When you think of Wisconsin athletics, several things immediately come to mind.Whether it’s Barry Alvarez, Bucky Badger or “Jump Around” at Camp Randall Stadium, there are just certain people and traditions that have become synonymous with Badger sports.
After quite possibly the most successful regular season in program history, the Badgers were appropriately rewarded by the rest of their conference in the Big Ten basketball honors.
A filled-to-the-brim Shannon Hall in Memorial Union bustled with UW-Madison students and community members waiting to see the blogger, columnist and accidental entrepreneur who journalism professor Michael Wagner described as “nerd-chic.”
Friday’s officer-involved shooting of 19-year-old Tony Robinson brought out community members of all ages, who converged in a protest Monday to address officials from university, state and city levels.
Students from University of Wisconsin-Madison and local high and middle schools staged a walkout Monday and marched to the state Capitol, where about 1,500 protested the fatal police shooting of Tony Robinson.
Frank Kaminsky will leave Wisconsin in outstanding company.To the surprise of no one, the senior center from Lisle, Ill., on Monday was named the Big Ten Conference player of the year.
More than 100 UW students have signed up to stage a walk-out this morning from classes after an unarmed teenager was shot by a police officer Friday.
Life became a whole lot sweeter for UW-Madison food science doctorate candidates Amy DeJong and Maya Warren when they crossed the finish line to win the 25th season of CBS’s reality television show “The Amazing Race.”
At a gathering hosted by the Multicultural Student Center Saturday, more than 50 UW-Madison community members sat in a circle with bowed heads, sharing a moment of silence for Tony Robinson.
While University of Wisconsin’s graduation rates have steadily improved in past years, this trend could be reversed under proposed budget cuts if class offerings are reduced
With his new project, a University of Wisconsin professor aims to capture the essence of the community through photographing the books it reads.
As Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential star continued to rise, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, challenged him on how his budget treats the University of Wisconsin System.
As Wisconsin was in the process of dismantling Michigan State, UW assistant Lamont Paris delivered a not-so-subtle message to sophomore forward Nigel Hayes: Keep dropping the hammer.
Bo Ryan’s players didnt care that they had the Big Ten Conference outright title secured before their regular-season finale Sunday.
Much criticism of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal for the University of Wisconsin System has focused on the $300 million in cuts envisioned for the coming two years.
Noted: Sean Dinces is the Allan H. Selig assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Innovation campus has an advantage over any other facility in the state because of the major corporate employers located in this region. Southeast Wisconsin actually holds more patents than Dane County, the home of UW-Madisons $1 billion research engine. How is that possible? Because corporate giants in this region generate patents as their own research and development realize what the market demands.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madisons College of Agricultural and Life Sciences promoted Nicole Miller to news manager and hired Caroline Schneider as science writer.
Former University of Wisconsin outfielder Rick Reichardt was among eight players and coaches selected for the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.
With sixth-ranked Wisconsin just 58.9 seconds away from another victory over rival Minnesota, the unmistakable chant cascaded down from the upper deck of The Barn, from hundreds of fans wearing red: Big Ten champs. Big Ten champs. Big Ten champs.
Is removing protection for the 11-acre research and recreational forest on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukees campus a conspiracy to make way for development, or a technicality to shift rules governing the UW System from state statute to Board of Regents policy under a proposed UW System Public Authority?
Creating a University of Wisconsin Public Authority isnt the only way to gain autonomy from cumbersome state rules, a member of the UW System Board of Regents adamantly pointed out Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is now under investigation as part of a growing federal probe into the handling of sexual violence complaints.
Noted: As reported by the Wisconsin State Journal, during the 2013-14 school year, just three of 131 students who received a degree in elementary education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were black. The year before, just one black student received an elementary education degree. Consequently, according to 2014 data, less than 5% of Wisconsins teachers are non-white.
New operating flexibilities for the University of Wisconsin System would save only $15 million to $20 million in the first year if approved, UW System President Ray Cross testified Tuesday before the Legislatures budget-writing committee.
Traevon Jackson is expected to miss Wisconsin’s final two regular-season games and might not be cleared by the medical staff in time to return for the Big Ten tournament, set for March 11 through 15 in Chicago.
Noted: According to a 2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison study, 75% of white residents were born in Wisconsin, yet only 59% of black residents and 43% of Latino residents were born in the state.
In an about-face from his first term, Gov. Scott Walker wants to eliminate funding for a University of Wisconsin-Madison renewable energy research center that has played a key role in helping land one of its biggest government grants ever.
Bo Ryan’s players didn’t panic after their loss at Maryland.
University of Wisconsin campuses would no longer have to report allegations of sexual assault to the state, a change Gov. Scott Walker proposed in his state budget at the request of UW, his spokeswoman said Friday.
Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, says that the “Wisconsin Idea” is embedded in the DNA of the university, and the Journal Sentinel has suggested that it “drives” the states economy. That may well be, but I have a preliminary question.
Quoted: “People want to see Christ, and hopefully, as a priest, I can bring him to them,” said Jablonski, 33, who grew up in Appleton and graduated from UW-Madison. “Its a beautiful, wonderful, joyful life.”
