The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire faculty by a split vote this week passed a resolution that included language of no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
No-confidence votes being taken by faculties across the state were spurred in part by budget cuts the state made to the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow is staying.
Greg Gard appeared refreshed and relaxed.
Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes has decided to withdraw from the NBA Draft and will return for his senior season with the Badgers.
The land manager at the UW-Madison Arboretum found a tiny painted turtle earlier this week.
NBC15 Sports has confirmed that Badgers Forward Nigel Hayes will be returning for his senior season at the University of Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin men’s basketball team learned Tuesday that it will host Syracuse at the Kohl Center as part of the 2016 ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Badgers and the Orange are scheduled to square off in Madison on Tuesday, Nov. 29.
Medical science has had difficulty developing flu vaccines that accurately match circulating seasonal influenza strains.
Birds found so far from their native range are considered “vagrants,” according to David Drake, a wildlife biologist at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Noted: He also co-founded Sharendipity, a programming environment for non-programmers that failed in the recession in 2009; UltraVisual Medical Systems, a radiology imaging system maker that merged with another start-up and had a $400 million public offering in 2005; and Geometrics, which commercialized radiation treatment planning software Gehring developed at UW-Madison and is now owned by Philips.
Noted: The company is among a growing number of start-ups bringing technological innovations to the grocery industry. Fetch was founded in 2013 by Wes Schroll, who was a University of Wisconsin-Madison student at the time.
Wisconsin coach Greg Gard has reeled in a key recruit for the 2016-’17 season.
Wisconsin fans hoping to see a fresh face in the 2016 Big Ten/ACC Challenge won’t get their wish.UW is scheduled to face Syracuse for the second consecutive season, this time on Nov. 29 at the Kohl Center.
Wisconsin scientists have launched an ambitious new project that uses trail cameras to inventory wildlife and tamp down simmering questions about how many deer really roam the state.
Editor’s note: The Water Sustainability and Climate project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison collaborated with other groups to launch the Our Waters, Our Future Writing Contest in January. The group—including the UW–Madison Center for Limnology, Sustain Dane and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters—sought short stories reflecting visions for positive futures for the watershed. This is the winning piece. To read the entry chosen as the runner-up, see the June tablet edition of Madison Magazine.
The Bleacher Report put out a list of the top 15 college football towns in the country based on the town’s relationship to its college program, passion in terms of fan support, traditions, culture and entertainment options on football weekends.
I sat proudly in Camp Randall on Saturday watching my oldest son graduate from UW-Madison. As a two-time graduate of UW, I looked out over the field of new graduates and marveled at what UW has meant to so many people.
The University of Wisconsin’s season-opening game against LSU on Sept. 3 will kick off at 2:30 p.m. from Lambeau Field in Green Bay, ESPN announced Tuesday.
Anyone with computer access can now take part in conducting wildlife research in Wisconsin.Snapshot Wisconsin, a collaboration between UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is recruiting the public to help track the state’s wildlife population.
Wisconsin’s season-opening football game against LSU on Sept. 3 at Lambeau Field is to start at 2:30 p.m. and will be televised by ABC.
Quoted: The cold turned the water in the shoots cells to ice, killing the tissue, said Amaya Atucha, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant horticulture professor.
A scientist who is a pioneer in studying how the body regenerates damaged tissue will be joining the UW-Madison faculty this fall.
Due to circumstances beyond their control — meaning it would be crazy to stop now — the Memorial Union Terrace will remain open this week.
The University of Wisconsin women’s rowing team earned its ninth consecutive to the NCAA Championships after being selected for an at-large bid, the NCAA announced on Tuesday.
A week after nearly 300 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty members passed a symbolic “no confidence” vote in UW system leaders, academic staff members followed suit.
UW-Madison has suspended the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and ordered its members to take part in diversity training after an investigation found students in the chapter repeatedly used racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs, then ostracized a black member who told them to stop, officials said Tuesday.
Wisconsin election laws on trial in federal court this week likely violate the federal Voting Rights Act by disproportionately affecting voting by minority, young and low-income voters, a report by a UW-Madison professor concludes.
Author William P. Jones is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and recently accepted a position at the University of Minnesota.
Noted: Insulete was founded and is headed by Hans Solinger, a well-known transplant surgeon and University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher who has helped bring pharmaceutical drugs to market. Sollinger and Tausif Alam, Insulete’s chief financial officer, discovered and patented a DNA sequence that is glucose responsive and promotes the activation of the human insulin gene.
