The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Odyssey Project has received two major grants that will support a new program called Odyssey Bridges, which provides expanded services to help more low-income adults complete college degrees.
A recent report from the Cooperative Children?s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that despite the increasing diversity in the U.S., the number of children?s books written by or about people of color continues to be very low. The CCBC found that of the 3,600 books it received in 2012, 68 were by African Americans and 119 were about African Americans. Just 54 of the 3,600 were about Latinos.
Babcock Hall Dairy store, owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1951, will honor incoming Chancellor Rebecca Blank by creating an ice cream flavor in her name.
Bill Mellon of the University of Wisconsin said that when he set out to overhaul computer security recently, he was stunned by the sheer volume of hacking attempts.
Gov. Scott Walker and members of the legislature ordered a tuition freeze in the University of Wisconsin system after it was discovered more than three-quarters of a billion dollars had been secretly piling up in surplus cash.
More than 50 years ago, (now-emeritus UW-Madison botany professor) Hugh Iltis crouched high in the Peruvian Andes to search for a dropped camera filter and found a patch of tiny pinkish violets no bigger than a penny growing in a spot so remote it?s possible no one had seen that type of flower before or since.
When scientists from the University of Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources, and other agencies lowered a plastic curtain into a pristine hourglass-shaped lake in the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest in 1984, it drew national attention. The barrier blocked water and effectively split Little Rock Lake into two basins.
Quoted: “There?s definitely a multiplier effect,” said Dr. George Wilding, director of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. “You end up with thousands of jobs and millions and millions of dollars.”
When Republicans released a Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo this spring showing that the UW had hundreds of millions in reserves, they attacked it for hiding the money and for holding too much of it. In the budget that?s now law, Republicans directed the UW to come up with a new system for tracking its reserves.
The University of Wisconsin System?s decision to drop its Internet service provider could lead ot increased Internet costs for school districts, libraries and other government entities across the state.
Rebecca M. Blank, the economist stepping down from the post of U.S. Commerce Secretary to become UW-Madison?s next chancellor, is relishing the thought of escaping D.C. for a city as quietly cultured as Wisconsin?s capital. The former dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy has a sturdy bipartisan reputation (Republican Gov. Scott Walker hailed her appointment) and friends in a lot of high-profile universities, but a third dimension of her background has so far gone overlooked: her Christian faith.
The outgoing head of the UW-Madison says University System officials should be cautious about freezing tuition in the future.
General Electric Co. chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt complimented the University of Wisconsin System Friday but said the system needs to be lean and nimble in responding to future work force needs.
If it?s not one thing, it?s another.So goes an old saying that the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents seemingly is taking to heart.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is naming its new residence hall after conservationist Aldo Leopold.
The first piece of the University of Wisconsin Alumni Park – a new dock on Lake Mendota – has been completed in Madison.
As an Olympic Gold Medalist in swimming, Carly Piper has a platform to talk to kids, like she recently did at the Greendale Village Club.
I?m on my annual win-a-trip journey, in which I take a university student along with me so we can report on global poverty. The winner, Erin Luhmann of the University of Wisconsin, and I randomly stopped in a village near the Malian town of Mopti to ask about food shortages.
In a recent study, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers asked more than 1,000 people to read a blog post about nanosilver technology. Half of the participants were exposed to civilized reader comments on the post, and the other half were subjected to profanity-laden screeds and putdowns.
In vetoing a last-minute budget provision to boot the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism off the UW-Madison campus, Gov. Scott Walker didn?t pan the effort as much as its narrow scope.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a tuition freeze for all students. Thursday?s vote went beyond a mandate included in the recently signed state budget, which directed the UW to hold the line on tuition only for in-state students, by also applying the freeze to out-of-state and graduate students.
The University of Wisconsin System has approved a tuition freeze for both in and out-of-state undergraduate and graduate students next year.
The fewest baseball bats are shattering in the big leagues in five years thanks in part to a research lab in Madison.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? Tuition will be frozen for all students attending the University of Wisconsin System over the next two years, while fees and room and board costs will go up, under action taken Thursday by the Board of Regents.
Dr. Stanley Phillips, a UW-Madison newborn care specialist injured Wednesday in an ambulance crash south of Rosendale, died Thursday night, UW Health officials said.
One of the nation?s six regional accreditors has approved a new competency-based degree program at the University of Wisconsin known as the “Flexible Option.”
COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Former Ohio State University President Gordon Gee took his time apologizing for remarks he made that were critical of the University of Notre Dame, Roman Catholics and Southeastern Conference schools, among several of his targets during off-the-cuff comments last year, records show.
After the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s football team beat its visiting rivals in 1993, about 12,000 fans rushed toward the field, crushing people in the front rows against a railing. Seventy people were hospitalized.
The new strain of H7N9 bird flu virus has traits that potentially could spark a worldwide flu outbreak, according to a new laboratory study [conducted by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin?Madison] involving virus that was found in humans, then given to animals.
Researchers tested the ability of the H7N9 virus to infect several mammal species including ferrets and monkeys. They found that as well as readily invading the lungs, it could be spread like seasonal flu by coughing and sneezing.
