Zach Snider and Olin Hacker will represent UW and the USA at the International Association of Athletics Federation World Junior Championships. Both runners will compete in the 5000 meter run in Poland next week.
Guard Kobe King committed to Wisconsin before the start of the 2015-’16 college basketball season.
The list of nominees for this year’s Emmy Awards with Wisconsin ties has a number of repeaters — and “Making a Murderer.”
Quoted: “In many cases, the actual performance in Milwaukee improved, but the ranking dropped,” said Donna Friedsam, health policy program director at UW-Madison’s population health institute. “This would indicate that other geographic areas also improved on these elements, and improved more than did Milwaukee.”
Old Abe, Wisconsin’s celebrated war eagle who was carried into numerous Civil War battles, was in fact male, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists who sequenced his DNA to settle a centurylong controversy.
Students from high schools in rural Wisconsin are stepping into the shoes of UW-Madison scientists for the week. They’re working hands-on with projects related to research projects that are currently going on at the university.
The Zika Virus has been a major concern among public health officials and world leaders in recent months, especially now that the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil are just a few short weeks away.
Already known for his playmaking ability on the field, Wisconsin senior Vince Biegel has been recognized for his efforts beyond football.
Quoted: As many continue to deal with the aftermath, Professor Patty Loew from UW-Madison says things have actually taken a turn for the worse.
Noted: Page Moreau, academic director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the Wisconsin School of Business, is interviewed.
Xemex, a soon-to-be company that has developed an adhesive mixing nozzle with no moving parts, has attracted interest from four angel investing groups, a University of Wisconsin-Madison official said Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison retained its No. 25 ranking in the world in the latest Center for World University Rankings.
Noted: And there also are plenty of schools where MBA debt is a mere fraction of the totals at the elite business schools. At the University of Wisconsin’s Business School in Madison, the average debt burden for graduating MBAs was a mere $15,481–$106,889 less than Wharton’s average–while the first-year median comp package was $114,694–just $31,609 below the median pay for a Wharton grad.
Quoted: “Thankfully we haven’t seen any serious accidents here, but we have heard some complaints,” UW-Madison Police Spokesman Marc Lovicott says.
VIDEO: David Gagnon is an expert on mobile educational video games at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He talks about the new Pokemon Go app on Live at Four.
Noted: On the UW-Madison campus, players have had at least three close calls this past weekend.”We want people to have a fun time but just don’t walk in the middle of the street. We have had people biking in the street and using it who are weaving in and out of traffic; it’s just not safe. We just don’t want someone to get seriously hurt or even killed,” UW-Madison Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott said.
First-year Wisconsin women’s basketball head coach Jonathan Tsipis has completed his coaching staff with the hiring of Craig Carter as an assistant coach.
Noted: Marc Lovicott, from the UW-Madison Police Department, says thankfully, PokemonGo hasn’t been blamed for any recent incidents in Madison.
I’m a true-blue Madison guy of many decades, so I have a deep appreciation of what a world-class university means for a successful Madtown.
Wisconsin coach Greg Gard and his staff have added an integral piece to their 2017 freshman class, from a state that has provided the Badgers with several talented players in recent seasons.
Wisconsin’s daunting 2016 schedule no doubt will dissected in the weeks leading to the Sept. 3 opener against LSU.
When Ashley Thomas graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012, she found herself at a crossroads.
Noted: UW basketball coach Greg Gard and his family joined in to honor of his father.
Hundreds of Madison area residents gathered at Library Mall on the UW-Madison campus for a march to the Capitol.
Quoted: Kenneth Robbins, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said such comments should prompt questions about how psychologists comport themselves when they’re with clients.
Some people think NBA players, with their stop-and-start quickness and above-the-rim acrobatics, are the best athletes in the world. Others think soccer players, with their speed, endurance and foot-eye coordination, or hockey players, who do much of the above on skates, are the best.
Jared Berggren didn’t grow up in Wisconsin, but that didn’t stop the former Badgers basketball player from feeling like a favorite son earlier this week when the Milwaukee Bucks announced the big man would suit up for their Las Vegas Summer League entry.
Wisconsin’s government transparency laws don’t require public bodies such as the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents to immediately disclose the documents that their members plan to discuss at upcoming meetings, a Justice Department official said Thursday.
Noted: The number of rides on Route 80, which serves the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and is typically dependent on bad weather, Beck said, was down 25 percent in the first five months of 2016.
Noted: W. Lee Hansen is a professor emeritus of economics at UW-Madison.
Noted: Cassie Vanderwall, with UW Health, said apps can be used to harness health in the modern age by encouraging people to become more aware of and accountable to themselves. They vary in their accuracy and user-friendliness.
