A crime warning was issued Friday to University of Wisconsin-Madison students after campus police were notified of an attempted sexual assault of a student at a residence hall.
Two state senators are requesting a public hearing to learn more about the impact Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget would have on University of Wisconsin campuses across the state.
Carl Gulbrandsen, who since 2000 has led the organization that commercializes the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s research, will retire early next year, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation said Thursday.
Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan had received a scouting report on Khalil Iverson from his staff.
Perhaps the most important decision Paul Chryst made not long after agreeing to leave Pittsburgh and return to Wisconsin as head football coach was to retain Dave Aranda as UW’s defensive coordinator.
The painful sight of Sam Dekker sobbing in front of his locker minutes after Wisconsin’s loss to Duke in the national championship game in Indianapolis evoked memories of J.J. Watt’s tearful reaction to UW’s loss to TCU in the 2011 Rose Bowl.
Wisconsin’s ninth practice of the spring ended abruptly and with eerie silence Sunday afternoon at Camp Randall Stadium.
While going through her mother’s belongings after her death five years ago, Cathy Sandeen found a symbol of what can happen in one generation because of higher education.
A 22-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student suffered a broken jaw after police say he was sucker-punched near campus early Sunday.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents finalized tuition increases for nine campuses on Friday, and pushed back against a key lawmaker who blasted UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank for proposing a 35% tuition increase over four years for nonresident undergraduates.
Noted: A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and UW-Madison’s law school, she worked for the federal government before providing legal counsel to former governor Tony Earl. She has been an executive at Miller Brewing and Kraft Foods and also directed the Department of Employee Relations at the City of Milwaukee.
Frank Kaminsky did not help Wisconsin win the national title he and his teammates so desperately wanted.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s four-year plan to raise tuition for nonresident undergrads and professional schools won tentative approval Thursday from a Board of Regents committee.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison experts on higher education affordability said Wednesday that a plan to increase nonresident undergraduate tuition by $10,000 over the next four years at the states flagship campus likely would reduce the number of lower- and middle-class students from other states and raise the stakes for attracting wealthy students.
Sensing that too many of his players werent executing at the level he expects, Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst delivered a stern and passionate post-practice speech.
Among the masses watching Monday nights NCAA final, a very select few remembered the last time the Badgers played in the national basketball championship.
Sam Dekker sat in his stall in the Wisconsin locker room, his uniform still on, and, between sobs and sighs, tried to explain as well as he could why the Badgers failed in their quest to win a national championship.
Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan delivered a poignant message to his players minutes after the most bitter defeat of the season, a defeat they may never forget.
Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, who successfully fought for the release of President Richard Nixons secret tapes, has died in Wisconsin. He was 80.
University of Wisconsin-Madison historian Stanley Kutler wasnt content to merely write about history. He made it, too.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam released a proposal Monday detailing a tuition increase for nonresident and international undergraduate students and for several graduate programs at UW-Madison.
No one in the Wisconsin locker room was ready. Not one.
One of most historic seasons in Wisconsin men’s basketball history ended in not-so-great fashion for the Badgers, as they fell to Duke 68-63 in Monday night’s national championship game.
The best season in Wisconsin men’s basketball history will end on the most disappointing of notes.
The package deal has delivered Duke another national championship.
Madison police said five people were arrested on State Street after the Badgers lost to Duke in the NCAA Championship game Monday night.
More than a dozen employees and volunteers at the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County are singing the praises of their boss tonight.
It has been quite the journey for the Badgers and for their fans. Despite the outcome, fans who traveled to Indianapolis for the Championship game say its a season they’ll never forget.
Police said there were no major issues Monday night as fans filed out of the bars on State Street following the Badgers loss to Duke.
The Wisconsin Badgers are devastated after their loss in the NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Game.
The last time the Badgers played in an NCAA championship basketball game, the mascot wasnt named Bucky and the most popular winter sport wasnt basketball, according to fun facts released Monday by UW-Madison in advance of the Badgers showdown tonight with the Duke Blue Devils.
Quoted: “One side is fundamentally rewriting the rules,” says political scientist Ken Mayer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Faced with the prospects of state budget cuts and two more years of a tuition freeze for in-state undergraduates, nine University of Wisconsin System campuses will seek permission this week to raise nonresident, international, graduate and professional school tuition by as much as 20%.
