Noted: One expert on the cutting edge of coyote research is Dr. David Drake with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Urban Canid Project. UWUCP is shedding a light on many aspects of coyote behavior, and those findings, in turn, are illuminating how to create smarter coexistence strategies between humans and wild coyotes.
MADISON, Wis. – A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student facing sexual assault, stalking and strangulation charges will plead guilty to five counts ahead of a jury trial scheduled for next week, according to one of his attorneys.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Board has decided to raise student ticket prices on season Badger football tickets to offset lower attendance.
A Department of Education reorganization plan whose broad themes were shared with employees last week would collapse multiple units with higher ed functions into one office whose leader would answer directly to the secretary.
When Dustin Gordon’s high school invited juniors and seniors to meet with recruiters from colleges and universities, a handful of students showed up.
A team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Princeton University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined avian habitat specialists living on arabica and robusta farms in the Western Ghats to learn which is the most “bird friendly” coffee. They also examined the effects on birds of changing a farm from arabica to robusta production.
The cost of tuition can be a deciding factor on where students go to college, but a recent decision by University of Wisconsin-Madison officials plans to make it possible for any Wisconsin student to become a Badger.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are upset about a new mandatory meal plan expected to begin this fall.
GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Ryan Donato would love to clone himself so he could play at the Olympics and Harvard at the same time.
Noted: As Ramzi Fawaz, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has pointed out, superhero comics are the only popular genre in which anomalous bodies are not just tolerated but celebrated: The same thing that makes you look weird means you can save the world.
Wisconsin Department of Administration secretary Scott Neitzel, who played a lead role in recruiting Foxconn Technology Group, will leave Gov. Scott Walker’s cabinet on March 2 and be replaced by Public Service Commission of Wisconsin chair Ellen Nowak.
Noted: As Ben Zuckerberg, a professor of ecology at the University of Wisconsin, puts it, winter coat color has huge “fitness consequences.”
Pewaukee native JJ Watt has long expressed his love and allegiance to his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin. But that won’t technically be the only degree he has on his mantel.
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections’ supervision of Montee Ball following his conviction for domestic violence was called an abject failure by a Dane County judge who denied its request for a hearing to extend the probation of the former University of Wisconsin and NFL running back.
The Wisconsin Singers have big plans for their 50th anniversary, including one performance only in Waunakee Friday, Feb. 23, that promises to pull out all the stops.
Yesterday, a research group at TU Delft, called QuTech, announced that they’d successfully tested two “spin qubits” on hardware supplied by researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. These qubits involve the interaction of two confined electrons in a silicon chip. Each electron has a property called spin, which sort of turns it into a tiny magnet, with two states: “Up” and “down”. The researchers control the electrons with actual cobalt magnets and microwave pulses. They measure the electron’s spins by watching how nearby electric charges react to the trapped electrons’ movements.
Noted: “Today it’s used to bring out the tradition of the cheese, more so than to even out fluctuations over the year,” says Gina Mode, one of the lucky few people who gets to work with and research cheese at the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (she also grew up on a dairy farm). She explains that cows today, and really for much of the past century1, are fed year round on grain-based feed, not grass. And it’s the grassfed cows that have variations in their milk.
As adults we have a lot of questions after Wednesday’s deadly school shooting in Florida, but children have their own concerns. Karyn Riddle is an associate professor at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communications where her research focuses on the effects of exposure to media violence.
Bucky Badger will make you a promise. If you have the grades and the scores and the luck to get into the University of Wisconsin, and if your family’s income is less than the median, Bucky will give you free tuition and cover your fees.
Madison has a pair of world-class art museums, along with a smattering of smaller galleries that are able to land shows from international talents. But it’s easy to overlook the city’s up-and-coming talents: graduate candidates in UW-Madison’s well-regarded master of fine arts program. In the U.S. News & World Report rankings, Madison’s program is tied at No. 15 with prestigious institutions California College of the Arts, Pratt Institute, Stanford University and Temple University.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison program, Bucky’s Tuition Promise, will cover four years of tuition and segregated fees for incoming Wisconsin resident students whose families make $56,000 or less per year. We talk with the school’s director of Financial Aid to learn more.
An effort bringing help to overdose survivors before they leave the hospital is expanding to UW Hospital in Madison. It’s a program already in place at other hospitals in the state. Tonya Kraege is program coordinator and recovery coach manager for Safe Communities, which is working with UW Hospital.
Wisconsin Olympic watchers will see a familiar face leading U.S. Olympic men’s ice hockey team this year: Tony Granato. He’s the head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers Men’s Hockey team, but for the next several weeks he’ll be fighting for gold in Pyeongchang.
Lawrence S. Bacow, a longtime academic leader with expertise in environmental policy and higher education, will be the next president of Harvard University.
Legislation working its way through the state Legislature would prohibit Wisconsin businesses who sign on to the global Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement from receiving some state contracts.