Noted: The class that starts this fall at the Consortium’s 18 schools — expanded from the original three, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Washington University in St. Louis, and Indiana University-Bloomington — will be a record 490 students strong, up from those original 21, says Consortium Executive Director and CEO Peter Aranda. Thirteen members of that first class graduated with their MBA; this year the number was 411.
Quoted: “A lot of the subprime products went to minorities, so I think that was part of it,” said Andra Ghent, associate professor of real estate and urban land economics at the Wisconsin School of Business.
On an offensive line that struggled for the majority of the 2015 season, Michael Deiter emerged as a bright spot for the University of Wisconsin.
Where to begin with Boris Frank? His 84 years have been full of adventures that have included an eclectic childhood, a brief baseball stint at UW-Madison and a long career in television.
Noted: Rivera joined the department in 2013 and was most recently assigned to the Central District. He worked as an officer for UW-Madison Police from 2008 until he was hired by the city.
Noted: Madison Police say Rivera has been with the department since 2013. He was previously an officer with the UW-Madison Police Department from 2008-2013.
The University of Wisconsin saw a total of 54 student-athletes named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars for the 2015-16 athletic season, as announced by the Big Ten Conference on Wednesday.
Quoted: “These are sometimes sold in convenience stores where kids can just buy them, basically behind the counter,” UW Health emergency room physician Dr. Aaron Kraut says.
VIDEO: UWPD Chief Sue Riseling is retiring. Neil Heinen talks to her about career.
The death of a UW-Madison student who was studying abroad in Italy has been especially hard to take in the communities the young man called home.
Corey Clement was named to the Maxwell Award watch list Tuesday, the first of many preseason award lists to be released in the coming days.
UW-Madison has been working to ensure the safety of the thousands of students who study abroad each year, campus officials said following the death of sophomore Beau Solomon in Rome last week.
No University of Wisconsin football player has ever won the Bednarik Award, which has been given to the nation’s top defensive player since 1995.
A strained Achilles tendon derailed Greg Stiemsma’s hopes of making the Orlando Magic and playing another season in the NBA last October.
Five-year-old Naja Tunney’s home is filled with books. Sometimes she will pull them from a bookshelf to read during meals. At bedtime, Naja reads to her 2-year-old sister, Hannah.
Noted: The report, called “Strong roots: Building economically stable families mobilization plan,” is the combined effort of a group of more than 40 community leaders co-chaired by University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and former Madison Police Chief Noble Wray.
Study abroad programs such as the one UW-Madison student Beau Solomon had arrived in Rome to attend before he was killed over the weekend don’t disclose to parents or prospective students how often their participants are injured or die, according to an advocate for greater oversight of the programs.
Mike Honer was about to drive to work at Culver’s here Monday when his parents stopped him to tell him that a body found in a Rome river was presumed to be his good friend and former River Valley High School classmate Beau Solomon.
The recent death of Beau Solomon has sparked fear in some planning to study abroad. As a result, campuses throughout the UW System are preparing students to travel abroad, while reiterating the importance of safety
Wisconsin seniors Vince Biegel and Corey Clement are getting early looks for two of college football’s most prestigious prizes.
The suspected murder of UW-Madison study abroad student Beau Solomon in Rome follows the suspicious death of a University of Iowa student a year ago.
For many students studying abroad is the experience of a lifetime. But being out of the states in a new country with different cultures and language barriers can also present its challenges. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has around 24 students currently studying abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, this summer. UW-Madison started sending students to JCU in 2012.
He was the luckiest kid in the world.That’s how the family of Beau Solomon felt just over a decade ago, when the young boy from Spring Green got to meet legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre through the Make-A-Wish program.
Pope Francis met on Wednesday with the parents of a U.S. college student whose body was found in Rome’s Tiber river this week, as police tried to establish if the teenager was murdered less than 24 hours after arriving in Italy for summer classes.
Noted: But the site, led by Milwaukee architect and preservationist Richard Perrin and UW-Madison landscape architect Bill Tishler, opened in 1976 in time for the national bicentennial. It has continued to endure despite state budget cuts, a damaging 2011 tornado and competition from other tourist attractions like water parks and amusement rides.
About 200 people gathered at the football stadium at River Valley High School in Spring Green for a candlelight vigil to remember Beau Solomon.
Kelcy McKenna, the head women’s tennis coach at New Mexico, has been named the head coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s tennis team, Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced Friday.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have confirmed a type of bacteria can completely block the transmission of the Zika virus.
Cierra Runge is officially Rio bound.An incoming transfer that will be a redshirt sophomore for the Wisconsin swimming team this fall, Runge received official word from U.S. Swimming on Saturday that she had earned a spot on its team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
