Noted: In little more than a month, more than $33,000 has been raised for the Isthmus resident and UW-Madison graduate student, who is now out of the hospital but has a long, uncertain road to recovery ahead of her.
Here’s how six people on the UW-Madison campus answered this week’s question posed by Capital Times freelancer Kevin Murphy.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials recently announced that they will not change student identification cards, also known as Wiscards, to be compliant with state voter ID laws. This means that in order to cast a ballot on election day, students who are not Wisconsin residents will have to go to Union South to obtain a separate voter ID. The university has said it will take steps to expand access by offering students a free voter ID card when they obtain their Wiscard, and by continuing a campus-wide effort to publicize the availability of these cards.
Time has not completely healed Khalil Iverson’s wounded heart.
Noted: Wallace is a professor of poetry and co-director of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His earlier books include “For a Limited Time Only” and “God Be With the Clown: Humor in American Poetry.”
Quoted: State grand juries will be cumbersome — they require 17 people — and bringing one into court day after day requires space and is expensive, said University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor David Schultz. Still, other states have been able to pursue political corruption cases without the John Doe process. Wisconsin prosecutors still have considerable powers and there are more statutes on the books that can be broken now than ever before, said Donald Downs, a UW-Madison political science professor and an expert on criminal law and politics.
For decades, the massive mastodon skeleton that sits in the UW-Madison Geology Museum has been known as the Boaz mastodon, named for the Richland County village in which its bones were found in the late 1890s.
The Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education released a report Wednesday detailing additional effects of the Wisconsin state budget throughout the UW System.
Noted: Benbow, 38, got his masters and doctorate in educational policy studies at UW-Madison and now works as a researcher at the university. He is responsible for writing the lyrics and a majority of the music for Drive to the Ocean.
Noted: The fast-spreading zebra mussel was discovered in Lake Mendota for the first time, by students of professor Jake Vander Zanden at UW-Madison.
The growing pains are visible at times, and that process won’t be over anytime soon.
Vitto Brown wants to be known as more than a crooner who also happens to play basketball for the University of Wisconsin.
Green Bay passed on Troy Vincent in the 1992 NFL draft, but Packers fans expressed their lasting appreciation for the Wisconsin Badger in 2003, when he came to Lambeau Field with the visiting Philadelphia Eagles.
Concerned that a Republican lawmaker cited an uptick in violent crimes in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee neighborhood while proposing students and faculty be allowed to carry concealed firearms at campuses across the state, UWM officials have produced crime statistics they say contradict the lawmaker’s statement.
A team of Wisconsin scientists recently came closer to uncovering the elusive process by which nacre, more commonly known as mother-of-pearl, is created in nature.
When Gene Delcourt was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a visit with teachers and students from Malcolm Shabazz City High School ended up altering his career path.
The Milwaukee Bucks put on a show for the fans at the Kohl Center on Tuesday night. And the fans returned the favor.
A UW-Madison ecologist who has made a career out of studying an ecosystem’s resilience to disaster has been named president of the Ecological Society of America.
Timothy Tansey and Fong Chan, two researchers from the UW-Madison’s School of Education, are working with agencies across Wisconsin and the nation to help improve the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies.
The University of Wisconsin System is seeking community input during strategic planning listening sessions this week in Madison and next week in Milwaukee.
Noted: An interview with Professor Robert Enright.
At some point we have all been wronged and have also wronged others, but how do we find forgiveness? A leading authority in the scientific study of forgiveness outlines steps to deal with anger and build a pathway to emotional healing.
On April 13, a pregnant ewe involved in a research program at UW-Madison died from respiratory issues while being moved back to her pen following surgery.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team dropped just one spot in this week’s American Volleyball Coaches Association poll after back-to-back losses to Minnesota.
The author of a study being invoked in the push to pass a “campus carry” bill in Wisconsin isn’t thrilled about the way his work is being interpreted, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported this weekend.
The Wisconsin Science Festival has found its “secret sauce.”
University of Wisconsin System officials will be in Madison this week to hear from the public about what they want from the state’s universities.
UW-Madison Campus and Visitor Relations recently partnered with Abodo, a startup that helps students navigate off-campus housing options.
Earlier this semester, members of the UW-Madison administration revealed the results of a survey taken by students last spring surrounding issues of sexual assault. The UW-Madison Sexual Assault Climate Survey Task Force continued this conversation Monday, focusing on what the results mean for LGBTQ+ community members.
Despite a weekend sweep of St. Cloud State, the University of Wiscosin women’s hockey team (6-0) dropped one spot to No. 3 in the USCHO poll released Monday.
Bucks fever may not be an epidemic in the Madison area, but indications are an infectious enthusiasm is spreading.The Milwaukee Bucks, who opened their training camp with four days of workouts on the University of Wisconsin campus, will play their first game in the city since 1999 tonight when they face the Minnesota Timberwolves in a preseason game at the Kohl Center.
