An estimated 20 percent of working age adults in the state have earned at least some credit towards a college degree. Officials with the University of Wisconsin System and UW Extension want to help them finish their higher education, with a new program called the UW Flexible Option.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men?s basketball team has played in-state rival Wisconsin each year since 1999. It remains to be seen if the streak will continue next season.
Most nights after coming home from daycare, 2-year-old Brennan?s favorite toy is a $350 iPad.
Noted: In the 1930s, she studied at the University of Wisconsin, where she took classes in art, writing and child psychology, exquisitely apt preparation for her future calling.
Noted: One of the first to do so, in the early 1970s, was a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin named Pauline Boss. She was interested in the way that families cope with uncertainty. Whether it?s the sudden disappearance of a child or the slow erasure of a parent by dementia, the grief process is complicated by a disrupted narrative, because so much of grieving depends on the understanding and acceptance of what has happened.
If you are paying attention to legislative debates or media reports, you may get the impression that our schools are failing and that many people have turned their backs on this uniquely American public institution.
Quoted: ?We?ve all wondered at times if high school determines who we become as adults, and now we have the empirical data to test that notion,? says Pamela Herd, an associate professor of public affairs and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A new report shows record numbers of international students studied in Wisconsin and around the country last year.
In a book coming out this spring, Goffman, now a 31-year-old assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, documents how the expansion of America?s penal system is reshaping life for the poor black families who exist under the watch of its police, prison guards, and parole officers.
MADISON ? 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.
A report of a man with a gun that prompted a police alert in downtown Madison turned out to be a false alarm – just a guy returning home from hunting.
In a review of a study about the lack of students with special needs in New York City charter schools, Julie Mead, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, casts doubt on the study?s conclusion that students with special needs are not counseled out of charters.
The centerpiece of this year?s Thanksgiving dinner should be ?affordable.? Turkey prices are expecting to be stable, according to University of Wisconsin poultry expert Ron Kean. He says we should be paying about what we paid last year.
The Geological Society of America Annual Meeting is always chock full of fascinating science and this year?s meeting was no exception. However, if one talk really caught my attention, it was one presented by Brad Singer on Laguna del Maule. I?ve mentioned the restless volcano before in this space, but after hearing his description of just what is going on down there in Chile, it really has me thinking about how we can look for the candidates for the next massive eruption on the planet.
President John F. Kennedy begins his last full day in the White House with a Western Union telegram to UW-Madison President Fred Harvey Harrington.
Madison, Wis.Started in 1984, this park hosts more than 126 companies that employ 3,500 people. Graduates include Madison?s Exact Sciences, which is developing a non-invasive DNA test for detecting colon cancer. Exact Sciences trades on the Nasdaq and boasts a recent $160 million market cap.
An increasing number of Wisconsin apple growers have adopted integrated pest management while reducing their pesticide use. Not only is it good for the environment, but it also has sent a positive message to state and federal agencies, according to a news release.
University of California President Janet Napolitano on Wednesday proposed freezing tuition system-wide for the third year in a row and called for a policy that would ensure low tuition rates with predictable annual increases in future years.
Former UW-Madison athletic director and hall of fame member Pat Richter was the keynote speaker at last Thursday evening?s Community Expo.
A new report ranks UW-Madison as sixth among U.S. universities and colleges in the number of students studying abroad for academic credit.
A type of abnormal heart rhythm caused by what is called long QT syndrome — which is present in roughly one in every 2,500 newborns — is also linked to stillbirths and sudden infant death syndrome.Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison say they have been able to both diagnose and treat the condition while the baby is still in the womb.
Last Thursday, the Wisconsin State Journal published a letter by Chancellor Becky Blank and Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez expressing their concern about a certain foul chant used in the UW student section at Badger home football games. Despite the fact that the student section has behaved like this for years and years, the chant has become a renewed controversy recently. I assume that?s because someone who had been in a coma for decades woke up and immediately decided to stop by Camp Randall.
The University of Wisconsin has experimented with new learning methods recently by ?flipping? classrooms, changing the traditional structure of large lectures.
Helping children process their parent?s incarceration is an issue University of Wisconsin Professor Julie Poehlmann has been grappling with for more than 15 years. And for the last few years, she has been developing a unique way of communicating with children about some tough life questions.
Noted: The area of the mirror in the Arizona telescope is 75 times larger than the area in a telescope on the MU campus in Columbia, said Eric Hooper, an astronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is the interim director of the WIYN Observatory.
Fox sightings are occurring on the UW-Madison campus, sometimes evening interrupting classes.
Quoted: ?The proportionality is off the charts,? Clif Forbes Conrad, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said. ?I?ve never heard of anything like this.?
At a time of dwindling federal budgets, the National Institutes of Health is considering one sure-fire way to raise record-low grant-approval rates: Have researchers apply for fewer grants.
WASHINGTON — The automatic federal budget cuts, known as sequestration, that took effect in March have forced universities to lay off research-related personnel, delay projects and admit fewer graduate students, according to a new survey released Monday.
A new report claims that special mouth guards and helmets marketed to reduce concussions may not actually provide any additional protection for football players. The findings are from a 2012 study that followed 1,332 high school athletes during a season.
Eric Dahl is the country?s top collegiate eater. The University of Wisconsin-Madison senior fairly regularly chows down tons of food, very fast, on stage, on camera and before throngs of fans and restaurant-goers.Dahl currently holds the number-one ranking within the National Collegiate Competitive Eating Association (NCCEA).
