Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are also analyzing the decision and considering whether to begin issuing ID cards that could be used for voting. While some student IDs can be used for voting, the ones issued at UW-Madison and some other schools cannot.
Like most Wisconsinites, we?re pretty proud of the University of Wisconsin System. Whether it?s in academics or athletics, the state?s public universities do a generally great job for students. But there is one ranking where we would like the University of Wisconsin-Madison to finish lower; in fact, a lot lower.
For the second year in a row, Playboy magazine deemed the University of Wisconsin-Madison the No. 2 party school in the nation.
Noted: Lutz filed for duty disability in 2006, saying he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his physical injuries and past media coverage of his actions. In 2010, he got his law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and now does primarily criminal defense work. On his firm?s website, he notes that he worked in Chisholm?s office before going into private practice.
Noted: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange cash price for butter this time last year was $1.53 a pound, according to figures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It is perhaps the least understood school on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Rebecca Blank has become an evangelist for her institution?s key role in Wisconsin?s economy during her short time as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kyle Costigan?s mother slowly and gingerly made her way through a corridor of family members and hundreds of friends waiting to give her a much-needed group hug Saturday afternoon.
Late summer is here, and millions of fans are welcoming the 2014 college football season. Major college sports programs are enjoying a wave of popularity measured by fan interest along with the huge sums of money that result. Last season, the 121 schools that comprise the college Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) reported revenues in excess of $7.1 billion, or an average of about $59 million per school.
John R. Hoaglund Jr. was always in motion ? from swimming at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a four-time All American and at final tryouts for the 1952 and 1956 Olympics ? to training with early versions of military jets as an officer in the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s, said his wife, Susan.
The news spread quickly through the Wisconsin hockey community and left friends of former UW defenseman Bob Suter stunned, struggling to find the right words to share.
Scientists are warning federal wildlife officials that Wisconsin?s Department of Natural Resources produced a flawed wolf population estimate for the 18 months after January 2012 when the animals were removed from a federal endangered species list.
Parents of University of Wisconsin-Madison students were warned Wednesday of a phone scam targeting their financial information.
University of Miami President Donna Shalala, who served as chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1987 to 1993, says she will retire next year.
The annual U.S. News Best College rankings has as many critics as fans, but its release always creates a buzz among alumni, parents, and prospective students eager to compare schools as a new academic year begins.
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a sexual assaults on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, UW police said Friday.
Noted: Ankit Agarwal, who founded Imbed in 2010 with five professors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the company?s chief executive officer. He developed the technology while doing postdoctoral research in the university?s chemical and biological engineering department.
How many University of Wisconsin-Madison tailgaters do you know who knock back Jell-O jigglers not laced with alcohol on game day?
After a four-day span that ranged from frustrating to bizarre for members of the Wisconsin football program and fans, who wants to get back onto the field more, the head coach or the players?
Quoted: “There?s a little glimmer of hope that adult obesity rates may be starting to level off,” said Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health and professor of population health sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: Shine is not building a nuclear power plant to make mo-99, as the isotope is called. It has a novel accelerator-driven technology that involves fissioning low-enriched uranium. The technology, developed by Piefer and former University of Wisconsin-Madison medical physics professor Paul DeLuca, generates 3,000 times less radioactivity than a nuclear power plant, Piefer said.
On Tuesday morning, Wisconsin officials announced quarterback Joel Stave would be sidelined indefinitely because of persistent issues with his right shoulder.
The University of Wisconsin System can soon begin awarding federal financial aid to nontraditional students pursuing an associate of arts and science degree through the new online competency-based UW Flexible Option program, UW System President Ray Cross announced Tuesday.
Noted: In Wisconsin, the minimum wage has held steady with the national minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for more than five years. A University of Wisconsin-Madison poll conducted earlier this summer found that more than three out of four Badger State residents support a boost in the state?s minimum wage.
Quoted: One difference between the dairy program and home or auto insurance is that most people don?t know when they will have a car accident or home fire, but dairy farmers often have some warning of a milk glut or spike in feed prices, said Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The plan was developed with input from some of the best local and national experts ? including Don Sykes, the recently retired executive director of the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board; Julie Kerksick, who ran the New Hope Project in Milwaukee and W-2 for the State of Wisconsin; and Tim Smeeding, the economics professor who heads the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty.
Noted: Andrew and Ashlee Steele met when they were 12 in Saginaw, Mich., and later attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison together.
Quoted: ?He?s popular among Democrats, wildly so, and so he can really be useful for generating excitement there, but he?s also disliked strongly among Republicans,? says Barry Burden, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Two Wisconsin utility companies that previously expressed interest in buying state-owned power and heating plants have formed a joint venture that will consider bidding for them.