Before the nearly 70,000 babies born in Wisconsin each year go home from the hospital, five drops of blood are collected from a prick of their heels.
For years, John Powless tried cutting and watering grass in his Middleton backyard to simulate playing on Centre Court at Wimbledon.
Noted: The ACLU brought the lawsuit on behalf of Michael Kissick, an assistant University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who participated in protests at the Capitol, including the daily noontime sing-a-long. Kissick said he stopped coming to the Capitol in September when police began arresting and citing people who were demonstrating without a permit.
Noted: UW entomologist Phil Pelliteri said the flooding rains brought mosquitoes back in full force across the state.
The internet provider WiscNet says its business model remains ?solid? following the announcement that the University of Wisconsin will get its broadband Internet access elsewhere.
After five years of hosting curious students from across the globe, Martha Querin-Schultz and her husband Steve have decided to end International Day on their farm in the Town of Cottage Grove.
A nonprofit group which provides Internet services to school districts, libraries and other public-sector entities expects to maintain a viable business model, despite the loss of its largest customer, the University of Wisconsin System.
General Electric Co. chairman and chief executive officer Jeffrey Immelt will address the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Friday in Madison, the university system said Monday.
Leaders of of WiscNet, the Internet service provider the University of Wisconsin System dropped last month, told state senators Monday they are confident that the company will be able to continue providing services to public schools and libraries despite the loss of 27% of its revenue without the university business.
Madison ? Look at a leaf-cutter ant colony, and it?s a bustle of activity, with ants bringing pieces of leaves in, spreading them around on a honeycomb-like bed of fungus, and weeding the garden to remove waste and pests.
So what could be cooler than being a young techie in Madison? These prototypical urbanistas — bike-riders, app-writers, coffee-shop habitués and craft beer aficionados — are the exemplars of the young innovators populating the downtown and maybe building Dane County?s 2lst-century economy.
Are you looking for a fast-paced career in wire-tapping, records grabbing and just general creeping?Then look no further than the National Security Agency.
The reins of the University of Wisconsin men?s track and field program will soon be turned over to a familiar character.
University of Arkansas football coach Bret Bielema is still looking to unload his 6,000-plus-SF home in Fitchburg, Wis.
Quoted: “This is a long term process. We?re looking out 15, 20 years so we?re starting slow and proceed with caution,” said Tom Olson, who oversees the University of Wisconsin Foundation?s $2.1 billion endowment, which has commitments with Actis.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says you may see a few new faces next time you visit the ag research stations at Hancock, Marshfield, West Madison and Lancaster. In the past six months the university has hired or promoted five individuals to leadership roles at those facilities to fill vacancies created by retirements and transfers.
It?s thought that traumatic brain injury may play a role in whether someone develops Alzheimer?s. Scientific advances are allowing researchers to test this idea with willing Vietnam veterans. Sterling Johnson is a neuropsychologist at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health who is collaborating on the national study.
TIMBUKTU, Mali ? IT?S time for my annual win-a-trip journey, in which I take a university student with me on a reporting trip to Africa. So I?m here in Timbuktu, the ancient crossroads of the Sahara, with Erin Luhmann, a journalism student from the University of Wisconsin, navigating roadblocks and jittery soldiers in a city that Islamist militants ruled until early this year.
Attention all NSA recruiters: If you?re planning to pitch your agency at a college career fair anytime soon, be sure to bring your “A” game.
University of Wisconsin researchers have undertaken a genomic study involving patients with cystic fibrosis, aiming to uncover data that explain variation in symptoms among those afflicted with the genetic lung disease. And researchers believe that bioinformatics and other new resources give them an “edge” in the fight to improve treatments, according to the university?s release.
Things looked bleak for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism ? that is, until Gov. Scott Walker, newly minted First Amendment champion, rode to the rescue.
Levy Restaurants has been chosen as the new food service provider for University of Wisconsin Athletic Department, according to sources.
MILWAUKEE – Fire department divers found a 20-year-old student from the University of Wisconsin who drowned in a lake in Waushara County.
On Tuesday, the National Security Agency called at the University of Wisconsin on a recruitment drive.
A second economic study shows that Wisconsin?s sluggish economy isn?t being plagued by a skills gap between job openings and job seekers. The team of researchers from UW-Madison, working on behalf of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Legislative Council, found that ?only a few occupations may see a skills shortage in coming years.?
Jessie Reeder has been a student at UW-Madison for seven years. She?s also a regular Madison Metro bus rider. In all those years, she?s never once been asked to show an ID to prove her student bus pass is legit.
“I am pleased to be chosen to receive the 2014 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship Award. It is exciting to join past and current recipients alike. It is also comforting to be recognized by NEA officials and those who nominated me,” said Richard Davis.
Two representatives of the National Security Agency NSA found themselves the object of surveillance when they conducted a recruiting session at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday, July 2.
Buoyed by the Supreme Court?s ruling last month invalidating gene patents, two advocacy groups on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to similarly forbid a patent on human embryonic stem cells held by the University of Wisconsin?s research marketing arm.
A nationally recognized figure in diversity, leadership and organizational change, Damon Williams will take on an “epic opportunity” as senior vice president for programs, training and youth development for the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America, working with close to 5,000 clubs around the world.
