Noted: From the September 2016 Orbitz University of Wisconsin US Traveler Compass study. Orbitz and the University of Wisconsin Business School’s US Traveler Compass Study surveyed 711 adults 18-64 who are leisure travelers about their future travel intent. This study is done using Google Consumer Surveys.
Binnu Palta Hill is working hard for a more diverse School of Business.
Quoted: Opponents, however, say these agreements are primarily ways for companies to protect themselves from the competition for workers. Keeping employees from changing jobs or launching their own ventures means companies can pay lower wages, said Martin Ganco, a University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor who specializes in noncompete contracts.
Officials at UW-Madison said they’ve issued 6,486 free voting-compliant ID cards to students as of Monday.
Noted: UW Journalism professor Mike Wagner appeared on 27 News at 5, while UW Political Science chair Dr. David Canon appeared on 27 News at 6. You can watch both interviews in the videos in this web story.
A number of high-profile UW Madison student athletes are speaking out on Twitter against racial inequalities.
Like it did in the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls earlier in the week, the University of Wisconsin moved up one spot to No. 7 in the College Football Playoff rankings, which were released Tuesday night on ESPN.
When the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team gathered for the start of its eight-week summer session in June, there were three new players on the roster.
Two big fall events, the UW-Madison homecoming parade and the Madison Marathon, will require the closing of streets on Friday and Sunday.
The University of Wisconsin will be one of six Big Ten schools to host a Friday night football game next season, the conference announced Tuesday.
The goals are listed on an 8½-by-11 inch sheet of paper and, Nigel Hayes reports, there are enough to fill nearly an entire page.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said Clinton’s decision not to visit or invest heavily in the state proved to be a mistake.
The 2016-’17 academic year is my 21st spent in Dane County covering University of Wisconsin athletics.
University of Wisconsin football players opted not to provide further comment following the Twitter release of a collaborative message by school athletes Monday night calling for UW to more aggressively address how students of color are treated at the university.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton entered the night as the favorite to win the White House.
Harnessing bitter resentment toward America’s shifting social norms and economic base, the political upstart Donald Trump wins the race for America’s presidency over the heavily favored Hillary Clinton.
Republicans maintained their majorities in both the state Assembly and state Senate Tuesday.
The UW-Madison campus hosted watch parties for attendees of all party affiliations to observe as the results came in for the elections, which resulted in Donald Trump being named president elect of the United States.
Many UW-Madison students headed to the polls on Election Day, though one in particular didn’t vote for a presidential candidate—he casted a vote for every other position on the ballot instead.
As college campuses across the country struggle to make all students feel welcome and safe and one of the most divisive presidential campaigns in history winds down, two University of Wisconsin campuses in the Chippewa Valley saw the worst and best in humanity last week.
University of Wisconsin-Madison has indefinitely revoked the season tickets of two people involved with a Halloween costume depicting President Barack Obama in a noose during an Oct. 29 football game at Camp Randall, and Chancellor Rebecca Blank apologized Monday for the university’s response to the incident.
Quoted: “There’s no evidence to suggest that making it easy to sell insurance across state lines is going to be an effective policy,” said Justin Sydnor, an associate professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Noted: While that just seems like a richly developed personal philosophy, it’s actually a common pattern in decision-making, according to new psychology research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business and the University of Minnesota. The study’s authors, Evan Polman of Wisconsin and Kathleen Vohs of Minnesota, find that deciding what someone else should do is less taxing and more pleasant than doing it for ourselves.
Heading into one of the most important weeks of his life, Nigel Hayes had something else weighing on his mind. He was failing his Finance 300 class. He couldn’t even tell his mother. An F? He’s a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
A student at the University of Wisconsin-Stout has died after he was injured in a weekend assault in Menomonie.
Noted: Numbers compiled by University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden show if Clinton doesn’t come to Wisconsin it will be the first time since 1972 that both nominees for president didn’t campaign in Wisconsin before the general election. Burden said the last time was when Richard Nixon decided not to visit the state during his re-election campaign.
Quoted: “Health insurance was expensive before the Affordable Care Act,” said Donna Friedsam, director of Health policy programs at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. “The difference is that people who could not get coverage before can get coverage.”
Quoted: “There’s always been controversy about the extent to which it accomplishes its goals,” said Dan Phaneuf, a professor of agriculture and applied economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Cellectar was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert. Following a 2011 merger with a public company, Novelos Therapeutics, the corporate headquarters was moved to Massachusetts. The company moved back to Madison in 2014.
Noted: Ryder will help host dinners that pair foods with beer at the brewery. He continues his work as adjunct professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he hopes to elevate fermentation sciences by making students consider careers in that area.