Patricia Flatley Brennan, a professor of nursing and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the new director of the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest biomedical library.
Quoted: More striking to Steven Deller, an economist at UW-Madison, was the decline in the threshold for middle-income status.
Just because University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s faculty and staff didn’t vote on a resolution to express a lack of confidence in UW System leaders on Tuesday doesn’t mean the vote won’t take place in the fall and pass then, a political science professor said Wednesday.
College is often an exciting four-year adventure for young undergraduates, but sometimes things don’t go according to plan.
Weber-Stephen Products LLC, the suburban Chicago-based grill manufacturer, said Tuesday it is introducing a line of customized Wisconsin Badger grills designed for the tailgating market.
Quoted: “It’s hard to imagine it’s just this particular person that it happened to,” said Kenneth Robbins, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “If it happened twice to the same person in such a short time, it makes you wonder if there’s a significant problem in their system.”
Wisconsin’s homecoming game on Nov. 12 against Illinois is to kick off at 2:30 p.m., Big Ten officials announced Wednesday.
Nigel Hayes’ schedule this week is a bit congested.
Nearly 300 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty members packed a classroom to overflowing Tuesday, and quickly and unanimously passed a symbolic vote of no confidence in UW System leaders when the chancellor suggested moving to a larger room because they were violating fire safety codes.
Noted: SmartUQ was founded by Peter Qian, a statistics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after he was contacted by several large companies looking for a tool to help them accelerate simulations.
Noted: Walker also is set to participate in the 2016 CIGAL Dairy Trade Show, which focuses on the dairy production sector and draws exhibitors from throughout Mexico and the United States, the governor’s office said. The Dairy Trade Show will be held in Guadalajara June 15-17, and Walker will be joined by a delegation that includes Wisconsin businesses, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-River Falls and DATCP.
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez has brushed off criticism that UW doesn’t pay enough money to secure and retain quality football coaches.
Protesters of Gov. Scott Walker’s cuts to the University of Wisconsin system budget disrupted the Stevens Point campus’ celebration as it broke ground Thursday on its first new free-standing academic building in 40 years.
The Medical College of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin-Madison have joined forces to win a $5.5 million federal grant to study Alzheimer’s disease.
The Small Business Development Center at the UW-Madison Wisconsin School of Business is accepting nominations for the 2016 Dane County Small Business Awards.
Erik Iverson, who takes the helm July 1 at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, will make his first public appearance in the state at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference in June.
Marina E. Emborg, an associate professor of medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has won the 2016 Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award for Brain Repair.
As a member of the Board of Visitors of the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an alumna of UW-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, I’d like to urge the Faculty Senates of the University of Wisconsin System to pass the “no confidence” resolutions against the Board of Regents and system President Ray Cross (“UW wrestles with vote of no confidence,” May 1).
Wisconsin football fans clamoring for more marquee opponents at Camp Randall Stadium and more night games will be giddy in 2016.
Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison overwhelmingly voted Monday to protest UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents, saying they had no confidence in their support for the system’s guiding principle.
Former Wisconsin safety Michael Caputo late Saturday agreed to a free-agent contract with the New Orleans Saints.
Noted: Ryan met this woman at his UW Law School 10-year reunion in 2014. Her name, she said, is Marie Packer.
Wisconsin junior forward Nigel Hayes has received an invitation to the NBA combine, according to a source.
A tumultuous academic year is drawing to a close with faculty at more than half the state’s public universities contemplating drastic votes of no confidence in University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross and the governing Board of Regents.
While state budget cuts may make it more difficult for some students in the University of Wisconsin System to get the help they need to choose the right classes and stay on track for graduation, administrators say they are trying to protect advising and even expand it.
One of three men arrested for allegedly spraying white supremacist symbols near the UW-Madison campus will be charged with hate crimes.
The Crazylegs Classic ironmen and ironwomen return year after year to navigate the 8-kilometer run or 2-mile walk. What make this group ironclad is appearances in 25 or more of the annual events, one of Madison’s rites of springs.
I hope all the protesters of the handling of the Denzel McDonald situation take the time to read the April 22 State Journal editorial, “Cop camera brings clarity to controversy.”
When, as they have in recent years, 15,000 or more people show up Downtown for the annual Crazylegs Classic, they stand (then move forward en masse) as representatives of the unofficial start of the running season in the Madison area.
Since a violent 2011 block party on Mifflin Street spurred Madison officials to crack down on the unsanctioned event, police costs have declined.
