For every taxpayer dollar spent on the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university generates $24 for the state economy, according to a new consultant’s report.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow doesn’t see the value in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cap tuition at UW System campuses to the rate of inflation.
Sportswear giants Nike, Adidas and Under Armour are getting a head start on what could be a landscape-changing year for collegiate apparel deals, including the contract for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In addition to the speech at Messe, Walker joined in signing a collaboration agreement Monday between University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and representatives of DZNE, the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, who together will research diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Noted: Stanley Temple, emeritus professor University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes that even if it works, the de-extinction approach could end up with a net loss of biodiversity, with less charismatic species in particular losing out. “Conservation biologists worry about de-extinction having a destabilising effect. If extinction is not forever, a lot changes… de-extinction might undermine conservation efforts. It could reduce concern over threats to biodiversity by giving us an unfortunate ‘out’,” he says.
Quoted: Kasich is following that traditional approach, said William Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison labor historian. Walker represents a shift by Republicans, employing more confrontation as union membership, influence and the threat of retaliation has declined.
Quoted: Erica O. Turner, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, called the Atlanta sentences “entirely unprecedented.”
About 100 university scientists and their advocates gathered here on Tuesday as part of an annual ritual to convince lawmakers of the value of federal spending on medical research.
Another University of Wisconsin campus has announced a potential early retirement plan for its employees, raising concerns about larger class sizes.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s higher education reporter says the proposal to transform the University of Wisconsin System into a public authority seems unlikely to become reality, though that does not rule out the possibility that the system will gain some flexibility after the budget is signed.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos held a news conference Tuesday in which he expressed support for a cap on University of Wisconsin tuition increases, as well as funding changes for state parks and a prescription drug program.
University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross said Tuesday he does not support Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to peg future tuition increases to the rate of inflation.
Three Republican lawmakers held a listening session Monday at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, which faces a 25 percent cut in state aid under Gov. Walker’s proposed state budget. It was the first budget hearing by Republicans on the campus.
Noted: Travis Pickering, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, said that with less food available it seems that the Fongoli chimps, “have to be more inventive” and that “these hunting weapons even the playing field for non-adults and females.”
As populations age, degenerative brain diseases will torment further millions worldwide. A new German-US partnership intends to stop these afflictions, but will settle for ameliorating their most devastating effects.
A bedspread that may have covered Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying will be tested for his blood in Wisconsin on Tuesday, 150 years to the day after the 16th US president was fatally shot while watching a play in Washington. University of Wisconsin textile expert Majid Sarmadi will test the cotton bedspread to determine if human blood is on the Wisconsin Historical Society artefact.
I am a fiscally conservative Republican and I support Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television. The proposed state budget includes cuts to the Education Communications Board that are just plain wrong.
At 77, Mitzi Neyens had become an expert in waiting. For most of her 53-year marriage to her husband Bill, her kidney disease was manageable, until suddenly, it wasn’t.
Wisconsin judge has sentenced a 20-year-old Kenilworth man to probation in relation to a 2014 sexual assault, which took place on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Gov. Scott Walker wants to modify his state budget plan to cap University of Wisconsin System resident undergraduate tuition increases according to inflation, according to a letter his administration sent to the leaders of the Legislature’s finance committee on Monday.
Wisconsin’s of two-year UW College campuses, along with UW Extension, will struggle if Republican Governor Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts are implemented. Cathy Sandeen, who was officially inaugurated last week as Colleges and Extension chancellor, said the 13 freshman-sophomore campuses located around the state offer an important educational gateway
WAUSAU – Leaders from across the state — across businesses, governments and educational systems — will assemble this week to talk about the future of Wisconsin education.
A group of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Sunday that they cooked up a Rice Krispies treat that shatters the Guinness World Record for the largest cereal treat by half a ton.
Pianist Christopher Taylor simply rocked the Madison Symphony Orchestra concert Friday evening; had he been willing, the audience would have kept him at the piano until the stagehands shut off the lights.
MARSHFIELD, Wis. WSAU — State Representative Katrina Shankland and a number of other officials will be holding a roundtable discussion this morning at UW-Marshfield/Wood County to talk about the proposed cuts to the UW-System’s budget.
Tuition dollars made up roughly 47 percent of revenues for public higher education for the third straight year in 2014, cementing a trend in which tuition revenue now rivals state appropriations as the main funder of public colleges and universities.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved raising tuition for out-of-state undergraduate and some graduate students at most of the system’s four-year schools Friday as the campuses prepare to absorb massive cuts looming under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has approved limited tuition hikes for nine campuses. The increases will impact some graduate and out-of-state undergraduate students over the next two years.
Current and former players on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh men’s soccer team say plans to eliminate the program are “short-sighted.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison students said on Sunday they have completed a Rice Krispies cereal treat weighing more than 5-1/2 tons they hope will be entered into Guinness World Records.
Stanley I. Kutler, a historian who fought for the release of President Richard M. Nixon’s White House tapes and concluded that they proved Nixon was “deeply and intimately involved in sometimes criminal abuses of power, both before and after the Watergate break-in,” died on Tuesday in Fitchburg, Wis., a suburb of Madison. He was 80.
Quoted: The message, said Dr. James Stein, a preventive cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is that “people who are very short should be more rigorous about their lifestyle and control of their risk factors.”