UW-Madison students will step up efforts to bring fresh healthy food to South Madison neighborhoods — including delivery by bicycle trailer — with the help of a grant to Slow Food UW.
When Shuang Hu discovered her love of American hip hop as a nine-year-old in China, she felt very alone.
Genome editing, 3-D printing and robotics — these sound like subjects for doctoral students or headlines for a conference of tech savvy entrepreneurs. And they often are. They also are a slice of the activities planned for the fifth annual Wisconsin Science Festival, taking place in 36 communities across Wisconsin on Oct. 22-25, for people of every age and background.
Noted: Redox is one of several digital health companies that are emerging in Madison. With Epic Systems Corp., which has more than half the market share in the electronic health records market, and a strong computer science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Dane County area is becoming known as a center for this industry segment.
We, the undersigned collection of instructors from colleges and universities in the city of Milwaukee, feel compelled to speak out against the bill recently proposed by Rep. Jesse Kremer (R-Kewaskum) and Sen. Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg).
Quoted: A couple of factors probably have led to the growth, said UW-Madison business professor James Johannes.”One is a generally stronger economy, and with that, there are more deposits to be had,” said Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education.
Facing state budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin system and dwindling federal funding, Robert Golden would love to find a pile of money somewhere.
A federal court jury in Madison has awarded $234 million in damages to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in its patent infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police said that 18 people were arrested at Saturday’s football game against the Purdue Boilermakers.
Meet Bo Ryan, international man of mystery.Preparing for his 15th season in charge of the Wisconsin men’s basketball program, Ryan faced a full-court press of reporters during the Big Ten Conference media day Thursday at the Chicago Marriott O’Hare.
The National Rifle Association and its supplicants in legislatures around the country and the U.S. Congress have a ready and facile answer for the problem of gun violence in the United States: More guns.
Noted: The start-ups will tour Google’s headquarters and attend an invitation-only dinner to interact with potential investors and business partners. They also will make pitches to a dozen global investment firms and meet their representatives at a reception sponsored by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and the Badger Entrepreneurship Forum, an organization of University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni who live in Silicon Valley.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison launched its most ambitious fundraising campaign ever on Thursday night, asking alumni and other supporters to step into the breach during a time of unprecedented pressure to cut costs and find fresh sources of revenue.
Quoted: “The demographics would very much point you to the idea that there should have been this huge outflow of business owners,” says Daniel Olszewski, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin School of Business. “But it hasn’t really happened.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will publicly launch its most ambitious fundraising campaign yet on Thursday night, welcoming alumni back to campus for homecoming festivities while at the same time asking them to help shape and ensure the university’s future impact.
A federal court jury’s decision against Apple Inc. in a patent infringement case this week has the potential to award nearly $400 million in damages to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation — but a Madison lawyer said Wednesday that Apple is likely to appeal.
A bill that would prohibit carrying a dangerous weapon on a university or college campus in Wisconsin bubbled up from state Democrats one day after a pair of Republicans introduced a bill that would allow guns inside campus buildings.
He’s no longer a Badgers player, but Frank Kaminsky clearly has lost none of the personality that made him a Wisconsin fan favorite on and off the court.
While a pair of Republican state lawmakers want to allow students and faculty to carry concealed guns inside public university and college buildings, at least one campus and its police department are warning the measure could have dangerous day-to-day implications.
A federal court jury in Madison on Tuesday found Apple Inc. guilty of infringing on a patent held by the foundation that protects the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s intellectual rights when the company rolled out its 2013 and 2014 iPhone and iPad lineups.
Two Republican state legislators have introduced a bill that would allow concealed carry gun owners to bring weapons into public university and college buildings in Wisconsin.
We all thought it was a miracle when the Wisconsin Badgers beat Kentucky in the Final Four. Legislators – both Republican and Democrat – couldn’t wait to honor the University of Wisconsin basketball team.
If the University of Wisconsin-Madison starts accepting a few hundred more undergraduates from other states and countries each year, and successfully recruits more top Wisconsin prospects who otherwise might leave the state, will that raise the bar even higher for instate students who already compete for a limited number of seats?
New data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Letters & Sciences released Wednesday suggests that 65% of its recent graduates who are working full time have jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree.
Flagship universities across the country for years have been backfilling lost state funding by boosting the number of higher paying students they accept — and aggressively recruit — from other states and countries.
There are now six confirmed cases of mumps at the UW-Whitewater campus.
A master’s and doctoral graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison was awarded a portion of the 2015 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, according to a release from the university.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating a reported assaulted and robbery in a dorm room Thursday afternoon.
Following an exchange he acknowledged struck some recipients as offensive and creepy, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse residence hall director has been reprimanded for emailing several hundred students about the need for men to pay more attention to women’s orgasms.
As she watched the surgeon operating on a farmer who had suffered third-degree burns across 95% of his body, researcher Lynn Allen-Hoffmann realized instantly she had a new mission: making human skin.
