The national discussion on income inequality reached campus Thursday afternoon as Rebecca Blank, chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison, gave her interpretation of the disparity of opportunity in the United States.
Nearly five years after the official end of the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression, plenty of colleges are still suffering, and not just the tuition-dependent private ones.
It was only a basketball game. But when Shabazz Napier spoke into a CBS microphone late Monday night after his team had just won a national championship, he used the moment to broadcast a message that had little to do with sports.
Academic institutions are among those players often not addressed in the current patent reform debate. They don?t have the financial resources that big businesses like Apple and IBM, two companies that are part of a coordinated lobbying campaign, do.
Enrollment at American colleges is sliding, but competition for spots at top universities is more cutthroat and anxiety-inducing than ever. In the just-completed admissions season, Stanford University accepted only 5 percent of applicants, a new low among the most prestigious schools, with the odds nearly as bad at its elite rivals.
J.J. Watt made a rush toward Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, but it wasn?t part of a defensive play on the field.
Feast your eyes on a genuine relic from the late 20th century: “When You Meet a Lesbian: Hints for the Heterosexual Women.” It is a handout from a women?s studies class at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, circa 1988, and it is really something.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he would like to earn his college degree ? maybe even before the race for the GOP presidential nomination kicks into high gear.
The Project on Fair Representation, a nonprofit legal organization, is seeking plaintiffs for potential lawsuits challenging the race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The organization announced the effort on Monday.
Madison — More than two decades after leaving Marquette University without finishing up his degree, Gov. Scott Walker wants to earn his diploma.
The man behind last term?s affirmative action and voting rights challenges in the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing for more of the same.
WASHINGTON ? It was the last Monday in June, and the Supreme Court had just issued its latest decision on affirmative action. The debate was starting about how much the court had restricted the use of race in college admissions.
A group opposed to affirmative action in higher education is taking the unprecedented step of looking for plaintiffs online.
Former Secretary of the State of Wisconsin Velvalea ?Vel? Phillips can add to her recent accolades. Phillips was honored recently by the Milwaukee Common Council earlier this year and now more recently on March 26, 2014 she is surrounded by children from Sherman Middle School in Madison, WI after receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award at Varisty Hall, Union South at UW-Madison Campus. (Photo by: Pat A. Robinson)
Noted: Eric Ronning, a UW-Madison senior studying mechanical engineering, has won several UW-Madison and national awards for ReHand, a prosthetic hand he designed in 2012 and built using a 3-D printer.
Quoted: ?I think there?s something about aging. There?s a natural feature of realizing that historical change does take time. It?s important for young people in movements to remind us there is not limitless time,? said Connie Flanagan, a professor in the school of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “There is a swath of our culture who is not going to listen to someone in monk?s robes,” says Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “but they are paying attention to scientific evidence.”
At the very last second, Kentucky made the extra point, ending Wisconsin?s journey to the Finals. Before that, Wisconsin fans all over the state were very hopeful and excited that they even made it to the Final Four, but for University of Wisconsin Madison alumni, the fact that they made as far as they did, means something a little bit more.
Madison, Wisconsin – By studying nerve cells that originated in patients with a severe neurological disease, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher has pinpointed an error in protein formation that could be the root of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Montee Ball played football at the University of Wisconsin and attended the Final Four Saturday night in North Texas. The Denver Broncos running back showed up at the Wisconsin/Kentucky game wearing a lime green frog suit (alligator?). Late in the Badgers eventual one-point loss, Ball and friends dressed as a lion and cow, tried to make their way into the Wisconsin student section where they were summarily denied by AT&T Stadium security since they didn?t have the proper wristbands reports the Associated Press.
Wisconsin fans arrived as early as noon to get a good seat in the Sett at Union South to watch the Final Four matchup between the Badgers and Kentucky Wildcats. By tipoff time at 8 p.m. the place was packed.
A few decades ago, inequality started rising in countries around the world. That came as a shock to many economists who originally thought inequality tended to go down overtime. They wondered how inequality could rise in so many different places at once. Well, now a new book by one of the world?s leading experts on the topic suggests an answer to that mystery. Jacob Goldstein of our Planet Money team reports. Quoted: Steven Durlaf, professor of economics.
The Project on Fair Representation, a nonprofit legal organization, is seeking plaintiffs for potential lawsuits challenging the race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The organization plans to announce the effort on Monday.
Even as their spending on instruction, research and public service declined or stayed flat, most colleges and universities rapidly increased their spending on sports, according to a report being released Monday by the American Association of University Professors.
No, he doesn?t have Anders Holm?s charm or Russell Wilson?s national title, but don?t cast judgement on this year?s commencement speaker quite yet.
Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have put aside their differences on military sexual assault reform to turn their attention to the issue of rape on college campuses. In a letter sent Friday, the pair requested an increase in funding at the U.S. Department of Education to improve enforcement of campus crime laws.
Wisconsin and beer go together like Kentucky and whiskey, and like loyal compatriots, the Badger alumni who gathered Wednesday night at the Hilton Anatole held mostly Wisconsin-made Miller Lite in hand.
Past the mining museum on Main Street, the Piggly Wiggly supermarket five blocks down and the Pioneer Ford dealership where Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan once bought a white Mercury Tracer with blue interior, a court bears his name.
It?s been a great run for the Wisconsin Badgers ? they are back in the Final Four this weekend for the first time in years, and here?s hoping they?ll be playing for a championship Monday night.
