A University of Wisconsin chemist and her team have discovered a method for identifying new useful compounds for developing antibiotics, and a national science journal recognized the groupâ??s findings Friday.
Fewer of Americaâ??s top colleges and universities across the country require English majors to study William Shakespeare, according to a new study released this month by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
It was a bright day for horticulturalists of all ages at the annual Family Horticulture Day Saturday at the Agricultural Research station, where attendees got a hands-on experience with plants.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department announced its new lottery and distribution policy Friday for menâ??s basketball and hockey tickets, drawing mixed reactions from students.
The old saying is, â??You are what you eat.â? Anyone looking for an additional exhibit of evidence for the adage can look no further than to Joe Thomas.
A record number of people participated in Saturdayâ??s Crazylegs Run, which will benefit the University of Wisconsinâ??s Badger Athletics Fund.
Police arrested a 20-year-old University of Wisconsin sophomore in connection with two burglaries that occurred early Sunday morning on the 100 block of Langdon Street.
The UW Athletic Department released details of new procedures for the sale, distribution and allocation of student season tickets for menâ??s hockey and basketball this morning.
Brett, a UW-Madison sophomore, downloads about three new albums per day with a few clicks of the mouse and without the help of a credit card. However, he may soon be in court.
After several Recording Industry Association of America companies went to U.S. District Court demanding the University of Wisconsin release contact information for 53 individuals who received settlement letters for illegally downloading music, the university is complying.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has again been placed on the list of Americaâ??s Best Value Colleges Thursday, compiled by the Princeton Review.
Despite the recent removal of domestic partner benefits from the state budget, University of Wisconsin officials are hopeful the policy will be reintroduced and even approved.
A U.S. district court judge said Wednesday the University of Wisconsin System must release the names and contact information of 53 students accused of illegal file sharing on UW networks.
Angela Steckart, a short, blond young woman, walks into Espresso Royale on a Friday afternoon. With a smile giving off a laid back, confident aura, she orders a latte and sits down after a long day of class. Making small talk, she seems only vaguely interested until the pleasantries give way to her favorite subject. She beams from ear to ear conversing about her â??hysterical,â? sports-loving 2-year-old son, Callen.
To anyone passing her on the street, Steckart looks like any college student but her responsibility as a single parent sets her apart.
In wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, parents worry about their children and whether UW-Madison would react appropriately if such a dangerous event were to occur here. The UW-Madison system recently started a review of the campusâ?? current security policies and instituted a plan to conduct future reviews to ensure that the campus has a safety plan should one of any number of different scenarios arise.
What do you value about UW-Madison? Chancellor John Wiley and Provost Patrick Farrell want to know. â??We need your help!â? the two said in an e-mail to students Wednesday, inviting them to participate in an online survey running from now until May 4.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, along with other Labor Licensing Policy Committee members, gathered Wednesday in Bascom Hall to hear findings from Special Assistant to the Chancellor Dawn Crimâ??s recent trip to El Salvador to investigate the Hermosa factory situation.
Students, residents and police are gearing up for next Saturday, the date set for the 38th annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
Badger fans across campus expressed both anger and confusion with the UW-Madison Athletic Department Wednesday after discovering season football tickets had sold out before knowing they had even gone on sale.
When I was a freshman, I wanted to live next to Lake Mendota. I knew the southeast dorms were not for this small-town boy. I felt lucky getting my first choice of Kronshage Hall, and when I moved in, my view of the lake from my room was one of the best in Madison. Even now, I still go out to Chamberlin and run along Lakeshore Path down to Picnic Point because it is one of the most serene runs in all of Madison.
A prominent retired Wisconsin businessman donated $2 million toward a new research facility, the University of Wisconsin announced Wednesday.
The costs for a top-notch education keep piling up for those at the University of Wisconsin, as rising tuition continues to thin out the wallets of students and their families.
Several students expressed outrage Wednesday after learning season ticket packages for home football games had sold out, saying the University of Wisconsin never notified them about the sale.
Chancellor John Wiley acknowledged Wednesday that Adidas has not completely fulfilled its promise to clean up its labor practices at some of its Central American factories.
Q: How do fish gills work?
Matthew Burns
Grade 7
Sennett Middle School
A: Gills are the equivalent of a mammal’s lungs, says Jeffrey Malison, director of the aquaculture program at UW-Madison. “Their primary purpose is to exchange gases, take oxygen in and release carbon dioxide out of the fish.”
A prominent critic of government involvement in religion is opposing a request to fly the Tibetan flag over the City-County Building to honor the visit of the Dalai Lama to Madison next week.
The Dalai Lama is a religious, not a governmental, leader, said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
“Public officials need to be very careful what precedent they set even if they have the best intentions,” Gaylor said Wednesday.
As many as 53 UW-Madison students could be slapped with lawsuits by the music recording industry after a federal judge on Wednesday ordered the university to surrender their names and other information for sharing digital music files over the Internet.
Madison Ald. Eli Judge proved last week that swearing an oath to the Wisconsin Constitution in no way implies opposition to gay rights.
Other elected officials in Madison and across Wisconsin should take note and follow his example.
Judge, 19, a sophomore at UW-Madison, was sworn in Tuesday as the youngest member of the Madison City Council, representing the campus area.
In the wake of last weekâ??s tragedy at Virginia Tech, UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling has agreed to chair the UW System Presidentâ??s 2007 Commission on University Security.
That familiar yellow tag on our textbooks that reads â??usedâ? could mean catastrophe for all of us collegiate scholars because we may have unknowingly purchased an outdated chronicle of finite mathematics or an ancient account of what makes a good speech.
After a yearlong legal struggle, a federal court has ruled that the University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation is eligible to receive segregated fee funding. It seems that the final chapter of one of the yearâ??s most misunderstood stories has been written.
