The new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is promoting her campus as a partner, as opposed to a competitor, with other universities and communities across the state.
Besides warnings about alcohol and sexual assault, the UW Police Department?s September newsletter contains a story about a group of student volunteers performing “bleeding/wound care, spinal immobilization and advanced airway management.”
Saul Landau, a determinedly leftist documentary filmmaker and writer whose passion for asking what he called ?the most intrusive questions? yielded penetrating cinematic profiles of leaders like Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende, died on Monday at his home in Alameda, Calif. He was 77. (Landau was a UW alum.)
The University of Wisconsin system has introduced an alternative way to finish your degree by earning credits based on what you already know. It?s the so-called Flex Option.
The new University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor is making the rounds to four-year college campuses ? including Green Bay?s ? in her first weeks in the top job.
Underage students who call police for an alcohol-related emergency would be protected from getting a ticket under a proposed bill that?s gaining some support at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Wisconsin college students are meeting with Democratic lawmakers this week as part of a tour focused on college affordability.
PRAIRIE DU SAC, Wis. – Cows stand patiently in a tent-like chamber at a research farm in western Wisconsin, waiting for their breath to be tested. Outside, corrals have been set up with equipment to measure gas wafting from the ground. A nearby corn field contains tools that allow researchers to assess the effects of manure spread as fertilizer.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has the best real estate education program in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report.
UW Madison is ranked 41st — same as a year ago — in an overall review of 270 doctoral universities.
Noted: Depending on our personalities, and how we?re raised, the ability to reframe may or may not come easily. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, notes that while one child may stay rattled by an event for days or weeks, another child may rebound within hours. (Neurotic people tend to recover more slowly.)
UW alum Richard H. Scheller of Genentech in South San Francisco, Calif., and Thomas C. Südhof of Stanford University, for their study of neurotransmission, the process by which nerve cells communicate with other cells in the brain.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin at Madison, for example, has been doing flipped classroom teaching for almost a decade, combining online content with active learning in the classroom. They have demonstrated significant success in reducing the student failure rate in introductory engineering courses.
A memorial service for Richard ?Grady? de la Cruz took place Monday night at the St. Joan of Arc Chapel. de la Cruz, a former Marquette student who transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Madison this year, drowned in Lake Mendota in Madison Aug. 21.
Call it a telescope, call it a detector, or call it an observatory — it?s all the same to the University of Wisconsin scientists at the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory, which is now the world?s largest neutrino research array. Constructed between 2005 and 2010, the IceCube array consists of 86 identical holes, drilled 1.5 miles deep, scattered throughout the ice and filled with extremely sensitive particle physics monitoring equipment.
In a move that deepens its research and innovation team, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has named a former top executive with Dow Chemical Co. to staff positions with its department of chemical and biological engineering and the Wisconsin Energy Institute.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents hope to avoid future conflict with lawmakers over the UW?s cash balance. It became a big issue earlier this year, when UW officials were called on the carpet to explain a $648 million surplus, accumulated mostly through tuition increases.
Quoted: “If what they are saying is correct, that is truly a massive volcano,” Brian Jicha, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin, says in an article published by National Geographic.
The 2-year-old, $80 million human resources system for the University of Wisconsin System is loaded with risks and weaknesses in how it manages payroll and benefits, according to a report by a national accounting firm released Friday.
It was dubbed “Finding Common Ground,” a Sept. 5 summit to bring together state legislators, University of Wisconsin regents and other university leaders to talk about ways to mend fences after a series of trust-eroding episodes.
A meeting between the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and state legislators last week to find common ground in the wake of recent disputes over cash reserves. But discussions during the meeting about rethinking shared governance had some faculty feeling like they were left holding the bag for administrators? actions ? and that their decision-making authority within the system was under threat.
Under a new policy being discussed by the Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin System campuses would be required to carry over between 10% and 15% of their unrestricted cash balances each year to maintain a healthy financial cushion.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The University of Wisconsin System?s next leader faces a complex financial world marked by dwindling government dollars and questions about whether a college degree is worth the cost, outgoing system President Kevin Reilly told a pair of search committees Friday.
In a recent Huffpo column entitled “Hidden Truths About American Colleges Abroad,” Jim Sleeper makes some alarming accusations. He draws an analogy between American universities that are creating overseas programs and Stalin-era apologists for the Soviet regime of the 1930s.
State lawmakers and University of Wisconsin System administrators came together Thursday at an event meant to repair strained relationships following last April?s discovery of the system?s $650 million in reserves.
Madison ? The University of Wisconsin System invited state legislators to a summit on the UW-Madison campus Thursday to begin rebuilding trust and credibility with lawmakers, and to improve communication in the wake of a blow-up over the UW amassing sizable cash balances without lawmakers? knowledge.
Madison ? University of Wisconsin System officials hope to avoid future dust-ups with the Legislature over how much cash the system and its campuses carry forward from year to year through a new procedure that promises full disclosure of budget details previously not shared.
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.
To Melissa McLimans, history is no joke.Then again, sometimes it is.
MADISON ? The Wisconsin Assembly?s top Republican told University of Wisconsin System regents Thursday to decide whether their job is to promote the system or protect taxpayers during a conference designed to rebuild the system?s relationship with legislators.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) has introduced a bill that he says could make it easier to pay off college loans.
