Concession stands at University of Wisconsin sporting events could have a new look ? or at least a new group in control ? next season, and it could mean the end of a relationship that spans more than 50 years.
Madison ? Republicans on the Legislature?s budget committee largely signed off Tuesday on giving Gov. Scott Walker broad authority to sell heating plants, highways and other state property without seeking competitive bids, but stipulated that lawmakers must approve any sale.
The UW-Madison School of Business has surpassed Harvard as the most popular business school in the nation in a magazine?s rankings.
Chris Rickert?s May 19 column, “Surplus of blame encircles UW fund,” doesn?t state what he means by “professorial stars.” But data is available suggesting comparisons between CEO and university faculty salaries are ridiculous.
The Legislature?s budget committee Tuesday approved a measure meant to discourage public employees from collecting a pension and a paycheck at the same time.
If it seems loud and hazy near Charter and Dayton Streets on the UW-Madison campus Monday afternoon, it?s just the heating plant blowing off steam.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police have arrested a 19-year-old student for allegedly setting fire to a bulletin board in a residence hall.
Professors or programs from three University of Wisconsin System campuses ? La Crosse, Parkside and Madison ? were chosen recently as winners of the annual Regents Teaching Excellence Awards.
What is the chime that the carillon on theUW-Madison campus plays on the hour? It reminds me of ?Westminster Chimes,? but it?s clearly not the same.
Comic actor and writer Anders Holm, a 2003 UW-Madison graduate, delivered what came off as a stand-up comedy charge toUW-Madison graduates over the weekend, getting mostly laughs except during an off-color comment about grandmothers.
There was plenty of focus on higher education this past weekend, and for the first time in awhile it was nothing but positive.
Students graduating this week from the University of Wisconsin-Madison might take a moment to appreciate how mightily their school has struggled to preserve adequate resources to maintain its tradition of excellence, Greg Downey, chairman of the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication, says in a blog post Thursday, the day after Gov. Scott Walker announced that he wants to reduce the size of a funding increase for the UW System and also freeze tuition for its schools.
Madison – Following a furor among lawmakers over the University of Wisconsin System?s sizable financial reserves, Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday recommended freezing tuition and scaling back his proposed budget increase for state universities and colleges by $94 million over the next two years.
A UW-Madison adjunct engineering professor and a physics professor from Princeton have teamed up to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal defending carbon dioxide, that much maligned greenhouse gas blamed by the vast majority of the world?s climatologists for global warming.
For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable beneath-the-snow habitat that gives essential respite from biting winds and subzero temperatures.
Gov. Scott Walker announced Wednesday night that he?ll cut about $94 million out of the $181 million budget boost earlier proposed for the University of Wisconsin System, in addition to freezing tuition as a result of revelations that the System kept hundreds of millions of dollars in cash reserves in recent years.
In a state that is divided on one political issue after another, there?s at least an apparent point of agreement that unites Badgers: freezing tuition at the University of Wisconsin.
A UW-Madison adjunct engineering professor and a physics professor from Princeton have teamed up to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal defending carbon dioxide, that much maligned greenhouse gas blamed by the vast majority of the world?s climatologists for global warming.
For over 18 long months the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile have been under siege by the Government of Sudan. This government carries out daily bombing sorties against the people of the area and continues to deny humanitarian organizations from providing desperately needed food and medical supplies.
On his blog, businessman John Torinus takes a look at the University of Wisconsin System?s many assets and suggests that it work at more transparency and include the balance sheets of such entities as the UW Foundation and WARF, the foundation that markets the school?s patents. It needs to build trust, says Torinus, and suggests that it find a way to work with the state ? ala the Wisconsin Idea ? to help in that regard.
Who designs the flamboyant suits worn by UW Varsity Band Director Mike Leckrone during the band?s spring concerts?
On his trip to Wisconsin last week, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a prime example of the kind of smart investment the federal government should make to confront climate change and support the economy.
One of these days someone is going to get smart and ask Cristina Negrut to give a graduation speech.
A committee of faculty, students and staff is recommending Minnesota students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison pay out-of-state tuition.
A campus advisory committee is recommending the University of Wisconsin-Madison opt out of a longtime reciprocity agreement and charge Minnesota residents out-of-state tuition as part of a broader strategy to create an “ideal incoming freshman class.”
Three months ago Joan Houston Hall, editor for 38 years of the Madison-based Dictionary of American Regional English, sat down to write what seemed likely to be her publication?s obituary: layoff letters for all six longtime staff. Then one for herself.
When Bret Bielema left the state last year, the designation as Wisconsin?s highest-paid public employee shifted from its flagship school?s football coach to its men?s basketball coach.
