Noted: “We also worked with the University of Wisconsin System on a new flexible degree program called UW FlexOption to help adult learners earn degrees in targeted fields. Nearly a quarter of all adults in this state have some college credit without a degree. For many, time and money are the barriers to finishing that degree.”
MADISON ? Don?t hold your breath, Wisconsinites, on recovering all of the $15.4 million the University of Wisconsin System overpaid on health insurance premiums in 2011 and 2012.
I was disappointed to read that female students at two University of Wisconsin campuses are exploring the “Sugar Daddy” lifestyle in record numbers. Sugar daddies are older men that “Take care” of younger women financially in exchange for sex or companionship. The co-eds then use the cash to pay for tuition or college expenses.
What?s your salary? How much do you make? For most Americans, it?s impolite to ask. Many would tell you it?s nobody?s business but their own ? a number known only to the individual, his or her employer, tax and loan professionals, and maybe a few others.
In one courtroom Monday afternoon, a Dane County judge sent a former UW-Madison doctoral candidate to prison for three years for possessing child pornography, because a recent state law said she had to.
Video: Oral drops for dog allergies pass another hurdle.
Jerry Kaufman taught urban planning for 30 years at UW-Madison, focusing his restless intellect on research into racial segregation and poverty in cities. Later, he shifted focus to urban agriculture, starting courses on community food systems and putting his knowledge to use on projects including Troy Gardens on the North Side.
MILWAUKEE ? A Milwaukee man serving a life sentence for homicide is getting a new trial after the Wisconsin Innocence Project accused the man?s attorney of mounting a bungled defense.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin Law School, believes the merger will be approved, and it angers him.
Q: Why does a stream of water break into individual droplets as it falls? A: The spheres form through a force called surface tension, the same force that forms soap bubbles into spheres, said Michael Graham, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?Surface tension exerts a force that minimizes the liquid?s surface area, and a long cylinder of fluid has more surface area than a string of droplets of fluid.?
Online trolls may not just be offensive — they may be making you dumber, a new study found. The comments section of science news may be coloring the way readers think on the most unbiased science stories, can dumb down the discussion and impact what news is more easily available, two University of Wisconsin Madison researchers said.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The president of the University of Wisconsin System says he?s embarrassed by a recent audit finding the system overpaid for health insurance premiums and pension contributions by nearly $33 million over the last two years.
MADISON – It appears a Madison robbery suspect may be trying to ruin Bucky Badger?s reputation.
On Monday, a former UW-Madison doctoral student will be the first in Dane County to go to prison under a new wrinkle in a state law that bans the possession of child pornography.
When Tiffany Jones, a UW PEOPLE Program scholar, entered UW-Madison aftergraduating from Madison Memorial High School, she had thoughts of pursuing a careerin writing or fashion design. But after the Wisconsin Experience which academicallychallenged her as well as exposed her to the broader world community, she turned hersights to science and medicine with purpose and resolve.
Prince Moody, the coordinator for UW-Madison?s Beyond the Game, lived in a bubble his whole life because he was part of the crème de la crème of athletics. As a college student athlete, his world revolved around athletics and academics and he could easily hide out in that world and not really deal with the world that surrounded that bubble.
Marshfield Clinic and University of Wisconsin Health have won approval to participate in a Medicare program designed to test new ways of paying hospitals and doctors.
Gary Andersen?s plan for building his first coaching staff at Wisconsin was a two-step process.
Gov. Scott Walker pledged Thursday to cut income taxes in the state budget he signs this summer, calling it the best way to spark the economy. But he also said the reduction would be phased in over a number of years.
The University of Wisconsin System made $15.4 million in overpayments for health insurance premiums – including $8 million for 924 employees who had been terminated – and miscalculated retirement contributions that resulted in overpayments of another $17.5 million to the state retirement system, according to a financial audit for fiscal 2011-?12 released Thursday by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau.
Tucked in a nondescript building on South Dickenson Street, Tandem Press quietly invites world-renowned artists to work and experiment with expert printmakers and UW?Madison students to create innovative and exciting contemporary prints.
College students across the country may be starting their spring semester on the couch.Only it won?t be for unwinding or easy living, but because of the flu.
The University of Wisconsin System overpaid for health insurance premiums and pension contributions by nearly $33 million over the last two years, including $8 million for more than 900 employees who had already left their jobs, according to a report released Thursday.
Noted: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say the bug is now attacking whitebark pine forests in the northern Rockies in the western U.S. and B.C.
Noted: ?We?re sort of working under the assumption ? at least, on our campus ? that we?re going to see cases similar to what we saw three years ago,? said Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison health services. During the swine flu pandemic, 15 to 20 percent of clinic visits at Wisconsin were for flu-like illness. The usual threshold for outbreak is just 2 to 3 percent of total visits.
Breakthroughs in flexible semiconductors may lead to better and easier night vision for the military and law enforcement, thanks to the University of Wisconsin.
So here?s the deal: Coupon users are a huge market. Heavy coupon users ? whether they?re frugal adults or poor students ? number an estimated 24 million Americans. So what if you had a mobile app, priced at $5, where these folks could scan coupons, organize them in a file and match them to the week?s grocery list?
Roger L. Perkins directs the Veterans Support Center at the University of Utah. He?s had bedrooms that are bigger than his campus office, whose paper-thin walls make it easy for a sobbing student to be overheard next door.
Today would be the 100th birthday of President Richard Nixon. From civil rights to Watergate, Nixon?s term shaped the office of the presidency. Stanley Kutler, professor emeritus in history at the University of Wisconsin and author of Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes, talks about the legacy of the 37th president.
A year after a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist?s bird flu research pulled him into the fray of a global controversy over the safety and wisdom of experimenting in a lab with a potentially deadly virus, the research is still at a voluntary standstill, awaiting new guidelines from the U.S. government.
