UW-Madison’s national research ranking, cemented for nearly 45 years as one of the top five in the country, has dropped in recent years, with the latest figures placing the university eighth among hundreds of institutions.
Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are demanding the university fire a professor who reportedly created a toxic work environment in his lab.
The city of Madison is teaming up with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to identify the problems that come with climate change and ways to adapt to them.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wants to revise an undergraduate admissions policy requiring the university to admit at least 3,600 Wisconsin residents in each freshman class, calling it “not a good indicator of our commitment to in-state students.”
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison closes in on nearly two years of working on a project to review employee job titles and pay, it hopes to begin implementing its findings in the spring of 2020.
Faculty at all 13 University of Wisconsin System campuses have called on the UW Board of Regents to expand its presidential search committee and include representation from the faculty, staff and students whom the next president will oversee.
It’s always a surprise to see who the MacArthur Foundation selects to receive its annual fellowships — the six-figure awards known as Genius Grants — but one of this year’s picks was particularly exhilarating: comic artist Lynda Barry. For anyone who read alternative weeklies from the ’80s through the ’00s, she was the eternally wise and strange mind behind Ernie Pook’s Comeek.
It’s always a surprise to see who the MacArthur Foundation selects to receive its annual fellowships — the six-figure awards known as Genius Grants — but one of this year’s picks was particularly exhilarating: comic artist Lynda Barry.
Every weekday, a steel machine inside the concrete vault basement of a research building near UW Hospital produces radioactive atoms used to detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison had the second highest voter turnout in 2018 of any Big Ten university in the nation. With the help of a concerted volunteer effort to increase political engagement, voting increased on campus by nearly 20 percent compared with turnout in 2014.
As an associate professor of interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Barry is pushing the envelope on understanding how the brain creates and responds to words and pictures — a scholarly envelope that, in her mind, should be positively covered with illuminating doodles.
Akbar Sayeed, a professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, won’t return to the classroom next semester, according to the Wisconsin State-Journal, if he returns to campus at all following his two-year suspension for creating a “toxic” environment for students in his lab.
The Big Ten Voting Challenge was created in 2017. It’s a nonpartisan initiative in which 14 universities of the Big Ten Conference compete to see who has the highest voter turnout.
The tenured engineering professor, Akbar Sayeed, has been reassigned from teaching to unspecified administrative duties in the Dean’s Office while officials continue to develop specific oversight and monitoring procedures if he returns to working with students, College of Engineering Dean Ian Robertson said Wednesday.
Students at UW-Madison had the second highest voter turnout among the Big Ten schools in the 2018 midterm elections.
When Brenda Gonzalez joined the board of directors of Access Community Health Centers in 2017, she wasn’t looking to shake things up.
The UW-Madison will raise the minimum wage to $15 for the university’s hourly employees, according to a release Friday. The raise will be effective in the spring of 2020.
A monumental feat for 19 brand new graduates at UW Health.
The announcement follows a proposal released Friday by Gov. Tony Evers to raise state employees’ minimum wage to $15.
Increase to affect workers in custodial, food service, animal care, not student workers.
The state of Wisconsin, including UW-Madison, intends to increase the minimum wage for its hourly employees to $15 an hour, according to statements issued Friday by the university and Gov. Tony Evers.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball fans are encouraged to be in their seats 15 minutes early for the home opener against Eastern Illinois on Friday night.
The head of the UW Board of Regents has broken decades of precedent by appointing a search committee for the next University of Wisconsin System president that does not include any faculty members or academic staff.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has settled a lawsuit by the family of a windsurfer killed in a collision with a university boat.
New data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows students at the state’s flagship campus are getting out faster than ever, in light of mounting national concerns and conversations about the rising cost of college.
UW-Madison plans to start centrally tracking complaints of hostile and intimidating behavior to better identify patterns of bullying, such as the “abusive” conduct graduate students experienced in an engineering professor‘s lab.
Robotic delivery company Starship Technologies is deploying 30 robots at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, giving more than 66,000 students, staff and faculty access to autonomous food delivery.
This type of inclement weather was actually the first thing I thought about when Starship sent me a press release today announcing that its robots are now rolling around the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M), delivering food.
“This is excellent news for Wisconsin families concerned about the cost of higher education,” said Blank, “We know that students who take longer than four years often accrue additional debt. It is our goal that as many undergraduates as possible complete their program of studies in four years.”
Over 800 new University of Wisconsin-Madison students are receiving free tuition through Bucky’s Tuition Promise.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is leaving his job after five years overseeing public universities and colleges across the state — stepping away from a career in education spanning more than four decades.
