The heart of the Memorial Union at University of Wisconsin-Madison — including the Union Terrace with its sunburst yellow, orange and green metal chairs — will close Sept. 1 for the last phase of a $52 million face-lift that aims to preserve its historic integrity and beloved spaces.
More than $30 million from a gift meant to fund medical research, medical education and public health projects has gone toward fundraising and managing the endowment for the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the past decade.
Quarterback Joel Stave has crammed a lifetime of experiences into his first four years at Wisconsin.
Wisconsin was ranked No. 20 in The Associated Press top 25 football poll released Sunday.
Should you take web development classes? Or poetry writing? Is it more important to think like an engineer, or an artist?
Creativity is vital to the long-term health of your business, whether you’re talking about fostering a culture of innovation or the product-specific work of designing and prototyping.
Quoted: Michael Wagner, a journalism professor at UW-Madison who specializes in political communication, said Sampson has a right to request Walker stop using her experience to make a political point, but Walker doesn’t have to abide.
Several downtown streets will be closed Saturday morning for the Madison Mini-Marathon. The race winds from Langdon Street to the Capitol, through the UW Arboretum, and back to the UW campus.
Badger athletes will receive thousands of dollars more from the UW Athletic Department this year under a new set of NCAA rules that allow universities to pay for the full cost of attending college.
Prospective Badgers will soon have to pay a little more to apply to UW-Madison.
Wisconsin cornerback Derrick Tindal probably won’t ever forget the last time he spoke with his mother.
Kayakers drawn to the legendary sea caves along the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore can explore them without being caught off-guard by potentially deadly waves, thanks to a real-time wave observation system developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking an increase in the fee paid by prospective students to apply for admission and is considering participating in the Common Application starting next fall.
St. Anthony, the largest K-12 Catholic school system in the country, has named a new president, school officials announced.
During his two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Pittsburgh, Taylor Mehlhaff told anyone who asked how much he believed in head coach Paul Chryst, how he treated the people in his charge and his vision for the football program.
Noted: Bright Cellars said it has increased membership to more than 3,000. It also has hired two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates and a former Epic Systems project manager, bringing its employee count to 11, from three employees three months ago.
Noted: Altfrid Krusenbaum says, “Here we have a program that combines paid on-job training with related instruction at a technical college and one pasture course at UW-Madison.”
In its nearly 170-year history, a lot has changed inside UW Madison’s residential halls.
UW wide receiver Ricky Finco got his first taste of playing at Camp Randall in high school. When he took the field, he immediately knew he wanted to suit up for Wisconsin someday.
The chickens weren’t getting sick like they were supposed to.
Noted: To close a shortfall in the current budget, Walker and GOP lawmakers cut aid to the University of Wisconsin-System by $250 million in the current two-year budget, a decrease that followed a $300 million cut in the 2011-13 budget.
Quoted: UW Medical School Dean Robert Golden said that researchers hope that someday they can discontinue the use of fetal tissue altogether. “I hope that we can eventually move away from this, but we are not close to that point yet,” he said during the hearing. UW researchers follow federal law and their own strict ethical standards, he said.
Noted: Sanders grew up in Chicago before attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his bachelors degree in history and economics in 1971 and a masters degree in urban and regional planning in 1973. Sanders worked at the Chicago-based American Planning Association and as a consultant before the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning hired him as an instructor in 1993.
Noted: In Germany, Walker delivered a speech at the Hannover Messe trade show and joined a meeting on possible collaborations between University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and German researchers. In Spain, he held a roundtable discussion about business opportunities in Wisconsin for Spanish companies, and in Paris participated in a discussion hosted by the French-American Foundation.
Noted: Kleiman, who graduated from Riverside High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was best known for her doggedness as a reporter.
Quoted: Amber Epp, a consumer behavior expert with the University of Wisconsin-Madisons School of Business, said young people want to establish their identity, and retailers are happy to help them do it.
Assembly Republicans are considering whether it makes sense to merge the University of Wisconsin’s 13 two-year college campuses and the states 16 technical college campuses. We think they’re on to something. We encourage them to fully explore the idea and come up with proposals to make it work.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team tied with Big Ten Conference rival Nebraska for No. 5 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association preseason poll, which was released Wednesday.
The UW Field House is about to get a little sprucing up.
University of Wisconsin hockey coach Mike Eaves is counting on his six-member incoming recruiting class to provide immediate depth and create competition for playing time this season.
UW-Madison, which says it gets fetal tissue for research from four licensed tissue banks, is reviewing whether the banks meet federal regulations and university requirements.