All it took was some flowery language, unnerving descriptions and a horrible story — backed by weak journalism — for a national outcry to follow Rolling Stone’s “A Rape on Campus” article, slammed by a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism report as a “journalistic failure.”
Quoted: “As doctors, we really want to help patients to understand what is wrong with them and how to treat it, and that’s really complicated, so the ‘fix-it’ model can simplify the issues for patients,” senior study author Margaret Schwarze, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, said in an email.
A University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents committee approved plans to raise nonresident and graduate student tuition at nine campuses to help offset $300 million in cuts Gov. Scott Walker has proposed for the system.
Our JanSport brand has the privilege of providing some of the licensed collegiate apparel for the University of Wisconsin. We’re proud that we screen and embroider it at our facility in Appleton, Wisconsin, which employs nearly 800 hardworking men and women.
Last week, Cellular Dynamics International CEO Bob Palay described the $307 million acquisition of his company by Fujifilm as a union of two businesses that “share a common strategic vision for achieving leadership in the field of regenerative medicine.”
In the summer of 2012, Dr. Johannes Wallmann moved to Madison to accept the position of Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Music. In accepting the position, he became the inaugural holder of the John and Carolyn Peterson Chair in Jazz Studies at the university.
UW System President Ray Cross is working closely with state lawmakers and the governor’s office, in hopes of reducing funding cuts to the system. An English professor last month in a public forum asked Cross point blank whether he’d resign if he couldn’t achieve that goal. Cross replied emphatically, “Yes.”
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor says he doubts that the lawsuit filed on Wednesday by state Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson will prevent the court’s conservative majority from voting her off the bench’s top spot.
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is considering merging its College of Fine Arts with its College of Letters and Science as it struggles with a proposed 25 percent cut in its state aid.
The UW Board of Regents met at UW Waukesha on Thursday to discuss the looming cuts if Governor Walker’s proposed budget goes through unchanged.
The proposed 300 million dollar cut to the University of Wisconsin System budget would be too hard on the state’s two year campuses, like Marshfield and Wausau. That’s according to State Representative John Spiros, who says he is working with other lawmakers including Representative Dave Heaton of Wausau to try saving the two year campuses from the budget cuts. “In our two year schools, I know that we have one in the campus here at Marshfield, there’s campuses throughout that would be hurt immensely from those budget cuts.”
Noted: “Keeping quality friendship, sense of control for life and physically active lifestyle would help to protect these parents from accelerated cognitive aging,” said Jieun Song, a researcher at the Waisman Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who led the study.
Louis Brandeis was, of course, correct when he observed that, just as “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” so “publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.”
MADISON — Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, who successfully fought for the release of President Richard Nixon’s secret tapes, died Tuesday. He was 80.
Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, who successfully fought for the release of President Richard Nixon’s secret tapes, died Tuesday in Wisconsin. He was 80.
Jeff Sindelar, Associate Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, UW-Madison, carves into the history of meat processing from ancient Roman times to present day, highlighting ways the industry developed in Wisconsin over the past 150 years.
INDIANAPOLIS — Across the street from the hotel where the Wisconsin men’s basketball team was staying, Andy North stood next to his wife, Sue, staring blankly into the distance. It was the same look he had 70 minutes earlier while shoulder to shoulder with Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers in the Badgers’ section at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Civic and business leaders, legislators, members of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, UW staff and campus shared governance leaders will participate in a discussion on the future of public higher education in Wisconsin next week.
Thirty fraternities have been shut down by either their university or national headquarters since the beginning of March due to hazing, alcohol-related problems, criminal investigations and other student conduct infractions.
MILWAUKEE WITI — The University of Wisconsin System campuses are searching for ways to plug the $300 million budget cut Governor Scott Walker has proposed. It could mean certain students will soon be paying more to go to college.
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh students are speaking out against what university officials say amounts to a $7.5 million funding cut in the proposed state budget.
Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, who successfully fought for the release of President Richard Nixon’s secret tapes, died in Wisconsin. He was 80.
The Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team came up a little bit short in the national championship game against Duke on Monday. Joy Cardin and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank discuss what the program means for the university, especially its great run in 2015.
Noted: To test the music, Teie partnered with Charles Snowdon from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Snowdon and his team visited 47 cats at 23 different homes and played the music to observe the results.
On April 3 2015, a group of prominent biologists and ethicists writing in Science called for a moratorium on germline gene engineering; modifications to the human genome that will be passed on to future generations. The moratorium would apply to a technology called CRISPR/Cas9, which enables the removal of undesirable genes, insertion of desirable ones, and the broad recoding of nearly any DNA sequence.
INDIANAPOLIS — This Duke team was forged not over years but months, weeks, days. Its genesis was a Friday afternoon in November 2013, when the star high schoolers Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor coordinated their commitments to Coach Mike Krzyzewski and a Blue Devils program that was changing before his eyes.
MADISON, Wis. AP — Thousands of Wisconsin fans packed downtown Madison on Monday night, dancing and jumping around, despite a loss to Duke University in the NCAA championship.
Nine University of Wisconsin System schools plan to ask regents this week for permission to dramatically raise tuition for graduate and nonresident students to help offset big cuts Republican Gov. Scott Walker has proposed in his state budget.