It?s quite an experience to walk out onto the Rose Bowl field in front of 93,359 screaming fans, especially under the leadership of your school?s most-decorated football coach of all-time.
All too many people have a tendency to roll their eyes whenever University of Wisconsin-Madison students and faculty members raise questions about the exclusive contracts apparel manufacturers like Adidas have with the university.
A new study has worked out the effect online comments have on readers – and it?s surprisingly large.The study hails from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and concentrates on layman reports of science stories (appearing in regular newspapers and magazines). It found that content in the reports were very easily undermined by the comments below – even when it was a simply a matter of tone.
MADISON ? The Madison/Dane County King Coalition is pleased to announce that the official City of Madison & Dane County observance of the 2013 King Holiday will feature Reverend Everett Mitchell of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church as this year?s Master of Ceremonies along with a performance by The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community.
A man with ties to Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison has been identified as the fourth suspect in the attack of UW-Madison football player Montee Ball last Aug. 1.
There haven?t been many dynasties in the long history of University of Wisconsin athletics. Some good ? even great ? teams, to be sure. But dynasties?
Like many on the UW-Madison campus these days, neuroscientist Ron Kalil is following closely the search for a new chancellor.
Noted: For William Cronon, a historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the outgoing president of the history association, the problem is insufficient attention to basic storytelling. Historians, he said, tend to default to a dry omniscient voice that hasn?t changed since the 19th-century, despite the fact that historians no longer believe in that kind of omniscience.
Thirty years ago, Bonnie Svarstad and Chester Bond of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered an interesting pattern in the use of sedatives at nursing homes in the south of the state.
University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen is close to filling the final two openings on his coaching staff.
Gary Andersen is close to completing his first coaching staff at Wisconsin. A UW source confirmed Tuesday that Jay Boulware, the tight ends coach/special teams coordinator at Auburn from 2009 through last season, will coach UW?s tight ends.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropolgy professor who is an often-quoted expert on Neandertal cave men will be featured on the public television series NOVA on Wednesday.
This process is called transcranial magnet stimulation, or TMS. It is the key to a device that Giulio Tononi, one of the most-talked-about figures in anesthesiology since Nassib Chamoun, hopes will provide a truly comprehensive assessment of consciousness. If successful, Tononi?s device could reliably prevent anesthesia awareness. But his ambitions are much grander than that. Tononi is unraveling the mystery of consciousness: how it works, how to measure it, how to control it, and, possibly, how to create it.
The owner of Milwaukee?s newest all-sports station WOKY-AM (920) has no plans to pursue the play-by-play contracts for the Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks, but does not rule out the possibility of seeking the Wisconsin Badgers.
An academic has put together a list of what each Football Bowl Subdivision program is worth, and the University of Wisconsin program is valued at $296.1 million.
The University of Wisconsin System is experimenting with a new “flex” program that allows non-traditional students to obtain course credits through massive open online courses (MOOCs), online classes, and assessment.
Although he lost offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig to the University of Wisconsin, San Diego State football coach Rocky Long is happy with the way new Badgers coach Gary Andersen went about the process.
Dear Dr. Gerhart: I wake up with energy, but never get done what I want to each day. Before I know it, it?s 8 p.m. and I haven?t accomplished what I?d hoped. Do I have an attention disorder?
A: Hundreds of millions of years ago, a mutation in an ancestor of snakes caused a gene to start making toxic molecules, says Noah Dowell, a postdoctoral fellow with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in UW-Madison?s department of cellular and molecular biology.
No. Sound is a sequence of pressure waves that propagate through a compressible medium, such as air or water. Sound has to move molecules in order to travel. Sound is transmitted from a source to the surrounding molecules, which vibrate or collide and pass the sound energy along until it eventually reaches our ears. The closer the molecules are to each other, the farther the sound can travel. This is why sound travels farther through water than it does through air and why it is impossible for sound to move through space.
Notre Dame?s high-profile re-emergence among college football?s elite has focused new attention on the university?s long-standing claims that it does things “the right way” — that football players are treated like anyone else on campus, with no special favors.
Terry Fleischman earns a base salary of $87,649 as an instructor at Fox Valley Technical College, but last year he pushed his compensation to $163,581 by accumulating overage pay for additional teaching.
Two of the highest-paid athletic coaches in the University of Wisconsin System during the 2011-12 school year have already left for better-paying jobs elsewhere.
Jared Abbrederis is returning to the University of Wisconsin for his senior year, a source close to the wide receiver said Saturday night.
Noted: Patricia Flatley Brennan, a professor of nursing and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, heads up Project HealthDesign, a national research effort to explore ways to capture and integrate patient-recorded observations into clinical care. For that 2012 story, she noted that there hadn?t been much demand from the provider side yet. ?There is this delightful tension between what technology enables and social change,? she told me. ?The jury is still out on this.?
Dear Tell All: I?m trying to make sense of the revelation that Madison-based track legend Suzy Favor Hamilton secretly worked as a high-priced prostitute in Las Vegas for the past year. I?ve followed Favor Hamilton from her days as a running phenom at the University of Wisconsin through her Olympic appearances. With her wholesome cover-girl looks and personality, she was America?s sweetheart!
For the second straight year, the University of Wisconsin football team is losing its starting center a year early to the NFL draft.
Sure Stanford Cardinal squeaked out a Rose Bowl victory over the Wisconsin Badgers Tuesday at the Rose Bowl, but when it came to a tailgating challenge before the game, Bucky came out on top.
Noted: The Terrace, Rathskeller and Sett.
Ohio State University researchers, in a joint project with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Wisconsin, used numerical analysis to fill gaps in weather data taken at Byrd Station, 700 miles from the South Pole.