Beer, wine, cheese, sausage, soy sauce, sauerkraut ? it?s not hard to think of Wisconsin as a state in which fermentation is more than just a hobby.
An intoxicated University of Wisconsin-Madison student was taken to a hospital with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the level considered proof of intoxication for motorists in Wisconsin, UW-Madison police said Friday.
Noted: Their CBS bio lists them as PhD students in food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison police have released a sketch of a suspect in a recent sexual assault near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in which a woman woke up in her apartment to a stranger touching her.
Noted: Officials confirmed the states first case of the worm last fall in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. Its been in the East and Southeast U.S. for 50 years.
Bucky Badger gets the smiles and high-fives. Abe Lincoln draws legions of photo-seeking graduates.
Noted: According to the sisters’ obituaries, Kacee Tollefsbol was studying to be a nurse and held a degree in English from the University of St. Thomas. A mother of four, she had just married Mark Tollefsbol a month before she died. Ashlee Steele, a mother of two, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught three-year-olds at a church preschool.
A year ago, Dominic Cizauskas was coming off one of his signature performances of the 2013 football season.
New University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross announced last week that state universities will seek to reduce the number of students requiring remedial education over the next five years.
Police used surveillance video and undercover officers to arrest a Madison man investigators believe sexually assaulted a 21-year-old woman in a campus-area parking lot early Wednesday.
Had everything gone according to plan, Dominic Cizauskas would have been gearing up this week for his first football game as a Wisconsin Badger, coming up Saturday against LSU.
Most of the more than 7,400 UW-Madison students who live in the university?s residence halls will move in on Wednesday and Thursday, and that means there will be some street closures, UW Housing said.
The University of Wisconsin-Extension has hired an official from North Dakota to lead the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center, an agency that provides assistance to entrepreneurs and business owners around the state.
Madison police have made an arrest in one of three sexual assaults by strangers reported last week near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Three-quarters of the phosphorus run-off that enters Lake Mendota arrives during 29 days each year, on average, according to a study published recently by UW-Madison researchers. The finding could have major implications in area efforts to clean up Madison-area lakes.
Noted: Silatronix, a Madison company making a key component for a new generation of lithium ion batteries, has closed on $2.8 million from investors led by the Madison venture capital firm Venture Investors and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Just after 3 a.m. on Aug. 24, 1970, Vietnam War protester Karl Armstrong lit the fuse to a 2,000-pound bomb packed inside a stolen Ford Econoline van on the UW-Madison campus and sealed a grim milestone in Madison?s history.
Noted: Lynch came to Wisconsin in 1958 and helped with the last years of the storied University of Wisconsin boxing program. Over the next decades, training and promoting, he became the face of boxing in Madison.
Noted: The early standard bearer for this tribe was Lewis ?Bus? Topp, who was a barber in the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus for 61 years, starting in 1928. Topp became a barber after the ice wagon he drove in Madison began pulling into driveways of homes that suddenly all had refrigerators. He figured hair would never stop growing and enrolled in barber school in Milwaukee.
Noted: She was among the featured presenters at an all-day workshop on children?s and young adult literature that focused on Islam. The sponsors included UW-Madison.
Quoted: “We?ve had high butter prices (in past years) but this is really high,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Ed Jesse, a University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economist and former marketing committee member, wrote in an email that he is skeptical about the stated reasons for rejecting volume control.
Noted: Longtime “American Experience” executive producer Mark Samels, a Shawano native and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, was part of the team that won the Emmy for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special for “American Experience?s” “JFK.”
When a 15-year-old boy drowned in a rip current off a Port Washington beach two years ago, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Chin Wu happened to be doing erosion research on a nearby bluff.
Year 2 of Gary Andersen?s run at Wisconsin is all about comfort.
The University of Wisconsin System set a five-year goal Friday to cut by one-third the number of incoming students needing remedial math, and to boost the first-year completion rate so students who do need it are more likely to succeed in college and graduate.
Noted:Â Seventeen projects have been chosen for the launch of the new Discovery to Product, or D2P, program. The partnership between UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is aimed at taking promising campus inventions and helping to speed their entry into the marketplace.
Three women have been sexually assaulted by strangers on or near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this week, and police believe two of the assaults may have been committed by the same man.
Jignesh Patel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor who sold his company to Twitter, will discuss how to attract West Coast funding to state start-ups next week at the Forward Technology Conference, part of an eight-day event that is among the states biggest gathering of entrepreneurs.
Noted: With a degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master?s from Cornell University?s department of viticulture and enology, the 32-year Spada is one of a handful of independent wine consultants in the state.
Many college basketball analysts expect Wisconsin this season to give coach Bo Ryan his first Big Ten regular-season title since 2007-?08.