After playing in every game for some 14 years in baseball, Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees – “The Iron Horse” – took himself out of the lineup because his manager wouldn?t. He had been dropping balls, unable to get to routine plays, hitting in the low .100s, shuffling rather than running.
?The winter is a pretty incredible time of year,? Jonathan Pauli told me. Looking out the window of his office at Wisconsin?s stubborn crust of snow, it occurred to me that ?incredible? might not be the most popular adjective, especially this year, as a harrowing winter slowly releases its grip on the United States.
The University of Wisconsin is going back to the Final Four (it last reached the Final Four in 2000, losing to Michigan State). But now the Badgers are the first men?s basketball team in our state since the 2003 Marquette Golden Eagles to make the NCAA?s version of its men?s basketball championship.
Jim Villa is leaving his post as president of the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin after landing a job as vice president for university relations at the University of Wisconsin System.
This year, the University of Wisconsin launched its version of an all-you-can eat buffet.
Gov. Scott Walker?s former chief of staff at the county level has been selected for a new high profile job at the University of Wisconsin System.
Quoted: ?Rural folks created community colleges because they did not have sufficient access to the existing four-year system,? says Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, associate professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?Over time, people from all sorts of backgrounds have utilized the community college because they felt that they weren?t getting sufficient opportunities in a traditional setting.
Noted: Some educational experts are skeptical of using ROI to evaluate colleges. “If you look closely, this is really a survey promoted by business leaders and people who are not students,” said assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nick Hillman, who studies finance in higher education. “This survey has many methodological flaws and people in the academic community do not really trust it.”
Noted: Howard Schweber, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, echoed that view.?Burke has an uphill road,? Schweber told msnbc. ?She has to find a way to demonstrate that she has principles and character and a story of her own rather than permitting the race to be turned into a referendum on Walker.?
Quoted: ?At any given moment, if we were to swab you ? we?d probably come up with five different rhinoviruses sitting in your nose but you?re not sick,? says Ann Palmenberg, a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rhinovirus is the most common viral cause of the common cold, accounting for 30 per cent to 50 per cent of adult colds, and there are more than 150 strains of it.
Fans of University of Wisconsin Badgers basketball have taken to Twitter to cry foul after Sports Illustrated unveiled a regional cover with the team pictured on the cover.
Last year, the media reported that the University of Wisconsin System had been accumulating large reserves of money while simultaneously raising tuition year after year. Understandably, there was significant public backlash and the state Legislature reacted accordingly by mandating a tuition freeze.
Michelle Li meets the people behind the UW social media accounts that connect fans of the Badgers.
UW coaches, like Bo Ryan, and Google Glass are helping a team of UW-Madison surgeons improve their skills.
It?s almost time again for the Wisconsin Film Festival (WFF), playing on screens around Madison starting Thursday night and lasting a week.
A new study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 of every 68 children in the U.S. has autism. This is means autism is more than twice as common as it was seven years ago. A researcher explains why the increase in numbers and whether we should be concerned by them.
MADISON, Wis. ? University of Wisconsin institutions could conduct classified national security research under a bill that has passed the state Senate.
University of Wisconsin fans are making plans for Saturday?s big game against Kentucky, but not every fan can make the trek to Texas for the Final Four matchup.
During a tour Tuesday of the Madison campus for prospective students Tuesday, father Pete Steiner had the Badgers? trip to the Final Four on his mind as he considered where his twin sons should go to college.
As part of a new program to connect professional journalists with University of Wisconsin students, Joel Christopher of Gannett Wisconsin Media has been named the campus? first Journalist in Residence.
Two rival research groups set out in 1987 to answer a tantalizing question: Could a diet kept meager in calories pay off in longevity?
The results of a longitudinal study, which tested diet and aging in monkeys, shows that consuming calorie-restricted food leads to a significant reduction in mortality and age-related diseases, a discovery that is expected to help scientists develop drugs and other treatments to increase longevity and improve health among humans.
Reducing calorie intake by just 10 per cent could make people live longer, new research suggests.
Extreme calorie counting boosts lifespan in monkeys, according to new research.
For decades, a group of rhesus monkeys has been under observation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Half were randomly selected to eat as much as they desired for the rest of their lives, while the rest were stuck on nutritious, but heavily restricted diets consisting of 30 percent fewer calories. The number of monkeys has slowly dwindled over the years, with scientists taking notes on how each one died.
UNIVERSITY VILLAGE ? Howard Moore just finished a 6-25 season, yet the men?s basketball head coach at University of Illinois at Chicago is all smiles.
Noted: But those numbers may not paint a totally accurate picture, according to Tim Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison. He says the study did not take into account social welfare programs that boost household income.
Kentucky has the most talent. Florida has a 30-game win streak. Connecticut suddenly has momentum. Wisconsin, the fourth member of the Final Four, has Frank the Tank.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced an overhaul Monday of the agencies responsible for finding, identifying, and returning the remains of servicemen lost in past wars. Quotes Josh Hyman, director of the University of Wisconsin’s DNA sequencing lab.
Your shoelace is untied. Welcome to April Fool?s Day 2014. ?Everybody becomes a trickster on this day,? says retired UW folklore expert Harold Scheub.
College students can buy tickets for this weekend?s NCAA March Madness Final Four in Arlington, Texas, for just $40 apiece, a tiny fraction of the average seat price.