Blank?s slate is fullPublished Sept. 5, 2013 at 2:29 p.m. On the day I met and interviewed Rebecca Blank, the newly appointed chancellor at the University of Wisconsin, one of the headlines of the day out of Madison was that a journalist had been arrested because he was reporting that people were being arrested for gathering and singing in the capitol building without a permit.
A new study sheds light on the role sleep plays in the the ability of the brain?s cells to grow and repair themselves.
The U.S. space agency NASA says a super storm on Saturn offered a rare glimpse into the planet?s thick inner atmosphere, revealing ?the first detection at Saturn of water ice.?
Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are renewing a program designed to track down bicycle thieves by planting “bait bikes” around campus.
Once every 30 years or so, a massive storm rages on Saturn, mixing up the atmosphere and revealing some of the ringed planets hidden secrets.
While new UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank seems genuinely thrilled to be back on a college campus after five years in Washington DC, it seems clear to us her perspective on her new job extends well beyond Bascom Hall and environs.
Scientists believe they have discovered a new reason why we need to sleep – it replenishes a type of brain cell.
?Every girl has a porn star/stripper fantasy? and ?Feminists are annoying, not attractive”?these are just two of the tweets sent out by the widely popular Confessions page, one of the most successful and controversial campus blogs these days, run by a student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Economic regeneration is the name of the game for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and cellular regeneration is one way to play it.
A professor of vocal music education at the University of Wisconsin at Superior is on paid leave as the institution investigates revelations that he is a convicted sex offender.
The latest and greatest in school-based health care could come with the swipe of a tablet. As students return to class this year, school nurses across the country will have access to a newly expanded program called eSchoolCare.
Among the flocks of athletes, coaches, student managers, assistants, trainers and onlookers hustling to and fro at Camp Randall Stadium, it?s not as easy as it once was to pick out the head coach of the University of Wisconsin?s football team.
William F. ?Butch? Ryan, a legendary figure in the rich sports history of the town of Aston, died Friday in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 89.
This Labor Day, we urge Wisconsinites from all walks of life to remember that the history of our great state has always been one of progress.
UW-La Crosse is welcoming its largest number of new students this year since the mid-?80s. More freshmen and transfer students are enrolling, despite the drop in the number of Wisconsin high school graduates. UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow says housing will be tight, but all freshmen will have a place to live. He says with the strong enrollment comes more tuition money that could end up in staff and faculty paychecks.
It?s hard to dispute that teachers are some of the hardest workers out there. They wake up at the crack of dawn and work long after their students have left for the day. And now, a small new study has identified a possible tool that could help prevent burnout among educators: Mindfulness.
Just when you thought Madison might finally be getting over the 1960s comes another volume on the subject. But before you dismiss Matthew Levin?s Cold War University as something you?ve read before, take another look.
It?s called: ?Bec-Key Lime Pie.? The new ice cream flavor is named in honor of new University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca ?Becky? Blank.
Noted: Academic freedom isn?t the only ideal at risk. In 2009, when the University of Wisconsin at Madison was invited by the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan to help create a biotechnology program, the Americans proposed instead to design a school for the humanities and social sciences, one inspired by ?the Wisconsin Idea,? a progressive vision of labor rights and open government. Something very different was built.
One of the first classes many freshmen at universities around the country will take has nothing to do with their major. AlcoholEdu is a two-part online course used by more than 500 campuses seeks to educate students about alcohol.
It?s 9 o?clock on a June morning in a muggy tropical forest not far from Brazil?s Atlantic coast and brown howler monkeys have been roaring for an hour. But the muriquis?the largest primates in the Americas after human beings, and the animals that the anthropologist Karen Strier and I have huffed uphill to see?are still curled high in the crooks of trees, waiting for the morning sun to warm them.
I had to be on the UW-Madison campus today and it was all wonderful congestion. Cars and trucks were lined up to unload stuff into the dorms. Packs of new students and parents were being led around by perky upper classman in red shirts, pointing out where to go for pizza, books and school supplies. (No mention of bars that I could overhear.) It was hot and humid amid hazy sunshine just as it should be.
Calling herself a “fellow newbie,” UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank told thousands of freshman and transfer students at a convocation Friday to leave their comfort zone as they enter college by embracing the diversity of their classmates, taking classes that intrigue them even if they?re not required and asking for help when things get rough.
The incoming class of inductees in the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame is a pretty extraordinary bunch, their achievements a mix of the bold and the enduring.
Shane Ryan hawked Cokes in the cheap seats of Camp Randall Stadium during Wisconsin Badgers football games last season, an exhausting but thrilling first job for the 12-year-old.
When you call the roll of the best athletes ever produced in Wisconsin, David Greenwood is at the top of the list.
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 light bulb could get a brand new power source: genetically engineered E. Coli bacteria.The Biobulb project is the brainchild of AnaElise Beckman, Alexandra Cohn and Michael Zaiken, three juniors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The futuristic concept aims to create light from tiny microbes.
Student government representatives from UW-Madison are backing a bill they say will give students more control over who represents them on the University?s Board of Regents.