UW-Madison professors have never been unionized, but their underpaid and overworked teaching assistants once were. Along with thousands of other state workers, the TAs lost their collective bargaining rights with the passage of Act 10 two years ago, but they continue to fight for better pay and working conditions through their now decertified union, the Teaching Assistants Association.
The freshman class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison includes the lowest percentage of Wisconsin students in at least a decade.
Charles Franklin, a nationally recognized government scholar whose polls correctly predicted outcomes in the 2012 election, will join the Marquette University Law School as a full-time professor and lead the school?s poll.
UW-Madison?s incoming freshman class last fall included the lowest percentage of Wisconsin students and by far the highest percentage of international students in at least a decade, the latter fueled by a doubling of Chinese freshmen from the previous year.
We?ve heard a lot recently about the University of Wisconsin?s budget surplus. But back when the state and the UW were young, poverty, rather than prosperity, was the rule on campus. ?Making do? extended to the most basic features of the physical plant.
UW Transportation Services said Tuesday that parking rates will increase from 3 to 10 percent, beginning Sept. 1, to pay for increased operating and maintenance costs, as well as making up for lost revenue from stalls lost to building projects.
Workers are scrambling to restore power to seven buildings in the central area of the UW-Madison campus, an outage caused by a failure in switch gear equipment.
If you see smoke on the western edge of the UW-Madison campus Wednesday, don?t call 911. It?s a prescribed fire at the Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
Jan Rapacz, 84, a brilliant and persistent UW-Madisonimmunogeneticist whose mutant pigs became a standard in heart disease research, died Sunday in Krakow, in his native Poland.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will lead new research on reducing greenhouse gases emitted from dairy farms.
A huge research project at UW-Madison that has taken over 50 years of work so far got a big financial boost last week so the work can continue.
The National Football Foundation announced Tuesday morning that University of Wisconsin great Ron Dayne will be immortalized as part of the College Football Hall of Fame Class of 2013.
Ron Dayne has been elected to the College Football Hall Of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will lead new research on reducing greenhouse gases emitted from dairy farms.
Former University of Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne was elected on Tuesday morning as part of the 2013 class for the College Football Hall of Fame.
Every Wednesday after school in the spring and fall, Sherman Middle School students make the trek on foot to nearby Warner Park ? a diverse, natural playground full of teaching possibilities.
Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward provided clarification about the university?s recently discovered surplus funds in Monday?s Faculty Senate meeting, saying a majority of the balances will be used as financial aid resources.
The final Faculty Senate meeting of the academic year lasted over two hours Monday, resulting in discussions of the recent student sit-in in Chancellor David Ward?s office and increasing teaching assistant compensation, as well as extensive questioning of multiple annual committee reports, including transportation budgets and faculty compensation.
The University of Wisconsin?s Faculty Senate did not approve a resolution calling for faculty support on divestment in fossil fuel companies at their Monday?s meeting, voting to further study the issue before making a final decision.
One man was robbed of his cellphone when a man pointed a gun at him while he was walking down the street early Tuesday morning near the UW campus.
Gov. Scott Walker has scheduled an emergency meeting of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. for Wednesday in the wake of a scathing audit released last week detailing serious problems at the state?s flagship jobs agency.
Researchers from UW-Madison will lead a study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture aimed at making the dairy industry greener by finding climate solutions such as the reduction of greenhouse gases.
For teens on the journey to adulthood, there may be no more transformative time than their years as a college undergraduate.
The Revelry Music and Arts Festival took place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Saturday and drew a large number of students, despite a rainy start to the day.
David Ward first arrived on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in the ?60s, and says he remembers fellow students taking on the civil rights movement and Vietnam War.
University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Julia Sprangers is scheduled to appear on ?Jeopardy!? Monday after she flew to the game show?s home in Los Angeles from Spain, where she is studying abroad for the semester, according to The Wisconsin State Journal.
Amid calls for a tuition freeze from state lawmakers, financial records found the University of Wisconsin System?s reserve funds are expected to grow $150 million by the end of June.
Madison?s public health department weighed in on the Mifflin Street Block Party late last week, citing the event as an example of the negative effects of the city?s alcohol culture in a report about public health.
Madison police cracked down on enforcement of city ordinances during the unofficial Mifflin Street Block Party on Saturday, with a significant officer presence leading to diminished numbers of student attendees at the event.
Live music stirred up the crowd at the inaugural Revelry Music and Arts Festival on Saturday, with the University of Wisconsin year-end event selling more than 3,000 tickets to the event.
