What is the chime that the carillon on theUW-Madison campus plays on the hour? It reminds me of ?Westminster Chimes,? but it?s clearly not the same.
Cristian Beasley, 12, of Splendora, Texas, suffers from leukemia. Because of his illness, he attends school via a robot he controls with his computer at home.
The Walker administration has laid out a plan that would reduce the University of Wisconsin?s (UW?s) reserves by $136 million, partly through a $94 million dollar cut in state funding.
Backpedaling on budget plans for University of Wisconsin campuses might mean more pay freezes or heftier tuition hikes later, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said Thursday.
Jessie Otradovec showed promise in post-high school jobs at Papa John?s and Cost Cutters in Green Bay. But she wanted to play with the universe.
It is a familiar scene in Madison this week. A father and daughter, at a table outside a coffeehouse, talking graduation logistics.
For weeks, Foxs “New Girl” had hyped that its season finale would feature Taylor Swift. But the show kept another surprise guest star a secret: Bucky Badger.
MADISON (WKOW) — The Dalai Lama shares his wisdom for making the world a better place. Thousands of people filled in the Overture Center in Madison Wednesday to hear what he had to say.
MADISON ? On Wednesday, May 15, fourteen-year-old Darien Moran of Madison received his wish to have a personalized bedroom makeover. The Make a Wish Foundation and members of the Wisconsin football team teamed up to give Darien a football themed room.
Students in the University of Wisconsin System will get a two-year tuition freeze.
Fancy seeing the sky in neutrino? Supermassive black holes and enormous stellar explosions may give up their secrets now that neutrinos from space can be detected.
Over the past 20 years, Steven Nadler, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has established himself as this country?s leading authority on the philosophical thought of 17th-century Europe. He has written a major biography of Spinoza, edited scholarly works about Malebranche, been a Pulitzer finalist for ?Rembrandt?s Jews,? and taken up, in ?The Best of all Possible Worlds,? the arguments of Leibniz and his contemporaries about that most troubling of all theological questions: the problem of evil. Why does God allow the innocent to suffer?
Madison – Ethics education that stresses altruism and compassion, taught from an early age, is one key to addressing the world?s greatest problems, from environmental degradation to the nuclear arms race, the 14th Dalai Lama told a sold-out crowd at Madison?s Overture Center for the Arts on Wednesday.
The governor has trimmed the sails on the UW?s budget. News that the University of Wisconsin System has accumulated a budget surplus of some $650 million created a furor among Republican legislators, and now the administration of GOP Governor Scott Walker has responded with a revised budget proposal for the UW, which had originally stood to receive a 181 million dollar increase.
Noted: The magazine highlighted teaching fellowships for minority faculty members at Harvard Law School; the University of Wisconsin School of Law; and the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.
Quoted: Fifteen years from now, lawmakers probably will be debating whether people should even be allowed to drive, said John D. Lee, a professor in the department of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker submitted a revised budget for the University of Wisconsin System on Wednesday that calls for freezing tuition over the next two years and imposing additional spending cuts in light of news the university has a $650 million surplus.
Noted: Hermann, 49, was most recently the senior associate athletic director at the University of Louisville. She was selected over University of Wisconsin deputy athletic director Sean Frazier, the Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey, reported, citing two unidentified people familiar with the situation.
May 2013 will probably not go down as Mark Jeffries? favorite month as CEO of youth fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch. Since he is not running for political office, Jeffries likely didn?t expect he was about to confront a PR firestorm over an interview he gave several years ago. (The story is by Rob Tanner, assistant professor of marketing for the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)
Freeze University of Wisconsin UW tuition, but give the university system more state tax funds. Those are the messages from a new poll.
An experiment buried beneath the ice of the South Pole has for the first time seen the particles called neutrinos originating outside our Solar System.
The search for Rutgers? next athletic director, expected to end Tuesday tonight, will last at least another day.
If state lawmakers move to freeze tuition on University of Wisconsin campuses, the public will largely support that plan. That?s according to the latest Marquette University Law School poll, which found 76 percent of those responding support blocking the UW System from increasing tuition over the next two years.
For over 18 long months the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile have been under siege by the Government of Sudan. This government carries out daily bombing sorties against the people of the area and continues to deny humanitarian organizations from providing desperately needed food and medical supplies.
It?s been a week or so since we?ve heard more regarding Wisconsin deputy athletic director Sean Frazier?s candidacy for the vacant Rutgers athletic director position. Tom Luicci of The Star-Ledger put forth some new information, however, with a Monday report not only confirming the pool of candidates has dwindled to two, but illuminating the fact that each one still has significant past issues to address.
Noted: There appears no rhyme nor reason for vast differences in presidential pay. David R. Hopkins, president of Wright State University — an unremarkable commuter school ranked rather poorly in major-magazine rankings — makes far more than the presidents of the much larger, and vastly more prestigious, University of California at Berkeley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill or the University of Wisconsin.
ENGLEWOOD — Montee Ball no longer is the celebrity of State Street, the big man on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Regardless of whether Rutgers introduces Sean Frazier or Julie Hermann as its next athletic director later this week ? which the school appears bent on doing ? the person who replaces Tim Pernetti likely faces further scrutiny for one red flag in his or her past.
If you think public university presidents make a lot of money, check out this infographic by Deadspin of the highest-paid state employees in the country.
