Former Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame as a member of the 2013 class Tuesday at the National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner in New York City.
A former student has been arrested for venturing onto the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in violation of a restraining over court records indicate has been overturned.
Former UW Badger Ron Dayne is being honored at the National Football Foundation?s 56th Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
A former student has been arrested for venturing onto the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus in violation of a restraining order that court records indicate has been overturned.
Artificial Intelligence is defined as the ability for a machine such as a computer to perform functions analogous to learning and decision making. This past summer undergraduates Anjali Narayan-Chen and Liqi Xu taught the computer how to play Angry Birds. Angry birds is a popular game where using a slingshot, the player shoots wingless birds to kill pigs. And like other games, there are several levels of difficulty, different sizes and colors of birds, and different obstacles. With each game, new birds and special abilities can be activated by the player.
Each semester, a number of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison visit the Dean of Students Office to talk about withdrawing from the term for reasons related to mental health or substance abuse.
In addition to approving a financial transparency policy as required by the state Legislature, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents also approved the expansion of the newly launched Flexible Option program to five more UW schools, including UW-Madison.
City residents got a chance to voice their opinions regarding the final design for Library Mall and the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street, including potential colored lights on the leaf sculpture and the location of food cart vendors, at a public meeting Thursday.
Wisconsin will play South Carolina in the Capital One Bowl Jan. 1 in Orlando.
A new report says two out of every three people who graduate from a Wisconsin college do so with student-loan debt, saddling the state with a dubious No. 8 national ranking.
Four more University of Wisconsin System schools are developing flex option programs.
Throughout his life, Nelson Mandela achieved more than any one man could ever be expected to accomplish. From leading a nation out of apartheid to persistently advocating for peace and forgiveness, to serving 27 years in prison for his beliefs, he left behind a legacy that can never be matched.
This week?s dense fog isn?t just affecting the airlines. The pilots who transport victims of bad crashes also can?t take off.
The University of Wisconsin Madison has new rules regarding when alcohol can be served at campus events.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison senior will attend graduate school in London next year, after winning a competitive scholarship.
A $700 painting that was stolen from Union South two weeks ago has been recovered, University of Wisconsin Police Department spokesperson Marc Lovicott said.
Data from the University of Wisconsin System showed more than 1,000 faculty members left the state?s high education system between 2011 and 2013, a trend some have attributed to lower pay in the system than at peer institutions.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department wants to increase ticket prices for Badger football games next year.
Police arrested a University of Wisconsin student in connection with the sexual assault of a woman at the Kohl Center Saturday.
Its not every day you hear about an art theft in Madison, but police said an expensive piece of artwork was stolen from University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Union South last Wednesday, valued at $700.
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Drew Birrenkott is the recipient of the 2014 Rhodes Scholarship and will be invited to spend two or three years of study, all-expenses paid, at Oxford University in England.
Despite widespread skepticism about whether or not the digitalization of America?s dialogue can advance modern thought, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Dietram Scheufele said there are only three common behaviors that, if corrected, could transform the current state of polarizing disagreements online into beneficial conversations.
Buried a mile underneath the ice of Antarctica, the University of Wisconsin?s south pole particle detector, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, has discovered unprecedented amounts of energy beneath the surface and recently has attracted some national media attention in the science community.
In an effort to foster discourse between Badger fans and University of Wisconsin officials about game days, the Athletic Department is collaborating with the first Fan Advisory Council, set to have its first meeting Monday.
Two college students from Wisconsin are among this year?s group of 32 Rhodes Scholars from the United States.
Bare trees and bundled up students means its finals season at the UW-Madison Law School.
Rebecca M. Blank was a top candidate in 2011 to lead President Obama?s Council of Economic Advisers, but then the White House turned up something politically dangerous.
The Border Battle between Wisconsin and Minnesota is a rivalry game and a trophy game at that. It’s expected that emotions run high and sometimes boil over. Even after the game has ended.
A victory over Penn State (6-5, 3-4) keeps alive UW’s hopes to secure a BCS at-large berth.
