Quoted: “In our first couple of surveys we did already identify adult deer ticks were active,” said Dr. Susan Paskewitz, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has been studying deer ticks for more than 20 years.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved UW-Madison’s new tenure policy
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved a plan to raise nonresident and graduate tuition at five campuses.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved UW-Madison’s new tenure policy.
The FBI Milwaukee Division issued a consumer warning Thursday for a phone scam that primarily targets college students using the FBI’s phone number on caller ID.
UW-Madison officials are hoping by talking about issues of hate and bias on campus, they’ll bring students together in a difficult climate right now.
With a pair of All-America accolades, a Big Ten Conference Swimmer of the Year honor and three school records under his belt this season, UW junior Matt Hutchins secured a spot on the New Zealand national team on Thursday.
While the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team will not be participating in this weekend’s Frozen Four, the Badgers will still have a presence at the annual season-ending tournament. UW is the host school for the 2016 Frozen Four, which takes place in Tampa, Florida.
We’ve been through this before.Not often, mind you, but the University of Wisconsin has had non-seniors test the NBA draft waters over the years. It even had a few — Wes Matthews, Cory Blackwell, Rashard Griffith, Devin Harris and Sam Dekker — leave to pursue their NBA dreams before their eligibility ran out.
A new UW-Madison tenure policy written by faculty members is poised to pass the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents after a series of changes that make it compatible with a System policy governing all state campuses.
Chancellors of five University of Wisconsin System campuses are seeking permission from the UW Board of Regents to raise tuition for nonresident and graduate students in select programs effective this fall.
Two Democratic lawmakers are calling for a public hearing before the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities for chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System to describe how their campuses are absorbing their share of a $250 million biennial budget cut.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have chosen 14 research projects to receive an average of about $300,000 each over the next two years as part of its UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative.
After nearly a year of turmoil over weakening faculty tenure protections, it took nine minutes for a committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents to give preliminary approval Thursday to the first campus-specific policies that will put changes into place.
Noted: He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a football scholarship and graduated with a nonprofit leadership degree in 2014. He returned to Vera Court as a volunteer and helped expand Life as a Boy to include middle school boys before moving on to Kennedy Heights last June.
Badgers, which have long been as synonymous with Wisconsin as cheese, will soon be burrowing into a new home at Vilas Zoo.Zoo, Dane County and UW-Madison officials announced plans Wednesday for a larger exhibit to house the zoo’s two current badgers, with a tentative goal of opening in time for the fall football season. Fundraising efforts are underway for the Wisconsin Heritage Exhibit, with $350,000 of the required $650,000 already collected.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents knows that the first of two academic years under deep state budget cuts is drawing to a close.
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a political science professor at UW-Madison who studies the Supreme Court and judicial issues, said with a 5-2 conservative majority, justices may feel less fearful of splitting off from the “coalition” at the risk of diluting the opinion.
Noted: That would lead her to UW-Madison, where she compiled the second best scoring average for her career (77.13) and led the Badgers in scoring average her last three seasons.
Concerned about a “two-hour drumbeat” from chancellors over $250 million in budget cuts, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross scrapped a plan for campus leaders to tell Regents this week about the cuts’ impacts, Cross said.
Former UW-Madison chancellor Donna Shalala will be keynote speaker at a global summit for women at the university.
Noted: The gBETA program provides free coaching and connections to selected start-ups with ties to any Wisconsin college or university. It is run by gener8tor, which operates start-up accelerators in Madison and Milwaukee, and is supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and American Family Insurance
Quoted: “I thought it was an astounding number,” said Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chancellors of five University of Wisconsin System campuses are seeking permission from the UW Board of Regents to raise tuition for nonresident and graduate students in select programs effective this fall.
In spite of Tuesday’s record turnout, the wait to vote at UW-Madison polling locations remained manageable, officials there said.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross unexpectedly pulled the plug on plans for chancellors to describe the consequences, campus-by-campus, of $250 million in biennial state funding cuts during a Board of Regents meeting in Green Bay on Thursday.
Quoted: It’s a sign that Wisconsin’s primary could be a turning point in the GOP campaign, said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin. “These past 10 days, people have tired of Donald Trump. They’ve simply reached the end of their rope with him,” said Burden, who is also director of the university’s Elections Research Center. “There really is a movement in the party now, that for whatever reason didn’t coalesce until April.”
Quoted: Connie Flanagan, associate dean in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, has seen it on the Madison campus. With new voter ID requirements, there was an urgency to get students registered.”The ’get out the Badger vote’ thing was this message that democracy means you have to do something,” she said. “There was really a sense of agency in the message, and a lot of it was really around how to do it. You can’t just assume you can go.”