Thousands of people with illnesses ranging from Parkinson’s disease to cancer, from heart defects to multiple sclerosis, cling to a hope that ongoing research using tissue from aborted fetuses will find a cure.
Quoted: What regulation there was of that arrangement was largely abandoned by the Federal Communications Commission during the Reagan era, according to UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton, and the courts similarly became dubious of plaintiffs seeking to challenge a broadcaster’s license on the basis that the broadcaster wasn’t providing enough local content.
A proposal to merge University of Wisconsin System colleges with the state technical college system — on top of a plan to regionalize the UW colleges — threatens to slam the door to education for Wisconsin students who need it most, said UW-Marshfield/Wood County associate professor Kelly Wilz.
UW-Madison faculty urged Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to open up talks on the possibility of merging the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Technical College System.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan announced in June that he would retire following the 2015-16 season.
Bo Ryan continues to tease Wisconsin fans by suggesting he won’t be one-more-and-done after all.
A bill to ban some research on aborted fetal tissues at Wisconsin universities could face challenges in federal courts, which have struck down similar laws around the nation for failing to spell out what’s a crime and whats not.
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.
As the Wisconsin Legislature debates a Republican bill that would ban the use of aborted fetal tissue in research, University of Wisconsin law professor and bioethicist Alta Charo writes in the Washington Post about the GOP’s long history of support for such research.
Pieces of the pedestrian bridge between Vilas Hall and the Humanities Building over University Avenue fall to the ground as a crew works on demolishing the bridge.
Federal law already bans the sale of aborted fetal tissue.
Planned Parenthood and other groups could not profit from selling the tissue of aborted fetuses under a bill banning its sale and use, proponents of the measure told a state Assembly panel Tuesday.
The ink is barely dry on a new state budget that aims to make the University of Wisconsin System more nimble and efficient, and already another idea to reshape public higher education in Wisconsin is under review by Assembly Republicans.
Research in Wisconsin could still be conducted on tissue derived from fetuses aborted more than five years ago while the state would ban some current research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that uses more recently aborted tissue, under a proposal that came before lawmakers Tuesday.
Nothing will quite make crunching into a deep-fried, spiral-cut potato-on-a-stick anything but a decadent treat enjoyed at the State Fair.
All transfers of fetal tissue in Wisconsin could be banned, under a bill coming before lawmakers Tuesday that could affect medical research in the state.
Wisconsin companies with 500 or fewer employees could receive as much as $4,000 each for hiring an intern from the University of Wisconsin-Madison next summer, the state commerce agency said.
Noted: The group writing the plan includes representatives from agricultural organizations and businesses, environmental groups, the University of Wisconsin, state, federal and tribal governments.
A portion of University Avenue will be closed this week so crews can remove a pedestrian bridge, according to a release.
Noted: Johannson, who played for the Badgers from 1982-86 and was part of UW’s NCAA championship team in 1983, finished his UW career with 63 goals, 67 assists and 130 points in 148 games played. A 1982 draft pick of the Hartford Whalers, he went on to have a nine-year professional career that included playing stops in Germany, and with three teams in the International Hockey League.
Current and former UW-Madison students say they’re sad to see a pedestrian bridge on campus torn down.
Noted: In good times, farmers spend a lot of money on their businesses. Each dollar of net farm income results in an additional 60 cents of economic activity as it flows through the economy, according to UW-Madison research.
In the late 1990s, Gail Robertson, a researcher studying irregular heartbeats at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered the reason for unexplained cardiac deaths occurring in some patients who had used approved drugs.
Quoted: Steven C. Deller, an economist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the economic impact from “recreational events like this oftentimes are more modest than people think theyre going to be.”
Quarterback Joel Stave rebooted his personal computer more times than he preferred during his first four years at Wisconsin.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madisons Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, or CIMSS, is partnering with the citizen science website Zooniverse and NOAA to categorize nearly 300,000 images collected over 32 years.
Noted: Authored by John R. Raymond, Sr., M.D., president and chief executive officer and professor of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Robert N. Golden, M.D., dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, the Robert Turell Professor in Medical Leadership and vice chancellor for medical affairs.
Noted: The two medical schools in the state — the Medical College of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin-Madison — take in about 17 new psychiatry residents each year. Residents have already completed four years of medical school education.
Noted: The Clean Lakes Alliance, City of Madison, Dane County, Mio Soft, UW-Madison Center for Limnology, and the Space Science and Engineering Center teamed up to put this together.