“Land grant universities were established to meet the needs of the people, and in Wisconsin that is taken to heart,” said Josh Hyman, director of UW-Madison’s DNA Sequencing Facility. “Helping to identify remains of soldiers and bring comfort and closure for families definitely follow the intent of the Wisconsin Idea.”
The DNA Sequencing Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Biotechnology Center expects to play a key role in the final analysis of remains buried with those of German soldiers to determine whether they may belong to U.S. Army Pfc. Lawrence S. Gordon.
In part for being a college town with a strong sense of community, Madison was recently ranked the fifth best city to call home in the United States.
As debate about the monitoring of online activities continues in the public sphere, a review of the University of Wisconsin?s information system privacy policies found administrators can only access student email after a written request is approved.
In part for being a college town with a strong sense of community, Madison was recently ranked the fifth best city to call home in the United States.
UW Health in Madison and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee are exploring a partnership.
UW Health in Madison and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee are exploring a partnership.
The Badgers received commitments from South Carolina running back Caleb Kinlaw and Tennessee kicker Rafael Gaglianone as new members of the 2014 class.
The Classified Staff Executive Committee will meet Thursday to begin drafting internal bylaws, continuing a process where classified staff will organize in a formal governance structure for the first time in the university?s history.
Jason Furman, President Obama?s chief economist and head of the Council of Economic Advisors, spoke about the outlook for fiscal policy in an event sponsored by the Department of Economics at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Monday.
The University of Wisconsin System began accepting applications Monday for the Flexible Option Degree Program, a service that will help adult students receive college credit in nontraditional ways.
In a Nov. 12 memo, Provost Paul DeLuca and Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell described the guidelines for a fund created to rectify salaries below national averages.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a statewide, multicampus forum Monday discussing insurance options for young people under the Affordable Care Act.
Most nights after coming home from daycare, 2-year-old Brennans favorite toy is a $350 iPad.
When University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Cal Melberg attended a bone marrow registry drive at his girlfriend?s request, he had no idea he would soon be making a donation that could hopefully save a woman?s life.
Despite how ridiculously expensive tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gets, one thing I will not gripe about paying is the student segregated fee that all UW-Madison students pay equally regardless of residency, year or school. UW-Madison?s segregated fees are taxes that are tacked onto our semester tuition that add a little over $1,000 to our overall tuition and fees annually.
Forbes Magazine listed the MGE Innovation Center within the University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Park as a top hotbed for high tech startups Friday.
An audit of the University of Wisconsin System released Nov. 15 revealed that no documented plans exist for 40.7 percent of UW-Madison?s 2012 program revenue balances.
Following an apartment fire last week in the Casa Blanca Apartment building on University Avenue that displaced 50 University of Wisconsin students, the Dean of Students office is raising awareness about a ?crisis fund.?
Just under $150 million of University of Wisconsin?s surplus was discovered to be without documentation in an audit report released Friday, triggering heightened public and legislative concern for UW?s spending accountability.
Prospective college students can start signing up for the University of Wisconsin Systems new flexible degree program.
An Office of Sustainability representative facilitated discussion on environmental initiatives on campus and the recently established Green Fund at the second Sustainability Fair Thursday.
An armed robbery occurred at about 5:51 p.m. Wednesday night behind 700 Regent Street on the bike path, Madison Police Department Lt. Dan Olivas said.
A Madison man was robbed at knife-point around near West Washington Avenue and Regent Street in downtown Madison Wednesday evening.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced in a press release Tuesday it will partner with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to develop campus entrepreneurship and utilize collaboration to bring innovative ideas to fruition.
After the final campus engagement session Tuesday, committee members say that they want to gather more student feedback on what should be included in an upcoming campus diversity plan.
Madison residents could see a new transit center in the downtown area after a local company outlined its plan for a development that also would include student housing in a meeting Monday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked sixth among U.S. universities and colleges in the number of students earning academic credit from study abroad programs during 2011-?12, according to the 2013 Open Doors Report on International Education Exchange released Monday.
The Academic Staff Assembly met Monday to hear from Chancellor Rebecca Blank about the human resources plan and a fund used to give raises for academic staff.
As a University of Wisconsin ad hoc committee continues work on a new diversity plan, it is turning to the community for input on what changes need to be made on campus.