Badgers fans had staked out seats in taverns, the Memorial Union and other spots with the expectation of seeing Wisconsin beat Duke on Monday night in the NCAA men’s basketball championship game in Indianapolis.
Final Four heartbreak. A remarkable season — arguably the most memorable in the history of the Wisconsin basketball program — ended in the same gut-wrenching manner as last season.
With the need to balance budgets and an aversion to increasing taxes, several states, including our own, are looking to cut back on spending for public universities. The time is right for a thoughtful discussion about the costs associated with higher education. It’s too bad we have near hysteria, instead.
As much as he tries to keep the snapshot in storage — under lock and key so no one can find it — Wisconsin guard Josh Gasser occasionally recalls Kentucky’s final shot against the Badgers in the 2014 national semifinals.
The pain of defeat was obvious in Nigel Hayes eyes, his body language and his words.
Wisconsin teammates Sam Dekker and Frank Kaminsky weren’t waving green and white pom-poms but they noticed fellow Big Ten Conference member Michigan State secured a Final Four berth Sunday.
Wisconsin enters the Final Four boasting the most efficient offense in the country.
Two campuses within the University of Wisconsin System announced Tuesday they are offering employees a voluntary retirement buyout with a one-time payout equal to 50% of an employees annual base salary.
In an effort to better understand its entrepreneurial graduates, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has sent a survey to nearly 300,000 alumni.
Tickets to the men’s Final Four are never cheap, but this year theyre even more expensive because of demand by fans eager to cheer their teams in person, ticket brokers are reporting.
This year’s Final Four features one of the most accomplished coaching foursomes the NCAA Tournament has ever seen. When Kentucky’s John Calipari, Wisconsin’s Bo Ryan, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski converge Saturday in Indianapolis, they will bring with them some impressive numbers.
The script Bo Ryan’s players penned collectively so many months ago has reached the final chapter, just as they expected.
Alando Tucker has a partner. Until Monday, Tucker was the only Wisconsin men’s basketball player named a first-team All-American by The Associated Press.
Noted: The company was co-founded in 2004 by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist James Thomson, who is viewed as one of the most influential stem cell scientists in the world. It became a publicly traded company in 2013 and is at the forefront of an area known as regenerative medicine, which uses our own cells, tissues and organs to promote healing.
Noted: Voters who put their civic responsibilities ahead of the games in the NCAA basketball tournament got the candidates different visions for the court at the 7 p.m. debate, which was held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and broadcast live on Wisconsin Public Television.
Just a few years ago, Claus Moberg and Jami Morton were graduate students studying air pollution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The main college partying thoroughfare in downtown Madison was mobbed after the Badgers 85-78 victory Saturday over Arizona, which sent Wisconsin to the NCAA Final Four of March Madness.
Noted: Darling, a graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin, met his future wife when they were undergrads at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Alberta Darling recalled. The couple married in 1967.
Noted: Pyle began volunteering this month as part of public service requirement for a literature and medicine class at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s graduating in May with a degree in neurobiology and is applying to medical schools. Pyle is enjoying the experience so much that after her class finishes, she plans to continue volunteering until she goes to medical school next year.
Cellular Dynamics International Inc. said Monday it has agreed to be acquired by Fujifilm Holdings Corp., Tokyo, for $16.50 a share or about $307 million. Madison-based CDI uses the cell-reprogramming techniques of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist James Thomson to manufacture large quantities of human cells.
The end may be near for one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s most celebrated humanities projects, the half-century-old Dictionary of American Regional English. In a few months, the budget pool will drain to a puddle. Layoff notices have been sent, eulogies composed.
For the second straight year, the Badgers are underdogs against Kentucky in the Final Four.
Arizona coach Sean Miller hasn’t faced unbeaten Kentucky this season.
So who will be good enough — and tough enough — to take down Bo Ryan’s basketball team?
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson sold out for the steal and got it, giving Arizona one last possession with 2.3 seconds left down one in overtime against Wisconsin in the Elite Eight last year. When the Wildcats couldnt get a shot off, his reaction was more visceral than that of anyone else wearing an Arizona uniform.
It can be statistically proven that the wealth of nations lies not with the oil and minerals in their lands, their strategic locations or the prominence of their armed forces, but rather in the level of education that their citizens have achieved. I will testify that I have found the pathway to happiness and success through education.
The motto Bo Ryan’s players chose before the first game of the season was brief but telling:”Make ’em believe.”
