Prosecutors filed six additional charges Wednesday against Alec Cook, the former University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was already facing 15 charges related to sexual assault claims.
Donors have raised $100 million for student scholarships at UW-Madison by matching one of the largest individual gifts ever given to the university, campus officials said Thursday.
Prosecutors on Thursday added six new charges involving five women to the roll of charges against suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook, bringing the number of criminal charges he faces to 21.
At least 4 percent of patients under general anesthesia are conscious after doctors insert their breathing tube before surgery, according to a new study led by a UW-Madison researcher.
New charges have been filed against suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student Alec Cook, bringing to 10 the number of women accusing him of sexually preying on them.
UW-Madison Assistant Professor of Finance, Oliver Levine, talks to News 3 This Morning about reports that the Federal Reserve is about to increase interest rates.
Justin Sydnor is a UW-Madison business professor specializing in risk management and insurance.
The University of Wisconsin has long been among the best research institution in the nation, but recent rankings have some researchers worried about staying competitive with declining financial support.
In December 2014, kids filled the lobby of Bascom Hall as professors and teaching assistants held office hours amid the chaos—meanwhile, just down the hall, UW-Madison administration attempted to work through the noise.
You have to love cats to be Jason Nolen, UW-Madison lecturer and the founder/curator of Instagram’s Cats of Madison. “It makes me seem… maybe a little bit of a cat maniac,” laughs Nolen.
UW-Madison students learning about philanthropy also learned a big life lesson on Monday.
Chef Lisa and Chef Ellen from UW Health joined NBC15’s Meredith Barack to show off some holiday appetizers that are easy and delicious.
I’ve often been asked what the difference between Milwaukee and Madison when it comes to the world of startups. Madison and the UW system represent one of the greatest intellectual brain trusts on the planet; backed up by world-class research.
Noted: Wilde was born in Milwaukee but he lived most of his life near Madison. He studied art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning bachelor and master’s degrees from the institution. He taught studio art courses there from 1948 until retiring in 1982.
Wisconsin teammates Ryan Ramczyk and T.J. Watt, both first-year starters, on Monday were named to The Associated Press All-American team.
Noted: Garcia grew up on Milwaukee’s south side and attended WPCA’s youth arts programming. She is an alumna of Milwaukee Public Schools. Before joining WPCA, Garcia served as a program director at Partners Advancing Values in Education. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in English.
Five of the University of Wisconsin System’s longest-serving chancellors were awarded raises this week ranging from 4% to 6%, bringing their salaries to $220,000 to “help keep these leaders on par with their peers,” according to a UW System spokeswoman.
Quoted: The average scores of companies have risen every year as companies strive each year for improvement, said Tom Eggert, executive director of the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council.”Everybody’s continuing to push each other, and it’s really refreshing that we don’t have the same group all the time,” said Eggert, whose University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students help coordinate the program.
Tuition is going up for thousands of students, faculty are unhappy about a perceived power shift on campuses, and the University of Wisconsin System will ask the state for $78 million to boost money available for pay raises by 2% each of the next two years.
The 15th edition of Curb Magazine, created by a University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism class, was released this week and is all about love in and of Wisconsin.
The attorneys of a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student who is facing multiple sexual assault charges are asking the court to remove his $200,000 cash bail.
A total of 53 student-athletes from the University of Wisconsin have received the honor of earning spots on the fall Academic All-Big Ten teams, the Big Ten Conference announced Wednesday.
The 15th edition of Curb Magazine hit the stands Monday. More than 10 thousand UW Madison alumni will receive a copy of the student-made magazine. It will also be available online and on the iTunes store. Students said they put the magazine together with the entire community in mind.
Every student and employee in the University of Wisconsin System would have to undergo online training on sexual violence and harassment issues under a plan that regents are expected to approve Thursday.
University of Wisconsin System regents are expected to approve raising out-of-state and graduate tuition and give employees raises.
University of Wisconsin officials met with the Associated Students of Madison to discuss the upcoming Black Cultural Center, which will open in the Red Gym in February.
Instead of writing traditional pen and paper letters to a pen pal in an elementary school classroom, school kids can connect with college athletes with software provided by the Chins Up Foundation in Madison.
Religion’s significant role on campus and across the state cannot be underestimated in order to gain a better appreciation for Wisconsin’s culture and climate, according to religious studies professors Corrie Norman, Susan Ridgely and Jordan Rosenblum.
South African scholar Mathodi Motsamayi arrived at UW-Madison in early November with hopes of networking with other scholars and raising awareness of his research during his one-month residency. With one week left, he said he believed his visit has been successful.
Suspended UW-Madison freshman Alec Shiva has been scheduled for a Dec. 27 preliminary hearing.
A new policy brief released Wednesday from a UW-Madison research center shows relatively high rates of students submitting the FAFSA to obtain federal student aid.
Noted: Katie Krueger uses MobCraft as a business model in the class she teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She plans to add a second part to the class next semester — a warning.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday will consider adding stronger language to a policy that faculty members already believe takes power out of their hands, and concentrates it in the hands of campus administrators.