By the time UW-Madison realized something was wrong in the Wireless Communication and Sensing Laboratory, it was too late for John Brady.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross announced Friday his intention to retire from his position overseeing the state’s public universities and colleges.
After nearly three years of anticipation and extensive construction, students, donors and faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gathered Friday evening to celebrate the Hamel Music Center, a state-of-the-art facility that promises improved performance and recital venues for the Mead Witter School of Music.
Jeff Naughton, Principal Scientist and Google Madison Site Lead, says Google can thank the UW-Madison for the office’s growth. “The connection has created a strong pipeline of talent that has allowed us to create more jobs here,” Naughton says.
A group of students of color at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created the Student Inclusion Coalition with a goal of fighting for “equity, inclusion and cultural humility across campus.”
When the Overture Center for the Arts opened in 2005, Madison obtained a crown jewel of a performance venue that remains the envy of many a larger city. Meanwhile, the students, faculty and guest artists who are part of the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison remained trapped in Mills Music Hall, and the other inadequate facilities in the outdated Humanities building.
A sports columnist from the Wall Street Journal will be the keynote speaker at Winter Commencement at UW-Madison.
“Chancellor Blank must have meant to ask J.J. Watt again,” Gay said, “but when she typed in the first ’J,’ my name came up in the email address, and she didn’t notice until it was too late.”
In a video announcement, Gay said he is “honored and somewhat shocked” to be asked to give the commencement speech this winter.
Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay will deliver the keynote address at UW-Madison’s winter commencement ceremony, the university announced Wednesday.
MADISON, Wis. – A video made by a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students has thousands of views as the students behind it push for more inclusion on campus for people of color.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has appointed Aaron Bird Bear to be its first-ever director of tribal of relations.
Many University of Wisconsin System campuses are struggling to enroll students amid a downward trend in the number of high school graduates.
UW-Madison Police are embracing old and new technology as they prepare to protect more than 44,000 students and 21,000 employees on a sprawling campus in case of an active shooter situation.
“The best news in this [survey data], in my opinion, was that we see a big increase in knowledge about where you do go to report if you or a friend of yours has experienced something where you do need help,” Blank said.
“I am generally concerned about the level of binge drinking on this campus — it’s implicated in sexual assault issues, it’s implicated in crime, it’s implicated in health issues and academic success,” Blank said. “This is what we have to work across the board.”
About one in four undergraduate female students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have experienced a sexual assault since entering college, a study found.
More than a quarter of undergraduate women at UW-Madison who participated in a national survey said they had been sexually assaulted since entering college, according to results released Tuesday by the university.
The chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison is calling attention to a new national report showing that more than a fourth of female undergraduate students reported being sexually assaulted in 2019.
Report found no significant change in UW’s sexual assault rates compared to 2015.
One in four undergraduate women at UW-Madison say they have been sexually assaulted since beginning college, according to a new report released Tuesday from the Association of American Universities.
Surging student demand for data science skills and an abundant supply of jobs for people with related expertise have led UW-Madison to create a new school, add an academic program and hire more faculty focused on data science.
WPR producer Tim Peterson and Wisconsin Life caught up with a pair of the band’s veterans and asked them about a few aspects of being part of the ensemble. He talked with Drum Major Justine Spore, a senior from Shorewood, Wisconsin who’s majoring in journalism. Peterson also spoke with Assistant Drum Major and Trombone Player Grant Petik, a junior from Fond du Lac who’s majoring in civil engineering.
The UW-Madison community is celebrating Homecoming this week. It’s the first for the new Badger Band director.UW Band Director Dr. Corey PompeyDr. Corey Pompey took over this season, when long-time UW Band director Mike Leckrone retired after leading the band for 50 years.
The project includes remodeling a current building and constructing a new one. The plan The plan calls for the veterinary school to provide $38 million in gifts and the state to contribute $90 million.
A foundation that supports University of Wisconsin-Madison research has given the college’s School of Veterinary Medicine a $15 million gift to jump-start renovations and new construction.
For the past eight months, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has spearheaded efforts to collect data and speak with students, faculty and staff about its sustainability performance. On Monday, the university’s Office of Sustainability announced the fruits of its labor, reporting that it earned a silver rating through the national Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a bid by the University of Wisconsin’s patent licensing arm to reinstate its legal victory against Apple Inc (AAPL.O) in a fight over computer processor technology that the school claimed the company used without permission in certain iPhones and iPads.