?New financial figures show that, while they earn more than most of us, top leaders at UW-Madison and the University of Wisconsin System, relatively speaking, slummed it compared with peers in fiscal 2012.
Quoted: Estimates are that underground activity last year totaled as much as $2 trillion, according to a study by Edgar Feige, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As we finalize our preparations to receive His Holiness the Dalai Lama for a dialogue on Global Health and Well-being, an event co-sponsored by the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and the Global Health Institute, both at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it is appropriate to reflect on what science is teaching us about well-being. There are four things we can now say that science has taught us about well-being.
Minnesota and Wisconsin have had a reciprocity agreement in place for years that allows college students in either to pay in-state tuition levels if they attend state colleges in the other state. But the University of Wisconsin-Madison, saying it?s not enrolling enough Wisconsinites, wants out.
On his trip to Wisconsin last week, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a prime example of the kind of smart investment the federal government should make to confront climate change and support the economy.
The youngest students on the UW campus are on the move. University Houses Preschool is leaving its location of the past 45 years for new digs on the west side of Madison.
MADISON WKOW– The 66th Alice in Dairyland was announced Friday evening by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. This year Kristin Natzke Olson will be the agencys ambassador as she travels throughout the state.
Every Wednesday after school in the spring and fall, Sherman Middle School students make the trek on foot to nearby Warner Park ? a diverse, natural playground full of teaching possibilities.
Quoted: David La Puma, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin ? and an expert on bird migration ? is visiting Point Pelee National Park at 8 p.m. Saturday to talk with birdwatchers about ?radar ornithology?? or watching birds travel at night via Doppler radar.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin?s budget surplus grew by $500 million Thursday, leading to a bipartisan call by state lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker to put some of the money toward public schools two years after funding was cut by more than $1 billion.
Of all of the world?s chemical compounds, none has a worse reputation than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control of energy production, the conventional wisdom about carbon dioxide is that it is a dangerous pollutant. That?s simply not the case. Contrary to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by increasing agricultural productivity.
The relatively small amount spent on TRIO represents a ?paltry? investment for such seemingly important goal, said Tim Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?We could spend five or 10 billion on this,? he said. ?The payoff is obviously very high.?
Snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere – and especially along the edge of the Snow Belt, as in Wisconsin – has been shrinking.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a grant for researching agriculture and the climate, during a visit to Wisconsin today.
Graduate employees held a ?grade-in? rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison today to draw attention to our vital work and fight our falling wages.
MADISON ? A committee of faculty, students and staff is recommending Minnesota students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison pay out-of-state tuition.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s freshman class includes the smallest percentage of Wisconsin students in at least a decade, according to a new report that recommends the university work harder to attract the state?s best high school students.
A report by a UW Madison committee shows the school enrolled fewer state residents in its freshman class this year than at anytime in the last decade.
Charles Franklin has accepted a position with the Marquette University law school as poll director and professor of law and public policy. Franklin was a professor of political science at UW Madison since 1992. In 2012, he served as a visiting professor at MU and conducted a series of election and public policy polls. Franklin has been a member of the ABC News election night analysis team since 2002.
It?s hard not to feel a bit sorry for Rebecca Blank, incoming chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
About 61,853 students graduated from high school in Wisconsin in spring 2012. About 8,400 of those students applied to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and 3,515 ended up enrolling. About 2,760 students from outside the state joined them.
The recent revival in controversies surrounding dying honey bees has brought global attention to issues farmers, beekeepers, politicians and environmental campaigners have long been aware of. Honey bees are in danger. Honey bees play a critical role in pollinating the crops people eat and, as such are both part of the big business of agriculture and a big business in their own right. Bees are important, environmentally and economically.
Ron Dayne becomes the 13th former Badgers? player or coach elected into the College Football Hall of Fame. Dayne was one of 14 announced on Tuesday to be enshrined as part of the 2013 class.
FRISCO ? Beneath winter?s deep snows there is a secret world of frozen insects and amphibians in quasi-hibernation, where small mammals scoot about eating bugs and fungi. It?s an ecoogical world that?s mostly invisible but functions as a critical part of larger ecosystems. The subnivium, as scientists have dubbed it, is now at risk from global warming.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced May 7 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, that the USDA has awarded $19.5 million to support research, education and Extension activities associated with climate change and its impact on dairy and beef.
It?s hard not to feel a bit sorry for Rebecca Blank, incoming chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reading is typically a solitary activity, but it doesnt have to be. Just ask the organizers of the UWs Go Big Read program. They know books are social media in its purest form, tools for bringing people together and helping them connect, converse and learn from each other.
Large reserve funds held at University of Wisconsin System campuses are embarrassing the Republican- controlled state government.
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker said Monday it?s still unclear how much money originally targeted for the University of Wisconsin System will instead be diverted to pay for deeper tax cuts and to help K-12 schools. Walker said he?s still talking with UW officials about how much money is needed to pay for freezing tuition systemwide while also investing in economic development programs at the university he supports.
?I don?t think there?s any kind of neurological condition that?s 100% predictive,? says neuroscientist Michael Koenigs of the University of Madison-Wisconsin. ?But even when psychopaths know that what they?re doing is a crime, that doesn?t mean they?re in control of their behavior when they offend.?
A growth in out-of-state residents attending public universities is crowding out poor and minority students and making it more difficult for people from those backgrounds to get ahead, a new report argues.
