University of Wisconsin chancellor search finalist Kim Wilcox, current provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Michigan State University, finds collaboration to be key in his leadership style.
Legislators from both parties have reacted positively to including a tuition cap in the state?s biennial budget, a measure University of Wisconsin System officials said may not be necessary.
The University of Wisconsin?s Madison campus is the latest carrier of a Twitter torch for the UW System.
The work of four Dane County hospitals is responsible for Tuesday?s launch of a new website that provides up-to-date health and population data to the community.
Madison?s City Council unanimously approved its annual resolution to not allow glass containers on Mifflin Street May 4 at their meeting Tuesday, as they expect the traditional block party to occur.
Research on the bird flu may start up again on the University of Wisconsin campus after scientists voluntarily put the project on hold more than a year ago.
Conservationist Aldo Leopold is being celebrated this weekend by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Allow us, for a moment, to indulge our journalistic predisposition for cliché: The University of Wisconsin finds itself at a crossroads.
For chancellor search finalist Michael Schill, a dean and law professor at the University of Chicago Law School, fundraising and alumni engagement are essential for the future of the University of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin researchers have discovered a new way to detect and quantify proteins, which could potentially lead to more efficient cancer research and diagnosis.
A member of Gov. Scott Walker?s administration touted greater flexibility and the availability of new funding for the University of Wisconsin System, but did not voice support for setting a cap on tuition increases in a meeting with students on Monday.
The Madison Police Department will be working more closely with the elementary schools in the Madison Metropolitan School District in an effort to prevent violence in schools after a number of recent mass school shootings.
A 22- year-old woman left her bathroom to find a burglar in her apartment Saturday, according to Madison police.
(0) CommentsThe University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of the Teaching Assistants? Association recently launched a campaign to increase graduate students? incomes to make UW-Madison a more attractive place for graduate students.
(0) CommentsOver 100 University of Wisconsin System students gathered in the Capitol Monday to lobby state legislators for a cap on tuition increases and a larger investment in financial aid.
MADISON – Rosemary ?Rose? Breitkreutz, age 77, of Madison, passed away peacefully after a brief illness on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, surrounded by family in Madison.
Last week I wrote a story on a proposed drunken driving law. And like I have done numerous times in the past, I contacted Nina Emerson with the UW Law School?s Resource Center on Impaired Driving for some information.Two days after the story ran, Emerson was notified that her funding will be gone when the 2014 fiscal year starts on Oct. 1 of this year.
University of Wisconsin students are asking legislators to cap tuition increases.
University of Wisconsin students are asking legislators to cap tuition increases.
MADISON – Terrance M. Scheid, M.D., age 63, of Madison, died on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, at UW Hospital in Madison.
In the eyes of Rebecca Blank, the acting Secretary of Commerce and one of four finalists in the Chancellor search and screen, a federal agency is not unlike the University of Wisconsin.
If Congress does not reach a compromise before Friday, Wisconsin?s national security employees and the public education system could be the target of massive federal spending cuts known as the sequester, according a White House statement released Sunday.
Madison has begun testing trees for emerald ash borers, an invasive Chinese insect that has been devastating much of North America?s ash trees.
The University of Wisconsin Systems president says Gov. Scott Walkers budget proposals would keep tuition costs down and improve economic development programs at various campuses across the state.
Actor James Cromwell has been charged with a civil ordinance violation for allegedly disrupting a university meeting in Madison to protest animal testing.
For UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling, the idea that people caught in a mass shooting might have to find a way to fight for their lives is not a new concept.But her recent comments to that effect are gaining national attention.
Cows moved back onto the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus after the completion of the new Dairy Cattle Center, according to a university press release.Students, faculty and university staff use the facility for dairy science classes, veterinarian training and research projects.
At first glance, Gov. Scott Walker?s budget provision to do away with residency requirements for city and school employees makes for some strange bedfellows ? aligning the governor made famous for slashing the power of public worker unions with police officers, firefighters and other city workers who have long sought an end to residency requirements through collective bargaining.
Willie Ney, a self-described ?multicultural activist? on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in the 1990s, heard teens performing poetry and saw revolutionary potential.
For UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling, the idea that people caught in a mass shooting might have to find a way to fight for their lives is not a new concept.
I, too, am opposed to cruelty to animals during medical research. But I take issue with Thursday?s letter by a PETA member stating cats at UW “had their heads cut open and had steel rods screwed to their skulls.” Due to a recurrent brain tumor, I?ve had two craniotomies. So I, too, have had my head cut open and had steel rods screwed to my skull to hold it steady during surgery. That?s how brain surgery is done.