Maybe you’ve heard someone say, “My wife has cancer, and her treatment isn’t working.” Or, “I need equipment that performs better in my plant and saves me time and money.” “My child has autism, and I need better ways to help him.”
Discussion of salaries for assistant football coaches is not new for the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, professor of law at UW-Madison, said he wasn’t surprised policyholders approved the change, adding that for policyholders it should be business as usual.
A November report from the National Science Foundation showing UW-Madison is no longer a top five research university prompted a lot of concern here in Dane County.
UW-Madison administrators detailed plans Wednesday for the Black Cultural Center, and how to best provide space for historically marginalized groups on campus to student leaders who critiqued only housing these groups in the Red Gym.
As the nation marks the 75th anniversary of the attack that started World War II, a team at UW-Madison is sharing the story of how they found and identified the plane of a service member who was killed in action 72 years ago.
Noted: Tom O’Guinn, professor of marketing, appeared on WPR’s Central Time to talk about companies speaking out on political issues and the impact of consumer boycotts.
Paul Chryst’s players now face a challenge that hasn’t been a factor for more than a month: Regrouping after a loss.
Quoted: But regulation may be difficult, admits Christine Whelan, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies the lucrative self-help industry and now sits on the board of SEEK Safely. “Do we regulate the physical things someone can do at one of these workshops?” Whelan says of the challenges of regulation. “Are we regulating the speech in terms of what advice people can give? And then who is the judge of what is good and bad advice?”
Quoted: “We have a program that now costs us $247 million. All at a time when the state of Wisconsin has been one of the biggest public school cutters in the United States,” said Julie Underwood, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law and education professor and voucher critic. “It concerns me that the solution would be to continue to shift resources from public to private, or to shift the bill to the public schools.”
On the day he was introduced as the 30th head coach in the history of the Wisconsin football program, Paul Chryst was asked whether returning to his alma mater represented his dream job.
Noted: Political scientist Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it would be extremely difficult to complete the recount on time. About twice as many votes were cast in the presidential election as the 2011 Supreme Court race.
Quoted: John Hawks, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin—Madison, human evolution expert and co-author of a study which found that 7 percent of human genes have evolved in the recent past (5,000 years), largely in response to environmental change
The man behind the President Obama mask at Camp Randall stadium last month, with a noose around his neck, is a 40-year old Elkhart Lake resident.
Noted: UW Health Pediatric Fitness Clinical Nutritionist Nora McCormick joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to share strategies to help us control our calorie intake Thursday.
On an August evening in 2015, a group of about 80 video game industry insiders and tech gurus crowded into a lounge on the top floor of the former AT&T Building in downtown Madison. The goal of the meetup, organized by the Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP), was to bring all the key players in Madison’s video game scene — from studio executives to independent developers to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers — together in the same room.
The University of Wisconsin football team moved up one spot to No. 6 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday night.
Noted: Meanwhile, UW-Madison researchers continue to study Zika in rhesus macaque monkeys.Four monkey babies born to mothers infected with Zika during pregnancy had Zika virus in many types of tissue, and their heads may have been slightly smaller than normal, said David O’Connor, a UW-Madison pathology professor.
Following a call from students of color in the fall of 2015, Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims, Dean of Students Lori Berquam and Chancellor Rebecca Blank met to create a space at UW-Madison for black students that will open this spring.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank added her name to a statement released Monday that calls for U.S. officials to uphold and expand the 2012 immigration policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects eligible undocumented youth from deportation.
Student Services Finance Committee amended both of the proposed budgets of the Muslim Student Association and of the Student Leadership Program for the fiscal year of 2018 during Monday night’s weekly meeting.
This past weekend, the WUD Art Gala made its debut, offering people the chance to observe student work to be featured in University of Wisconsin’s Illumination journal, an undergraduate humanities publication. The Gala only happens once a year, this time popping up in a cozy room on the second floor of Memorial Union.
Expected state revenue over the next two years will fall $693 million short of what state agencies want to spend over that period, Gov. Scott Walker’s administration reported Monday.
Noted: This was the first year DPI used a variable weighting system and value-added analysis to address the impact of poverty on student achievement. Under this system, the higher the percentage of economically disadvantaged students in a school or district, the higher the weight on student-growth scores. The method for calculating student growth was created by the Value-Added Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In the late 1960’s, then-law professor Robert Bork noticed an amusing phenomenon on the Yale University campus. Student protesters would notify the media of an upcoming demonstration, but if no television cameras appeared, the protest would be canceled on the spot. As Bork wrote in his book “Slouching Towards Gomorrah,” in one instance when the media failed to show, students posted a notice reserving their right to be disruptive at a later time, “thus nicely combining the fervor of revolutionaries with the caution of legal draftsmen.”
Noted: After graduating from Rufus King High School in 2008, Iglesias got a full tuition scholarship to the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the First Wave program, an outlet for artistic students inspired by hip-hop. Casal, a UW-Madison alum, was the program’s creative director at the time, becoming “like a big brother of mine,” Iglesias said.
It’s Friday night on State Street, and a college guy is guiding a drunk woman down the sidewalk past a group of other students. “Hey, do you know him?” someone from the group asks, stepping toward the young woman who stumbles and slurs her words.