Noted: Matthew T. Hora, an assistant professor in liberal arts and applied studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who studies the path from college to the work force, says the report should “contradict the popular narrative about under-employed baristas and the need to redirect students away from these disciplines.”
As Wisconsinites push through a hard flu season, public-health officials are following a distinct mix of influenza strains and worrying about the effectiveness of this year’s vaccines, but they’re also thinking a lot about an intricate disease-tracking network that’s been built up over time.
The Walter Payton Man of the Year Award honors one man every year at the conclusion of the NFL season for his significant positive impact on his community.
Children’s books are famously bad at embracing diversity. In 2016, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that out of 3,400 kids’ books, fewer than one-quarter of them featured a main character who was black, Asian, Latino or Native American. So it’s vital that parents share the books that are available with their kids.
Every once in a while, a truth is revealed that makes you suddenly realize you’ve been living in the past. There are people who perpetuate outdated myths for their own political purposes.
Noted: “What’s left? Basically what’s left are charges,” said Andrew Reschovsky, a professor emeritus of public affairs and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I think the future probably holds more fee increases.”
Noted: Barbra Bowers, an expert in long-term care at UW-Madison school of nursing says when choosing a facility, you should know that training and staffing levels can cause issues but advises doing your homework.
That’s the date, if things go as planned, when UW-Rock County and UW-Whitewater would officially merge, according to UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper.
MADISON — A new state report indicates the University of Wisconsin System hasn’t developed a comprehensive computer security program.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members railed against UW System President Ray Cross on Tuesday for excluding them from the plan to restructure the University of Wisconsin System.
Some athletic officials are beginning to steer clear of the Aurora facility run by powerhouse youth volleyball coach Rick Butler in the wake of sexual abuse allegations, even though other key organizations are waiting to act.
OSHKOSH – University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh leaders aim to fill a $9.5 million budget hole through a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases.
Religious colleges would be able to bar openly same-sex relationships without fear of repercussions.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee business school dean wants the state Claims Board to pay him nearly $800,000 because university officials broke employment promises.
MILWAUKEE – Foster children may soon be getting a free education thanks to the state of Wisconsin. A newly proposed bill is gaining bipartisan support in Madison.
Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Beau Allen is back on his home turf this week for Super Bowl 52. The Minnetonka native is lecturing teammates on the cold and hoping for some of his family’s famous 7-layer Jell-O.
Noted: Looking for a Mersenne prime is very difficult, just like searching for a needle in a haystack, said Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Laurel Clark, like all space shuttle astronauts, was very busy during her 16-day trip into space.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross’s chief of staff and the vice president of university relations has resigned.
Students and staff across Wisconsin are accusing University of Wisconsin system teachers of sexual harassment.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s top administrator says details of the coming merger with the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County and the University of Wisconsin-Richland are still being worked out.
The University of Wisconsin System has released new details on dozens of complaints of sexual harassment.
There’s a new fever spreading over the town of Stellarton. Let’s call it the Blayre Turnbull syndrome.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The underdog theme has been embraced like no other by the Super Bowl-bound Philadelphia Eagles, and that continued into Monday’s Opening Night at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center, where a handful of rubber dog masks surfaced among media and players.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee is set discuss dismissing a UW-Whitewater faculty member.
Noted: Along with labor worries, cheap credit and improvements in technology are coming together to tip the scales in favor of robotics on dairy farms, said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Mackenzie Mrla brought spray paint, a blanket and green Michigan State mittens to ward off the biting cold. But someone had already repainted the university’s rock, a rough boulder by the river that is by turns a billboard, a rousing sideline cheer and a plaintive glimpse into the university’s collective soul.
MADISON, Wis. – Recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and their families are facing the reality that Congress might not ever agree on an immigration plan to replace the Obama-era program.
The University of Wisconsin System may still be on the hook for debts accrued by the UW Oshkosh Foundation. The non-profit foundation is filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy over several real estate deals gone bad.
Last month, researchers lobbed another salvo in the decades-long debate about the nature of these forms. They are indeed fossil life, and they date to 3.465 billion years ago, according to John Valley, a geochemist at the University of Wisconsin. If Valley and his team are right, the fossils imply that life diversified remarkably early in the planet’s tumultuous youth.
Quoted: “Children should not take any cough or cold medications,” said Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at the University of Wisconsin Health. “They are not beneficial and might be harmful.”
Better language education could help Wisconsin’s global business competitiveness in the future. That’s the idea that brought education and business leaders to the University Wisconsin-Madison on Friday.
Noted: The incarceration rate may indicate that local and state officials should further examine the impacts of Public Law 280 on Wisconsin native communities and reservations, according to Richard Monette, professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and faculty director of the Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center.
Noted: A different approach to the universal vaccine is under way at FluGen, a biotech firm in Madison, Wisconsin. Backed by both government and VC funding, the company is working with technology first discovered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Dr. Gabriele Neumann and exclusively licensed to FluGen.
Laura Dunn, a victim of sexual assault while at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is taking a strong stand to protect students who come forward to report their own experiences of sexual misconduct on campus.
