the UW-Madison. Erik Iverson, who leads the independent Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, has said the proposal “ignores years of input from experts” who have found “there is no legal justification to redefine march-in rights as a price-control tool.”
The removal of the Memorial Union’s colorful orange, yellow and green terrace chairs — that bellwether of impending winter — will start the last week of October.
The UW Odyssey Project empowers adults to overcome adversity and achieve dreams through higher education.
Bill served as director of the graduate program in school psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and held appointments as principal investigator at the Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development and as discipline chief of Psychology of the University Affiliated Program at the Waisman Center.
Carla dedicated a significant part of her career to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working in both the School of Agriculture and the Art Department.
There was an extra step of paperwork necessary as part of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team’s interest in participating in the 2024 Women’s National Invitation Tournament.
He served as an Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science, working with students and staff for thirty two years, which seemed a job made in heaven for him.
Alobbyist organization for Madison-area landlords and property owners hoped to stall UW-Madison’s push to build a new residence hall, according to a letter to the UW Board of Regents shown to the Wisconsin State Journal last week.
Those hoping to see British band Coldplay take the stage at Camp Randall next summer might have a hard time snagging tickets to the stadium’s first concern in nearly three decades.
UW Health’s seven-story Eastpark Medical Center, under construction for more than two years in the American Center Business Park on Madison’s Far East Side, will open for patients this month.
The man known for his attention to detail during a legendary coaching career that included stops leading University of Wisconsin men’s basketball programs at Platteville, Milwaukee and Madison is still a stickler for the little things when preparing for something.
Lauren Carlini was expecting to kick back and chill on the return flight to Madison after the University of Wisconsin volleyball team recently swept Rutgers in Piscataway, New Jersey. Instead, the former UW star spent the next few hours engaged in conversation with coach Kelly Sheffield, who had just collected his milestone 300th career win in 12 seasons at Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team played five games on Peacock last season. That will double for the 2024-25 season.
While district-wide enrollment remained flat last school year, the student population is likely to trend downward for at least the next five years, according to projections by researchers at UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory.
The design phase is nearly done. Then, the college will take the plans for the new facility to the UW system Board of Regents and State Building Commission, said UW-Madison College of Engineering Dean Ian Robertson.
The answer isn’t straightforward, those involved with bringing a concert back to Camp Randall said Tuesday when the details were unveiled. The tendency has been for big shows to go to larger cities like Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis than to try to fill a venue in Madison that will have a 58,000 capacity for the Coldplay date.
Soon after police officers removed protesters’ tents and withdrew from the scene on May 1, a pro-Palestinian encampment reemerged on Library Mall, forcing University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders to contemplate their next step.
The delivery arrived in the west concourse of Camp Randall Stadium midway through the first quarter Saturday. The cargo on a rolling flatbed cart already was causing a line to form a few minutes later.
Coldplay has been confirmed for a Camp Randall Stadium concert in 2025 and the date is set, according to announcements by University of Wisconsin Athletics and Coldplay.
Dr. Reznikoff was the first woman to earn a PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and went on to become a Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned international recognition for using novel techniques to define genetic changes in transitional cell carcinoma. Dr. Reznikoff served as Chair of the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, underscoring her reputation and her integrity.
The line extends out to the street for what UW-Madison students with the Collegiate Farm Bureau and the Badger Dairy Club are cooking up.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department showed a promotional video at Saturday’s football game for the first concert at Camp Randall Stadium in 28 years.
The teases continued Sunday with an apparent confirmation of the group.
He returned to his beloved University of Wisconsin until his retirement in 1994. During those decades Blair served as an Associate Dean in the College of Letters and Science, Assistant Dean in the Dean of Students Office and assistant to the Vice Provost. He counseled and advised countless students throughout his career whose lives he significantly influenced. Blair supervised doctoral and masters degree students as they served as clinical interns in the University Counseling Services.
A patient should never come out of the operating room with more pain than they went in with.
That’s the thinking behind a group of UW-Madison engineers whose invention aims to make surgical incisions easier and reduce the incidence of accidental cuts from free-floating scalpels.
Pam taught elementary education in the Cottage Grove and Monona School Districts for seven years, until she joined Dr. Dempsey’s Neurosurgery team at the University of Wisconsin as a research coordinator. She finished her career as a research coordinator for the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) study at the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute.
UW-Madison police reported that 26 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and nine people were arrested during Saturday’s football game between the Badgers and Purdue.
Spring in October. That’s what David Stevens, curator of the UW Arboretum’s Longenecker Horticultural Gardens, is calling the unusual fall blooming of local lilacs that’s drawing crowds to see and smell the typically spring-blooming flowers.
One of the Dairyland’s key industries has a shortage of people — and UW-Madison is stepping in to help.
A little over 11,900 students are attending classes, an increase from about 11,300 at the same time last year and roughly 10,700 students in fall 2022, said Tim Casper, executive vice president of student affairs.
Camp Randall has made over $1.2 million in gross alcohol sales since the stadium started selling beer and wine during Badgers football games this season, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates shared with the Cap Times.