A University of Wisconsin-Stout student from Saudi Arabia died Monday one day after being assaulted on a street in downtown Menomonie police and school officials said.
Noted: Ashley had wanted to live in Chicago since visiting the city as a high school student at Divine Savior Holy Angels. She majored in journalism and strategic communication at UW-Madison and got her first job at nearby Lindsay, Stone & Briggs.
With relatively few college-educated people moving here and an economy that is generating large numbers of lower-skill jobs, Wisconsin faces a challenging future, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Extension and UW – Madison argue in a new report.
Fans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison football game caused a stir Saturday night when they wore costumes of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton with nooses around their necks, led by another fan in a Donald Trump mask.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police ejected a total of 69 people, including 11 UW students, from Saturday’s Badgers home football game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers, campus Interim Chief Brian Bridges said.
As the days pass and the reunion draws closer, Rafael Gaglianone experiences excitement – and a bit of dread.
A third University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been hospitalized with meningococcal disease, the university reported Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus continued to reel Thursday under the national spotlight as new details emerged in the case of a senior facing felony charges of sexually preying on multiple students over the last 18 months.
Quoted: “The achievement disparities of Wisconsin are complex and far too many policymakers and politicians want to distill them into a single explanation, like poverty, parental shortcomings or cultural deficits,” Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote in an email.
Quoted: “We can’t escape the fact that health care is very expensive in this country, and that paying for health care is a big and increasing problem,” said Justin Sydnor, an associate professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. “I don’t have a silver bullet, and nobody does.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday that an astronaut who grew up in Milwaukee has been chosen as its December commencement speaker.
As the national news media descended Wednesday on the story of a now-suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting multiple fellow students, the young man’s attorneys issued a statement arguing that “the rapid-fire news cycle, combined with the viral nature of social media,” had resulted in a “modern-day character assassination.”
Quoted: It’s been one of agriculture’s success stories, said Dan Undersander, an agronomy professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.“The U.S. has been growing genetically modified corn now for close to 30 years, on millions of acres, and there’s been no documented evidence of any health concerns for animals or people,” Undersander said.
Quoted: “Ashley was a bright and engaged young woman who always brought an upbeat energy to my class,” Katy Culver, assistant professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison remembered.
Badgers basketball coach Greg Gard once worked part time as a park ranger and sheriff in Iowa County. Lori Nickel
Quoted: “I think that might be code for ’this region is developing economically’ and they’re trying to get into it,” said John Surdyk, a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school and president of the Stanford Club of Madison, which has about 550 Stanford alumni members.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student already charged with four counts of sexual assault now faces 15 more counts after another student accused him of touching her inappropriately during class, according to police and court records.
The beat of melodies and rhymes is a sound that’s catching the attention of hundreds of classrooms across the nation.
Millennials get a bad rap. They’re labeled narcissistic, self-absorbed and apathetic. (Just look at their nicknames: the selfie generation, generation me, the unemployables.)
he backlog of needed repairs in the University of Wisconsin System has grown to an estimated cost of $2 billion.
Students in some chemistry labs at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee can’t do experiments with chemicals that give off toxic fumes because the exhaust hoods they work under are only marginally effective, posing safety risks.
Months after United Way of Dane County issued a call to action for law enforcement agencies to review their use of force procedures, 17 law enforcement agencies from around the county have reported some form of implementation of the recommended policies.
With nearly 15 percent of children in the U.S. suffering from childhood poverty, a group of nine professors, including University of Wisconsin’s Timothy Smeeding, have created a proposal that would provide monthly allowances to families with children.
Quoted: Political Science Professor Barry Burden and journalism professor Mike Wagner said it is hard to predict what a 2022 race would look like because many current political figures will no longer be on the scene and new figures will emerg
The University of Wisconsin Police Department at a ceremony Wednesday broke ground on a $4.8 million expansion of its headquarters.
Faculty members from the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the University of Wisconsin Law School hosted a town hall meeting at the Sheraton Madison Hotel focusing on health care policy, climate change and criminal justice.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank Wednesday attended an Associated Students of Madison meeting to discuss internal budget affairs and the progress of the pilot campus climate initiative, “Our Wisconsin.”
University of Wisconsin experts weighed in on how the last presidential debate could impact candidates, undecided voters and the election.
A few dozen peaceful students drowned out chants from the Westboro Baptist Church with their own counter protest at the corner of Park Street and University Avenue Thursday afternoon.
A University of Wisconsin student has filed a complaint against Lumen House on the basis of discriminating against renters based on their religious statuses.