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are flocking to U.S. colleges and universities, helping to drive the number of international students studying in America to record levels.
Look up the Grand Canyon on Google Maps. Imagine running your fingers over your computer screen and actually feeling the topography, the jagged tip of the mountaintops, the unevenness of the rocky terrain. You trace the winding Colorado River and graze the mountainsides as you guesstimate how deep the valley must be in real life.
Noted: But Mr. Vidal?s bequest could be the culmination of a late-in-life relationship with Harvard. He believed his papers had not been treated with the respect they demanded at the University of Wisconsin, where they were previously held, Mr. Parini said.
I had a great conversation this past week with University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Richard Halverson and WHYY Radio Times host Marty Moss-Coane about flipping classrooms.
?[We?re] working toward this dream that we won?t be taking a test, but we?ll just know from your learning and game play how you?re doing,? said Kurt Squire, director of the Games Learning Society Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a group that designs and studies educational video games.
Noted: More than a decade after Pugh?s emergency-room heroics at Howard University, I?m in her lab at the University of Wisconsin hospital finishing up a hernia operation. Just about done?all I need to do is put in the last few stitches. The miniature camera attached to the end of the two long needles I?m clumsily manipulating doesn?t lie: I?m a lousy surgeon. Fortunately, the patient isn?t alive. In fact, he never lived?he?s actually a cloth box with different layers of mesh?which look like the internal organs of a human?and laparoscopic tools, all of which sit on a base consisting of two Frisbees.
On Sept. 26, Mr. Piscitelli?s eighth grade geometry class took a field trip to the 2013 Wisconsin Science Festival. It was a day of fun and learning on the UW Madison campus.The Indian Mound Middle students got a taste of the college life, while exploring the Engineering Campus and visiting different buildings.
A University of Wisconsin program directed at non-traditional adult students will begin accepting applications in a few weeks.
The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is getting updated, and University of Wisconsin researchers are curious about how the language has changed since data was first collected.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank this week called federal sequestration “the biggest problem” facing the Madison campus, saying it arbitrarily targets one of the campus? largest funding sources.
Quoted: ?Consumers think that science is definitive. But the important thing to remember is that science is a process,? said Lydia Zepeda, a University of Wisconsin-Madison consumer science professor.
Tracking the seasonal flu is an onerous task. To accomplish it, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) compiles and analyzes reams of data, including virological surveillance from about 145 laboratories, information on outpatient visits from more than 2,900 healthcare providers, and mortality data from 122 cities.
Charlie Trotter, a chef whose flagship restaurant, Charlie Trotter?s, helped establish Chicago as a serious dining city, died on Tuesday. He was 54.
Each year, 10 million Americans pack up their lives and move to another part of the country. But where are they going? The University of Wisconsin-Madison has made an awesome map that tracks the net migration to different counties across the U.S.
In 1965, bands of surveyors drove their Dodge vans every which way out of Madison, Wisc., starting a project that would take nearly a half century to complete. Their work?going door to door and asking what people called that strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk or those delicious round things you put syrup on and eat for breakfast?became the Dictionary of American Regional English, a six-volume catalog of the things that are only said in Maine or Appalachia or Southern Texas.
Last Friday was Mark Bugher?s final day on the job as director of University Research Park. He has headed it since leaving Governor Tommy Thompson?s administration, for which he served as secretary of the Department of Administration.
After an influx of emails and WiscAlerts this semester, University of Wisconsin students received an email last week reiterating crime rates around campus remain normal, but police are increasing communication with the student body.
Attempts to address space shortages with a new master plan from University of Wisconsin Recreational Sports may fall flat following student feedback, as recent changes downsizing the Natatorium could possibly prevent the university from meeting fitness standards.
Jeremy Fiel grew up going to fairly diverse public schools in Lubbock, Texas. “Some schools had a higher black or Hispanic population,” he said. “But there weren?t any all-white schools.” After graduating college in 2006, he spent three years teaching science in Greenwood, Mississippi. What he saw in Greenwood shocked him.
This week, O?Reilly Factor correspondent Jesse Watters? traveled to Madison, Wis. to visit the University of Wisconsin. The institution was named the “Sexiest College In America” by The Daily Beast.
Noted: During World War II, the University of Wisconsin shortened pre-med to two years. I was accepted to the program in 1947. I graduated four years later. Much of what I learned in my fourth year of medical school was of use to me in my medical practice.
Noted: Brain scans of teenagers revealed weaker connections between the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus in both boys and girls who had been maltreated as children, a team from the University of Wisconsin reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Girls who had been maltreated also had relatively weak connections between the prefrontal cortex the amygdala.
Have you ever felt uncomfortable sharing an elevator with Chinese people talking with each other in their language and you have no idea what they?re saying? Don?t be surprised to learn some Chinese feel the same way.
It?s a common question, often voiced inside the Capitol and within Wisconsin?s business community: How can the University of Wisconsin System better align itself with the state?s economic future?
A new database that was built to map the inter-migration of Americans has shown how the Midwest, above all over areas, has lost the greatest amount of people since the 1950s.
The fact that people are being encouraged to donate samples from everyone in their family, including children, worries Pilar Ossorio, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
MADISON ? The dairy program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has unveiled its first two lactose-free ice cream flavors, catering to customers who may have a hard time digesting milk sugar.
OSHKOSH, Wis. ? More than half of the faculty and professional academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh are getting raises averaging about $2,600.
OSHKOSH – Some UW-Oshkosh faculty members are getting a pay raise.It?s true on other campuses including Green Bay and something many haven?t seen in several years.