Demand for a business degree is booming worldwide.
In many respects, thatâ??s good news for me as the dean of the UW-Madison School of Business, but that same popularity also carries a downside.
Rules planned to assist University of Wisconsin System campuses in firing professors for criminal behavior would not go into effect in time to be used against a history professor accused of possessing child pornography, a UW System official said Monday.
Men are paid more than women immediately following college graduation, according to a report released April 20.
University of Wisconsin officials outlined a renovation project costing nearly $2.5 million for the historic 126-year-old campus observatory Tuesday, laying out the projectâ??s timeline and logistics during a meeting with university community members.
A Dane County Board of Supervisors committee voted Tuesday against a University of Wisconsin proposal to build a Department of Homeland Security animal disease research facility just south of Madison in the town of Dunn.
Baas and bleats combined with the excited chatter and giggles of more than 500 elementary children Tuesday at the annual College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for Kids event at the Stock Pavilion.
Student season tickets for the 2007 University of Wisconsin football season are sold out.
After only three days, every single one of the 10,500 student tickets was gone by Tuesday afternoon.
Our sun powers itself with burning plasma, radiating enough energy to warm the planets and light up the solar system.
For 50 years, scientists have been trying to harness the process and create self-sustaining fusion reactions. Thanks to UW-Madison researchers at the Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX), they are now one step closer.
In his last hurrah on the City Council, Austin King proposed an ordinance that would regulate the sales of used textbooks. According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, textbook theft is a prevalent city problem and forcing stricter record keeping at bookstores is the solution.
The Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee met Monday and tackled a number of issues ranging from shenanigans in downtown parking ramps to renovations on Regent Street and campus construction this summer.
Expounding on stereotypes and prejudices they have encountered on campus, UW-Madison students and faculty called into question the future of the campusâ?? principal diversity program Monday at an All Campus Party forum.
Students voiced their frustration Monday with shortfalls in reaching goals to increase diversity on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Exactly one week after the deadly shootings at Virginia Tech, the president of the University of Wisconsin System announced his specific plan Monday to address university security statewide.
University Avenue and Johnson Street will be seeing heavy construction this summer as work begins on building an underground utility tunnel to aid in new construction.
After Chancellor John Wiley submitted his grievances with the 2007-08 segregated fee budgets last week, members of the Associated Students of Madison met Monday to formulate a response, including standing their ground on the hotly contested off-campus rent issue.
While critics continue to attack ethanol and other biofuels, Wisconsin should be thankful Gov. Jim Doyle is proceeding full speed ahead to make the state a leader in biofuel development.
The latest advancement was last week’s announcement that Wisconsin is joining 11 states to form an alliance to promote growth in the biofuels industry.
A Wisconsin reception will be held at the Boston Harbor Hotel, and the state will give away a Trek bicycle to a lucky visitor to the pavilion. Gov. Jim Doyle and UW-Madison bird flu expert Yoshihiro Kawaoka will be among the speakers.
You won’t go broke betting on the short-term thinking of teenagers.
Which is why the ad that landed in some UW-Madison students’ mailboxes right around the time of spring break is a work of marketing genius. It shows a young person wearing a T-shirt that reads:
“I went to Cancun on my Citi/AAdvantage Card, and I got 743 miles, a good start on my credit history and a bunch of memories.”
Is that great or what?
As a nationwide controversy recently erupted over student loans, state lawmakers are investigating how UW schools may be affected.
Huge pans of scrambled eggs, piles of pancakes, platters of sausage patties and buckets of ice cream – they were enough to make people smile as they left the UW-Madison Stock Pavilion after attending Breakfast on the Farm, held Sunday morning.
The Associated Students of Madison launched its Neighborhood Watch program at Memorial Union Friday night to help assist police in patrolling areas frequented by its fellow students.
A business plan for bicycle advertising on college campuses took first place and a $10,000 prize in the 10th annual G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition Friday.
AdverCycle, a plan presented by Stacy Knuth and Matt Lerner, edged nine other teams from UW-Madison that were competing for $22,000 in prize money at Grainger Hall.
Every year, there are one or two UW-Madison students whose behavior or psychological state raises serious concern among university officials.
“I don’t want to alarm anybody, but it’s not just a ‘very rare’ thing,” said Elton Crim, UW-Madison’s associate dean of students.
Simon Cowell wasn’t there to serve up biting insults, Ryan Seacrest didn’t schmooze the contestants and not one ‘dawg’ was uttered, but the UW-Madison All-Campus Idol competition Sunday night was just as entertaining and talent-filled as the nationally televised version.
Foreign applications to American graduate schools increased last year, but still fell short of reaching numbers before Sept. 11, 2001, according to a study released last week by the Council of Graduate Schools.
Members of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines rallied Friday afternoon on Library Mall, informing students about the need for universities to increase availability of university-innovated drugs for developing countries, namely those directly controlled by the University of Wisconsin.
Although the Big Ten Network still doesnâ??t have a contract with Madisonâ??s Charter Communications, network officials are confident they will close the deal by kickoff this fall with the aid of University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez.
Attempts to provide domestic partner benefits for all state workers and collective bargaining rights for University of Wisconsin System faculty and staff were removed from the state budget Friday.
Randy Fortenbery, a UW- Madison economist who has studied the feasibility of biodiesel plants in Wisconsin, sees that option as a big plus for the plant.
“They do have a distinct competitive advantage in that they are aligned with (Sanimax) who controls a lot of the recycled grease collection in Wisconsin,” he said. “That’s a nice situation.”
Q: Why do our stomachs growl?
Joey Feuling
Grade 7
Sennett Middle School
A: “Our insides are alive and working all the time, digesting food with digestive juices,” says Susan Toth, clinical assistant professor of surgery at UW-Madison.