Four out-of-state finalists have emerged in a national search for the next leader of Wisconsin?s flagship university, including acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca M. Blank.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced the finalists for the position of chancellor at UW-Madison on Thursday after a 25-member search and screen committee winnowed the field of candidates.
Teresa A. Pellino escaped from the grip of pancreatic cancer on Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, while visiting her dear friends Deb Gordon and Myra Enloe in Seattle.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced the four finalists for the chancellor position Thursday.
The four finalists are Dr. Rebecca M. Blank from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Dr. Nicholas P. Jones from Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Michael H. Schill from University of Chicago Law School and Dr. Kim A. Wilcox from Michigan State University, according to a UW Communications statement.
Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed $181 million in investments for the University of Wisconsin System would help ensure tuition increases are ?very modest,? a UW System spokesperson said Thursday.
UW-Madison has honored 16 of its professors as either outstanding mid-career faculty members or promising young faculty members.The university awarded eight professors with the Kellett Mid-Career Award and eight with the Romnes Faculty Fellowship, according to news releases Thursday.
By this point, the ?UW Madison Confessions? Facebook page should need no introduction. The page, which allows anyone to post confessions anonymously through an online survey system, has gained 13,698 likes in less than 10 days since its creation on Feb. 11. According to the administrator of the page, who is remaining anonymous, it is a great place for debates and funny stories.
We had a story in this morning?s paper about UW-Madison?s launch into the new world of massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs. The news had the unfortunate fate of landing the same day as Gov. Scott Walker?s budget address, pushing it down the front page a bit.
The University of Wisconsin System announced the four finalists being considered to be the next chancellor at UW-Madison.
The finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s chancellor position speak
One Madison woman has made it her life?s mission to help families in Africa. Now she?s taking UW-Madison students along on her journey.
It?s a long way from a village in Kyrgyzstan with no running water to a table in the Memorial Union?s Rathskeller on the UW-Madison campus.But our story today connects them, through Erin Luhmann, a UW-Madison graduate student of journalism from Minnesota.
Four finalists will be interviewed for the position of University of Wisconsin chancellor, according to a release from the UW System.
The names of four finalists to become the next chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were made public Thursday, and the thing that jumps out is the absence of either a sitting president or any internal candidate from the UW campus.
Gov. Scott Walkers proposed income tax cut would give more money back to the rich than it would the poor, despite his billing it as targeting the middle class.
A Minneapolis-based real estate company released its final proposal for the apartment building slated to replace the Stadium Bar Wednesday.
In an effort to keep pace with continuously advancing educational technology, the University of Wisconsin announced Wednesday it will offer four massive, open online courses, two of which will start this fall.
Gov. Scott Walker called for a $343 million income tax cut, education reform and economic development initiatives in his biennial budget address Wednesday.
The Madison Police Department outlined police involvement in the 2012 Mifflin Street Block Party in an event summary released Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota are among a growing number of universities offering free online courses through their websites.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota are among a growing number of universities offering free online courses through their websites.
Kevin Kluender humbly dismisses the notion that he coordinates one of the most prominent, enduring attractions in the state.Kluender is the assistant director for marketing and promotions for the University of Wisconsin athletic department
The University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry department will debut a new art exhibit to educate the public on the university?s current and past cancer research.The exhibit, ?Healing through Art and Science: Cancer,? is part of an ongoing initiative by the biochemistry department to showcase the university?s research through art, according to a statement released by the university.
(0) CommentsAron Ralston, the outdoorsman who famously amputated his own arm after being trapped beneath a boulder, spoke at Union South Wednesday as part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate Distinguished Lecture Series to discuss his accident and the effect it has had on his life.
(0) CommentsA 20-year-old woman was forcibly robbed on the south side of campus Tuesday, bringing the total number of thefts in a recent string of muggings to four, according to police reports.
Regarding Saturday?s guest column, “Cat research, after all the drama,” by UW-Madison research director Eric Sandgren:UW?s response to criticism about its barbaric taxpayer-funded experiments on cats has been to distort, deny and dismiss the well-documented cruelty and to silence dissent.
Starting next fall, anyone with an Internet connection will be able to take a few UW-Madison courses ? taught exclusively online by high-profile professors ? for free.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota are among a growing number of universities offering free online courses through their websites.
University of Wisconsin System officials explained their progress on the flexible option degree to a Senate committee Tuesday, allowing legislators to clear concerns they had over the new program.
After taking in no state funding the past two years, University of Wisconsin?s cancer center will receive nearly $4 million through 2015, according to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker?s budget proposal.