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that increased expression of a particular gene may enable cancer cells to form tumors in dogs.
Noted: Taffora made his comments during a panel discussion about entrepreneurship sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madisons business school. They were part of a free-ranging discussion of the state of entrepreneurship in Wisconsin.
Seventy-four University of Wisconsin faculty members from campuses across the state signed an open letter to UW System president Ray Cross, “insisting in the strongest possible terms” that Cross oppose Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to restructure the university as a public authority.
A phone scam is targeting international students and staff at UW-Madison, with scammers threatening deportation if money isnt sent.
For the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, its first trip to Maryland for a Big Ten Conference game was memorable for all the wrong reasons.
American Family Children’s Hospital is using a new Epic application that is also expected to be offered at UW Health at The American Center, the new hospital and wellness campus to open this summer on Madison’s east side.
A UW-Milwaukee student group is calling on stakeholders at all UW System campuses for a show of “no confidence” in university system and campus administrators for accepting Gov. Scott Walker’s reorganization of the university into a “public authority.”
Quoted: “Unfortunately for him the expectations are rising now and it’s going to be a little tougher to surprise people than before he got a national spotlight in Iowa,” said Keene, a UW-Madison and UW Law School graduate who grew up in Fort Atkinson and is now opinion editor for the Washington Times.
Along with more than 70 other faculty from across the University of Wisconsin-System, I believe that UW System President Ray Cross should publicly oppose Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to transform the University of Wisconsin System to a public authority.
Chancellors and budget cutting task forces on campuses across the University of Wisconsin System are considering a variety of options for dealing with anticipated state budget cuts.
Paul Chryst’s first staff at Wisconsin will be paid more in 2015 than the previous staff under Gary Andersen, though the increase appears to be modest.
I grew up in a family with three generations of proud UW graduates. My great-great-aunt received two degrees at UW and went on to teach here in Wisconsin for 44 years. Both of my grandpas, upon returning from World War II, decided to go back to school and were proud graduates of UW. My parents graduated from UW in the 1960s and my dad has been a local, small business owner for over 30 years.
Budget season is a busy time of year for Todd Berry — but the president of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance is quick to mention that analyzing the complex state spending bill every two years is not all his organization does.
Dear Editor: A 2.5 percent cut to the UW System is grossly inaccurate. UW-Eau Claire is facing the prospect of cutting $19.7 million from its general fund budget, currently $95.6 million, over the course of the next two years. Thats a 20.6 percent reduction: $7.6 million each year in response to the governor’s proposed budget cut, and $4.5 million in response to a pre-existing structural budget deficit. That’s the equivalent of a minimum of 126 out of 440 full-time faculty positions and 24,892 classroom seats, or 152 full-time staff/administration positions, or a 20.5 percent increase in tuition which won’t happen because of the tuition freeze. By my own estimate, the total cut is the equivalent of completely eliminating the College of Business one of our four colleges, as well as all positions within and all costs associated with that college.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team remained at No. 5 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll released Monday.
There are two words you won’t hear the members of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team using to describe the 10-game winning streak .Easy. Boring.
A former UW football player and his twin brother will plead guilty next month to federal criminal charges involving a string of robberies at Madison-area businesses late last year.
University of Wisconsin students are not buying assurances that their voice in governing their campuses would be preserved if the university system is reorganized the way Gov. Scott Walker is proposing.
Noted: Heather Digby Parton in Salon argues that the evolution issue goes way beyond religion. Its embedded itself into host of issues, like academic elitism, that pits the GOP faithful against science — a nerve that Walker has tapped into by knocking UW professors and proposing painful budget cuts to the UW system.
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Noted: Conroy said about 50 percent of Exact’s scientists and lab workers are graduates of UW-Madison.
Noted: In an op-ed for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, Lake Superior State University president Thomas Pleger writes that the UW’s future shouldnt be decided by the state budget. The UW is too valuable an asset not to have a full discussion on how its governance should be changed.
Jermaine Whitehead met Melvin Gordon at the 45-yard line. On fourth and 1 in the Outback Bowl, Wisconsin’s Gordon froze the Auburn safety with a juke and raced up the left sideline.
Wisconsin’s Traevon Jackson continues to wear a walking boot on his right foot and still hasnt been cleared by the teams medical staff to return to practice.
Recently, I wrote a piece at Right Wisconsin on the flap over the “Wisconsin Idea” at Right Wisconsin. Short version: the Wisconsin Idea is a common place generality that, at least in 2015, distinguishes the University of Wisconsin from nobody. No one has suggested that UW become a trade school or abandon research.
Quoted: “In some ways its the end of a very long decline of the strength of unions and a weakening of protections both at the federal and state level for unions,” said William P. Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor.
As the representative of 14 colleges and universities across western and central Wisconsin, I know that higher education is a top priority. Every dollar we invest today in higher education will pay dividends down the road, helping ensure that Wisconsin can compete in the global marketplace.
In the few weeks since it became public, Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System budget has produced three schools of thought within the state’s business community.