Joe Krabbenhoft is 29, only 36 months removed from working as video coordinator for the Wisconsin men’s basketball program in 2012-’13, and has just three seasons as an assistant on his coaching résumé.
Noted: In general, voting went smoothly in Milwaukee and statewide, but there were long lines in some locations statewide, especially near college campuses such as Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, said Albrecht and Michael Haas, elections administrator for the state Government Accountability Board.
Quoted: Young Democrats have consistently flocked toward Sanders — and Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center and professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has spent enough of time working alongside college students and studying their voting patterns to have a good grasp on why that is.
Noted: Author Sara Goldrick-Rab is professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American dream” coming in September from University of Chicago.
Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard has been selected as the 2016 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year, CollegeInsider.com announced on Monday.
Bo Ryan will have to wait until next year — again.
Wisconsin coach Greg Gard wasted little time in filling the lone vacancy on his coaching staff.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s vice provost for diversity and climate took to YouTube last week to condemn a racist, threatening note placed under a student’s dorm room door, referring to it as a “cowardly act” and calling on all students to be part of the solution.
Quoted: Even if they’re not making money now, at least they can cover their out-of-pocket costs and generate some cash flow, said Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
While the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee rolled out the red carpet in February to host a Democratic presidential debate — noting it would give the campus valuable national exposure — several faculty members are upset that UWM is renting space to Fox News for a Donald Trump town hall event Sunday afternoon.
New Wisconsin defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox is set to be paid $1.45 million over the next two seasons.
The challenge facing Jonathan Tsipis is onerous but one he embraces.
University of Wisconsin—Madison’s engineering school misreported data for the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate School” rankings for 2017, self-reported the discrepancies before the data was released to the public, and lost its tie for a No. 14 ranking.
Tony Granato, Don Granato and Mark Osiecki all enjoyed jobs that were stable and fulfilling.
Chill the champagne, IceCube will stay frozen for another five years.
If the Beltline seems to be smoky on Tuesday, don’t call 911. The smoke is from a prescribed burn at the Arboretum.
Noted: He earned his doctorate from UW-Madison in 2012. He also has a master’s degree in educational administration and bachelor’s degree in elementary education from UW-Madison.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich couldn’t help but bring up college football in the city of one of Ohio State University’s biggest rivals over the last decade.
For most of her hourlong meeting with UW-Madison students Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin listened.
Quoted: “On the one hand, it seems kind of monumentally foolish that he’s attacking Republicans in this way in Wisconsin,” said Mike Wagner, a political scientist and communications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “On the other hand, his whole campaign is a repudiation: ‘You can’t trust the elites, you can’t trust the media, you can’t trust the experts.’ That’s propelled him so far … It would be striking if he won the state with that message.”
Wisconsin assistant coach Gary Close, who recently completed his 13th season on the men’s basketball staff, has resigned.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball assistant coach Gary Close is leaving the program, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The new University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coaching staff and women’s basketball coach will be formally introduced in press conferences Wednesday and Thursday.
Noted: Barry Orton, a recently retired University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor, said he’s not convinced that demand for home broadband service has fallen much.
Gov. Scott Walker on Monday announced the appointment of an information technology specialist to the newly created position of student loan debt specialist as part of an effort to help students and parents make informed decisions about paying for college.
Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin have agreed to form a joint department for biomedical engineering and committed to hiring a total of 10 additional faculty members in the discipline.
Noted: During a speech Monday afternoon on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, Clinton took aim at Republicans who have erected a blockade against President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Clinton singled out GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin for his part in preventing the confirmation of Merrick Garland.
A new study of a tiny organism that has infiltrated nearly two dozen Wisconsin lakes is the latest example of the expensive fight Great Lakes states are facing with the spread of aquatic invasive species.
They’ve been going against each other for three seasons, with nothing more than bragging rights at stake.
Wisconsin fans are still buzzing about Bronson Koenig’s three-point buzzer-beater to stun Xavier and send the Badgers to the Sweet 16.
Quoted: Majid Sarmadi, a color scientist and professor at University of Wisconsin who testified during Wisconsin’s debate over adding pink as an option, found that blaze pink provided a better color contrast to the traditional orange and was more visible to fellow hunters.
While African-Americans are nearly twice as likely as whites to develop Alzheimer’s disease, a history of abuse and arrogance by the scientific community is frustrating efforts to recruit people of color to join dementia research programs.
